Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-29
THE LOWNDES MEN WON
RESULT OF REPUBLICAN CoNVEN-
TON AT CUMBERLAND TODAY.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERLAND, Md, July 29-Contrary
to expectations, the republican convention
today was inclined to be harmonious.
Charles H. Hoffman, the former Pearre
leader, who is now a warm advocate of
Lloyd Lowndes, presided. The name of
Bird E. Wilson of Eckhart was proposed by
the opposition, but Hoffman won easily.
The secretaries of the convention We're
James Schuyler of Homecoming and walter
Stills of Cumberland. Mr. Hoffman, when
he took the gavel, was heartily applauded.
The convention was called to order by
John ]. Bell, chairman of the state central
committee for Ailegany county, who is a
Pearre leader. A mass delegation chosen
to the state convention is headed by Ben
jamin A. Richmond Ex-senator Yelling
ton is also delegate to the state conven-
ton, as is ex-State Senator David E. Dick,
who was on the floor of the convention
holding a proxy from Homecoming, Mr..
Hoffman also a delegate, having a
Cumberland proxy. The new state central
committee made up of the friends of Mr..
Lowndes. is composed of Horace P Whit
worth. Thomas "a. Smith, DR.. Timothy
Griffith, w. Bladen Lowndes, Charles H.
Hoffman and Edward Rhodes.
The minority made a report, naming the
old state central committee, composed of
the friends of Representative Pearre, as the
new safe central committee, but the newly
named committee won, receiving twenty
seven votes to eleven for the Pearre COM
mittee, representing the strength of the
two elements in the convention.
Ex-senator Dick was the chairman Of the
committee resolutions. credentials, etc.
The Resolutions.
The resolutions indorse and commend for
any political preferment in any Office to
which he may aspire Mr.. Lloyd Lowndes.
The administration of Roosevelt Is Endorsed
and state that the people look upon the 10
publican party to redeem the state from
democratic misrule and corruption
The convention was one of the most
largely attended in years. and many of the
warmest supporters of Representative
Pearre were among the spectators
w. Bladen Lowndes, one of the members
of the new state central committee was a
delegate to the convention from Mount
Savage. He Is brother of Mr.. Lloyd
Lowndes, who was spectator at the con-
ventfon, which was overlooking with can
d:dates for the county nominations to be
made at the primaries on September Z.
4 here will be at least sixty aspirants for
the seventeen nominations 1t was decided
to have no speechmaking
motion to call upon Mr. Iloyd
l-oWndes to make speech was sauelched
In brief address by ex-senator Dick, who
declared That 1t was not an occasion for
Speechmaking, that speechmaking was to
lie made on the outside and directed
against the common enemy. Mr. Dick de-
clared that Lowdnes spoke most eloquent
ly on the result Of the primaries Satur-
day.
The report from the missing district of
Orleans was received today and it was
carried for Pearre which, with three Cum
beriand districts, one Frostburg district.
t.ckhart and Ellerslie, gave his forces
eleven votes, the rest of the district go
ing for Lowndes. Lowndes carried Bar
ton, the home Of Mr.. James Campbell,
deputy surveyor of the port of Baltj-
more, and a leader in the Pearre forces,
by only one vote.
The Pearre people say that their vote
did not come out at the primaries, that the
vote Of Mr.. Lowndes was equal to that
cast for him year ago in his congress
. sional fight while the combined vote for
the Pearre ticket was nearly 1000 less
than last year. On the total VOTE the
Lowndse majority is about 400 in the pri
mary Of Saturday.