New-York tribune., 1894-01-27
THE FINAL STRUGGLE NEAR.
END OF THE CONGRESS CAMPAIGN AT
HAND.
No RELAXATION IN THE vIGoR OF THE REPrb
,,c,x caNyAss-DEMoCHAT APATHETIC-
CoLoNFI. BROWNS "DREAK" ROOs-

The reports received yesterday and last night
at the headquarters OF the Republican cahol-
dates for Congress in the %INth ana AVN dis-
tricts were Of highly satisfactof! charac'er
indicating not only full Republican turnout
next Tuesday but that the wage-earhers OF
both districts will cast practcanE so"o Vo'e
for remuel +. Ouigg and Frederick Sigrist. The
"bad break" which Colonel Brown Haue IN MS
speecb at Columbia Hall on Tuesday night when
no denounced the intelligent and respectable
r,er,bers of the committee of workingmen who
investigated his lodging record on the labor
ouestion as "tramps" and liars. has given him
q terrible political black eye ana It's effect Is
70 react also against the ColoneTs running
mate In the XVIII District. Mr.. Straus. The
wage-earners Of Mr.. Strauss district say that he
Is In bad company. and will have to suffer the
consequences. Stock of Quigg and Sgrist went
I'm Yesterday rapidly. and the men in charge
Of the canvass of Brown and Straus had IRE
cnont attacks of the chills during the day. The
onathv of the rank and file of the Democratic
,artv becomes daily more marked. Some Of them
eaid that the moonstruck theorists of the Re-
form Club had taken charge of the campaign
In the interest OF Grover Cleveland and the
Wilson bill and that they had lost interest
in the result.
EMPLOYERS WILL. GIVE THEIR MEN DAY OFF
1t is understood that the manufacturers. mer-
.hants bankers and business men. and employers
of labor generally. will give the men who vote
in the XIVth and XVth districts the full day
next Tuesday. Earnest citizens who want 10 aid
IN smashing the Wilson bill should not forget
that the polls will open next Tuesday morn
ing ct O'Clock at all the polling places of the
XIVth and XVIII Congress districts and will re-
main open until p. m. Between those hours
the electors Of the XINth and XVIII must by
their votes decide between Repubcanism and
prosperity on the hand and Free Trade
Democracy and starvation on the other. Keep
in mind too the Congress district boundaries.
They are as follows: The XIVth District
tends from Fifty-second-st. on the West Side
between Seventh-ave. and the North River. and
on the East Side from Ffty-ninth-st to Seventy
nnth-st and from Central Park to the East
River The XVIII District takes in all that part
Of Manhattan Island east Of Central Park and
Seventh-ave. above Seventy-ninth-st.. extend
Ing north to the Harlem and east TO the East
River.
woRKINGMEN DENoUNcE COLONEL BROWN.
The George F.. Ketcham branch of the Work
ins.nen's Protective Tariff League held meet
ing at No. 125 Amsterdam-ave. last night The
meeting was addressed by John Mawson. Sam
uel Wildwood, John Bell. John Clark and John
c. Dorand. Mr.. Dorland came from Utica to
speak at the meeting. The men assembled were
all laboring men and they passed the follow
ing resolutions:
Resolved. That the Independent worklngmen
Of the Xvn m SsISy seav ndor.e IN se ee
Of the Sommtiee who PreParea o6ea He fcqar
aitio and whom he designates as 'tramps and liars.
We also believe it contains nothing but what are
nroved If ' fase We take this method of showing
disapprova and contempt for any candidate dat for
Intelligent enough 10 know how to vote Tor their
S1nns Sn ramps an ss and d0n not
Resolved: That we. the George Ell, f. ketTham am
do S5 hereby ndorse the Candidacy Of mue
F. Quigg for Congress in the XIvch Congress Dis
frict we also promise him our undivided support
and we will use every legitimate means in our
power to elect him to that oce IN the II eee
%orkingmen
The workingmen Of the neighborhood are all
enthusiastic for Mr. Quigg and will show what
they think Of the Wilson bill at the polls
r-rpMASAMERICANs APPRECIATE THE ISSUES
The German Republican County Committee
met last night at its headquarters NO IL 81
Marks place. DR.. Gustav Scholar, the presi-
dent presided. The meeting was largely at
tended. and there was much enthusiasm. After
the transaction of the routine business resou-
tions were adopted with cheers, indorsing the
Republican candidates for Congress in the AlVth
and XVth districts of this city, Lemuel r. Quigg
and Frederick Sigr1st. Both candidates were
recommended to the German voters IN their dis-
tricts because OF their uncompromising realty 10
the cause Of protection to American Industries
and their pronounced hostility TO the wilson
bill the mere threat Of which has thrown 'he
country into general financial and Industrial
panic and depression. Both candidates were
also recommended because they could be rehed
upon to take proper and patriotic stand agaihs,
the un-American and generally discredited policy
In rd
resolutions were ably supported by Frederick
Flaccus Rudolph Rubens, Jacob I1anbrich John
Henry Fischer Herman Cantor. Theodore b.
Strick and others.
1t was also announced that mass-mee'ins
IN behalf Of the candidates would be held this
evening at Central Hail. No. 1915 Third-ave' De-
,v.en One-bundred-and-ffth and One-hundred-
andsixth SITS under the auspices OF the German
American Republican Club of Harlem. President
Scholar. First Vice President c. Otto Baese' ana
Rudolph Rubens chairman OF the Executive
Committee Of this organization. will address the
meeting
goodly number Of earnest Gcrman-Americans
assembled last evening DIT No S32 Ninth-ave.'
where an enthusiastic mass meeting was held IN
the interests Of Lenuel f. Quigg. the Republican
candidate for Congress In tie XINth Distflc''
The audience mainly composed OF miii-hanos
and workingmen. whose prolonged enforced lde-
ness has reduced them and their families to great
want. and many Of them who were Democrats
openly declared that they would vote the Repub-
rcan ticket next Tuesday. Joseph Eckert. VINO
nresded made an effective opening address which
was heartily applauded S. Shin made long
and telling speech which commanded earnest az
tention and brought out frequent applause lie
was followed by B. Davis and others, who re-
ceived hearty plaudl:s and the meeting ad-
1ourncd with cheers for the Republican candidate
carsEs OF THE PRESENT DISTRESS EXPLAINED.
Why thousands are starving ana ten 'hou-
sands are idle was fully explained last night at
a big Republican massmeeting held by the
voters OF the XXIId Assembly District In Nay
Ior's Hall. in East Seventy-sixth-st. Lemuel r.
Ouigg General George A. Sheridan. George A
Strone Cha rIcs IL Treat and others showed. by