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# Hon. Walter B. Brooks. Mr. Walter Booth Brooks, the Republican nominee for governor, whose candidacy for that office has brought forth the unanimous assent of the party throughout the state, is well fitted for the position for which he has been chosen. A staunch Republican in politics, yet no partisan; of thorough business capacity and unblemished reputation; closely identified with the interests of the city, the county and the State, the convention could not have named a better man to become the standard-bearer of the party in the approaching campaign. Mr. Brooks is a son of Chauncey Brooks, well known for many years in the community, was born, as was his father before him, in Burlington, Hartford county, Ct. On the paternal side the family is English, and were settlers in New Haven, Ct., prior to the Revolution. On the maternal side the descent is from Captain Aaron Gaylord, who was killed while defending his family and fireside at the famous massacre of Wyoming in 1778. Walter Brooks' mother was Marilla Phelps, who was the daughter of Louisa Gaylord, daughter of Captain Gaylord. The father, Chauncey Brooks, who came to Baltimore in or about 1812, was an old-line Whig in politics, and later a Republican. The nominee for governor is of good stock. The name, Walter Booth, comes from General Walter Booth, the partner of Chauncey Brooks when he first entered mercantile life. As is well known, Mr. Chauncey Brooks was from 1845 until his death, some few years since, the president of the Western National Bank, and his son, Walter B., is a director of the same institution. He is also the president of the Canton Company and a director of the Eutaw Savings Bank. As executive officer of the Canton Company, his management has been of such a sound and discretionary character as to raise the stock from a valuation of $14 per share to beyond $60. Mr. Brooks has also administered many important trusts, those of Stirling, Ahrens & Co., Howard, Cole & Co., and Kirkland, Chas & Co. standing as monuments of his business energy and capacity. Recently, when the affairs of the Merchants' Club were at a particularly low ebb, and it was thought the enterprise would have to be utterly abandoned, Mr. Brooks was called upon to help it out of its difficulties. He, with other able and interested members, went to work, and the result is the club is now in a prosperous condition. It is given as an incident of his business career, and as an evidence also of his charitable disposition, that when a run was threatened upon the Eutaw Savings Bank some years ago, Mr. Brooks at once called upon the president, Mr. Wm. F, Burns, and offered him all the available funds necessary, to prevent any anxiety among the poor depositors, who were afraid of losing what they had put in the bank. In