Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-25
CAMPAIGN IS OPENED
.N|.M0NTCOMERY COUNTY
Republican Meeting in Rock
vile Addressed by B. H.
Warner, Jr., and Others.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, September "a
A meeting which was held in the
Opera House here this afternoon marked
the opening of the republican con-
gressional campaign in Montgomery
county.
Although this is one Of the busiest
seasons of the year with the farmers.
the attendance was large, every section
of the county being represented.
Speeches were delivered by Brainard
II. Warner, jr., the candidate for Con-
gress; William Tyler Page of Friend
ship Heights; Edward w. Byrn OF
Silver Spring; Harry E. Chapla1ne.
chairman of the republican central COM
mittee for Frederick city; Brainard II.
Warner, ST., and others.
The meeting was presided over by {.
Scott Duvall, chairman of the county
committee, and Frank Trazzare acted
as secretary.
In calling the meeting to order Chalr-
man Duvall made a short speech, IN
which he pledged himself to work I'M
remittingly for the success of the re.
publican candidate and predicted tha'
when the votes are counted election
night the democratic managers will find
that they were badly off in their cal
culations when they figured that Mont
gomery would give democratic majority
of from 1000 to 1,4OO
Mr.. Warner Confident.
Brainard Fl. Warner, jr., was first asked
to address the gathering. He expressed
qualification at the meeting and said II
was a good omen. He touched lightly
on republican policies, which he heartily
Endorsed; paid tributes to ex-Preslden,
Roosevelt and President Taft. the ref
erences to both of whom provoked ap-
plause, and said that Notwithstanding
the result in Maine the people of the
country could be depended upon to intrusl
to the republican party the duty OF cor
recting whatever imperfections exist in
the tariff or other laws.
Mr.. Warner told his hearers that he had
recently visited all four of the other coun-
ties of the district and that he had moth
ing but good news concerning repub-
lican prospects there. He said the -four
upper counties would roll up 1atterine
majority for the republican candidate, and
predicted that Montgomery county would
register it's vote along the same lines.
Following brief addresses by Messrs.
Byrn and Page, Harry E. Chaplaine of
Frederick spoke. He told his hearers
what he believed to be the situation in
Frederick county, asserting that it could
not be better from republican stand
point.
Following the meeting a meeting of the
county committee was held to make ar
rangements for looking after the registra-
ton. 1t was decided to have each district
committee meet within the next week
and prepare for the work.
Mr.. Warner, jr., left this evening for
Cumberland. Monday afternoon he will
open his campaign in Garrett county with
a meeting at Accident, and will campaign
the entire week in that county. He will
then canvass Frederick. Washington. Al
legany and Montgomery counties in the
order named. devoting from a week to ten
days to each county, and in the closing
days of the campaign will address a big
meeting in each of the countyseats of the
district