The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-02-15
BAY0NAG,S CLAIM.
An Argument showing Her Right TO the
New Assem- b man.

an Argument showing Her Right to the
New ASSEM- lymAn.
That Hudson county will, by the new
apportionment, receive enc more Assem-
blymaH is a conceded fact, but how the
line will De drawn is . mystery. If the
county could secure two additional dis
trfcts, as an effort to that effect is being
made. the difficulty Of redistrlcting
would be much less. BaYonne claims
thai it is entitled to be q dirtrlct by itself
and Harrison and Kearny make the
same de aand. North Hudson believes
be eousplidsted ana divided into rw0
ASSEMBLE dzstriets
10 ascertain as nearly as possible tina
foundations Tor these claims, I inter-
viewed a gentleman thoroughly versed IN
the politics of the county ana the present
de said, as he referred TO the Legislative
Manuai;--
BAYoEEE's CLAIM.
The twelve precincts OF Jersey City In
the Sixth district polled for Congressman
last fail 3,O75 votes, and the five wards of
Bayoune, also in that district. 2.537. This
WAS falling OF OF more than thirty per
cent OF the registered vote. Bayonne
should have polled 5000 votes alone.
The four wards Oh Harrison. where Mr..
Mcdonald was very strong only polied
l,lOl. and kearny but 973, a total of 2. 074
votes. This was strong vote. Il repre-
sented about 10, 0G0 people. while the vote
of Bayonne represented at least 20, 900
persons.
Now take the Tenth district, which IN
cludes West Hoboken, Weehawken,
Union Township and other towns The
total vote poiled was 3, s35, of which Wee
hawken was credited with 299, West
251- The Nintn district which is com
posed Of the First. Second and Third
wards, cast vote of 1 or which repre-
sented a population of $1,000. Weehaw-
ken's vote only voiced less than 1900
persons. The Two together make pat
4,37l votes, or $1,000 people.
AND HoBOKRN.
II new district Is TO be apportioned
according to population most certainly
the expected consolidation OF Weehawken
with hoboken would not be sufficient to
justify Two Assembly districts as mas been
claimed, for divlded equally it w5uld
make but a representation OF 16, 900 people,
6,000 more than Harrison or Kearny
and 4,o00 less thaa bsyonne- The popu-
lation OF WeehAwken is only equal 20
That or q precinct in this city.
If the new Assembly district is to be
made according 10 population. Bayonne
entitled 70 II. Take, Tor example, the
~aA'~- ~ - - N-0~J -NJs - e--c = - - c-S
trict there were polled for Congress
2,5l5s Second district, 4,367; Third
district, 4. ib2; Fourth district, 8 S21.
FfIa district, 4g3S Bayoane poliea
1871 votes atone. more than WAS voted IN
the First district. Bayoaue and the
Jersey City end of he Sixth district
p3iied ). 6l2. or as much as two of the Jer-
sey CITY districts ia round numbers. by
these figures you can easily perceive tnltt
If the apporlionment Is 10 De made ac-
cording 10 population Bayonne should be
separate district"
HARRISON AND KEARNY.
ut has been sugges.e4 eliaJ kearn
and HARRISON be made an Assembly di
trict, aud that portion OF the FOurtas
distrlst be auled 10 the Eighth to nlake
up for the loss OF votes, aud that some O.
West HoDoken De added TO The E0urth
District. This would not prove satisfac-
tory.
sit would place the Assemblyman in a
bad position. He woasd nave to repre-
sent the townships and tae City az II
same tine, aud the LEGISLATION Tor The
Is very different. w nAt a city inig
require wound prove bad for
township. The same may
said o. the proposed cons0lidan
OF WeeAawkea with HonoEen In AssHa4f-
bly, districts Il is much bettet 70 keep
towns and townships IN separate districts
from cities. l do not, OF course, KNOW
hoN she new iines viii be drawn, uut
believe tnat Bayoun is more eatlsled 10
tne cnaoge taau any otner para oil the
couRty.n