The Washington times., 1903-07-26
POLITICAL TRAIL HOT
IN OLD MONTGOMERY
Candidates Plentiful as Mos
quitOes and as Active.
PRIMARIES NEXT SATURDAY
Friends of Individual Aspirants Busy
as Bees to Make Election of Their
FavoTites Sure.

as Bees to Make Election of Their
Favorites Sure
ROCKVILLE, Md, July 25.-A warm
contest is now on in this county between
the candidates for the nomination in the
Democratic primaries on Saturday. Au-
gust l. for the different county Offices 10
be filed at the general election in No
vember. Last Tuesday was the last day
allowed anyone to signify his intention
to become such candidate. Not man
failed to pay the necessary fee to have
his name placed upon the primary ticket
TO be voted in the Crawford county sys-
tenn, nor were any new ones added. All
are now in. the ticket has been made up,
and the campaign is on in earnest.
First comes the Office OF governor
Spencer C. Jones and Edwin Warfeld
are the candidates. Mr. Jones doesn't
seem to be in the least concerned about
his candidacy in this county. It is con-
ceded that Mr.. warfeld will poll about
500 votes
Next in order is the name of the Hon
James Mcsherry for chief judge of the
Sixth judicial circuit. His name stands
by itself and he will get the full in
dorsement Of the Democratic party OF
Montgomery
Eleven for House of Delegates.
There are eleven candidates for the
~ IaI
nominated. The leaders in this fight
seem to be Benjamin F. Lansdale, John
w. Williams, Elias H Etchison, Louis
B. Scholl, Edmund L. Amiss and Wash
B. Chichester
In the fight for the nomination for the
clerk of the circuit court. Joseph Read
ing. John L. Brunett, and Thomas o.
White, are the candidates, of whom Mr..
Burnett is far in the lead
Henry c. Allnutt has no opponent for
the nomination for the Office of register
Of Wills. nor has Charles J. Maddox for
the Office OF county surveyor.
The hot fight OF the whole primary
viii center in the contest for the nomi-
nation for States attorney The two
candidates are the present incumbent.
Henry Maurice Talbot. and Robert B.
Peter. For the last three weeks the
fight between these two gentlemen has
been warm and spirited, and il is grow
ing more so every day. Both are claim
ing the nomination, and friends of both
men are working hard for their candi-
date. This Office pays over $1,000
year for four years
For Orphans Court Judge.
In the run for judges OF the orphans
court are Luther n. King, William T.
Wheeler, James c. Holland, George w.
Meem, Remus R. Darby. and Joseph T.
White There is apparently little inter-
est in this contest Three are 10 be
selected. 1t is quite probable that Mr..
Wheeler will be one of the three. He
was recently appointed to I'LL out the
vacancy caused by the death of the late
Judge Murphy.
Charles G. Griffith, James p. Gott, and
John S. Gott are candidates for county
commissioner from the Third district.
All three are f1rst-class men for the po-
sition. Mr.. Griffith seems TO be the fav-
orite.
There are seven candidates for county
commissioner from the Fourth district,
Rockville. They are, John Walter Car
roll. the present commissioner; Julian
Griffith, Samuel Wade Magruder, Samuel
X Bready, Charles veirs, John II. Bog
ley, and Turner Wilson. It is hard to
come TO any definite conclusion in ref
erence to this contest. for first one man
and then another seems TO be In the
lead. but It can be stated that the nomi-
nee will be either Carroll. Grifhth, Bog
ley, or Veirs.
Warm Fight for Shrievalty.
Samuel d. Waters, Arthur Williams,
George B. McCeney and Leonard Weer
are candidates for the shrievalty nomi-
nation The fight here is between Mr..
Waters and Mr.. Williams. Both men are
claiming the nomination. Waters will
carry the lower half OF the county, while
Williams Will carry the upper part. the
division being in Rockville district. In
this fight an interesting question has
arisen, namely, whether the present
chief deputy. John A. Selby. will be re-
tained in Office should either of these
gentlemen be nominated and elected
Both Mr.. Waters and Mr.. williams have
stated positively that should they be
elected Mr.. Selby Will not be retained
in Office. On the other hand. Mr. SeIby
says he will be the next Office deputy
no matter who is elected sheriff.
IN some quarters IL is rumored that a
deal is on hand to elect a Republican
house Of delegates at the coming cleo
ton. The men named on the RepubIi-
can side for this are James e. Ayton.
John Mcdonald. c. w. CIum. and AIban
Thomas. Whether this is authentic
cannot be ascertained
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