Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-22
MORAN MAY Be
IN CONGRESS- RACE
AGAINST HUGHES
Wilson's Protege in Passaic
Likely to Have Opposition
Next Fall.
REDRAWING OF DISTRICT
LINES SOON TO BE MADE
Speaker Of Assembly Believed to
Be Stronger Than Pres
ent Incumbent.

TRENTON, Jan. 22.-The third week
of the legislative session may witness
the passage of some bills on thirc
reading so expeditiously have the two
houses worked so far, and 1t is likely
that some important measures will be
introduced. One bill that is expected
to come in his week is that reappor
tioning the Congressional districts OF
the State.
1t is generally accepted here
hat Speaker Thomas f. McCran will
be a candidate for Congress mex fall
in the district in which he lives, how
ever hat district may be designated
and whatever may be its boundary
lines. Representative William Hughes
lives SO close to Mr.. McCran in Pater'
son hal the same Congressional dis
trict is sure to include both. Specula-
ton on what would happen IL McCrar
and Hughes were pitted against each
other in a Congressional fight Is inter
esting and little is detracted from that
interest by the rurnor that Governor
Wilson is to appoint Mr.. Hughes
county judge of Passaic to succeed
Francis Scott, whose term will expire
soon.
Hughes has never been strong in his
own county in the sense that McCrar
10. Even last year when there was q
Democratic landslide all over the ooun.
try he carried Passaic by only 100.
McCran as a candidate for
the Assembly in .Passaic in 1910, the
only occasion when he and Hughes
ran simultaneously. Here is The vote
polled by each in Passato.
BcCpan 1azssSS
Hughes lo,obS
Difference In favor of McCran...... 1856
Hughes is a member of the ways and
means committee of the House and
has had opportunity to build many
fences in his district. He is a ready
talker and has the prestige
lated by long service.
If the county of Passaic is made a
separate district-~it has the requisite
population-it would be equivalent to
giving McCran a mortgage on a seat
in Congress to be foreclosed next
November. Some of the Passaic Re
publican leaders feel that the county
should be a district. They argue that
it is a large manufacturing community,
having little in common with the agri-
Cultural lileIeSlS VI ouSScAa vi ~ 1851
Dental county of Bergen.
So far as the other Democratic Con-
gressmen are convened the two Hud-
son men think that they will be left
with safe. districts in any event. The
two Essex men will have as good a
chance under any redistricting plan
as they had in 1910. If Union and
Morris are made into one district-the
combined population about equals the
proper %ratio-it would be almost use
less for a Democrat to run there and
the outlook would be dark for the re-
turn to Congress of William f.. futile.
On the other hand, IL Morris is divided
and the district hat Is now the fifth
is composed of part of Morris, Union
and all of Warren, the chances for Mr..
futile will be much brighter than in
the district as now composed.
Representative Thomas j. Scully will
ave just as good a chance in the third
district as q Democrat ever had. 1t is
not proposed in any redistricting plan
to disturb the lines of the third.