The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-06
Big FIGHT COMING
Next Falls Campaign Will
Be the LiVellest in
Years.
WANT TO BE CONGRESSMAN
Democrats, Republicans. Socialists
and Populists All Preparing
for the Fray.

The coming campaign in New Jersey
is one of great Importance. More so
thar any that the State has experienced
for years. Eight Congressman are to be
| elected in an important industrial
| State. A Senate and a House of Assem-
bly, is to be selected that will select a
/ United States Senator The next Leg
| i~slature will have to act upon the work
of the Constitutional Commission Gre
ated for the purpose of revising the Jul
dicial system of the State. The election
| of this fall will a a direct bearing
| on that of November, 1895, when a Gov
ernor is to be selected.
In the First Congressional district the
! Republican Congressional Convention has
| been called to meet at Cape May on
| Thursday, August %, and all indications
| point to a denomination of Congressman
f.. c.. Loudenslager. The district nat
uraIly being Republican with $500 ma
jority, the nomination is equivalent TO
an selection. The Democrats, as a rule,
olways have a hard time finding a can
didate in this district.
The date of the Second Congressional
dist ct has not yet been r fixed ! but adm 1t
time subsequent to the date, of the First
district convention. Congressman John
j. Gardner will no doubt be given a
second term, and as this is also a Re
publican district, his election is conS1d-
cred a foregone conclusion. There IS
no gossip as yet as to who might be his
Democratic antagonist.
The Third Congressional district has
been represented during the past w
terms by Jacob A. Geissenhainer, a
New York lawyer, who resides in Free
hold. His district comprises Monmouth,
Middlesex and Somerset counties, the
two former being Democratic and the
I n - II I'D IIA yNriH L no
renominated and elected.
AFTER CoRNIsHEs SCALP.
In the Fourth district which embraces
| Warren, Hunterdon and Morris counties
and the Townships of Belleville,
Bloomfield, Caldwell, East Orange,
Franklin. Montclair and LIVINGSTON Of
Essex, a lively contest is expected
among the Democrats.
Johnston Cornish, the young statesman
of Washington, the present representa-
tive, it is said, has been so much allied
with the Pidcock faction that a strong
feeling is springing up against him
and the independent and anti-Pidcock
ties have issued their fiat that Cornish
must not be returned. 1t is stated that
Henry S. Harris, who represented the
district before, is likely to be given the
nomination again. Cornish. however, is
preparing to make a hard fight, n in
cidentally his. friends declare that he
for Governor in 1895. The Republicans
are saving wood, anxiously Awaiting to
see just will be done before they
begin the selection of a candidate.
CADMUS TO BE DISCIPLINED.
In the Fifth district, which takes in
the silk Industries of Passaic county and
candidates in the Republican fold. Prin-
| cipaly among them is Peter Quacken-
bush, a wealthy merchant of Paterson;
the Rev. John puH. Robinson. a well
known character in politics in upper Jer-
sey and fomiliarly called Dominic Rob
inson. the Parson politician" and Edi-
tor George Wurts of the Paterson
Pell and j. Hull Browning are the Ber-
gen, county candidates. On the Demo-
cratic side Congressman Cadmus, the
turned. Prosecutor Gourley, who is at
the head of the affairs in Passaic
county, has declared thai he cannot
himself to be too favorable to the Re
publican theories of protection.
Cadmus has received some endorse
ment OF his position on the tariff from
the high protection manufacturers, and
IS prepared to make a determined fight
for a denomination and a reelection, but
the leaders of his own party are de-
termined to punish him for desertion of
| Democratic principles in the great tariff
fight at Washington.
Thomas Dunn English, the poet states-y
man, will not be returned from the
Sixth district which he at present repre-
sents. His district is comprised of the
City of Newark alone, and the good DEM
ocrats who are willing to wear his Con-
gressional shoes are legion. The re-
publican patriots are as many and fore
most among them is Lieutenant R.
Wayne Parker of the famous and dash
ing Essex Troop, now known as Cav
airy Company A. He is a lawyer of
| more than ordinary ability, and a mem
Der of the firm of R. Wayne Parker &
| Father, the junior member of the firm
being Cortlandt Parker.
Mr.. Parker has already led the re-
publicans to defeat in the Congression-
al fight, and there are many democrats
who would be willing to see him do it
s ga INST In 81 Ma are fna aw ran,,bi hoWeve fu 70
| before they make a move.
G.. BREGG FIELDER TO GO.
The Seventh district, which comprises
Jersey City, Hoboken and Harrison and
| Rearny, is now represented by G.
Bragg Fielder of. Jersey City. Mr..
want a denomination, and owing to his
part in the celebrated drug deal in the
! tariff and other acts of a similar nature
| there is no doubt that his constituents
will take him at his word. The demo-
| carts of Hudson are looking about for a
| good strong candidate, and the prob
| abilities are that Colonel Edwin A.
| Stevens of Hoboken will be the success
| full candidate.
Otto Grouse is also being pushed for
good candidate. but some how or other
| Mr.. Grouse uoes not taxi the matter
seriously. Bob" Davis has a candidate
Daily whom he proposes to push.
on the republican side Thomas Nc
EVAN, leader of the majority of the
last Assembly, is urging himself forward
for all he is worth. tones Tom as
the lobby used to call McEwan, has had
| some experience in running for Congress.
He made an exceedingly vigorous fgh
| against the late Edward f. Mcdonald,
| the first time he ran, but was badly de-
| feated. Ex~-Assemblyman Frank O.. Cole,
| who was defeated by Mr.. Fielder at the
/ last Congressional election, thinks he is
entitled to the nomination, while Coun-
sellor Flavel MCGEE, one of the solid men
| of the party, has a latest improved rod
out to catch the lightning, If it should
/ come his way.
A JOURNALIST CANDIDATE.
h eighth district has been repre-
| scented by John Dunn, a self-made demo-
| crat Who is said to be the second biggest
man in Washington Dunn. is naturally
looking for denomination. but there are
many in the party who do not want him
to have it. James Martin, a newspaper
correspondent who represents g New
York paper at Trenton during the ses-
sion of the Legislature, and who gives
particular attention to New Jersey poll
tics, has come out in a card against
John Dunn, announcing himself as acan-
didate for Congress, charging that
| Dunn has been insincere to his party,
and that the district is too important to
be represented by a yaciliating states
That is how the Congressional situa-