The sun., 1894-10-21
VIEW JERSEYS CoNGREssMEy.
Repubiiesn Gerrymandering May Cause the
Loss OF Three Democrats.

| TRENTON. N. j.. Oct. 2O.-The time for the
| filing of Congressional nominations with the
Secretary Of State. under the werts ballot reform
| law, expired at midnight on Wednesday. An
| hour before special messenger brought TO Tren.
ton the certificate Of the nomination Of Richard
| Wayne Parker by the Republicans Of the Sixth
district. Neither the Republicans nor Demo-
Hudson county except the city OF Bayonne. have
filed their nominations In Trenton. but will file
them with the Hudson County Clerk.
The law requires that all certificates of NOM
ination and all petitions naming candidates for
office to be filed by voters of the entire state, or
any district or division thereof greater than a
single county, shall be flled with the Secretary
Of State at least twenty days previous to the
election" Certificates Of candidates to be voted
for by the voters Of county. or more than q
single subdivision thereof, shall be filed with the
County Clerk at least ten days prior to election.
1t was the intention Of the law that all Con-
gressional nominations should be filed with the
Secretary of State, who, by another section, is
directed to send to the County Clerks q statement
Of the candidates When the original law was
passed Essex and Hudson counties each formed
q Congressional district. Changes since made
In the district lines place portions of each
county in other districts. Both parties in Essex
law.
Deputy Secretary Of State Hickey. in the alb
ion on the regularity Of the course adopted pi by
the leading parties In the Seventh district, fur
ther than TO say that 1t is such an easy matter
seem as though no party would care to take the
chances on having its course called into ques-
In all Of the eight Congressional districts there
are four candidates In the field this year, and in
sides the old parties there are the Prohibition
lists. thePopulists, and the.SocialistLabor party.
The candidates are:
First District-Thomas N. FerreI DEM; Henry O.
Lk9SdsnsISssr, Reg;; William n Gilbert Pro. John
ii Rf LEI Pap
HsyT.I fEsP, John 5SS: W.,fsi FRANK W
Rep; William v Ramsey Pro-; ON; &iiiiam G. Barrci.
s,rwaa ksp Solomon pIs 5
,sitth ,sitth-Thomas Dunn English Dem. Richard Wayne
bsshsaan Tspi %s% @aisel s seetGas I.i 'o'epn II
hs5r;sRsi, Pos Pf ans sos LsS Ss's's fIo george F.
sa Ps RsDS siss p fops sffElsi fcs
In the First and Second districts the Repub-
Congress- In the Third, Fourth. Sixth, and
mated their Representative In the Fifth the
Democrats turned down Congressman Cadmus
for snes TStpE re ss' s.9 6s Ps the Tr5 5
trict lines have been changed by the Repub-
licans to their advantage in the Fifth Sixth,
and Eighth districts, which they confidently
hope to msy carry next month Based Sn the
two years ago in the Fifth district would have
been AZ, of DIR. English in the Sixth Az, and Of
have 1897 Democratic plurality, the Fourth
2,69S, and the Seventh 8,859. No changes were
made In the First. Second. and Third district
lines. Under the new law the districts comprise
the following:
First District-camden. Cumberland, cape May.
Gloucester, and Salem counties
second-AuAntic Burlington, Mercer, and Ocean
,Third-somerset Middlesex, and Monmouth ooun-
Fourth-Hunterdon. Morris, Warren. and Sussex
counties
Bergen and Passaie counties.
siXth-The city OF Newark and the township OF East
Orange, In Essex county.
= nseyenth-Ail OF Hudson county except the city of
Eishth-union county. the city of Bayonne in Hud.
son county. and all OF Essex county except Newark
The Socialist-Labor and Peoples parties have
been gaining considerable strength In the last
two years, the former In Union. Passaic, and
Essex counties, and the latter in Essex Hunter
counties, and they will cast enough votes next
month TO have a decisive effect In some OF the
close districts. The First and Second districts
are safely Republican, the former by from $500
TO 200. and the latter BY over 1000.
The counties OF burlington, Cape May, Hun
terdon, Middlesex, Passaic, and Sussex elect
Senators this year. The nominations have all
ocrats hold their Convention next Tuesday. and
In sussex, where open primaries 10 be held |
on Saturday. The Republicans will control the
next Senate, as all their eleven Senators hold |
are certain to elect two more, and are counting |
on four.
The Assembly nominations must all be made |
and filed by Saturday OF next week.