The sun., 1888-06-17
somr1nne ABoUr STATE SENATOR'S
The Men who Have served Leur Terms
sinee the Tfms OF Tweed.

since tno ITnc 81 hWcess
OF all tho Senate and the Assembly dis
tricts In tho State the Wostchestcr county
Senate district has been most stendfast In its
representation. For nine terms or since the
time that william NJ. Tweed was Senator in the
earliest part OF the seventies, Westchester
county has sent only two men to represent 1t
in tho Senate Ono is William Hosea Robert
son. tho bow-legged Bismarck of Katonah, who
has held almost every office there Is excopt
President Governor, or United States Senator.
He has been Assemblyman, County Judge.
elector. Congressman, Collector OF the Port OF
New York, and President pro tempore OF the
State Senate. Hc was In the Senate back In
1854. and before several members OF the pres
ent Senate were born. In 1879 he started on
top-year Senatorial term. In 1881 he
withdrew and became Collector OF the
Port. Henry c. Nelson, Democrat, served
three terms, and Judge Robertson Is now
in his old seat, making his seventh term Henry
c. Nelson was In the Assembly OF 1868, repre-
senting the district that has since been elect-
Ing Gen. James William Hustled. There Is no
other district In the State that comes up to
this though there Ia ono more that comes near
1t. Only two Senators in eighteen years Ii
better record than many churches mako with
their pastors.
Noxt to the Westchester district. which is now
known as the Twelfth, though under the former
apportionment 1t was tho Ninth. Is the Fourth
Brooklyn district. which before 1880 was tho
Third. Since 1874 this district has had only
| two Senators. John c. jacobs, Democrat and
| Jacob Worth, Republican. Their respective
length OF service is the reverse OF the West
! chester district as the Democrat served ak
terms and the Republican is now serving his
second. The district is naturally Democratic
as is the Westchester district. but tho Demo-
| rrn, ip trritf hnl
OF Nelson's friends and tho auueduct
influence in Westchester county. and BY
Worth's alliance with the German beer sellers In
Brooklyn. John G. Jacobs represented this dis
trict uninterruptediy from 1874 to 1886. He
had boon Assemblymcn previously from tho
Ninth Brooklyn district, beginning In 1867 and
remaining In seven years until he was elected
Senator. He wanted tho nomination last year
| In tho Second district, which Is strongly Demo-
| cratic, but 1t was given to James Z. Pierce. who
was olocted. In 1872 and 1879 Henry G. Muir
ply represented the Fourth district. Had
John c. Jacobs gone into the Senate ono term
sooner his district would have tied the West
chester district. AS 1t Is. he beats Judge Rob-
| ertson in the number Of consecutive terms, a.
ho has six to Robertson's five. jacob Worth
has been Senator only twice which is not long
compared with John c. Jacobs's term, but he
was Brooklyn Assemblyman nine times.
|
Twelfth are the First and Eighth, that have
not had tho same men twice since Tweed's
different Senator, every time since the last
apportonment. Tho Fourteenth district has
carry it occasionally, The putchess county
changeable as the Long Island district and the
Eighth New York district Eight mon have
served tho last nine terms Stephen II. Wend-
over being the Only man who was reelected.
Generally speaking. the rural Republican
fewer men than the city districts In the rural
districts. where a Republtcan nomination
e Noe
portioned out among the counties In rota-
ton established by the custom . Of the district;
ehs eresa hss fef
Republican leader in Orleans county. which is
Mto IN issS and 1857
the other years Monroe county man had It. In
steuben county went to the Senate twice. and
Jay sioat fassStt Of Chem}nng }n county has rep,
the Nineteenth district there is similar rota-
tion. Franklin W. Tobey, William y. Rockwell.
+ Bex ews o4ms as Gnson
Warren are tho counties OF this Senate distret,i
the ds5S SWsta Jshn
One Of the, most constant Of the rural dis
tricts is the Twenty sixth. which includes the
Mccarthy represented this district for five
the present Senator. is serving his second
term. The county, Of OnondaGa has three
GSand souny tho
Al EXAMPLE Of tho effect ei 2 SIC RePubiican
majority In II two-county district Is shown In
the Thirty second. the southwestern corner Of
tho State. in ChautauGua and Cattaraugus
one Democrat. s Norman @ Allen en- Of Gattaraugu3
county has had two terms eight years apart
one term. and Of the other six terms the no.
torious Loren b; Sessions OF Chautauqua county
modore mod lore T. Vedder Of Cattarausus county has
had four nomination means an election. and
Ws6 hs nsen
usually been the more successful buyers; -,
years years the Fiith district has had six sehasoSs
Sxh sshb fhs Si,tS Ssa th
ilrst elected Senators from New York in 1879.
have had four each and the Tenth, five. John
Ind % Se Ss's TSm n' he F F III
was TWoed's old district, IND his last teri
cosdoI him. and John Morrissey came O. aft
JHhp ly, Fox; Edward Hogan and and John !, g Boz
Il IN hs sf Ss m 5G Ms9ae ba mah
ate. This district has always been Democr;
re Se sspeS h whss6 to
could safely run, Edyari F: ksllly. the pres;
two terms. There has been q marked change
In the nationality OF the Senators from this
district, aS the German population has grad
ually been concentrating IL tho district above
and the Irish -Amoricum, population Of the dis
trict IL incrensing. Tho first ilye Senators
We're Augustus Weismann. Jacob A. Gross.
Casper a. Dusdcn, LOWS S. Goebel. and Jacob
seebacher TIE Inst three nre Il. \. Grady.
| Il. J. Campbell and 4. Il. Reilly.
The Seventh district is n great German dis
trict though wing OF 1t runs up town. James
DAILY served three terms from this district.
He Is tho only man whom it has reelected. Al
though most OF the population is German.
the majority OF tho Senators have been Irish
or Irish American. The district has gone Re-
publican though there is little possibility Of It
Thomas A. Icdwith. James W. Gerard. John
Nlorrisscy Ierllqtnd Eidman. James DAILY.
The Eighth district was carved out by tho
Legislature 10 be kcpu ublican. but tho Repub-
leans nre not barinonious. and occasionally 1t