The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-05-05
THE REPUBLICAN
COUNTY CONVENTION.
Met In Oakland Monday to Elect Dele
gates to the Congressional
and State Conventions.
RINGING RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
Nearly Every District was Represented
and Most Harmonious Meeting
esulted.-Mr. p. E. FInzel was
Chairman.

Monday at o'clock Republicans
from nearly every district in the
county met at the court house for the
purpose of electing delegates to at
tend the Congressional convention to
be held at Rockville. Montgomery
country, on Tuesday, May 18th, and
the State convention to be held in
Baltimore on Wednesday, the 18th
inst.
The convention was called to order
by Hon. Z. G. Palmer and upon mo-
ton Mr.. p E. Finzel was made its
chairman and Mr.. n. S. Heindel, the
secretary. Upon assuming the chair
Mr.. Finzel stated the object of the
convention and within a few minutes
the various committees were appoint
ed and without any preliminaries
other than those necessary a perma-
nent organization was effected by the
election of the temporary officers and
the seating of the delegates from
the various districts as follows:
District No. Wv. w. Sweet, l.. H.
Friend, Theo. George.
No. An. L. Bond.
No. 5.-W. Ravenscroft, Joseph A.
Beeghley, Geo. F. Ault, w. H. Gina
gey, Reuben Eniow.
No. CD, H. Friend, John Friend,
George w. Moon, w. A. Smith. F. o.
Glotfelty.
No. 7.-E. f. Friend, l.. A. Rudisill,
H. N. Cuppett, F. A. Thayer, A. 6.
Ross
No. S.-James Aronhalt, c. f. Hill
leary, f. C. Harvey, Jonas Yutzy,
Burt Wilson.
Nc. 9.-P. +. Finzel, Robert Min
nick, Thomas H. Lavman, Jos. Finzel,
William Brown.
No. 12.-G. w. Engle, S. o. Wiley.
Jonas Bittinger. joel Orndorf, A. J.
Ocster.
No. 14.-Hon. L. G.. Palmer, Austin
Brown. Dr. John E. Legge, B. H. Sin
cell, n. s. Heiudell.
The committee on resolutions re-
ported the following which was adopt
ed as read
We, the Republicans. of Garrett
county, in convention assembled, do
hereby declare the following to be a
6nalo % finn NJ i,Nln l.
lieving that the best interest of our
country to be best subserved by the
practice and declarations of the Re-
publican party, do hereby affirm our
allegiance thereto.
We heartily endorse the admins
tration of President Theodore Roose-
welt and commend his craftsmanship
as manifested by his political policies,
both foreign and domestic; and we
hereby further declare that the best
interests of the Republican party and
our country demand his nomination
and election.
We endorse the course pursued by
Senator Louis E. McComas for his
bold stand in upholding the Repub-
lican platform and Republican prin-
ciples in the United States Senate.
We endorse the course of our Repre-
sentative, Hon George A. Pearre, for
the faithful discharge of the trust
committed to him by the people of
this Congressional District and es-
pecially for the services he has rem
dered to the veterans of the Civil War,
and we hereby instruct the delega-
ties to be selected by this convention
to the Congressional Convention to
do all in their power to secure his re
nomination, and we hereby pledge
him the loyal support of united Re-
publican party in Garrett county
We also endorse the attitude and
conduct OF our State Senator, Hon
L. G. Palmer, and Delegates Elliot G.
Harvey and r. A. G.. Howard in the
stand they have taken in opposition
to the corruption and blind partizan-
ship of the last Democratic Legisla-
ture and especially for their efforts in
trying to prevent the party emblem
from being taken from the ballot in
Garrett county.
We condemn in unstinted language
the squandering of public money and
the excessive appropriations of the
Democratic Legislature of 1904, and
especially the raising of the State tax
rate as the result Thereof from 17s to
22l cents on the 800; we hereby de-
clare the proposed amendment to
the State Constitution to be the most
corrupt and partizan piece of legisla-
ton ever enacted and hereby call up
on all decent honest people, irrespec-
tive of party, to place the seal of their
condemnation thereon whenever OPP
portunity offers.
ReSoJoed, That the U. s. Senators
and Representatives in Congress call
the attention of the President and
the Civil Service Commissioners to
the fact that large numbers of APP
pointees from various other states
credited to Maryland should be ac-