Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-01
TO CHOOSE OFFICERS
Chevy Chase Will Elect Trus-
tees and a Village President.
ELECTION MONDAY NIGHT
Town Meeting to Be Held by the
Citizens.
OFFICE SEEKING THE MAN
No Salaries Attached to the Posi-
tions, and No Patronage to
Be Dispensed.

Chevy Chase will become fully in
corporated village, in fact as we'll as in
name. tomorrow night Monday last the
question of the adoption of a charter, as
authorized by an enactment of the recent
session of the Maryland legislature. was
submitted to a referendum in Chevy
Chase, and the charterites won over the
special tax levy contingent by mar
row margin of two votes. But the two
votes constituted a majority and now the
citizens of the h.,-~ Montgomery county
community are about to proceed to give
effect to the will of this majority by
proceeding to the selection of village
president and a board Of four trustees
This second election will be held, as
provided by the empowering act, at
town meeting to be held tomorrow night
in the Chevy Chase Library, and it may
safely be predicte. there will be an out
mourning of practically the whole body
of citizens So far as politics is concern
Ell Chevy Chase is republican by
large majority, even though it lies WITHIN
Montgomery county, but IN
this village election party lines Will De
almost Ii not quite wholly Obl1terated.
So far as may be evident on the surface
there are no tissues" upon which fac
tons might be reused to partisan COM
bat. The lines along which the village
may be developed are absO-
lutely fixed The charterites and the
worked from absolutely
opposite viewpoints in the prolonged
campaign Doth before and after the leg1s-
lature passed the act of incorporation
and the act providing a special levy, and
they carried this opposition as far as
the polls last Monday. But now, 1t is
believed, the wing which went Town to
defeat has decided to accept the situa-
ton. and partisan feeling is thought to
be dead issue.
Gathering of Neighbors.
In consequence the election tomorrow
night is expected to be a real gathering
Of neighbors, all of whom are intent
upon voting for five men from among
their own number as she men best quail
fed for the task of administering the
affairs of the community. There has been
no campaigning preliminary to the cleo
tion-and in this respect Chevy Chase is
and probably will continue to be, unique
because it is certain to be case OF the
offices seeking the men rather than the
men asserting their ambition to rule. No
salaries attach to the positions of the
four trustees and the village president
nor will the village fathers have patron
age to dispense. Most of the men promi-
nent residents of Chevy Chase are
professions in Washington, so that the
time devoted 10 consideration of affairs
of state must be taken from the ends
Of business days.
Mentioned for Office.
The only external evidence in the past
week Of the town meeting and election
which is to be held in the Chevy Chase
Library tomorrow night has been the
more or less lively discussion whenever
two or more citizens of the community
have happened to meet at their homes or
on the streets of the names OF the men
thought to be best fitted to rule. Men on
both sides of the late charter contest
have been mentioned, and from infer
ences gathered from possibly a score of
such conversations it may be predicted
with considerable certainty that at least
a part of the board of trustees" -four
in number) and perhaps also the one
village president will be chosen from
among the following citizens of Chevy
Chase: John L. Weaver, George Swart-
cell. c. c. Tucker, DIR. Dudley Morgan
William T. S. Curtis. Vernon Hodges,
Adolph A. Hoehling. c. D. Northrup, Ed
ward j. Murphy, r. Preston Shealey
Leon D. Dessez and Harry GiovannoIi