Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-18
ROCKVILLE AND VICINITY.
Republicans Nominate County Ticket
State Convention Delegates Chosen.
rrespondence OF The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
ROCKVILLE. Md. August IT, 1903.
The republican county convention for this
county met in the opera house here today
and nominated the following candidates for
the various offices to be filled this fall: For
clerk Of the circuit court. Thomas Dawson
Of Rockville: for states attorney. Gist
Blair Of Sligo: for shecfT. Benjamin c.
Riggs of Rockville; for register of Wills
Frederick w. Page Of Forest Glen for
county commissioner from the third col
lection district. A. Clinton Brown Of
Barnesville; for county commissioner from
the fourth collection district. Cyrus Keiser
of Bethesda: for the house of delee a:es AL
ban G. Thomas of Ashton. Cornelius W.
Clum of Kensington John T. Smith Of
ClarkSburg and D. w. Baker Of German
town; for judges of the orphans court. ].
S. Windsor Of Clarksburg and jacob Ha1er
Of Damascus The other nomination for
this Office will be made by the state central
committee for the county. For county sur
veyor. Norman Jackson of Takoma Park.
Delegates to the state convention were
chosen as follows Gist Blair. Charles f.
Kirk, Peyton Gordon. Carey Kingdom,
Charles T. Johnson. Daniel A. Grosvenor
and John Ward, at large. and one from
each election district of the county as fol-
lows: Laytonsville. Uriah H. w. Griffith
Clarksburg. G. w. Murphy; Poolesville.
Moses A. Dorsey: Rockville, Josiah =. Stod-
dard; Colesville. Fielder c. Maciowe:
Galen L. TAFT: Olney. Arthur Stabler:
Gaithersburg j. Albert Warheld: Potomac.
Capt. John Mcdonald Barnseville. Octa-
vius o. Baker: Damascus. ]. M. Mount;
Wheaton. Frank L. Hewitt
Messrs Uriah H. w. Griffith. Henry NJ.
Lindig. Gist Blair and George r. Williams
were selected as members of the stats CEN
trail committee. The chairman of the count
ty committee will also be member Of this
committee.
Resolutions were adopted favoring a law
that will provide free and better roads at
the smallest possible expense to the taxpay
ers of the county; more liberal appropria-
lions by the state for the benefit Of the
public schools. In order that the schools of
the county and state may be kept open for
longer period each year. and that the
teachers may be amply compensated; legis-
lation for the appointment or election Of
county treasurer instead Of the present ex-
penSive method of collecting the taxes; the
repeal of the present election law: the let
ting by contract to the lowest responsible
bidder of the county printing and all other
work of similar character; the enactment
of a primary election law based on the pro-
visions of a general election law that shall
be adequate, fair and impartial. Resolu-
lions were adopted favoring the nomination
Of Mr.. Stevenson Archer Williams for gov
ernor, and instructing the delegates to the
state convention to use all honorable means
to secure his nomination. and it was fur
Their resolved that 1t is the sense of the .e-
publicans of Montgomery county that a re-
publican be nominated for the position
chief judge of the sixth judicial circuit. and
the following delegates were appointed to
represent the county in the judicial conven-
ton when called: John Mcdonald, Cyrus
Keiser. A. A. Braddock. William II. Jones.
E. J. Hartshorne, ]. H. Purdum, J. NJ Bur-
dette, William r. Fulks.
Immediately upon the adjournment Of the
convention, the newly elected county COM
mittee met and elected Mr.. Willis B. Bur-