The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-08-21
CANDIDATES FOR SENATE.
TWELVE sEHATORs 70 BE INJECTED IN
OLD-TIMB VIEW FORK.

! Some Whose Usefulness Has APPARENT
= Depnrted-A Lively Contest Anticipated
= There has not been an election Tor State Ser
l ators In New York since November. 1881
: though the term OF q State Senator Is define
/, by law as two years. An amendment adopte
TO the Constitution in 1904 extended the teri
OF the Senators next elected from two yenrs
to three. but " for that occasion only" and tn
twelve Senators to be elected within the terri
tory OF Manhattan and the Bronx win hol,
Office for two years only. and will receive wha
some OF them consider the totally inadequat,
compensation Of $1,000 a year. And IL Ger
tainly seems inadequate when II is considered
that a private secretary" OF an ostensibl,
head Of a public department receives $500 fol
clerical work into which the duty Of MAKING
laws for 100000 people does not enter.
To use.an expression more common among
Rypeies than among politicians. the lines are
crossed" on the Senatorship in each district
with ConRressmen this year. for members oil
Congress, as we'll as MEMBERS Of the State SEN
ate. are to be chosen and the dlvergences oi
opinion, r~ivalries and conflicts arising there
from seem likely to compllcate the Senatorial
situation to a greater extent than It has ever
boon complicated In New York before. More
over. there is no county ticket TO be elected this
yenr. for the first time. and rs O consequence
the candidates for Senator will not be carried
along" as their predecessors have In some re-
cent years By those at the head OF the respective
party tickets, for there are no heads OF party
tickets to exercise that function unless, per-
haps, such did can be looked for on the State
ticket where q Governor Is to be voted for.
The Tenth Senate district. now represented
for the fourth time consecutively by John F.
Ahearn, who was a member OF the Albany As
sembly before he was promoted to the post OF
Senator. Is overwhelmingly Democratic. In 1t,
last year. Tammany polled 1890 votes. the
organization Republicans 3,03S. the Citizens
Union LILO, and the Henry George or Jeffer-
sonian Democracy 1000. A combination OF all
three would not have defeated Tammany Hall
in this district last year, especially against
such a popular candidate as Mr.. Ahearn. but It
is the judgment Of many politicians that he
has run too ~often-that he has been in
the field enough. Originally elected in
1889. a reelection for a fifth term this
year would prolong his service until Janu-
uary. 1901. a period Of twelve years. in a dis
trict where tho claim OF urgency cannot be
raised for any Democrat and which 1.-THE popu-
lous part Of which at least was. in the judy
ment Of most Democrats. more efficiently and
more successfully represented by Col. William
l.. Brown, whose relation to State and national
politics has frequently secured him q hearing
whero the views OF Mr.. Ahearn have been disre-
garded. There being no county Office to be
filled. Mr.. Ahearn is a candidate for renomina-
ton, and Daniel E. Finn is against him..
The Eleventh Senate district has as its pres
ent representative Timothy D. Sullivan. and 1t
is the one district in town which seems most
likely to secure the attention Of Superintendent
of Elections McCullagh. It includes more
lodging -house voters than any other district in
the city. and repeaters. or tin soldiers rs
they are called in this neighborhood. are moro
N nm nrprt IN 1hn lnra,t 5tzA,tAA A. Il.
where. 1t is computed that as many as
1000 fictitious votes were cast and counted
in this district last year. The. Eleventh
enjoys the distinction of being with
boundary. and, having the Bowery as its chief
artery of travel. The vote In this district last
PUBL sas; 5.is4: GIkfiil lSasS0 tS 0Esani 5.s5St a Msi
George Democracy. 500, Senator Sullivan is a
ticket with every assurance Of success. and he
SsSme lIk sISe t sa haTe as G his SpP0 e ad In the ns Re Re-
Eighth Assembly district. The El e1,ef 81 se enc
Tenth HAS assembly districts. 9pd r. the two fer-
James T.. March. and IN the Eighth shSnS on the the
the Tammany leader. and Bernard S. Rourke.
Tie IL vote SReG 81 The si "A t Assem 1fSsn at t PFl@a gdss
primaries was 635 for the March and 8 for
the Wagner faction. In the TGmna any primaries
az the, same election, the EnRel vote was re-
turned at 1885 and the Rourke vote was S45,
but there must have been some mistake about |
It. as the total vote for Van Wyck in the district
e esfv sSes that 9Rlg many H fPd i w SPPEfa 6sr ioc 40
more votes in a district at a primary than at an
erePancy is to be found In the fact that many
Ihhl sgir n,i district citizens; unable to determine
i koaFk sl ticRets So SeiE fes b6 5ae a aaF & nu nnG The oi
in T eSprS Tsss9S Of their Indesisiop Fl Preference.
sented by. samuel j. Foley, q, Tanmany man.
whose chief distinction is that he was the
LIQUOR Tax law repealed. His election in this
district in 1893 ,%parto9k considerably Of the
what is known in racing p~arlanee as a walk
S SVer; Tor 4 h as, 9PSpGPssRWs i Tss former ,nSa. Police In
ment by the Republicans and subse9uenntH nom
lnation blythe National Democracy precipitated
such widespread deiections as to leave
Twelfth district last year. the fammany vote
3.797. the Citizens Union vote 2,231 and the
George Jeilers9nian party vote 800. The dis
again a candidate for nomination Tor a second
term. The Republicans have not agreed upon
q candidate and the INDICATIONS OF their getting
The thirteenth senate district is represented
by Bernard F. Martin. former Police Judge. and
iNg 94 New W Yor Hen He Is y s Ies / Prfs oT@ea aeafs rsmSn,
and has recent moved, into the district from
u NIItIc Ito Itslltu uuTlnR Ihe HTSt TWO |
years Of histerm. The district Is Democratic by
a small majority. but last year the Republican
vote, ordinarily formidable. was badly divided,
The Democratic vote In the district was 12.O67;
the oIrganized Republican vote was $3.50;
the Citizens Union vote was 3,7S5, and the
George vote was 900. The prospective candi-
dates here are Martin. Tammany. and William
Baxter. Republican. Baxter was the Republic
can candidate for Assembly in the Seventh As
sembly district. The Thirteen Club holds its
west side sessions in the Thirteenth senate
district, in Mills Hotel No. /. In Blocker street.
The Fourteenth Senate district has for its
representative Thomas f.. Grady, who
In a speech on the subject OF the Ellsworth
press gag law announced that he was serving
his last term In the Senate, 1t being generally
agreed among politicians that he aspIres to the
post Of Corporation Counsel In the place OF
Whalen, who expects to be nominated for
Judge OF the Supreme Court this year. How
ar this guess Is accurate, cannot at this
that Mr.. Grady expected to be
District Attorney last y~ear..to be the Tam
and Ike opposition from the same source
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