The Somerset reporter., 1908-03-19
Candidates Have Conference.

IHS hbfohIEh last week, majority
of the Republican Town Committee
and most of the citizens of this place
who are candidates for nomination
for county offices, before the next
Republican County convention, met
at Weston Hall on Saturday after
noon last, The object of the
gathering was to permit an informal
conference relative to the time of
holding Republican caucuses and
especially the time of holding the
caucus to choose delegates to the
county convention. 1t was not ex
pected that action would be taken to
definitely fix the date or dates for
these caucuses but that the pre-
ferences OF the Skowhegan candi-
dates could be ascertained. The
result of the meeting, SO far as it
may be expressed, would indicate
that the caucuses would be held at
about the usual time, the latter part
of April or early in May.
Skowhegan Republicans will be
called upon to choose delegates to
the Portland convention, VIII, re
Presidential electors will be chosen,
to the district convention, for the
purpose of nominating a candidate
for governor, and to the county con-
vention to place candidates i'll
nomination for county offices. There
will also be legislative caucus to
select candidate to be supported by
Skowhegan Republicans for the 74th
legislature. OF course it is not i'm
perative that a separate caucus be
held for each set of delegates, in fact
it ordinarily happens that two or
more sets of delegates are chosen at
the same caucus, and some times the
nomination of candidate for the
legislature is combined with the work
of choosing delegates.
Somewhat more interest than usual
attaches to the primaries this year
from The fact that there are rather
more than the usual number of can
didates for county offices, residents of
this place. Three Skowhegan gentle
men, David w. Lewis, Leslie Z.
Jacobs and Nahum 5. Steward, have
already publicly announced their
candidacy for the office of Sheriff
1t is also reported that James A.
Goodrich, at present deputy under
sheriff Smith, and Horace M. Weston,
now serving as an enforcement
deputy, under the Sturgis commission,
are 10 be candidates for this office.
The public has already been advised
of the candidacy of Chas. II. Gardner
and Alb TT E. Jewett for the office of
County Commissioner and it is
generally understood that Herbert
Wentworth is also candidate for
this position. Skowhegan will also
furnish two candidates for Senator,
Edward N Merrill and E. 2. Viles,
and one candidate for the Office of
County Attorney, Fred f. Lawrence,
Esq. The present Register of Pro
bate, Nathan Fowler, is also a can
didate for denomination.
The Republican town committee,
from which the calls for the various
caucusses will be issued, held a
meeting on March 9TH and organized
by choosing DIR. l.. A. Dascombe as
chairman, Geo. w. Cover as secre
tary and Chas. Il. Young as treasurer.
The other members of the committee
are Judson w. Packard, T. w. Con-
roy, G. H. Gardner and F. P. Pennell.
1t is often affirmed that mental dis
orders proceed in many cases from
the influence of religion. DR.. A. b.
Richardson of Ohio, for many years
in charge of institutions for the in
sane, the last being the L. S. Hospital
at Washington, makes the following
statement, which skepties should
notice;
"There are only two patients in this
hospital whose insanity has any rela-
tion to religion, and / think from
their predisposition to insanity they
would probably have become insane
on some other subject, if they had
not on religion. Now, If you had
asked me how many people in Ohio
had been kept from insanity by re-
ligion, you would give me question
hard to answer. for they are multi
tude. The good cheer, bright hopes,
rich consultations, good tempers, reg
ular habits and glad songs of religion,
are such an antidote for the cause of
insanity, that thousands of people in
Ohio are preserved from insanity by
them"
In Washington.
Several reports having been made
on the Brownsville Texas shooting
matter, President Roosevelt has sent
a special message to Congress, calling
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