The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-08-11
OUTLOOK FOR CONGRESS
A Long List of Aspirants in
Every Section Except
Jersey City.
REDISTRICTING RESULTS.
Six Sure Democratic Districts, Two
Republlcan-Names of Those
Seeking Nomination.
REDISTRICTING RESULTS.
Special to the Jersey citu Mems.

ional contest throughout the State are
beginning to attract attention. This will
be the first election under the new ap-
Congressional district. Every district,
with the exception of the First and Sec
ond is safely Democratic. The First and
Second remain as they we're, and both
being Republican districts are untouched.
They embrace the lower tier of counties
from Mercer to Cape May, which for she
present are safely Republican, the nomi-
nation being equivalent to election.
In the First Congressional District the
unusually long list of about twelve Re-
publican candidates has dwindlsd down
to two contestants. In the beginning
there was in the fight Ii. w. LOudens-
lager, William H. Livermore, Senator
Walter Leaning and H. W. Sawyer of
Cape May; Congressman Christopher Ber-
gen of Camden, Samuel H. Gray of Cam
den, ex-senator Isaac Nichols. ex-Con-
gresham George Hires of Salem. One
by one these candidates have been
dropped from the list, and now the fight
Is Is, between Loudenslager and Bergen.
The former Is the County Clerk of Glou-
cester county and one OF the foremost Re
publicans in South Jersey. He
has made q hustling canvass, hav-
ing gone over the the entire district
three or four times, and stands now in a
position of securing the nomination. He
has Gloucester and Salem back of him
without any doubt, while Congressman
Bergen claims part of Cumberland and
Camden. but there is said to be no doubt
as to whether Camden will be unit for
the eK-Congressman, because there is a
political tradition against third termers
and this is the third time that Mr.. Ber.
gen has sought the nomination.
NO THIRD TERMERS.
All through South Jersey this same
feeling prevails, and it materially should
be help to Loudensla0er In making his
fight. Congressman Bergen counted on
getting considerable assistance from
Gloucester county, because of the ap-
pointments that he had made there, hav-
ing secured the Internal Revenue Collect
orship for the district for Isaac Mefitt, of
Glassboro; Caleb Pancoast, of Woodbury.,
was made Deputy Collector; ex-senator
Roe was made Postmaster of Woodbury.
during Bergen's last term, ana he couuted
on their assistance in this fight, but they
all held firm to Loudensla9er and were
Instrumental in bringing Salem over to
him. There are hfty-four delegates to
come from Camden county, twenty-two
from Salem. twenty-siX from Cumber-
land, forty-four from Gloucester, and thfr-
teen from Cape May county. Loudens-
lager claims Gloucester. Salem and part
of Cumberland and few in Cape May.
Bergen claims Camden, part of Cumber-
land and Cape May.
1t looks ike close counting for odds in
favor of the Gloucester County candi-
date. There has recently been some talk
of taking up Senator Walter Leaning,
of Cape May, as comprom candidate.
THE SECOND.
In the Second Congressional District
"a RnnfQQt
for since Senator John J. Gardner Teco n
sidered his determination not to be a
candidate for Congress, and has allowed
his friends to say that he will be, che
contest has become quite tame. Joseph
Fl. Gaskill, President of the State Re-
publican League, who came into the
fight after Gardner had dropped out, so
as to prevent Thomas j. Alcott. the auti-
Sewell candidate, from securing solid
delegation, dropped ont when the
Atlantic County Senator changed
his mind. Alcott still remains
candidate. and is working up deleg ates
for the convention. The State Committee
the purpose of Strengthening out the en-
tanglement that exists there among the
party workers, and were partially success
ful. There is disposition on the part of
the substantial men Of the party. particu-
larly those who furnish the slnews of war
in each campaign. to oppose General
Sewen because of his lieutenant, United
States Marshal Deacon. These men
claim that as long as General Sewell per-
sists in keeping Deacon as his parEy man
ager in the county he will have to suffer.
Deacon is charged with running the party
to suit himself and for the benefit of set of
men who are not particularly useful to the
party. Therefore they are hitting at
Deacon over SewellS shoulders. Alcott
is the candidate for Congress, and this Is
the man the anti-SewelEtes would like to
have nominated, but 1t is a question
whether they will succeed. as Gardner
will carry his own county and Will have
delegates from Burlington and Ocean,
and perhaps solid delegation from Mer-
Ger. These two districts were not changed
by the redistricTing and are considered
the only two Republican districts in the
State. The contest, therefore, comes all
before the convention, as a nomination is
equivalent to election.
NO DEMOCRATIC AsPIRANTs.
The Democrats are giving no attention
whatever to candidates for this district
but have had and will take it simply for
the compliment. In the First district
State Senator George Barker is formally
mentioned by the Democrats. He is am
bilious to be considered the Democratic
leader of the lower tier of counties. If he
does not get it it may go to Lawyer John
Camden. W. G. Thompson wants "Abe''
Nash, the bandauna orator, who repre-
sented the Third Camden district in th q
House for the past two years.
In the Second district Colonel A. r.
Kuser, on Governor AbbeIt's staff, is the
choice of the Trenton Democrats, but he
expects that 1t is q scheme to tap his bar
rels and is holding off. Ex-senator E.
Emphson. of Ocean county, is also mem
| toned, and SO is Isaac f. Antrim, youn 4
| Bordentown lawyer.
THE NEW THIRD.
The makeup of the Third Congress
| sional district has been considerably
| changed. 1t formerly consisted Of Mid
| dlesex. Monmouth and Union COMMITTEES,
| but Union has been cut out and thrown
| into the new Eighth, but Somerset. the
| doubtful county of the old Democratic
| Fourth district, has been put into the Third
| and the Republican townships of Essex
| have been placed in the Fourth, When
| Congressman Geissenhainer ran last there
| were 20, go Democratic votes in the dis
| strict. and the Freehold Croesus received
| q plurality of 4,5lS. The new district will
have 1889 Democratic votes The de-
| crease is due to the fact that in Union
county, which WAS Topped off. there were
| 13055 voters, and in Somerset county.
| which is substituted, there are only 5.633,
aud this includes the Prohibi ionlsts.
| Geissenhainer is dark horse candidate
| for Governor, and If he cannot get that
| he will willingly accept denomination
/ for Congress.
| There are no end of candidates for the
4 Democratic nomination. Every one of