Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1910-10-07
4 FULL-FLED0ED CITIZEN.


Below we present an editorial take
from the last issue of our esteemed con
temporary, The Montgomery Press, the OF
gan of the Republican party of this county
which furnishes food for thought for tn
voters of this Congressional district:
"A kensington correspondent of Tn
montgomery Advocate, in a communica
ton to that paper, published in the issu,
OF last week, as paid matter, says:
81 notice that some one has stated Mr.
Warner, the candidate for Congress, is no
in fact full-fedged citizen of Maryland
10 my knowledge he has been so since
1892, when the family residence was bull
here, except when abroad as United States
Consul.
Mr.. Warner, of course, does not desire
to win votes through anything like pre-.
tense, and hence we feel it duty to cor
rect some impressions conveyed by the
correspondent of the Rockville paper.
Building a family residence in Ken.
slngton does not constitute a man a full
tiedeed citizen of Maryland" There is nc
way to become such citizen except by
actually living in this State one year, and
this Mr.. Warner, the father of the candi-
date, did not do until 1897, in the fall OF
which year he first qualified as voter
five years after the time stated in the
paragraph above.
"Mr. Warner. the candidate, went abroad
in the latter part of the summer of 1897,
remaining about years, and registered for
the first time in 1904, exactly twelve years
after the date the writer in The Advocate
says he became a full-hedged citizen of
Maryland
Since 1904 Mr.. Warner, the candidate,
has resided in Kensington from sometime
in May of each year. with interruptions,
until soon after the election of each year.
He was not enumerated in Maryland in the
recent census; his business interests are
not here; his name is not on the county
tax roll.
Those who reside in this State year out
and year in; they who live in old Maryland
Manor houses where they were born, and
where their fathers and grandfathers lived
before them; and they to whom Maryland
and home mean the same thing are not
inspired by Mr.. Warmers 'full-fledged citi-
zenship.
In March, 1895, the Court of Appeals of
Maryland decided that the residence of
Mr.. B. H. Warner, ST., was at POO Massa-
chusetts Avenue. Washington, D. c. For
several years prior to that time he had been
during the summer months living at Ken
sington. returning to his Washington resi-
dence after each election. and again re-
turning to Kensington about the first of
the following May. After the decision of the
Court of Appeals, he closed his residence
in Washington and actually resided at
kensington during one whole year-thus
acquiring the right to vote in Montgomery
county. Since then he has pursued the
same course in regard to his residence.
That is, he has each year closed his house
at Kensington Immediately after the cleo
ton in November and has not again opened
it until the first of May, and when he
closed his house at Kensington he returned
to the old Warner residence at 2l00 Massa-
chusetts Avenue
Since 1895, he has made eleven affida-
Wits that it was his intention to leave his
house at Kensineton and take up his abode
in his Massachusetts Avenue residence and
to return to Montgomery county six months
prior to the next ensuing election. From this
it will be seen that each year of Mr.. War
ner, Seniors, residence in Maryland is
made up of about six months of actual
residence at Kensington and of six months
Of intention to return to KensingtOn. He
has never willfully lived day in Maryland
that he was not compelled to do so under
the most liberal construction of the con-
stitution to entitle him to exercise the
right of franchise in Maryland.
Mr.. B. II. Warner, Jr., after he attained
his majority and before his father had ac-
quired residence in Maryland, entered
consular service and lived abroad num-
Der of years, and when he returned to
this country, about 1904, he registered as
voter in this county and has since voted
therein.
Since he has been of age he has never
resided one year in Maryland Each year,
just after the election, he has made an
affidavit similar to the ones made by his
father and returned to Washington to re-
main there until the following May.
He is an unmarried man. he has no
business or property interests in Maryland,
and he looks to Washington for his social
pleasures. When his fathers house at
Kensington is open, he stays there only
when it suits his pleasure or convenience,
and he rarely spends day in Maryland
except when occupied with the business
Of politics.
MIR. Warner, the candidate for Congress-,
is young lawyer who has never been ad-
mitted to practice before the courts of the
State he claims TO reside in a man whose
name has never appeared upon the tax
lists of the State he seeks to represent in
Congress. and one whose title to citizen.
ship in Maryland, to say the least, is moi
free from suspicion.
II Is to the credit of the white Re.
publicans Of Montgomery county thai
they had but little part in Mr.. Warner,
nomination. Il remains to be seen il the,
will cast their ballots for one who has no
a single interest in Maryland except I,
promote the political fortunes of the War
ner family, and whose nomination is III,
direct result of the baneful influence which
the Warmers. father and son, have exer
cised over the negroes in this county 70
several years past.
THAT ANANIAS CLUB.
Mrs. Bellamy Storer. the one-time M