The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-09-23
DOC" BUILDER Of
GOOD STATE ROADS
Candidate For Governor OF Maryland
Is A Constructive Genius.


] letters and kilograms of congratulatior
on his nomination as the Republican
r candidate for Governor.
l Late returns show that he will have
/ 112 out of 1923 votes in the State Con-
r vention, he having carried in Tuesday S
J primaries every district in Baltimore
= city and every county with the excep-
: ton of Cecil, Dorchester, Calvert and
Anne Arundel.
l Maryland knows Mr.. Weller as a road
s builder. Some years ago he managed
a Congressional campaign for Robert
Garrett, in which he came in touch with
) the political workers in the Second Con
, gressional district. He is generally
recognized as stanch Republican, but
other than the experience mentioned be
has taken no part in practical politics.
As a road-builder many people. re-
CARELESS of party, are inclined to re
gard him as a conspicuous success. He
has been able to push the work TO com
pletion and to keep out of it anything
savoring of partisan politics and cor
ruption. The roads chairman has strong
admirers among men Of ali parties for
the work he has done in Maryland and
the way he has done it. They regard
him as an efficient man.
Mr. Weller is a man of great sim
picity in his habits and tastes. He is
as plain as the proverbiaI old shoe and
puts on no frills.
His home is near ReisterstowA, Bal
| timore county, where he was born 50
, years ago Although he has made two
! tours of the globe he regards Baltimore
county as the garden spot of the world,
and returning from his travels he again
! settled there in the same locality where
! he grew up as a boy.
: He graduated at the Franklin High
7 School at Reistertown at the age of 16
| and was appointed cadet to the United
: States Naval Academy by the late
: Charles B. Roberts, then a member of
! Congress from the Second Congression-
al district. He was the Youngest man
: in his class to graduate from the Naval
Academy 10 1881, and was also the
president of his class.
He cruised for two years and then
: resigned from the Navy.
After this he took civil service ex-
animation and was appointed to a DO
sition in the Postoffice Department at
Washington. While holding this po-
sition under the Government he studied
/ law and went to Kansas, where he
: practiced his profession ssfor several
years. Then he moved to Boston and
established connection with the bank
ing house of Hornblower & Weeks,
which he maintained for about 10 years,
being manager of the New York office
part of the time.
He was successful in his business,
bat relinQuished it about 10 years ago
on account of his health and returned
to Baltimore county, where he secured
his boyhood home and some additional
land.
Incidently the intimate friendship be-
tween Mr.. Weller and John w. Weeks,
a member of the firm of Hornblower &
Weeks and row United States Senator
from Massachusetts and a tentative
candidate for the Republican nomina-
ton for President next year, began at
the Naval Academy where Senator
Weeks was a member of the same
class.
This close association formed be-
tween the two cadets continued in after
years, and MIR. Weller still refers to
Senator Weeks as 1.-The best friend
have in the world
From his youth the Republican nomi-
nee for Governor has been called Doc"
by his early friends, including former
Cadet Weeks and the Others He ex-
plains the definition this way, While
still very small boy the family cat be
came i'll, and he undertook to cure it
with the aid of some pills he found
around the house. The cat nearly died
in consequence of the dosing, but his
father applied the title doc" to him,
and it has remained with him ever since.
Mr.. Weller's immediate family con-
sists of his wife and one son, now
grown, who has recently been living in
the West. Like most men who have
been successful, he has an abiding faith
in the innate intuition OF his wife, who,
naturally, is greatly concerned in his
Gubernatorial aspirations and is a real
helpmate in her sympathetic interest.
The position of Roads Chairman was
accepted by Mr.. Weller not because he
needed job-or rather the salary it
paid-but because he did not wish to
remain inactive and was anxious to do
something of a constructive nature.
In fact, Weller is a constructive man.
He is a builder He holds that these
principles should be, and can be, ap-
piled to the running of the Maryland
State government. There are certain
fields especially where he believes con-
structive work can be accomplished to