New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-19
A SWELLING TIDE.
GROWING ENTHUSIASM FOR MESSRS.
OUIGG AND SIGRIST.

MEETINGS TO BE HELD THIS EVENING.
This is the first day of registration of voters
for the special election of January 30 for men,
bers of Congress in the XVIII and XVIII dis
tricts Tomorrow will be the second and last
day. All that part of Manhattan Island above
Fiftv-second-st on the West Side and above
Fifty-ninth-st. on the East Side Is included In
these two districts and no citizen can cast his
vote at this special election unless his name Is
on the registry of his election district. An elector
who was registered for the election OF 1893 need
not register again TO be enabled To vote on Jan
uary 30 provided he still lives where he did
at the time OF the last election. But all citizens
who have removed from their places of residence
Of that time and all who failed to register then
must register to-day or tomorrow or they can
not vote Electors who have since removed into
any part of the territory above described are
entitled to vote if they register.
Each polling place within the NlVth and
XVth districts will be open tomorrow from
a. m to . D. m. and the inspectors Of election
VIII be there to register those who apply. 1t is
the duty Of the inspectors to give prompt and
proper directions TO voters who 60 to the wrong
polling place by mistake but voters can easily
avoid such mistakes by examining the election
notice printed in The Tribune before they go to
register
The Arrangement Of the advertisement enables
a voter to find rea lily the information desired.
The first part contains the boundaries of all the
election districts in the two Congress districts,
arranged by Assembly districts In numerical
order The boundary lines run through the mid
die of each street and avenue named. voter.
for instance, who lives on the west side OF
Seventh-avs.. between One-hundred-and-twenty
second and One-hundred d-twenty-thi SITS,
Will find that he is in the Second Election Dis
trict Of the XXVIIIth Assembly District, and by
referring to the second part Of the advertise
ment he VIII see that he is to 20 to the barber
shop. No, 2.27S Eighth-ave.. to register and vote
There is no registry by proxy. Each man
must appear In person TO qualify as voter. TO
be entitled to register he must be not less than
twenty-one years old on or before election day;
he must be II native or naturalized citizen; II
naturalized his naturalization must have taken
place at least ten days before the election;
he must be- an nhabtant Of the state at least
one year before the election a resident Of the
county for the last four months. n resident OF
the election district for thirty days before cleo
ton: must not have been convicted of bribery
or felony. unless subsequently pardoned and re-
stored to citizenship and must not have made or
have been Interested in any bet depending upon
the result Of the election.
The boundaries II the Congress districts are as
follows: The XIVth District extends from
Fifty-second-st on the West side. between Sev-
enth-ave and the North River, and on the East
Side from Flfty-ninth-st. to Seventy-nlnth-st
and from Central Park to the East River The
XVIII District takes In all that part Of Man
haitian Island east ~ Central Park and Sevefitn-
ave above Seventy-ninth-st. extending north
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CHEERING NEWS At THE HEADQUARTERS
The news received during yesterday and last
evening at the headquarters of the two candi-
dates was Of an unusually cheering character
and the Indications point to an Increased Repub-
can registry to-day Systematic arrangements
have been made 10 get out the workingmcn In
both districts. \ canvass has shown That large
numbers II Republicans fai'cd to register for
last fairs election and It is intended by those In
charge II the campaign on the anti-Free Trade
side tha, nothing shall be- left undone TO reach
this class.
Every Republican who has the well-beinE ot
his country at heart and means to do his part
I'm rolling back the tide of Democratic distress
and depression which swept down upon this
great commercial city must not only register
himself but see to 1t that his neighbors are also
on the registration books Of their election dis
trr. An opportunity IS afforded To strike the
Freo- Trade Democracy the severest blow they
eyer received in their own citadel. VIII they en-
brace IL?
II tn. attendance at a mass meeting in the
Central Opera House Assembly Rooms at No.
205 Eaat Sixty-scvcnth-st. last evening was
fair Indication Of the feeling Of voters In the
XiVth Congress District. l.. T.. Qugg. the Re
publican candidate is sure Of election IN the
IT,, r,ln
who heartily applauded speeches by General
George 4 sheridan. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster. Cephas
Krainerl and others and there were many ladies'
in the galleries. Many Of the men present were
known To- be- workingmen VINO formerly nave
voted tho Democratic ticket. Alfred q. Mason
was the chairman of the meeting whlch nau
hcep called hv citizens of the XNth Assembly
District Seth NJ. Mllikcn. Johh NJ. hohlWelo,
and Dr. " W Hicks were vicc-presidents' ana
J.. J. Carpenter and Robert Beatty were '"c
secretaries.
MR. ot'lGG GREETED WITH CHEERS
Mr.. oupg entered the hall about p. M. and
was greeted with cheers. BEFORE ne rose u
speak a resolution, offered by w. =. s'ephehS"''
was passed by the unanimous risihs Vo'e ol the
mon preser, The resolution declared that the
Wilson bill would positively reduce the wages or
American sLilInd Ia borers and mechanics 10 the
same scale of wages as is now paid To foreign
labor ,hus curtailing the nccessarles ana en-
joyments of life. and that the cItlIe"S vi tiic
x KIN Asser,hl, District Icpudatc the measure
There were loud calls for Mr. jung ana III
response he said that the vote on ,ie resoiu-
ton indicated that the men plvt9' ,ho WI VII
same nna In & ngrcss To vote against the VII
SON bill The Democratic candidate IN ,he d,s- M
trct had declared that he would N9te iUr i,t u,'t
buI if eIac,.I The man elected In the district
last November resigned under orders from an
individual who holds no pubic "Il' pu. % -"
dictates to democratic otiice-hoIdcfS mere WaS
an outburst Of applause when Mr. Vuisg sa,u,
You have "A chance to vote f9r n.'n ~ WIZ
stands not for the Wilson bill. but Tor It's an
inhalation" THE speaker drew viva ske'ch Oh |
the conditions likely to exist nncei an S"rm "rpor.
measure. ami then said; you nav assoaa ~
tunity to nm into the ballot box 'lcssnse !"
Congress which shall say. stop the Ml'ole IN
quious business " applause IL Hv,as Mns in ,ho
sarv to turn only 1000 Democratic No'a III ,' 'nc
district ne said and he had received a9sut lnscs s
that more than 1000 Democrats % Enndnr Mon measure "
rhroo boarr,, cheers for the Republican candi-
date were gwen at the close of the .r" ','''''s'
MIR. slsRlsTs GROWING sTREN"'"
The feeling that exists among the h'P"''''"''s