On September 16, 1903, Mr. Warfield was nominated by
acclamation by the Democratic State Convention as the
party's candidate for Governor. On November 3, 1903, he
was elected Governor by a plurality of 12,625 votes over his
Republican opponent.

Secretary of State: WILFRED BATEMAN (Democrat), of
Talbot County.

Wilfred Bateman, youngest son of the late Col. H. E.
Bateman, was born in Washington, D. C., January 17, 1859;
was educated at the public schools of Talbot County and
Bethel Academy, Virginia. He taught school for two years,
read law with the late Ex-Gov. Philip Francis Thomas, and
was admitted to the bar December, 1881. He was the
Examiner in Chancery for the Circuit Court for Talbot
County, and held that office until his appointment as Clerk
of the Circuit Court to succeed the late Col. Thomas
Hughlett.

Comptroller: DR. J. W. HBRING (Democrat), of West-
minster, Carroll County.

Dr. J. W. Hering is a resident of Westminster, and has
been prominent for some years in the political and public life
of Carroll County. As a member of the State Senate he
made a favorable impression by his faithful performance of
duty and his impartial rulings upon matters that came before
him as the chairman of a number of important committees.
He is a bank cashier and a keen and successful business man,
and was until recently president of the Maryland Bankers'
Association. He is the only layman who has been president
of the General Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church
of the United States. He has for many years been connected
with educational work; was one of the founders of Western
Maryland College, and is at this time president of its Board
of Trustees. He received the degree of Doctor of Laws from
St. John's College, at Annapolis, in June, 1902.

Comptroller-Elect: DR. GORDON T. ATKINSON (Democrat),
of Crisfield, Somerset County.

Dr. Atkinson holds a high rank among the professional
and business men of Somerset County, Maryland. He is a
son of Levin Atkinson, and was born December 28, 1846, on
a farm in Somerset County, Md. He attended the local
schools in Pocomoke City, Md., and Dickinson College, Car-
lisle, Pa. He left the college in his junior year to matricu-