The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-02-11

ocrat with Republican endorsement. Inc
police census Of the unemployed gave $3.50
az the number Of idle persons on Feb. L.
Mr. COCHRAN was one Of the three New York
city members who voted to sustain the
wretched and hypocritlcal WILSON bill
Mr.. QUIaa's district, the Fourteenth, IL
now, In the judgment Of politicians. securely
Republican henceforth. Political revolu-
buttons do not go back ward, and often dis
trict once lost to party Is reRained with
very great difficulty. The general trend Of
population along the river side has been
favorable to the Republicans, but not until
this year has this counted seriously In a
contest Col. Brown. ever sanguine. has
recently, il is said. reconsldered his purpose
Of running again in the district in Novem-
Der. The district was returned by the
police as having on Feb. as many as 6.7ss
unemployed within lite boundaries.
In the two big east-slde districts. the
Ninth and the Eleventh. represented by
TIMOTHY J. CAMPBELL and AMOS J. Cum
MINGs. the rigor Of hard times has been
bitterly felt. In the former 12901 and In
the latter 1880 unemployed persons were
enumerated by the police. In no part OF
New York Is the condition Of business more
keenly distressing. on account OF the shut
ting down of factories and the reduction Of
wages. Both districts are safely Demo-
cratic by about 5000 majority each. but
neither would. IL is probable. support
candidate who had been champion of the
WILSON bill. Both CAMPBELL and CUMMINGS
voted against that measure in Congress.
The Eighth district gave Mr.. DUNPHT
$500 majority In 1892. Apart from this big
Democratic lead. IL offers few elements of
encouragement to Republican missionary
Statesmen. for 1t contains, as important con-
stltuent elements Of its voting population.
scores OF unskllled laborers. underpaid
Italians. and the Fourth and Sixth ward
lodging house phalanx. The census Of the
unemployed was not very large: 6,2l4 in
the four populous wards which It COM
prises. Mr.. DUNPHY voted for the WILSON
bill in Congress. but that fact Is not likely
to cut any figure in the November contest,
because he will not be renominated.
Three districts remain. two Of them only
partly in New York. and all three securely
Democratic. The Seventh district. which
includes Staten Island and ono Assem-
bly, district OF New York. had by the
police census 3.lOo unemployed persons in
tHc lhtLcTs It's representative 10 RAM
LIN BARTLETT. who voted against the WILL
Son bill. The Sixteenth Congress district Is
made up Of Westchester county as it existed
before the annexation OF three OF Its town
ships to New York in 1874 These three
are now tho Twenty-third and Twenty
fourth wards. and they were returned as
having. on Feb. l.. 1900 unemployed persons.
WILLIAM RYAN Is the present Congress-
man. Westchester county. which casts 66
per cent. Of the vote Of the district. controls
its politics. Among politicians the district
is regarded as semi-rural. but observers Of
the Huckleberry trolley cars which inter-
sect 1t at all points. are inclined to differ
ent view. In matters OF mechanical prog
ress. they consider the neighborhood as
up TO date.
The Fifteenth district, In which IsDoR
STRAUs was recently successful. gave 12.OOO
Democratic majority In the general cleo |
tion OF 1892. and 400 In the special election
OF January. Many Republicans contend
that suitable canvass was not made for |
their candidate. SIoRIsT. The Republicans
were without money; they were without !
organization. and. practically. without |
leadership: and they say no special efforts |
were made on Mr.. SIGRIsT's behalf. Not |
these disadvantages, the |
Democratic lead was cut down nearly two
thirds. and further reduction. II not the |
OF the Democratic majority is
expected by them at the general election In
November. Like the one Ia which Mr..
QUIaG ran. and which It adjoins. this dis
trict has a large and constantly increasing
Republican vote from the lower parts OF the
town. Many Republicans believe that the
political balance will be on their side before
six months have passed. The police census
Of the unemployed put at s,267 the number
of men out OF work here on Feb. /.
For many years. In New York city q
Democratic nomination has been equivalent
10 an election. and candidates once regularly
nominated have felt no apprehension for
he result. 1t is so no longer. The success
If Mr.. QUIGG has given a rude shock to
many confident but thoughtless Democrats,
who have paid no serious consideration to
vents about them. or to the changes in the
7oting population. With the exception OF
perhaps three districts Of the nine, every
New York Congressman who expects to
'epresent a metropolitan district in Wash
ngton after next November. must fight for
he honor. tits no longer walk-over on the
POLITICAL field. but something to be battled
or; and oddly enough this change is COIN
ident with the abolition OF the DAVENPORT
avs, originally enacted under the pretext Of
lelping the Republicans to elect Congress-
nen In New York city. and In some districts
4 the South.