The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-23
OONGRESSMEN WHO WILL RETIRE
Among Others G. Bragg Fielder OF
the seventh New Jersey.


WASHINGTON July %, 1694.-The result
of the Congressional nominating conven-
tions now in progress and the voluntary
withdrawal of some prominent representa-
tives Indicate that there will be many we'll
known faces missing in the lower House OF
next Congress.
Mr.. Cuiberson, of Texas, one of the patri-
archs of the Democratic side, retires. He
could have kept coming to Washington as
long as he liked. but twenty continuous
years have satisfied him.
Mr.. BRYAN. the young Nebraska states
man who lnade himself famous by single
tariff speech, has positively declined to stand
for denomination, but it is believed he has
an ambition for Senate
Thomas Dunn English, the New Jersey
poet and scholar, will retire to private life
after next March. The author of "Ben
Bolt" is seventy-fiye years old and nearly
blind.
In the Illinois delegation there will be
good many changes Neither General Black
nor Judge Hunter, the two members for the
State-at-large, will be in the next House.
When the State was redistricted they were
left out. Mr.. Durborow will not come back
in December '95
Neither will William S. Forman, who de-
clined denomination. In the Twelfth
district Judge Mcdonald was beaten for the
nomination On the Republican side Messrs.
Funk and Childs will be missing, and so will
Gen. Henderson, who made no effort to get
the nomination.
Indiana will show few changes. Jason
Brown gives way TO ex-Land Commissioner
Stockslager Mr. Conn, the manufacturer
of Elkhart, has not yet absolutely decided
whether he will run for Congress second
time He might do it if allowed to run on
platform of his own construction.
Mr.. Hammond retires. Governor Gear will
be missing from the Iowa delegation, as he
goes to the Senate next March. Nebraska
will send back Mercer Meiklejohn and
Haindr sure, but whether Pcpulists Nc
Keighs and Keim will find their way back to
Washington is uncertain. In California
Mr.. Canon is not to be a member of
Congress any longer, because the Popullsts,
who were his chief supporters before, have
nominated another man. Mr.. Geary OF the
same State is talking of retirement, but as
he i probably the only Democrat who could
carry the district he may conclude to run.
Kentucky will show considerable change
in her delegation Mr.. Lisle having died
during this Congress and Messrs. Paynter,
Ellis and Goodnight having refused to again
be candidates
In Tennessee, A. A. Taylor of the First
district, one of the two Republican members
from that State, will be succeeded by new
man, and new may may succeed Josiah
Patterson of Memphis, who has strong op-
position for having spoken and worked for
the repeal of the Sherman law.
From the Empire State delegation, a con-
spicuous member viii be absent, j. ]. Bel
den.
The chances are that New York will pre-
sent more changes than any other State.
Mr. Viewer will not come back, nor Messrs.
Hendrix, Graham Ryan and Haines. 1t is
said that Colonel Thomas P. Ochiltree hopes
to be elected to Congress from the city Of
New York, vice Bourke Cochran.
The great Buckeye State will present
some strange faces. Mr.. Harter will not be
in the Fifty fourth Congress to lift up his
voice in favor of the single gold standard
and free trade. Mr.. Donovan lost the
nomination in his district and DIR. Ikirt
has declined to run. Two members that
are sure of getting back if living are
Messrs Ellis and Herman Of Oregon, for
they have been reelected as Oregon takes
time by the forelock and elects her Congress.
men in June.
Another one whose genial smile will be
missing is q. Bragg Fielder of the Seventh
New Jersey