Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-14
IN THE SIXTH DISTRICT
CENTER OF INTEREST FOR MARY
LAND REPUBLICANS.
B. II. Warner a Candidate If Repre-
sentative Pearre Retires From
tho Race.

Considerable political interest centers at
present I'm the sixth Maryland congressional
district. This grows out of the impression
that the health of Representative Pearre
will not make 1t possible for him to make
another campaign. The best Information
obtainable does not bear this out, however
as late reports from Mr.. Pearre indicate an
entire recovery on his part from the illness
that gave much concern to his friends last
winter. In view of the conditions however,
numerous candidates, in qualified sense,
have sprung UP over the district. OF the
greatest interest to Washington is the an
nounced candidacy, provided Col. Pearre re-
tires, of Mr.. B. II. Warner of Kensington
Md.
Mr. Warner is native of Susouehanna
county, Pa. He came to Washington when
fifteen years of age and enlisted in the gen.
oral service of the regular army and was
assigned to duty in the War Department.
In 1867 he was appointed a clerk in the office
of the controller of the treasury, and in the
same year was made deputy collector of in
ternal revenue. ninth district Of Pennsyl-
vania, with headquarters at Lancaster.
During his experience there he had charge
of thirty-two breweries and distilleries for
the United States and started a paper called
The Voice of Truth" and also aided in
publishing THE Father Abraham" q pic
turesque campaign journal, using the Dutch
dialect.
Friend of Thaddeus Stevens.
While at Lancaster he studied law with
the late Thaddeus Stevens, who was then a
member of Congress from that district In
1865 ne resigned for the purpose Of COM
pleting his course at the Columbia College
law school. and, after making a tour
through the west a newspaper corre-
spondent, entered school in the fall of that
year and was graduated a year later. He
was reappointed to his old position in the
office of the controller but resigned upon
his graduation and entered upon the prac-
tce OF law. Better opportunities seemed to
offer in the real estate business, and he
gave up law, and for many years has been
prominent in every movement looking to
the development of the national capital.
He was of the charter members of
the Metropolis Savings Bank Central Ma
tional Bank and Second National Bank.
Was a director of the National Metropoli-
tan Bank and National Safe Deposit and
Trust Company, and he was also one of the
founders of the Columbia National Bank
and the Washington Loan and Trust Com
pany. He was president of both institu-
tons until pressure of business led to his
retirement. He has been president of the
board of school trustees. the Young Mems
Christian Association and many other local
institutions, and has been for many years
a member of the inaugural executive COM
mittees. During the last three Inaugural
tons he has been grand marshal Of the
division embra cling civic organizations.
For more than twenty years he has been
Interested in Maryland politics and has
taken part in campaigns in different parts
of the state He became conspicuous
through his participation In the fight with
Senator Wellington, who opposed the con-
firmation of his son, B. H. Warner, jr, for
the position of United States consul at
Leipzig, Germany. He was proprietor of
the Montgomery Press for several years.
In 1891 he founded the town of Kensington,
Montgomery county, where he has a beau
tiful summer residence, and lives during
the greater part of the year. Kensington
Is of Washingtons most attractive
suburbs and has always had a steady
growth Mr.. Warner Is president of the
kensington electric railway and IL large
owner of real estate IN Maryland.
Never Before Candidate.
While his name has been mentioned sew
eral times as prospective candidate. he has
always declined to hold political Office.
either by appointment at the hand of his