The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-08-31
PHIL. GOLDSBOROUGH
As SEEN NEAR HOME
Republican. Candidate For Governor
Comes Of Old Maryland Stock.

A tall, slim man, with light hair and
mustache, cordial and genial manner,
a hospitable welcome.lto his abode and
a genuine Eastern Shore handshake
that makes the other fellow feel in
stinctively that his host is glad to see
him-this, in brief, is Phillips Lee Colds
borough, Republican candidate for gov
ernor, at home.
Everybody knows him as Phil, and
everybody that I.saw likes him and re-
spects him. Many OF his personal
friends are Democrats, and the social
relationships are close. In Dorchester,
as in other counties on the Shore, how
ever, there is a great distinction be-
tween personal and political ties. Men
are often on the most intimate terms
personally and socially, vet vigorous
political foes. This condition exists not
only between Democrats and Republi-
cans, but in the fractional difference of
both parties. 1t seems a queer game
to an outsider, butsthe local people I'M
derstand and think nothing of it.
Phil iGoldsborough comes Of old
MARYLAND stock, and his forbears have
been conspicuous in the public life of
the Estate for generations. Robert
Goldsborough, one of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence, was his
neutrality-suspicious.. Charlie S
Goldsborough was Governor of Mary
land in 1918, and Robert Henry Colds
borough, another member of the clan,
represented the State in the United
States Senate from 1913 to 1919. He
was conspicuous, among other things,
for his grace Of manner and was known
as the Chesterfield of the Senate.
With such reputation he was also
something of ladies' man.
Should the present candidate be sue.
cessful at the polls in the general cleo,
ton next November, he will be the fifth
Governor of Maryland to hail from Dor
chester county. His predecessors were
all more or less related to him by blooC
or family connection. They were Johr
Henry, 1897; Charles Goldsborough
1878; Thomas Holiday Hicks, 1857; anC
Henry Lloyd, 1886. Former Governor
Lloyd is now living in Cambridge and i;
a friend and neighbor of Mr.. Goldstor
ough. He is a Democrat.
The early life of the--Republican CUB
ernatorial candidate was uneventful
He was educated in public and private
schools in his home county and in Balti
more county, topping off his elementary
training with course at the Episcopa
| High School at Alexandria, Va, where
his brother Brice was senior monitor foI
six years. He studied law in the office
of the late Daniel NJ. Henry, Jr., anC
was admitted to the bar at the age O
81. About that time his health becam,
poor and he sought the climate of Cali
fornia. For two and a half years h,
served as chief clerk to his father, thel
pay officer at the San Francisco Nava
Station. This business experience wa
most helpful to him. He made con
tracts for all kinds of commodities an
handled millions OF dollars in the pur
chase of supplies for the ships an
squadrons. His work was commende
by the authorities and his books shove
a remarkable degree of thoroughness i
the detailed manner by which ever
cent was accounted for
In 1890 he returned to Cambridge an
resumed the practice of law. In TIL
fall of the next year he was nominate
by the Republican party for State
Attorney of Dorchester county and wa
| elected by narrow majority of
votes, His Democratic opponent wa