The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-20
CORNISH'S FIGHT.
He Will Have to Work Hard
for a denomination for
Congress.
REPUBLICANS STIR UP STRIFE.
Henry Harris Does Not Take Kindly
to Being an Opposition Candi-
date-pidcock's Hand.
REPUBLICANS STIR UP STRIFE

| gressional campaigns in the Eighth Dis
| trict are progressing rapidly. tn re-
\ publicans in the First and the demo-
| Gratis in the Fourth nav already called
| their conventions for Tuesday week. h
| former convention will renominate the
present member, Henry c. Loudenslager
| of Gloucester County, and the latter may
or may not place in nomination for the
| second term Johnston Cornish, the
| wealthy manufacturer of Washington.
There is no opposition to Loudenslager
but there is to Cornish. The Fourth
| Congressional District has always sent
a democrat to Washington with the ex-
| ception of the year when the late Ben
jamin Howey was elected.
The Republican Legislature last winter
hanged the lines of several of the dis
| tricts on what they designate a fair
| basis" which is nothing more or less
than a of the districts so
that the republicans can elect their
candidates.
AFTER CORNISH'S SCALP.
The Fourth is a simon pure Democratic
district, and any good democrat can
| carry the district. The republicans are
| trying to work up a sentiment against
| MI. COfIllSu anu Splcdd AiS DCAiS SASO
| that he is not the good democrat who
can carry the district.
The convention is but a few weeks
away, yet nobody is attempting to get
| delegates or to concentrate the opposi-
| ton into a movement that will be in any
way an obstacle to the young organ
builder. Everybody says that the OPP
| position centers in Henry I. Harris,
formerly a member of Congress This
is based upon an inference taken from
traditional circumstances. Henry 5.
Harris is not moving a hand to crystal
ize that opposition. He is today the
same anti-machine democrat that he
was when sent to Congress by the anti
democratic faction of the democrats In
1881. He became a strong man because
he prosecuted the old Warren County
ring, the head of which was Joseph
H. Cornish, and a lot of them went to
State Prison. The Cornishes, father n
| son, declared a political vendetta, and
the Harrises. father and son, were to
be grounded to dust. Even when it was
| Pidcock and anti-Pidcock through the
| district, the same feud existed and the
same conditions were there at all times.
HARRIS IS DOUBTFUL.
Now that Cornish has voted for free
iron the republicans are trying to set the
| miners of Norris and Warren against
him and are trying to induce young
Henry S. Harris to again father the OPP
| position and politically assail the man
that has been doing him. Harris stands
ready to represent the opposition, but
not be its leader. If the tribes of anti
Cornish and anti-Pidcock will organize
and march as one man, he will shy his
caster in the Congressional ring once
more, but he wants more encouragement
than talk. He realizes that Cornish has
a powerful personal following in the dis
trict, and will be a hard candidate to
defeat.
Ex-Congressman Pidcock is not the
1 only enemy that Cornish has. The prin-
cipal source of discomfort is In his own
the Surrogate of the county, and his
term is about expiring, and a struggle
has begun over the office. O'Neiu has
one leg. the other hhs lost IN a raiir pad
making a phenomenal run when ne start,
ed for the office five years go. O'Neill
hates Cornish, and the latter wastes no
compliments OF the former 1t started
in a little political sauabble some years
ago and now 1t is at fever heat. O'Neili
is a democrat, by the way, and a yin
QlCIlbG one dl tll1t. L SoA pChI MI
nish scheming, but he has not the fol-
lowing that the Congressman has. Cor
nish, it is said. wants to get control of
| date in Charles SharDs of Phillipsburg,
while O'Neill intends to try his fortune.
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Theodore e; Hoppler, a member of the
ing an interesting local fight. Q,Neill
has a brother-in-law, John NJ. Sinner
son, who edits the Democratic Warren
H 8ttTaII~pa . Nothing COMPLIMENTARY
| about Congressman Cornish is ever seen
in the columns of this paper. In conse-i
quence the Journal did not get the
laws. and in consequence of that, also,
the Journal, has for the past {. two
months been rich reading. No fact or in
cident that is calculated to stir the blood
Of Cornish and anger his friends is de-
stories are helping along the Cornish
disaffection.
PEOPLES PARTY NoMINATES.
at Asbury Park resting. He is the re-
puted boss of the county. He hates
0'Neili because he is against Cornish
because he is trimming. He PROPOSES
friendship to Cornish, but allows his son
to be the candidate. of O'Neill. So the
united democracy of Warren is divided
| a dozen or more candidates for Surrogate
scattered through the county. O'Neill
| occasionally throws the divided camp
would become a candidate for Congress
against Cornish. 1t is generally thought
| that he is flirting with the republicans
for an endorsement.
The Populists have nominated William
G. Barrack of Pennington. He is a
lawyer well known throughout the dis
when Erastus Potter ran for Congress,
po5led 595 votes in the district. The Pro-
hibition vote of the district was. 2.307,
more than double the plurality of Con.
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