Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-27

cratic candidates If they follow out the
will of the faction of the party that NOM
mated them. must, II elected to the legls-
lature support a high license bill. We meet
this issue in our platform. We declare
that we are in favor of sustaining the pres
ent prohibition liquor law of the county
and pledge the nominees of our convention
to oppose any modification of the law In
the direction of high license.
with this platform and with such man
to lead our ticket Joseph I. Moore OF
Sandy Spring we are confident OF success.
Our party also takes a firm position on
certain matters which refer more particu-
larly to Montgomery county. We believe In
the enactment of a law that gives TO Mont
gomery county q county treasurer; IN this
way saving the county a large sum OF
money. Our nominee for state senator IN
troduCed bill of this kind IN 1872, but ow
ing to the fact that the present tax col
lectors over the county have acted as party
managers in their locality, this law, up to
this time, failed of passage. The people
demand 1t, and this. without regard to par
usan politics, and the nominees of our con-
vention are pledged, if elected, TO support
such bill.
I'VE declare for an honest primary law
not such an unconstitutional and Illegal
measure as was foisted upon us by a dem
ocratic legislature-but a fair and just law
that will protect the people in their rights
in the selection Of candidates for office;
and for fear that such legislation might
fail, we have ordered county committee
to frame for use in republican primaries
fair and just rules so as to give every one
right to express his will in our primaries
X
Senator Moore was born in Baltimore Sep
TENDER 49, 1895, and comes of good old
Maryland stock When Mr.. Moore was
four years old his father became Ill and
the family removed to Sandy Spring, Mont
gomery county He was educated In the
private school of Charles G. Porter. From
-Porter's school he went to a boarding
school at West-town, Penn, where he
manned two years. When he was seven
teen years old Mr.. Moore went to Phila-
delphia and obtained employment In the
wholesale dry goods house of Parrish q
Price, remaining with them until 1906
Frugality and attention to business had Its
reward, and young Moore removed to New
York and established a wholesale dry goods
house known as Joseph 7. Moore Il Co.
Ten years later his health broke down and
he was advised to return to Montgomery
county He purchased Norwood, a hand
some estate at Sandy Spring, and has lived
there ever since with his wife and SIX
children At his new home his health
gradually improved, and in 1881 he was
nominated by the republicans in Mont
gomery county for the state senate, and
elected. In 1885 he was again candl-
date, but defeated by a small majority.
While in the state senate he was known
as the father of the bill for the reduction
OF marriage license fees. which finally be-
came Ia ana mas ilStu an tANC-4S4iN 4iiSA
effect. He also introduced bills regulating
executors commissions in the state or
Maryland and many other bills OF equal
Importance to the state and to has couh-
ty Although seventy years old Senator
Moore Is active both mentally and physi-
cally. and intends to conduct "A wide-awake
campaign during the next two months.
He took an active part IN the organiZa-
ton of the savings institution at Sandy
Spring and served for many years as It's
treasurer He was instrumental in forcing
the construction of the Norwood branch
of the Uuion Turnpike Company OF Mont
gomery county. He is director IN the
National Park Bank of New York city, the
Mutual Fire Insurance Company or Mary
land and the Montgomery County National
Bank at Rockville. he has long been an
intimate and personal friend of Col Speh-
Ger c. Jones, president of the Montgomery
County National Bank and the opponent
of Blair Lee In the recent democratic pri-
maries.
Senator Moore outlined his position clear
ly In his short speech at the republican
convention at Rockville. He declared en-
phaticalIy for local option in Montgomery
county; he stands for good roads and wants
them taken out of politics as much as pos
sible; he favors a change in the primary
election laws so that fraud will be made
IMPOSSIBLE; he wants a county treasurer
for Montgomery county instead of the pres
emit scheme of administration, and he ad-
yocates several other reform and economic
measures.
Charley" Mcdonald. one Of the four can