Montgomery County sentinel., 1938-07-28

montgomery county politicians are
warming up as the skies clear after a
week of deluge. Those old familiar
faces are back in town again and the
county seat echoes and re-echoes those
haunting whispers which have sent
many q man down into public obliv-
lion.
It is pretty generally agreed among
those supposed to be In the '1now''
that the Democratic organization can
didates will defeat any ticket placed
in the field by the Independents led
by Eugene Casey. Mr.. Casey and the
independents are experiencing at least
a modicum Of difficulty in obtaining
strong candidates to run for the vari-
GUS county posts. They have selected
strong man in Thomas NJ. Garrett,
candidate for the commissionership
from the Rockville district. He will
oppose John e. Oxley, a recent anti
convert and also popular Rockville
attorney and business man.
Leslie R. Sabine, Of near Washing
ton Grove, will run for commissioner,
as will Frederick E. Dudley, Of Silver
Spring and Charles T. Crockett, of
Bethesda, on the independent ticket.
The Republican incumbeuts, Frank
Karn and Paul coughlan Rockville
and Silver Spring, respectively, are
ANNOUNCED candidates for re-eiectiens
Harold Ward, Of Gaithersburg, will
also seek the Commissionership from
the Gaithersburg district. ~
Clayton Watkins and Hanson Cash
ell, clerk of the court and register
of wills, are out again for reelection.
They have the good will of the or
ganization faction of the Democratic
party.
Thomas M. Anderson, generally re-
garded as the best man the Repub-
licans can hope to put up, will likely
run for States Attorney. He is pop
ular in the county and observers pre-
dict that he will lead the G. o. P.
slate. He opposes Ben Wilkinson, the
Democratic standard-bearer.
Stedman Prescott, candidate on the
Democratic ticket for Judge of the
Circuit Court this week made an an
nouncement in answer to charges that
he personally introduced and spon-
sored the bill providing for fourth
Judge in the Sixth Judicial Circuit.
He says:
"Having read in the paper last
evening an article quoting a prospec-
tive candidate for the same Office as
myself from which quotation it might
be inferred that the creation of the
new Judgeship for this Circuit was
at my initiation, wish, very briefly
to state my participation therein.
"The authority for the additional
Judgeship is an amendment to the
Constitution of Maryland. Amend
ments, before being submitted to all
the voters Of Maryland must pass the
House of Delegates and the State
Senate. This particular one was intro
duced in the House of Delegates by
member from Frederick County
without any request whatsoever from
me. When it passed the House and
came over to the Senate, Of which l
am a member, it then became my duty
to vote on it. Before doing so | called
the President of the Montgomery
County Bar Association, told him its
provisions, and asked him to call a
special meeting so that might know
the feelingby all the members OF the
Bar concerning 1t. The same was done
by me to the Frederic
County Bar Association and stated
to them that If either Association
were opposed to the measure l in
tended to vote against it. The meet
ing was called and a resolution for
warded me by the Montgomery
County Association unanimously in
dorsed its passage. BY telephone they
notified me and lawyers of Frederick
also favored it. When SO notified and
instructed l cast my one vote in the
State Senate to submit it TO the
people Of Maryland for their approval
or rejection "a