The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-22
READY FOR THEFRAY
Congressional Candidates
File Their Certificates
of Nomination.
REPUBLICAN %GERRYMANDER
Lines Changed in Three Districts
to the Disadvantage of the
Democrats.
REPUBLICAN
,ial to the Jersey CITY Nercs.

the fling of Congressional nominations
with the Secretary of State, under the
Werts ballot reform law, expired at mid
night on Wednesday. An hour before
a special messenger brought to Trenton
the certificate of the nomination of
Richard Wayne Parker by the Republi-
cans of the Sixth district. Neither the
Republicans nor Democrats of the
Seventh district, comprising all of Hnd-
son 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 certif-
Gates of nomination and all petitions
naming candidates for Office to be filled
by voters of the entire State, or any
district or division thereof greater than
q single county, shall be filed with the
Secretary of State at least twenty days
previous to the election" Certificates
Of candidates to be voted for by the
voters of a county, or more than a
single subdivision thereof, shall be filed
with the County Clerk at least ten days
prior to election.
1t was the intention of the law hat
I'LL Congressional nominations should be
filed with the Secretary of State, who,
by another section, is directed to send
to the County Clerks a statement of
the candidates. When the original law
was passed Essex and Hudson counties
each formed a Congressional district.
Changes since made in the district lines
| place portions of each county in other
districts. Both plrties in Essex county
have complied with the intent of the
law.
THE CANDIDATES.
Deputy Secretary of State Hickey, In
the absence of Secretary Kelsey, viii
express no opinion on the regularity of
the course adopted by the leading parties
in the Seventh district, further than to
say that it is UGH an easy matter to
file the nominations in Trenton that it
would seem as though nc party would
care to take the chances on having its
course called into question in the courts.
/ In all of the eight Congressional dis
tricts there are four candidates in the
field this year., and in four of the dis
tricts five have been named. Besides the
old parties there are the Prohibitionists,
the Populists and the Social-Labor party
First District-Thomas M. Terrell, Dem;
Henry c. Lo1denslager, Rep; William
Martin c. Kreck, Soc.-Lab.
Second-Martin L. Haines, Dem; John
J.. Gardner, Rep; Jacob D.. Joslin, Pro;
William 3. Ellis, Pop.
ming, Pro-; Frank W. Merritt, Pop; John
P. Weigel, Coc.-Lab.
Foqrth-Johnston Cornish, DEM; Nah
F~ifth-Andrew H. Dernarest, Dem;
James F. Stewart, Rep; solomon Par
sixth-Thomas Dunn English, Dem;
Richard Wayne Parker, Rep; Richard
son Gray Pro: Joseph R. Buchanan,
Pop; William Walker, Soc.-Lab.
Seventh-Edwin A. Stevens, Dem;
Thomas McEwan, Jr., Rep; Theodore
W. Burger, Pro-; George P. Herrschaft,
Pop. and Soc.-Lab.
~Eighth-John Z. Dunn, DEM; Charles
n. Fowler, Rep; Thomas j. Kennedy,
Pro-; Ralph w. Pope. Pop; James Bell,
Soc.-Lab.
In the First and Second districts the
Republican candidates are members OF
the present Congress. In the Third,
Fourth, Sixth and Eighth districts the
Democrats have renominated their Rep
resentatives. In the Fifth the Democrats
turned down Congressman Cadmus for
voting against his party on the Tariff
bill.
Since the last Congressional election the
district lines lave been changed by thc
Republicans to their advantage in
Fifth, Sixth and Eighth districts, VIII.
they confidently hope to carry mex;
month. Based on the changes made.
the plurality of Mr.. Cadmus two years
ago in the Fifth district would nave
been AZ, of DR.. English in the Sixth 447,
and of Mr.. Dunn in the Eighth 5. The
Third would have 1927 Democratic plu-
rality, the Fourth z,69S, and the Seventh
f FIRST. Second s9 ndan and T Mdrd district in lin She
Under the new Inv the districts com
prise the following
First District-Camden, Cumberland,
Cape May, Gloucester and Salem coun-
ties.
Second-Atlantic, Burlington, Mercer
and Ocean counties.
Third-somerset. Middlesex and Mon
mouth counties.
Fourth-Hunterdon, Morris, Warren
and Sussex counties.
Fifth-Bergen and Passaic counties.
Sixth-The city of Newark and the
township of East Orange, in Essex
county.
Seventh-AH of Hudson county except
the city of Bayonne.
Eighth-Union county, the city of Bay
onne, in Hudson county, land all of
SENATORS TO BE CHOSEN.
The Standardization and Peoples parties
ave been gaining considerable strength
Union, Passaic and Essex counties, and
the latter in Essex, Hunterdon, Warren,
and some of the South Jersey counties,
and they will cast enough votes next
of the close districts. The First and
Second districts are safely Republican,
the former by from $500 to 5000, and the
latter by over 1000.
The counties of Burlin ston, Cape May,
Hunterdon, Middlesex, Passaic and Sus-
sex elect Senators this year. The nomi-
nations have all been made except in
Middlesex, where the Democrats hold
their Convention next Tuesday, and
in Sussex, where open primaries are to be
held on Saturday. The Republicans will
control the next Senate, as all their
eleven Senators hold over, giving them
a majority of one, while they are certain
to elect two more, and are counting on
four.
made and filed by Saturday of next week.