The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-02-27
ALEX. R. HAGNER IN THE FIELD
Prominent Hagerstown Lawyer Can
didate For Congress TO Succeed
Pearre

Mr.. Alexander R. Hagner, a leading
member Of the Bar of Washington
county, and attorney to the Board OF
County Commissioners since 1903. has
announced his candidacy for the nomi-
nation for Congress at the hands of the
Republicans in the Sixth District of
Maryland. Mr.. Hagner, who is a native
OF Calvert county, has been engaged in
the practice of law in Hagerstown since
1882. = Since becoming attorney for the
county Mr.. Hagner, through his Jealous
efforts, succeeded in bringing to a salts
factory conclusion a controversy of
longsstanding between the county and
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co.
The matter was settled by the railroad
company paying to the county the sum
OF S45, 600 in cash and relinquishing a
claim OF. $25, 900 against the county, the
resultibeing big saving to the citizens
| of Washington county.
Speaking of his candidacy for the
nomination for Congress to succeed
Colonel Pearre, Mr.. Hagner said:
In the wear 1896 was candidate be-
fore the Republican nominating conven-
ton ofithe Sixth District of Maryland
and when the convention met at Oak
land there were three candidates in the
field Capt. John Mcdonald, Col. George
A. Pearre and myself. received
twelve votes, one short of nomination,
for fourteen hundred ballots. The con-
vention then adjourned from Oakland to
Rockville, where Captain Mcdonald
was nominated, and later elected by a
large majority
At the next Republican Congressional
nominating convention of the district
in 1893 Colonel Pearre was nominated,
and This election followed, and he has
every two years thereafter received
the nomination and election at the hands
of the Republican party, and is today
the representative in Congress from the
Sixth District of Maryland.
OF these gentlemen who were aspi-
rants before the Oakland convention.
which was in session four days and parts
of four nights, each candidate has OBJ
tanned his coveted desire save and ex-
cept myself. 1t was at that famous
convention that my candidacy started,
and have waited patiently ever since,
hoping that too might obtain the goal
OF my ambition. 1t would seem, there
fore, that my time comes next, and as
number of my friends think likewise
have determined to enter the race for
the nomination, and shall put into the
fight all the fair and honorable means
possess to obtain the prize.
Allegany county has this year several
candidates. Montgomery and Frede-
rick, understand. have candidates,
and certainly Washington county should
have candidate also. | submit my
candidacy to the Republicans of the
Sixth District of Maryland, and should
| receive the nomination and be elected,
| shall exert every effort to further the
interest of the people Of this district,
the state of Maryland, and the nation
at large.
Stop that tickling Coughl DR.. Shops
Cough Cure will surely stop it, and with
perfect safety. 1t is so thoroughly
harmless, that DR.. Shoop tells mothers
to use nothing else even with verv
young babies. The wholesome green
leaves and tender stems of lung heal
ing mountainous shrub furnish the cura
tive properties to DR.. Shops Cough
Cure. 1t Gains the cough, and heals
the sensitive bronchial membranes.
No opium, no chloroform, nothing
harsh used to iniure or suppress. De-
mand DR.. Shops. Take no other. All
dealers.
Were you ever rolled? Would you
like to be? If you have any inclination
in that direction all that you will have
to do is to visit Bloomington and dis
play little money in careless manner
and then take walk down the B. & 0.
to the stone bridge, and you can be
accommodated.in way that will make
you remember it for years to come.
To enjoy the thing to the fullest extent
you should be ''tanked up" a little.
This will make the affair go off easier.
You will likely be met at either end of
the bridge by two parties. One will
engage you IN conversation, while the
other chap will drop behind and upset
the rear end of your Uranium and make
an estimate of how much energy and
force it will require to put you to sleep
for about half of an hour. After the
calculation is made he will proceed to
''swipe you one" hard enough to floor
you instantly. You then proceed to
dream, and when you awake "presto
change"-your change is gone, so is
your watch and your companions, too,
all gone, you are alone. You have been
''rolled. Mr.. John Fox, of Hamp-
shire, a miner employed by the Mas
teller Coal Co., claims to have met with
this experience on last Friday night. 49,
Bloomington Correspondent in Pied
mont Independent.