New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-19

of the Republican organization Ill Tue ~,
District have caused people to forget the spienuiu
record made by the party there III uhe edi g.
long before either Mr.. Gibbs or MI Co"l0 Ne
ured as leaders of the cOntendlng lacVaonS' -T
district in New-York has greater reason " 0ci
nroud of what it has done for Ecpuoncah liinoi
ples than tae XIIIth 1t was one OF INC hisO "
start q Republican organization away DacA l"
1854 and i'll tho year followlng, 40 uii oo'lef;na
,ionad H. njoneered the movement 10r coupietlhs
a Rennblican organization in New-iork OUqqInntS
Ii is perfectly natural, therefore, inaC une 800,
should De Republican, ana Nllat ~ - i ~ boIv
yaor nv n Good comfortable majority Is Wholly
ssne 10 the wrangling and fighting which nave
disgraced the party there for years, puV WHICH, ~
is hoped have reached setteHe st Sxteentbst
The XIIIth is bounded by west SlN.erHNS i9S
che North River. West Twcnty,slxth-str N ln.
ave. West 1Girty-second-st, Elghtn,ave, W W,tS
twenty nntht SeyenthavtS, Mes' a auS Seyepth
ave again 10 West SXteenth-st. Formerly NJ
oublican stronghold, it has become, owing largely
10 Republican qu9rrels deo9IS9 oeo aryiSn heat
Cleveland by only two votes, while HUI peat Nh
Ter by forty The necessity OF party pntiy IN tne
XIIIth is therefore 9pparent Son MD hrotber
of tue recent Speaker of the Assembly, received
control of the Tammany forces IN the u!S lily,
when he came here from BHilao. HiHs in nth the
Republican Executive Committee is Henry lin.
ton Bacllus, who was duly installed aU 'iD A@So
ne Tx. M defendants of old families, Mr.
Backus is pardonably proud of his ancestors one
of them was Stephen Backus, who with otneis
founded Saybrook, Conn., in 1857, ana later IN
i65O. gave Norwich, which he also helped 70
found. its name The great-grandfather OF MI;
Baokus, Elisha Backus,, fought under General General
he helped to settle Onondaga County. UIca was
Mr. Backus's birthplace, but he came TO New
York in infancy and has lived here ever sllce;
III, and after taking his diploma al the CoIulh-
bia Law School began tine practice OF ms proies-
sion His devotion TO Republican principles Is
shown by the fact that he rode 200 miles To cast
his first vote lie became active IN the dlsti!cOS
affairs in 1888. He was sent 70 the County Com-
uitiee and 10 county and State Conventions. lie
proved himself 50 useful on these occasions that
ne was named to head the delegation TO the County
Committee at the last primary.
Mr. Baclzus introduced and carried through the
amendment to the constitution whereby twenty-five
voters in any Assembly District can compel the
polls at primary to be kept open twelve instead
of six hours He has been urged TO run as an
Assembly candidate, and once had the o1er Of
the nomination for Surrogate, all OF which lie
declined
district organization The delegates TO the County
Committee beside Mr.. Backus are John T. WIN
dolph, John L. Hamilton, John Quinn. Henry
Gleason Henry Ulm, Henry HirSch, George W.
Kuper, Henry E. Lindsay, Charles b. Hawkes.
Matthias Seuvert Morgan d. McMonegal. Albert
Z. Wood, Charles Spring, James S9oth9fT Albert %
Theodore X. Tuthill, Henry w; Gibson John Glass;
r. John A. Grow John BlackwOod Samuel
Stewart Paul Livingston, Edgar B. Sutton, William
H. Reed, Edward Hauf, James J. Duffy, Constant
j Sperco p H. Scott. JGdsOn L. Smith, John j.
McGeary and james w BRINK.
XVIII ASSEMBLY DISTRICT
Percy Rockwells futile efforts 70 overthrow ex-
Register Reilly have drawn public attention to the
XIVth District of late Rockwell was Mayor
Grants friend and protege, and would have beaten
Reilly had not Croker interposed. This interfer-
snce on Cookers part not due altogether, as
aas been said to his friendship for Reilly. II was
simply because with Reilly in revolt we'll as the
Stecklers there was no hope whatever of electing
Tammany Senator from that district this fall.
There is not much anyway, Of course. as things
are now The XIVth is one of the smallest dis
tricts in the city, in point of territory as we'll as
population. Its total vote i'll 1883 was
1891 Harrison received 2,jO6 and Cleveland
ABA. Grant carried it last year against Scott
by less than 900. The district extends from
1Rird-ave along Fourteenth-st. to the East River.
II runs along the river front TO East Elevcnth-st
along that thoroughfare to Avenue b, down
Avenue Il 10 Seventh-st., along Seventh-st 10
Avenue A. up this avenue TO ST. Marks Place, and
thence to Third-ave. Its representative i'll the
party councils is ex-COroner John r. Nugent, a
veteran member of the Committee as well as of