The Republican., 1942-11-05
COUNTY COP IS
WINNER IN ALL
but One CONTEST
Bernard |. GOnder, Democrat, Is
Elected To State Senate By
Slight Majority Over His
Republican Opponent

Normally Republican Garrett
County on Tuesday elected Ber-
.nard |. Gonder, Democrat, to the
Maryland State Senate by a slim
majority, but all other Republi-
can candidates held substantial
majorities over their Democrat
lc opponents.
The voters gave Gonder majority
of 81 votes over his Republican oppo-
nent f. Ray Jones, local attorney and
former Secretary of State under Gov
ernor Harry w. Nice. The vote was
(unoff7ciaD 26O8 to 1926. Gonder's
strength was greatest in Oakland
where he polled Gas votes in the four
precincts compared to his opponents
ABA votes.
1t was in Oakland, too, that Asa 7.
Matthews showed his greatest pull
against Neil c. Fraley in the race for
States Attorney. Matthews polled 626
votes against Fraley's 425 in Oakland
but other precincts ovcrcame this ham
dicap and gave Fraley a countrywide
majority (unofficial) of 352. The vote
was 2545 to 2193.
McKeldin Has $50 Majority
The county gave Theodore Nickel
din majority of 900 in his race for
Governor over Herbert r. O'COnor,
but here as elsewhere in the counties
that went Republican the McKeldin
majority was not sufficient to over
come the lead in the Democratic coun-
ties and Baltimore City. O'Conor's
majority in Baltimore City was less
than 10000.
Beall Goes Over Big
Garrett county gave a large ma
jority to J. Glenn BeaIl, which helped
to pile up the greatest Republican ma
jority in the Sixth District in many
years. Beall received 1868 votes COM
pared with 1916 for E. Brooke Lee,
Montgomery county political leader.
Lee lost his own county by 1900 votes.
House Members and Commissioners
Have Safe Majorities
Down the entire ballot the Republi-
cans were favored. Nelson Brenne-
man, Otho S. Fike and Jasper Myers
were returned elected to the House;
J. Edward Helbig will be the County
Treasurer over his Democratic oppo-
nent, W. f. Spoerlein by a vote of
1904 to 1774.
John W. Herman, Walter Meyers
and Jonas W. Sincs were named the
three County Commissioners, al
though Harvey Gortner, Democratic
candidate, gave them close call, He
was only little more than one hun
dred votes behind.
George Coddington had a majority
of 875 in his contest for Sheriff over
the present sheriff, Walter H. Haenft-
ling, 2844 to 1869 in complete unoffi-
cial returns.
Thomas E. Bishoff and Frank Calls
were reelected Judges of the Orphans
Court, along with f. C. Cuppctt, an
other Republican aspirant, new to pol
itics.
All proposed Constitutional Amend
ments were turned down by voters of
this county in an emphatic manner in
incomplete returns, but several pre-
cincts are yet missing.
With several precincts yet to re-
port, there are indications that the
referred law will be accepted by the
people of the county requiring the
county to be divided into districts for
the purpose of clecting County Com
missioners from certain sections. To-
tails thus far show 993 for the law
and $40 against.
Complete returns will be tabulated
this afternoon, with the exception of
nine soldier votes, which will come in
later under the law.
There was more than a fifty percent
vote in the county.
Unofficial tabulatcd returns will be
found upon page six Of The Republi
can today.
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