The sun., 1878-07-25
New York in the Next House.

The State Of New York elects more than
one-ninth Of the members Of the House Of
Representatives. This ought to give her
great weight in that branch Of the national
Legislature. But. unfortunately, there are
OF her present thirty-three representa-
tives but few who rise above the level of
mediocrity.. Our people will have an oppor
tunity this year to rectify this mistake.
The delegation in the present House con-
sists Of seventeen Republicans and sixteen
Democrats. At the election Of 1876 the Re-
publicans lost two districts by divisions in
the ranks Of their party. We refer to the
Monroe District and the Gencsce District
In the Monroe District, HART, Democrat
obtained a majority Of $50 over DAvy, Re-
publican. The district is composed OF Mon
roc and Orleans. DAvY lives In Monroe, and
HART in Orleans. The Republicans of
Orleans claimed the nominee, but DAvy
beat them In the Convention. The Demo-
Gratis put up HART and thereupon enough
Republicans Of Orleans bulted from DAvY to
defeat linn by majority Of 659, though on
the Presidential question the district was
strongly Republican.
quarrel Of the same nature occurred in
the Gcneseo District This district is com
posed Of Wyoming. Genesec and Niagara.
The former county had had the member two
terms. Niagara now claimed him. After
long struggle, HosKNs the then Republi-
can member got II nomination. Some bolt
ing Republicans of Niagara put up FLAGLER,
former member The Democrats brought
out BENEDICT. The vote in November stood :
BENEDICT l2,25l; HOsKINs 1l.s47: FLAGLER,
2,327 and BENEDICT was thus elected by a
plurality.
One element Of pungency in these bitter
contests was that both DAvY and HosRINs
We're warm and active supporters Of Senator
CoNKLING; and this was supposed to have
contributed somewhat to their defeat. The
Republicans appear to have no doubt that
they will recover those districts this year.
II they do, and the result in the rest OF the
State should bc az in 1876, the Republicans
will have nineteen members in the next
Congress and the Democrats fourteen.
The Democrats, however. confidently
claim that they will win two members from
the Republicans this fall We refer 10 one
OF the Brooklyn districts, now represented
by Mr.. CHITrENDES, and to the district in
this city now represented by Mr.. MCCooK
In the former. CHITTESDES defeated Gen
DARIN, Democrat by only 252 votes, and
in the latter, MoCooK beat Gen. WARD
by sl3. These are very small and unstable
majorities III those populous districts. CHIT
IENDEN's giving two years ago 10000 votes,
and MCCooK's 2G,OOO.
Besides the four districts we have particu-
Iarly mentioned, there are four others which
gave small ma ioritics in 1876. WILLIS, Dem
ocrat OF this city. was elected by 427 MAJ .s
ity; QUINN, Democrat, OF Albany, by 900;
LOCKWOOD, Democrat. Of Erie, b. 4Og ana
BACON, Republican, Of Oneida, by 10. Then,
too, STARIN, Republican, Of Fulton, went in
by majority Of only l,053. These must all
be regarded as rather doubtful districts
In the remaining twenty-four districts the
maiorities wore large in 1876, when, 1t being
n Presidential year, party lines were strin-
gently drawn. or these twenty-four, the
Democrats carried eleven, and the Repub-
leans thirteen. The eleven Democrats were
from districts lying south OF Albany. Their
majorities ranged from 500 to 1890 With
the exception OF the Dutchcss District, the
thirteen Republicans were from districts
lying north and west OF Albany. Ihcl
majorities ranged from l,sO0 to $500.
Under ordinary circumstances, We might
expect that these twenty-iOur districts
would this year elect members Of like poll
ties with those who now represent them ;
that the Republicans would recover the
two western districts which they lost by
Internal fouds two years ago. and that
tho close districts would be apt to go
now as they went then. But this compla-
cent view OF the situation by no means
covers the whole field of controversy Now
questions have entored the arena. Inquisi-
tive voters will require candidates to answer
whether or not they bcliove that HAYES
obtained tho Presidency by fraud, and, If he
did, then whether his fraudulent title to the
office Is too sacred to be put 10 tho test
under loyal forms. Then, too the Nationals
the Greenbackers and the Labor Reformcrs
will go into tho canvass with their przzllng
problems and their independent nomina,
tions. In additi IN to these clements OF ds
cord, which are general in their character
this State will have on its hands the specia