Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-30
The Congressional Contest in the
Metropolitan Districts.
A LIVELY time IN THE BOWERY
Where Republicans Hope to Gain
Next Tuesday.
MR.. QUIGG'S HARD FIGHT


There will probably be more than one re-
publican member of the House from this
city in the next Congress. But that one
may not be Congressman Quigg. Young
Mr.. Quigg has harder fight on his hands
than when he was elected at the special
election. He has a different kind of an op-
ponent against him. Then he ran against
Col. William L. Brown. At that time
Brown leaned toward Clevelandism, and did
not think much of Tammany. But he
wanted to go to Congress very badly. So
he willing to overlook everything and
gratefully accept a Tammany nomination.
There was a great deal of surprise ex-
pressed at the time of Browns nomination
by those who knew what his relations with
Tammany were, and there were plenty of
dark hints that Tamnany had nominated
him for the purpose of deserving him at
the polls and teaching him lesson. At
any rate Brown was beaten in district
that has always been heavily democratic,
and there has always been a suspicion In
many minds that Tammany shed no tears
over his defeat. This time Quigg has for
his opponent John Connolly, an ex-as-
semblyman, who goes by the name of
Honest John" At the start the Grace
democracy had a candidate in that dis
trict but he has been withdrawn, and it
is a clear fight between Qugg and Con-
and a shrewd politician, while Quigg is
making harder fight than he did in Janu
airy, and the result in that district is in
doubt
Col. Richard G. Shannon, the republican
candidate in the thirteenth district, seems
to have a good chance of election, and
would be certain of being sent to Wash
ington if he were running against anybody
else. His OF ponent is Congressman Amos
]. Cummings, and a hard man to beat
under any circumstances. Shannon is q
veteran politician and has q rational repu-
tation. He is conducting the Hvcest kind
Of campaign. But Cummings has the
greatest personal popularity of any of New
Yorks Congressman. This year, however
he is handicapped by not being among his
old friends. A queer turn on the Tammany
switchboard put him in a new district,
where he bad to start out and make friends
all over again. There is also another demo-
cratic candidate in the field here, which
hurts Cummings. Both sides are making
very hot fight, one of the warmest in the
city, and If Shannon is beaten it will be
because of Cummings hold upon the labor
vote.
In the BOyvery.
Decidedly the most picturesque fight in
the city is down in the Bowery district. 1t
is without doubt the most picturesque con-
test that is being waged for seat in Con-
gress anywhere in the country. There are
three candidates, all of them characters
that can be found nowhere else than on the
Bowery. Tammany decided to throw Con-
gresham Tim Campbell over Campbell
pleaded with the rulers of Tammany Hall
to let him go back to Washington but the
men had hearts of stone and told Tim that
ne must stay at home. They limited at some
city office that might be his in the future,
but this did not satisfy the soul of the pic
turesque Timothy j. He resolved to run
anyway and started out in search of the
republican Endorsement.
But there was republican, q typical
Bowery republican, who had set his heart
upon the nomination, Johnnie Simpson by
name, quite as much of character in his
way as Campbell. He is popular on the
Bowery, and when the republican conven-
ton met he had things all fixed. His
friends rushed hrs nomination through with
a vengeance, and without having allowed
the delegates a chance either to vote or ex-
press their opinion, the chairman, a friend
of simpsons declared that Johnnie had
been nominated, and that the convention
was adjourned sine die. But even this did
not discourage Tim. He got together part
OF the republican convention the next night
and had them indorse him. Then there
was legal quarrel to see whether Tim or
Johnnie should go the official ballot as
the regular republican nominee.
First the matter went to the board of DO
lice commissioners. But the commissioners
split even, when 1t came to decision, the
two republican commissioners voting for
Campbell and the two democrats for Simp-
son. Then Campbell and Simpson went to
the courts, and here Simpson won a victory
But as fast as one judge decided in john
MES favor, Tim would appeal to another
judge, until after he had his case thrown
out of court four times in one day he de-
sisted. Then he got the Endorsement of the
Grace democracy and started his campaign
In the meantime the Tammany men had
met and nominated Harry Miner of theatre
cal and BoWery fame. For fifteen years
Miner has had seat in Congress in view.
He has contributed literally to Tammany's
bank account and Tammany promised him
two years ago that in 1894 he should be the
nominee. But Johnnie and Tim have raised
and does not live in the district-a very for
midable cry down on the Bowery-for be-
fore this that district has defeated men
who tried to run for office there while they
lived somewhere else. In Miners case it is
true. OF late years he has lived up on
Madison avenue in big house on a corner
In the days when he used to stroll along
9TH avenue, dressed in a bright blue frock
suit, with white CATERS red and white
shirt, brill.antly-hued tie and silk hat, he
lived down in the Bowery section. But
afterward he discarded part of this attire
and removed his residence from the place
where they say such things and they do
such things"
A campaign between these three men is
like perpetual picnic AS an offset to the
cry of carpet Dagger" Miner Is going
around the district pointing the finger of
scorn at Campbell, because Tim went to
Washington to find wife, instead of taking
partner from the Bowery. Johnnie Simp-
son is holding barbecueS and similar festi-
walls for hungry voters, and Tim and Harry
are making nightly tours of the Bowery
shaking hands, slapping backs and kissing
babies. Nobody can tell how it will all end
The Bowery voters cannot be depended up
on until after they have cast their ballots
They are for each of the candidates in turn
and cling until election day to the places
where the spreads are served. Whatever
the outcome, Congress is sure of a pictur-
esque figure from the Bowery district.
Another Republican Hope.
Another place where the republicans hope
to gain a Congressman is in the district
now represented by Isidor Straus. The re-
publicans realize thoroughly the strength
of the democracy in the district which in
past years dropped into the ballot boxes
enough Tammany votes to run up a plural