New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-10-30
THE STRUGGLE FOR CONGRESSMAN.


REPUBLICAN CoNGREssMEN THAT CAN BE
Y1pcTFp IN THE FULL PARTY VOTE is PoILED.
Tn the close Congressional districts Dotn
or+,s are actively at work, and the candidates are
making personal canvass OF their seVera'
distr,ets This personal canvass involves an iu-
mense amount OF visiting the tenement-house
nn,atiop being especially favored with the presence
~ candidates. This method OF gaining votes is
Dec,olIv followed in the With, With and With Cen
nassional Districts The candidate usually finds that
A. Patrick Maloney is not at homes but nevertheless
Mrs Maloney is pleased with the information tnaV
Colonel - the candidate for Congress IN the district
"a before her eyes IN grief-strleken conduOh III
consequence OF Mr. Maloneys absence. Nicholas MuerlS
enc candidate OF the Tammany Democrats, and General
rbomas p Bourke, the Anti-Tammany candidate IN the
th D,s,r,ct Mr. Muller has his headquarters at the
stevens House and Is confident that he Will be elected
,s confidence is doubtless based largely upon the act
that he supported by the powerful election machinery
NJ Tammany Hall. General BOurke has MS heaoquH-
ters at French Hotel and is confident that he VIII DC
elected He will undoubtedly receive large vote from
he Irish voters OF district in consequence OF his i'm
prisOnment by the BRUSH authorlues ior ehOi'' III
behalf OF Ireland
In the With Congressional District the
aercest struggle yet developed between candi-
dates for Congress is going on between Arson
G. McCOok and Lawrence r. Jerome. B t,ui
candidates making vigorous canvass OF the district
during the day and addressing meetings OF lher sup
pOrteTs at night General MeCoOk assisted IN hls can
yass bv DR. J. l. Hayes and Mr. jerome by Senator Wag-
stSf General McCook's headquarters are in The s.;
Elmo Hotel in sixth-ave near Twentylourth'st' ana
Mr. Jerume's at Thrlfenth-st. and Sixth-3ye; g., o.,
The contest the &Ith Congressional District Is very
brisky conducted. Levi p. Morton, the RepuDloan
candidate. has his headquarters IN the Grand GnlOn
Hotel at FOurth-ave and Forty-seeOnd-st Here arge
force Of clerks are employed II sendihg pom,-
zeal documents TO voters; Keeping tne t in, III
formed about the balOAg places, and IN fact dong
an that can be done to pesnSae tnor Sgf5
canvass Of the districts also being made Tine canvass
report that everywhere they meet with enGGupGS
respecting Mr.. MortOns prospects, b'hlaIlh a.
Willis, the candidate OF the Tammany Democrats mas
his Headquarters in Broadway near Thirty-SlXth-st IN
contrast with tine appearance OF MT Morton eIeTk5'
the faces of the clerks employed py M pn WI,
with a view of Frightening a dark outlook, William Ross
Wallace has written campaign song ior MI MIlils s
The third OF the song Is such an extraordinary AZ
fair that il is here given as a curiosity;
M f4Sm @G {GSt Sf PSt Sf s0fn
On from raud tIat h1rls back 70 chaos
InegTity's odchested morni
We shout Keep the National honorI
II n T sha IA W w ps on numbered
And Truth dropped his wreath from the skies
HurTah FOR The Red White AN and Buei
With Willis the tllei and the truel
Wcii send him to Congress again
Wilson Berry man. the Republican candidate In the
IXth Congressional District, has established MS neal
Quarters at dhiTyn't aIcciion ana VIEW of the
TACT that there are two strong Democratic c yi
ana John Hardy. II is easy to see that If the Demo
crate vote is equally divided between these two men
Mr. Bergman viii slip in between them and secure me
prze A year ago the Democratic vote IN the
District 00r Beach, was 10.s64 and the Re
publican vote Uor ChurchD was 6Os2. II Is, there
fore only needed that every Republican shall give his
vote to Mr.. Bergman to secure his election probably
Mr. Bergman is young man, having been graduated
flom the College Of the City OF New-IOrk as late as
1862 From 1868 till the close OF the war ne IN te
Union Army. In tie years 1866 ana 1867 he Was
member The Assembly, but was defeated IN the
Fail OF 1857, when candidate for the same office,
through repeating and false counting, having Incurred
the IN will OF the Tweed Ring IL the Legislature
Edwin Enstcin, the candidate OF the Republicans and
Anti-Tanmauy Democrats for Congress i'll the Win
District Ii is believed, can be elected. The District Ia
very close one and Mr.. EckhOf, the Tammany candi-
date, unpopular with the voters. MI Eusteln VIII
have his headquarters at No "a SecOnd-ave.