Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-08-13
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C. H. Small, John Reeves
Head Candidates Selected
Tuesday; Petition To Put
Group On Ballot Started

Group On Ballot Started
Montgomery County was assured
contest in the coming general
elections after a group Of Repub.
licans and anti-organization Dem.
ocrats Joined forces to select ar
Independent" slate of candidates
for county offices on Tuesday
night.
Meeting in the law offices Of
former Orphans Court Judge
Thomas C. Kelley in Rockville, the
coalition group of approximately
80 persons emerged with the coun-
tvs first fusion movement since
the dissolution of the Republican
Democratic combination which
gained control of the Board Of
Commissioners in 1884. The self
termed Independent" candidates
will endeavor to have their names
placed on the ballot for the gen.
eral election in a group. To ac-
complish this, they are required by
law to obtain the signatures of SOC
registered voters on their candi-
dacy petition, and the petition and
signatures must then be published
in county newspaper.
Judge Kelley, who acted as
chairman at the meeting, said that
the petition will be circulated this
week. He denied that the hide
pendent candidates had any ties
with the County Charter Commit
tee, declaring that "no one present
at the meeting tonight has any
affiliation with the charter move
ment."
Inc FUSION group will meet
again next Monday evening, he
said, adding that the place of the
meeting had not yet been selected
John R. Reeves, Bethesda attorney
and Independent candidate fol-
States attorney, will preside. Mr.
Reeves withdrew his candidacy fol
the Republican nomination for the
same office last Saturday, but still
is candidate for the Republican
State Central Committee.
Another leader of the Indepen-
dent movement and it's candidate
for State Senator is Clarence H
Small, Laytonsville builder and
former county campaign manager
for Mrs. Katharine Byron, who
withdrew from the Congressional
race last Friday. Independent
candidates for county commission
ers are H. Deets Warfield, Da-
mascus Democrat, First Commits
sioner District; Walter P. Johnson
of Germantown (Republican in
cumbent), Second District; Buell.
M. Gardner Rockville Republican,
Third District; Robert P. Dunlop,
Democrat of Chevy Chase, Fourth
District; COL Clarence V. Sayer,
Kensington Republican, Fifth Dis
trict.
Candidates for the House of
Delegates are Claude v. Hyson,
Bethesda Republican; Willard A.
King, Chevy Chase Democrat;
Frank R. Long, Kensington Re-
publican, and Mrs. Muriel B.
Adams, Chevy Chase housewife, a
Democrat. Two more candidates
for the Legislature will be select
ed, it was announced.
The group decided to name no
candidate for clerk of the Circuit
Court, a position for which the
present incumbent, Clayton X.
Watkins, is the Democratic orga-
nization candidate for reelection.
Charles M. Orme Of Gaithersburg,
former chief of county police, was
selected as candidate for sheriff.
]. William Garrett, Gaithersburg
Republican, is candidate for regis
ter of wills, and Paul Imirie, Be-
thesda Democrat, for county treas
urer. Hanserd X. Presley of
Takoma Park and John D. Sadler
of Edgemoor, both Republicans,
were named candidates for judges
of the Orphans Court, with anoth-
er candidate to ,elected.