The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-01-10
-Four Candidates.

All four candidates are now in the field
for the special Congress election OF Tues
day. Jan. 80. when successors to the Hon.
J. r. FELLOWS and the Hon. A. 2. FITCH
are to be chosen.
In the Fourteenth district. to succeed Col.
FELLOWS. both candidates are connected
with important public journals. LEMUEn
QUIGd. the Republican nominee, devotes
his energies to defending highly protec-
tive. tariff. In the leading columns OF the
Tribune. Col. BROWN. the Democratic
nominee. is the publisher. business man
ager. and outside man Of the Daily Ne,cs.
Mr.. QuIoa. who is civilian. proposes To
conduct vigorous campaign in tho Four
teenth district. against the WILSON bill, the
income tax. and similar measures; and he
expects to have the cooperation OF Mr..
REED. Mr.. MCKINLEY, JULIUS CESAR BUR-
ROWS. and other protectionist orators.
He intends. his friends say. to car
ry the protectionlst war into the
heart OF Africa, metuphorically speak
ing. AS the present time does not appear
to some Democrats. to be suspicious for a
winning fight ON the tariff question. Col.
BROWN has been nominated to offset and
defeat QUIaG. The Colonel will not make a
tariff fight He will not answer or confound
ILEMUEL. He will not smother him with
arguments. nor pound and pummel what
remains OF him afterward. No. BROWN will
incite and enthuse. That Is all. He will
not respond to LEMUEL. but in his own
dashing. swashbuckler vigorous and dar-
ing manner. he will invoke the patriotic
memories OF JEFFERSON and JACKSON, and
Iaf,y 90 nNph a.
parage their achievements. The Colonel
should have been the Democratic Post
master OF this town In 1885. but he wasn't.
The people, approaching. perhaps. his
merits better than u Democratic Admins
tration appeared to do. sent him twice to
the State Senate. and now he is to be Con-
gresham: and that's all there is about It,
In the Fifteenth district both candidates,
oddly enough. are natives Of Bavaria. The
Republican nominee. FREDERICK SlGRIsr.
is retired merchant. He has been tin
smith. a farmer. an Alderman in Brooklyn.
and q Republican since 1856. Like Brother
QUIGG. Mr.. SIGRIsT Is heartily In favor OF
highly protective and discriminating
tariff. and his friends are making their
campaign on that issue exclusively. 1t will
not avail much. however. against the can
didate nominated by the Democrats, IsIDoR
STRAUs. Mr.. STRAUs represents the exact
antitheses OF Mr.. SIGRIsT in that he is not
u retired merchant, but one OF the most
active merchants alive; he Is not former
officeholder, he is fifteen years younger
than his Republican competitor; and he is.
to use current phrase. up to date.
New York city has vast mercantile inter-
ests. many Of them connected with foreign
commerce. but far larger portion de-
pendent upon internal trade. Its financial
interests. too. are quite as important as its
shipping. and of such interests Mr.. SrRAUs,
who is a Democrat OF high public spirit.
great energy. and very good repute. is an
admirable representative. He says less
than Brown in a given number Of hours
perhaps. but what he says is always impor-
tant. Certainly his majority over Mr.. ST.
GRIsr will be larger than that OF WILLIAM
LUXURIOUS Brown over LEMUEL QUIGG.
The less the Democrats have TO say about
the tariff in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
districts during the three weeks OF the can
yass. the better probably 1t will be. There
are other questions OF moment TO be con,
sidered: and tho excellent nominations
made by the Democratic conventions in
dicate that those other questions are to
have preference. which the tariff as a sub
iect for argument by Democrats in Harlem.
does not at present appear to possess.