Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-04-22
POLITICAL NOTES.


ITHR AMERICAN invites announcements
| from candidates OF all parties in the coming
primaries, to be published in this column.
This is purely news column, and announce
ments will be treated as such. 1t will intro
duee to the voters of all parties the men who
| ask for their support, bnt no candidate VIII
be given intentionally, any advantage s;s oyer yer
nomination within his own party. or as be-
| tween parties.
| DR.. Otis Littlefield, of Bluehill, has filed
nomination papers as democratic candi-
date for representative to the legislature
| from his class.
| W. A. Kicker, of Castine, has announced
| that be will be candidate for the repub-
lican nomination for representative from
class 2, composed of the towns of Bucks
port, Orland, Dedham, Verona and Cas-
tine.
| AT meeting of the republican State
committee in Augusta last Thursday, Col.
Frederic II. Parkhurst, of Bangor, was re-
elected chairman, Henry Ii. Hastings, of
Bet bel, secretary, and Henry G. Boyer, of
Portland, treasurer.
despatch from Augusta says: "Hon.
Andrew P. Hsvey, of West Sullivan, Fri
day, over the long distance telephone, in
formed friend in this city that under no
consideration would he be a candidate for
State auditor in the democratic primaries
in June"
Sheriff Forrest o. Silsby says the rumor
has come to him several times that he had
Withdrawn from the candidacy for re-
nomination. He asks THE AMERICAN to
contradict this rumor. He says he is in
the contest to stay, and his name will be
on the primary ballot in June.
Wiley c. Conary, of Bucksport, will be
a candidate for the republican nomination
for register of deeds at the coming pri-
maries. Mr.. Conary is native OF Blue
hill, and member of the Hancock coun-
ty bar, having been admitted in 1906. He
served as county-attorney two years,
1909-10. He has always been an active re-
publican.
Timothy F. Mahoney ,>of Ellsworth, has
been prevailed upon to enter the primaries
for the republican nomination for clerk of
courts. Mr.. Mahoney has been one of the
most active workers in the republican
party in Hancock county tor years. He
was the acting chairman of the county
committee in the special congressional
campaign last year. For the past nine
years he has served efficiently as register
OF probate.
Howard B. Moor, OF. Ellsworth, has an
nounced his candidacy for the republican
nomination for sheriff. Mr.. Moor is one
- r. al
largely interested in numbering opera
tions. He is at present serving the city as
alderman, an Office he has held for several
previous terms. Mr.. Moor, in speaking Of
his candidacy, says he realizes that one of
the things the voters for a candidate for
sheriff have the right to know is his atti
tude on the prohibitory law, and in this
connection declares emphatically that he
is for the enforcement OF all laws.
Loren W. Rumill, of fremont, an
nounces that at the June primaries he
will be candidate for representative to
the legislature from the class towns of
Mount Desert, Lamoine, fremont, South
west Har Dor, Swans Island and Gran berry
isles. Mr.. Rumill has always been an en-
thusiastic republican, having been an
active member OF the republican town
committee, of which he is at present chair
man. He has held some town office
twenty-four years out of his twenty eight
years OF majority. He was selectman nine
years, six as chairman. He is serving his
seventeenth year as post master at West
fremont, which position he resigns to ac-
cept this office.