The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-08-23
WHERE DOES PARKERLNE?
Some Doubts as to the Legal
Residence Of Essex's
Congressman.
Especial to "rhe Jersey CITY News.


weeks, almost from the first whisperings
OF the contest for the Republican nomi-
nation for member of Congress from this
district, there has been in circulation on
the streets and in places where people
interested in political matters gather a
statement that one of the men who fig
ure prominently in the contest is not a
resident of the Sixth Congressional dis
trict
The aspirant referred to il this persist
ent statement is Congressman r. Wayne
Parker, whose friends and supporters are
urging him for denomination. 1t was
freely said that the Congressman's New
Jersey home is at Hutton Park, West
Orange. within the confines of the Eighth
Congressional District, now represented
in the National lawmaking body by Con-
gresham Charles Newell Fowler, of
Elizabeth, and that Mr. Parker has not
during nearly the last four years made
his home in the district from which he
was elected
On the other hand, Mr.. Parker's adher-
ents stoutly maintain that he had kept a
legal residence here and that he has voted
regularly in this city.
The Newark City Directory for 1900 has
this paragraph on page 1885,
Parker, Richard Wayne, Cortlandt and
Wayne Parker, 1853 Broad, member of
Congress, Washington, D. c., h. Hutton
Park, W. o.
Under the head of ''abbreviations' in the
directory the letter ''h' is explained as
meaning house" while '.W. O." stand
for eWst Orange.
MIR. Parker has registered and voted for
years from % Saybrook place, in the Sixth
District of the First ward Until the fall
of 1886 the Congressman lived at that ad-
dress, but in October of that year the
house was rented to and occupied by c.
M. Furman, of the Barber Asphalt Com
pany. MIR. Furman lived at 20 Saybrook
place until early in 1898, when he removed
to New York. The sSaybrook place house
was vacant then for months
The occupant now is Wallace Durand,
president of the Durand Manufacturing
Company, jewellers, of 40 Franklin street.
Mr.. Durand and his family moved into the
house December 13 and still occuy it,
At the spring elction of 1898, according
to the statements of residents of that
section of the city, Mr.. Parker's right to
trict of the rirst Ward was challenged by
Sigfried Manuel, Democratic challenger,
under instruction from Charles N Bell,
the Democratic leader of the ward. The
challenge was on the score of non-resi-
dence. and the election board, in a way,
upheld the challenger. Mr. Parker went
before the Essex County Board of Elec-
tions and obtained a certificate, on pre-
sentation of which he was allowed to
vote.
Yes, had Mr.. Parker's vote chal-
lenged at the spring election of 1885, -
said Charles n. Bell. 1.-THE vote was
challenged because 1 believed that Mr..
Parker, not being resident of the dis
trict. should not be permitted to vote
there
Il did not challenge because he was
congressman Parker, but simply because
he was a Republican, and | teel that we
dld not want any more Republican votes
+ In that box than we could help If Mr.
Parker lived in West Orange as was
stated. l believed that was the place for
him to vote and not in the First Ward
of Newark
Il remember the incident of Mr.. Parker
coming before the County Board on that
OCCASION, said Edwin A. Raymer a mem
Der of the county body If my memory
serves me right the Congressman explain
ed that his family was away his house
closed and d that he was temporarily stop
ping at the Country Club in West Or
ange. There was some doubt in the Board
as 70 advisability of giving Mr.. Parker a
certlncate, hut his prominence and the
position. as Congressman decided us to
give it."
The poll books of the Sixth district of
the First ward show that Mr.. Parker, for
tne ran election last year and the spring
election of 1900 registered personally in
mat district, giving his residence as 20
Saybrool, place..
G. W. Furman, who occupied the Say
brook place house during 1891 could not
be seen, but a friend who claims to be
conversant with his affairs, said yesterday
that Congressman Parker had an ar
rangement with the asphalt man whereby
Mr.. Parker had the privilege of the house
at any and all times during the Furman
occupancy.
Wallace Durand. the present occupant
of the house, rents from Congressman
Parker. Mr.. Durrand formerly lived at
No % Franklin street, but removed from
there last December He said that he had
taken possession of the house December
1S, 1899
Does Congressman Parker reserve a
room in the house." asked reporter.
There is an arrangement by which Mr..
Parker can come to the house whenever
vbs he wshee ao he Sg l. M fo Durand and
a privilege and l granted it."
The arrangement with Mr.. Durand was
presumably the same as with his pre-
decessor, Mr.. Fllrman
Residents of the sixth district of the
First Ward say that the house at 29 Say
brook place was vacant during the poll
tion OF 1898, when Mr. Parker was a
candidate for reelection for a third term
A few days prior to the day of election,
these people assert furniture van back
tables, rugs and other articles of house,
hold furnishings were carried into the
building.
On the night of election the lower part
of the house was brilliantly lighted, and
it was there that Congressman Parker
received congratulations upon his victory
opponent.
Mr.. Parker is away for the heated term
and could not be seen today. His secre-
tary, Mr. Dalrymple, said that the Con-
tenber l.
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