Workmen's advocate., 1890-11-01

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 GENERAL REVIEW OF THE
 SITUATION.
 Work Accomplished in Various Dis.
 tricts-UneNpected Strength Dis
 played in Some Quarters-Good
 Effect of Open Air Meetings.
 Of the twenty-four Assembly Districts into which the city Is divided, fourteen have been regularly organized and will have full set of candidates on the off cial ballots. In ten a regular organlza- ton could not be effected In time. These are the First, Second, Third, Fourth, ! Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, Eleventh Thir- teenth ar Twenty first; they comprise 1 two brown -stone-frOnt districts, being the abodes mainly of brokers, manufacturers, stock holders, coupon punChers, and the crew generally who eke out a living from those classes, they comprise also the Sleepy Hollow" west of Broadway be- tween 23d and BleeCker streets, and finally they comprise the janltor, and other like sections which in the short space of the campaign could not be con veniently reached
 In the fourteen districts that have been fully organized, the campaign has been conducted according to the special features of each locality. In the
 SIXTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT
 a fair organization was established early Tn the campaign, and increased steadily all along. The membership consists of several natiOnalities, and of members of labor unions; it is the home of the par tvs candidate for Comptroller, August Waldinger, and is expected to cast a fair vote. It's headquarters are at 80 Clinton street; it's candidate for Assem-. bly, is Samuel Majdwer, and for Alder man, Aaron Lefkowitz; it is included in the Eighth Congressional, where Alexan der Johas is running. The
 EIGHTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT
 was the earliest to open the campaign. It also will vote for Alexander Jonas for Congress; Hugo Vogt is its candidate for Assembly, and John Rose for Alder man. While the work done in this dis trict justfies the expectation of a vote about as strong as that in the sixth, nevertheless, a new element, the Rus sian, Polish and German Jews, who are numerous in this district having joined the party in large numbers, the vote cast here may be surprisingly large. This will depend, however, wholly upon the number of naturalized citizens among this new element In all respects, with the exception of open air meetings, the managers of the district have conducted throughout an active campaign, and the voters have been addressed on the issues in German, Jewish and Russian, besides English. The
 TENTH ASSEMBLY, DISTRICT
 has not been behind either of the two preceding ones in the work of agita- tion, yet it is possible that, unless a large number of converts has been made dur ing the campaign and in the course of the last two years, its vote may not be up to its usual standard, seeing that there has been quite an emigration from this neighborhood towards uptown. This fact notwithstanding, the district is strong The requisite signatures for the nomination certificates were ob- tained without difficulty; and what with the activity of its members, and the standing of its local candidates in the district, a good vote IS expected here. The district forms part of the Ninth Congressional, its candidate to the fe- deral legislature Is Christian Ensmnger; for Assembly it has put up Julius Cab Ter, and for Alderman Henry Schmidt, all of whom are progressive workingmen well posted upon and thoroughly mbued with the principles of which they have been made the standard bearers by their fellow proletarians. Similar in many respects to this is the
 TWELFTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. Like the Tenth, perhaps to greater extent even, it has suffered from the emigration uptown of large number of its best trained men, whose places have been in turn taken by the immigra- tion from the lower districts of raw ma terial, whose understanding of their rights and duties remains yet to be test ed, To what extent the education given during the campaign has been able to