The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-08-20

Subject to a call issued by the
chairman of the Republican County
Committee, delegates to the County
Convention, which was held in Oak
land Tuesday, assembled here and
placed in nomination the ticket to be
voted for at the November election.
A great many of the delegates came
into the city on Monday afternoon
and evening. Until nearly midnight
of Monday Second street in the vicin-
ity of The REPUBLICAN office was a
jam Of humanity, each individual
composing the crowd setting forth to
his neighbor the good points of this
or that candidate for the various Of
fees. Nothing was accomplished,
however, by the curbstone conven-
ton, for such it resembled, or if any
thing was accomplished a change was
made in the caucus of the delegates
which was held Tuesday morning be-
ginning at II at which time the
nominees were all agreed upon and
by a resolution adopted the action of
the caucus became binding upon the
convention.
The caucus was called to order by
DR.. j. W. Laughlin, of District No. 10,
when Mr.. William w. Sweet, of Dis
trict No. 1, was made chairman and
Mr.. Norman S. Heindel, of District
No. IA, was elected secretary.
A committee on resolutions and one
on credentials composed of one mem
Der from each district was elected.
The former committee reported the
following:
We the Republicans or Garrett
county assembled, believing the in
terests of our common country are
best subserved by the ORGANIZATIONS
and practice of the principals espous.
ed by the Republican party and as
set forth in its platform at the last
National convention, and past expe-
rience, present prosperity and future
prospects intensifying this belief, do
hereby affirm our allegiance thereto.
We indorse the administration of
President Theodore Roosevelt and
his vigorous policy, foreign and do
nestle, and view with admiration
with what faithfulness he has redeem
ed his pledge to put into effect the
policy mapped out by the lamented
and martyred Mckinley.
We indorse the course of Senator L.
E. McComas and Representative
George A. Pearre in upholding Re-
publican principlesand faithfully dis
charging the trust committed to
them by the people of this Common
wealth.
We point with pride to the Repub-
lican administration in local affairs
and especially to to the record of our
County Commissioners in keeping
down the tax rate while providing in.
creased appropriations for the con-
duct of the public schools of the coun-
ty and meeting current expenses of
every kind, thereby placing Garrett
county in the first rank of counties,
not only in the State of Maryland
but in the United States, from finan-
cial standpoint.
Language fails to express our feel
ings when we attempt to condemn
the Democratic Administration in
State affairs and the calling of an
extra session of the Legislature at
great expense to the tax payers for
the sole purpose of enacting partisan
legislation and robbing the poor and
illiterate, though honest man, of the
most sacred and priced privilege that
l.
right to vote and have that vote hon
estly counted.
We deprecate the enactment of the
election law by the last Democratic
Legislature and condemn its provis-