The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-09-04
DEMOCRATIC POW WOW
Insurgents In the Majority at the
County Convention of
That Party
HELD AT THE COURT HOUSE YESTERDAY
Chas. Nj. Miller, Esq, Was Chairman and
DIR. c. j. Fazenbaker, Secretary-Four
Districts Not Representative Con-
vention In Session a Very Short Time.

A parody on politics was played at
the court house in Oakland yesterday
when the anti-organization or insur-
gent Democrats of the county met
in convention to elect delegates to
the Congressional convention to be
held at Cumberland this afternoon
when a candidate for Congress to op-
pose Col. George A. Pearre will be
nominated. The opponent of the Re-
publican nominee will probably be
&. f. Kenneweg, wholesale grocer of
Cumberland, who will be placed in
nomination by State Senator D. J.
Lewis, of Allegany county.
After the curtain at the court house
went up Yesterday first-class com
edy in one act was presented. The
audience was composed of few we'll
known old line Democrats while the
artists on the stage were of the insur-
gent variety and had the call by a
large majority.
DR.. E. H. Bartlett, chairman of the
Democratic County Committee, called
those assembled to order when Mr..
Charles M. Miller, of Swanton, was
made the temporary chairman of the
convention and DR.. G. J. Fazenbaker,
also of Swanton, its secretary. In
taking the chair Mr.. Miller made q
few remarks concerning the compost
ton of the county committee as elect
ed year ago and suggested that
some one be elected to fill the place
on that committee now held by J. G.
Brydon, of Bloomington, giving as
his reasons for such change the fact
that Mr.. Brydon was a nonresident,
but the knowing ones express them
SELVES openly and charge Mr.. Miller
with wanting to replace Mr.. Brydon
with an ''insurgentn as a member of
the committee. Mr.. Ed A. Brown
ing, while not member of the con-
ventiOn, asked and was granted the
privilege of answering Mr.. Miller. Mr..
Browning upheld the course of the
preceding convention when Mr.. Bry-
don was elected a committeeman. de-
Tending the action with all the power
at his command. The convention
took no action looking to the removal
of Mr.. Brydon.
Mr.. G. S. Halnill also made speech.
He attacked Senator McComas and
said that all great strikes are under
Republican administrations. He evil
IDENTIFY forgot the strike at Chicago
under Clevelands administration
when Federal troops were called out
to quell the riots following it and the
speaker may have added that the
strikes taking place under the pres
ent and former Republican admins
trations are and were not against a
reduction of wages but for an in
crease. Mr.. Hamill usually views
with alarm" the pore" mans condi-
ton
The most amusing act of the COM
edy was the report of the committee
on resolutions appended below. The
trainers were certainly poor politi-
clans or amateurs at the business. OF
course the usual "yiew with alarm
clause is given prominence and the
fact that both Grover Cleveland and
William Jennings Bryan are en-
dorsed is further evidence that the
trainers were new at their calling. 1t
has been suggested that the endorse
ment of both gentlemen by the Dem
ocrats of Garrett county will precipi-
tate fierce fight in the Democratic
| National Convention two years hence,
both having been brought into the
limelight of publicity by the action
of the Garrett county Democracy.
The resolutions follow:
| Res0l0ed, That we the Democrats
| in convention assembled, view with
alarm the dangerous tendencies of the
great trusts and monopolies that are
! growing and being created in the
| United States, by which individual
enterprise and the independence of
! the American citizen is being crushed
out, the laboring men oppressed and
whilst the hum of industry is heard
! throughout the land, still the citizen
! is made to pay more and higher prices
than in the days of the civil war.
| ReSOIUed, That we believe in the
! teachings enunciated by that great
leader of Democrats, Grover Cleve-
Bryan who have stood as champions
| lOI UuS ISuuCllOH vi bllC ldIll anu Ss-
pecially on trust made goods, and we
believe that the only hope of the peo-
pie from the exactions of these great
trusts will be in the election of Dem
ocratic Congress, and to this end we
appeal to all fair minded men to vote
for the Democratic Congressional can
didate in the Sixth District of Mary
land.
Immediately after the adoption of
the above the following named gen
tlemen were elected delegates to the
Congressional Conventions:
q. s. Hamill, Jr., Charles NJ. Miller,
Truman West, Peter A. Chisholm,
DR.. E. H. Bartlett, Edward Schloss-
nagle, Thomas Little, Jas. w. Mason,
William J. Barnard, Thomas Fike,
DIR. g. J. Fazenbaker, A. S. Teats,
Ed. L. Mitchell, P. NJ, Stemple and
Robert Liston,