Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-31
A FORMER WASHINGTONIAN
Now the Republican Nominee in the Six
teenth New York Congressional District.
He Hopes to Defeat Mr.. Ryan Mainly
on the TariH Issue-Mr. G. o.
Beach's Letter.

1t now develops that one of the various
seats in the New York congressional dele
cation that the republicans are anxious to
Sc cure is that of Mr.. Ryan, who repre-
sents the sixteenth district, containing
Westchester county and the twenty-nnth
and thirtieth assembly districts of New
York city. This is the extreme eastern dis
trict in the state, and has normally been
democratic. 1t was represented, when
known as the fourteenth, by William e.
Stahlnecker in the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth.
F'ifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses, he
being succeeded in the Fifty-third Congress
by Ryan, who has been renominated. 1t is
practically a New York city district as a
large proportion orGits population is COM
posed of people Ii z In the suburbs but
necker's last majority was over 5000, and
Ryan's was $500. These figures would seem
to indicate that fight in this district would
be almost hopeless but, in pursuance of the
policy outlined in The Star of Saturday, the
republican committee has chosen to throw
heavy columns of force against these very
strongholds of the democracy.
A washingtbnian Nominee.
The republican nominee this year is a
Washingtonian by many years of residence
and by education, MIR. Ben. Fairchild who
graduated in law from the Columbian Uni
yersity He has ACCOMPLISHMENTS at Mount
Vernon and Pelham, in the sixteenth dis
trict and has already been given distinc-
ton by the republican voters of that sec
ton, being their candidate last year iJr
the constitutional convention. Reports that
have come from the fight In this district
indicate that Mr.. Fairchild is making
vigorous attack upon Ryan on other than
local issues, and 1t is presumed that he is
being aided materially by a committee in
this city The republicans here some
what jubilant over the fact that George o.
Beach of Mount Vernon has resigned from
the democratic city committee of Mount
Vernon, and has pledged his vote and in
fluerce to the end trat Mr.. Ryan may be
defeated. Mr.. Beach, who is a prominent
citizen of Mount Vernon, has written an
open letter, which Is printed in the local
papers there in full. in which he bases his
opposition to the democratic ticket this
year solely upon the failure of the party
in Congress to enact tariff legislation in
accordance with the platform adopted at
Chicago. Hes complains in this letter that
Ryan allied himself with the administra-
ton party to pass the bill despite the pro-
test and votes of the six New York demo-
Gratis who took decisive stand against the
measure. Mr.. Beach's letter concludes
follows: Having infinitely more respect for
a ySpublican who is true to his convictions
than for a democrat VINO Is false to his
party, / shall, in common, as believe with
hundreds of democrats in this district, ex-
feat the Hon. William Ryan, and this, too,
despite the fact that 1 have never voted
any but the democratic ticket, nor affiliat-
ed with any but the democratic party, to
whose fundamental principles / am too
much attached to remain passive when they
are wantonly prostituted by those who re-
gard them as ropes of sand.'"
Fight on the Tariff Issue.
This letter, it is understood, is being cir
culated not only in the sixteenth district of
New York, but in others where the tariff
issue is being made the basis of the fight
for Congress. Westchester county is well
filled with manufactures that have been
quite seriously affected by the change of
tariff rates. and the republicans are pouring
a flood of tariff literature into the district
in the hope of winning some of the $500
marginal votes that gave Mr.. Ryan his
seat two years ago.
A curious feature of this fight Is the fact
that the republicans are making strenu-
Gus effort to connect Mr.. Ryan with the
Tammany organization Of New York city,
hoping thereby to ALLEVIATE many of his par
ty supporters, in the belief that the recent
developments by the Lexow investigation
in the city are going to have depressing
effect upon the democratic ballot on cleo
ton day, even as far outside of the metrop-
oils as Westchester county The democrat
ic nominee it is understood, is relying large
ly upon the size of his majority of 1892 to
absorb all the defections that may be
caused by such fight as is being wased
against him and by the influence of the
letter of Mr. Beach Il
The sixteenth district of today is not the
same as the sixteenth district of the Fifty
second Congress, owing to the redstricting
of 1892 1t is now the same as the old four
teenth (Stahlneckers), the sixteenth before
that time including Columbia, Duchess
and Putnam countless the three counties
Immediately northu ofi Westchester border
ing on the eastern boundary of the state.
This district was represented in Congress-
for many years by iGen~John H. Ketcham,
a republican, who was Commissioner of the
District of Columbia from the Sd of July.
1874, to the Both Of June. 1877.