Evening star., 1898-11-03

nominated this year John Steibling, who
is popular with the workingmen, and who
may capture portion of this socialist
vote. Republican politicians. however. gen.
orally figure that the republican nominee
in this district is leading forlorn hope.
Amos ]. Cummings is the Tammany cam
didate for another reelection in the tenth
district. In 1896, when Mckinley obtained
SO large plurality in New York state, Mr..
Cummings carried his district by 3,201 over
Judge Clarence w. Mead, republican and ma
uonal democrat. Consequently the friends of
Cummings are predicting for him a major
ity of at least three or four thousand this
year. Opposed to him is Z. NJ. Fsener, a
veterinary surgeon, who is new in the
world of politics.
In the eleventh congressional district
William SulZer has been renominated by
the democrats, and there is not the shadow
of a doubt of his reelection. MIR. Sulzer
enjoys the distinction of being the only
democratic candidate for Congress in New
York county who is running on free sill
yer platform, all of the other nominees ap-
parently being disposed to dodge or ignore
the question.
Colonel George B. Mcclellan has been re-
nominated by the democrats in the twelfth
district. This is the '-tenderloin district
and it is usually regarded as being reliably
democratic, Colonel Mcclellan being elected
by loo plurality over Charles A. Hess,
publican and national democrat, in the
tight two years ago. His opponent, Alfred
K. Conkling, is making a campaign on the
Colonel Mcclellan is not saying a word
Jefferson NJ. Levy, wealthy real estate
owner and operator, is the democratic nomi-
nee in the thirteenth district. Mr.. Levy
rests his claim for national fame upon the
fact that he is the owner of Monticello,
the home of Thomas jefferson. The re-
publicanS carried this district in 1896 be-
cause there We're two democratic candi-
dates in the field. This year the friends of
Mr.. Levy claim that the democrats of the
district are united They insist that there
Is no doubt about his election over James
W. Perry. Mr.. Perry is a clean-cut, inde-
pendent young lawyer, who will undoubt-
ediy get the republican vote though it is
dflcult TO see where he will be able to
make any heavy inroads into the united
democratic party in the district
Picturesque Campaign.
Probably the most picturesque congress
sional campaign now being waged in the
city is that in the fourteenth district be-
tween Messrs. Quigg and Chanler. The
friends of Captain Chanler are claiming
his election confidently and Mr.. Chanler
himself announces that he will be elected
by at least 5000 majority. If there is a re-
public congressional district in New York
county this year that district is the four
teenth. There is one chance in a hundred
that the present representative LemueI E.
Quigg, will be defeated. The situation in
this district is indeed peculiar. 1t is the
largest In area and population in the city
1t stretches from the Tenderloin along the
west side of Central Park north to Harlem
1t is bounded on the west by the Hudson
river In this district stretches mile after
mile Of fine tenement houses, a peculiar
product of New York civilization which
cannot be duplicated anywhere else on the
globe. These apartment houses are the
abode of the indepedent voters of New
York city. Cleveland and the democrats
have repeatedly carried this section of the
cif and ha oil nfn n,,;rver thr1
ago at special election was of the nature
of surprise to republicans and democrats
alike. In this frSt-cfass tenement house
district two years ago Bryanite votes were
very scarce, and Quigg was reelected by
a majority of nearly IL 600 in the repub-
Hcan landslide Since then Mr.. Quigg has
succeeded in making some enemies in that
section of the city who will scratch his
name OF the ticket on personal grounds.
Captain William Astor Chanler, who is
running on his record in the Cuban war
and who is making really brilliant cam
paign, might have stood a show of an cleo
ton If Representative Quigg had not sue
ceeded in inducing Colonel Theodore Roose-
welt to spend several nights in that dis
tfict, and If he had not succeeded in shift !
ing the issues to honest money versus free
silver.
In the Fifteenth District.
Col. Jacob Rupert, the son of a wealthy
brewer. is the regular democratic nominee |
in the fifteenth district. Rupert is famous |
principally as the man who refused to run |
on the Croker ticket for president of The |
council in the Greater New York mayor |
Atty fight of year ago. Since then he has |
been anxious to get back into politics and |
Tamilany has finally consented to over !
look his previous fiuke'' in the face of the !
enemy. and nominated him for Congress |
in what is known as the Harlem district |
The republicans renominated Philip b. |
Low. Low carried this district two Years
ago by plurality of 1900 his opponent
being ex-Police Justice w. H. Burke. one !
of the most popular men in the district. |
Mr.. Low had. however, the help of the Ma |
tional Democracy, and it is estimated that |
their vote in this particular district was ut |
least 1900. Mr.. Low is an old man. and is /
not making very active canvass but his /
friends are confident of his election. An !
especial effort Is being made on the par. OF !.
those interested in the merchant marine /
and the commerce of the port of New York /
in general. and the Harlem river in partic- I
clar. to bring about his reelection, and I