Workmen's advocate., 1890-11-01

| Noclallst Labor party, and as the other parties also contemplate outdoors speak Ing, not few hearers may decide to vote the Socialist ticket through the contrast the surely will be able to establish between the vapid. hollow Reclamation ot the hoodlers and the practical, earnest language that comes from the heart of the Socialist speakers, Moving eastward aRaln, We strike the
 EIGHTEENTH ASSEMBLY, DISTRICT.
 Here, on general principles, is a field almost as unpromiSing as that offered by the Eleventh and Twenty first, in neither ot which an organization was effected, or endeavured to be effected, for that matter, But while the barrcnuess for principle or sense of justice in the lat ter two arises from the circumstance that they are almost exclusively the homes of the very elements whose whole interests are centered in the perpetuation Of the causes of existing social wrongs. Tn the same measure in which the slave holders in the south were interested in in the perpetuation of their ''peculiar' institution, and while the candidates of ther choice have always been such characters as the late Robert Ray Ha- milton, or such platitudes as William Nicholas Hoag, Howard Crosby Jr., and Richard J. Lewis, the reason of the difficulty presented in the Eighteenth is that 1t Is, to a great extent, the dump. ing ground of the shady politicians--a class essential to the plutocraCy of the Eleventh and Twenty first, in order to do their dirty work. Nevertheless. among such tares and thorns, true to it's proletarian character, this district pro. duces the pure wheat stalks in numbers sufficiently abundant to have enabled it to gather together strong organization and promptly fill it's certificates for local nominations. Besides the feature of this organization of being like an oasis of purity in desert of corruption. there is the other notable feature of its con sstlng to large extent of worklngmen of Irish birth and parentage, who not only have outgrown the childish idea that Socialism is a German movement. but have thrown off the slough of race prejudice, and tutored by experience, come out as Socialists nat-footed in search of their redemption. Charles Wagner's Congressional District extends itself over this district, John A. Daven- port is the candidate for Assembly, and William F. Gallivan for Alderman. The
 NINETEENTH ASSEMBLY, DISTRICT IS one with regard to which little can be foretold with any degree of certainty. It stretches, west of Central Park, north, ward from 52d street to Spuyten Duyvil, distance of more than nine miles. Of late years it has been filling rapidly, and that it's population belongs largely to the class of the disinherited may be gathered from the fortress looking armories that have been recently reared within its boundaries, quite as much as from the numerous tenement houses whose build CTS and owners have sailed as close to the criminal code (some times right into lt) as their 'puil' or other political ad- vantages made safe. The gathering of the membership for an organization in a district thus CirCumstanCed was no easy work. Accordingly, it's certificates of nomination were among the last 10 be filled, placing in the field Eugene II. Eckert for Congress, Henry Pohl for the Assembly, and Louis Sinnlger for Alder man Nevertheless, the whole complexion of the district justites the hope that it will contribute good, round figure towards the total i'll the city. Two Ma tiOnaliSt clubs are located in the district; one at its lower, another at it's upper extremity, Washington Heights, These clubs comprise several active workers, whose influence for good in the cause is not slight, and who have buckled on the armor, and are in many ways agitating the issues. Furthermore, this district is the home of not few of the unhappy strikers of the New York Central. No other ticket, but that of the Socialists, K in the field which these severely tried men could hOnorably support. The agi- l. tion among them has been quietly car ried on. Mountains of prejudice are, however, to be leveled To a certain extent this important work has been accomplished; and where it has not yet been fully accomplished sufficient has teen done and will yet be done, during the remaining days of the campaign to produce still greater results next year. The remaining four districts that have been organized in good shape lie mainly on the East Side Of these, the first is the
 TWENTIETH ASSEMBLY, DISTRICT,
 whose local candidates are, for Con. gress, John J. Flick; for the Assembly Charles Gneib; and for Alderman, Jacoh Behm. The district is naturally strong. Like almost all of those on the East Side.