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ADVOCATE
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THE TICKET L .NEW
YORK CITY.
M A I K.
For Judge o the Court of Ajcals :
FRANCIS GERAU, of Brooklyn.
CITY AND COT MY .
For Mayor :
AUGUST DELABAR, Baker,
Fur President of the Hoard of Aldermen:
JAMES A. BOSTWICK,
Photographer,
For District Attorney:
EDWARD J. THIMME,
Journalist.
For Comptroller:
AUGUST WALDINGER,
Machinist.
For County Clerk:
CHARLES F. WILSON,
Rockdriller.
For Judges of the Sujierior Court:
WILLIAM N. REED, Wire worker.
HENRY FOTH, Cabinet Maker.
For Judges of the City Court:
ROBERT J. VICTOR, Machinist.
BENJ. J.GRETSCH, Notary Public.
For Sheriff;
ERNEST BOHM, Clerk.
For Coroner:
GEORGE C, STIEBELINP,
Physician,
For Justice of the District Court:
7th District, JAMES J. DALY
For Congress:
Oth District, JOHN CARR
7th " HENRY F. REED
8th " ALEXANDER JONAS
Oth " CHRISTIAN ENSMINGER
loth charles Wagner
11th " AUGUST FREUDIG.
12th " JOHN J. FLICK
13th " EUGENE H. ECKERT
1-ith " FREDERICK BENNETTS
For Assembly:
1st District, JAMES BEGIER
2J " JOHNNAGEL
4th " C. F. CHRISTORFF
Oth " SAMUEL MAJOWER.
8th " HUGO VOGT
10th " JULIUS GABLER
12th " LOUIS FELDMAN
14th " JOSEPH LANGENAUER
15th " ALBERT MODROW
16th " HERMAN M. STOFFERS
lTtli " SAMUEL PHILIPPS
ISth " JOHN A. DAVENPORT
19th " HENRY POHL.
20th " CHARLES GNEIB
22d " DANIEL DE LEON
23d " FREDERICK G. YOERG
24th " ANTON FRANK.
For Aldermen:
2d District, MARTIN HAYES
4th " E. FRIEDMAN
Oth " AARON LEFKOWIT2.
8th " JOHN ROSE
10th " HENRY SCHMIDT
12th " ADOLF JABLINOWSKI
14th " HENRY PEIN
l"th " CARL FINKENSTAEDT
10th " CHARLES BEHNCKE
17th " CHARLES STEPHAN
ISth " WM. F. GALLIVAN
19th " LOUIS SINNIGER.
2ith " JACOB BOEHM
22.1 " WM. EHRET
23d ' ALBERT FALKE
23d Ward, ERNEST MILLER
Street Commissioner for the i.'d and lith
Words:
WM. H. WECHMANN.
The receipt of a sample copy of this
paper is an invitation to subscribe.
THE TICKET IN KINGS COUNTY
AND BROOKLYN.
7-or Sheriff:
I'HARLES RESS.
For School ( 'omniissioiicr:
MAX EORKER.
For Auditor:
(1. KAFFMAXX.
For Comptroller:
J 01 IX Ml CI I Ft..
For Supervisors:
14th Ward, J I HUM AX WEFXFl!
Hth
24th
20th
CHAS. KFLKMAXX
ROllERT I'RFISS
O. l( 'MEIER
For Congress:
2d District, 77. F. KOEXIO
lid " MATTHEW LoEVAX
Otli " (1FSTAVE SC1LEFER
For Assemlili:
7th District, cm:, pattheug
sth " J A COll FRAXZ
11th " ADOLF K1XKF.L
12th " THEODORE F. CFXO
THE TICKETJN BUFFALO.
For County Treasurer:
A UG VST W1XKELMA X
For Cmigri'ss:
R. 11. 1' ERG V SOX.
For Assembly:
2d District, MART1X SEYFERTH
3d " CHARLES JIOFFMAX
For Aldermen:
nth Ward, CHARLES ULLRICH
Oth " ALDXAXDER DICK MAX
7th " 1IEXRY WALDMAX
THE MANDAMUS.
Coimmimllnj; Frank Hire, t lio Serretnry
of State, to Kei'fivM the Socialist ('
tificnte of Nomination for Cmigreta in
XIV.District.
The people of the State of Xeie York to
Frank Kick, Secretary of Slate of
the State of Xew York,
GltEETTNU :
Whkkkas, It appears to us from the
affidavit of Ernest Jiohm, verified Octo
ber 20, 1S90, that a certificate of the
nomination of Fredrick Hennetts as a
candidate for representative in Congress
for the Fourteenth Congressional Dis
trict of New York (a copy of which cer
tificate is attached to said affidavit and
has been served on you) has been ten
dered to you, anil you have been request
ed to receive the same and place it on
file in your office, and that it has been
requested of you that you certify to the
clerks of the counties of New York anil
Westchester the said nomination, as
required by and in accordance with the
provisions of Section 9, of chapter 202 of
the Laws of ISiiii; and that, neverthe
less, you have unjustly and without
wanatit of law relused to receive said
certificate and place it on tile in your
offW, and failed and refused to so certify
the said nomination to the clerks of the
counties of New York and Westchester,
and which affidavit we have adjudged
to be true as appears to us of record:
NOW, THEHKFOKE, WE COMMAND YOU,
forthwith to receive and place on file in
your office the said certificate of nomi
nation of Fredrick Hennetts as a candi
date for representative in Congress for
the Fourteenth Congressional District
of New York, and to forthwith certify
said nomination to the clerks of the
counties of New York and Westchester
as required by and in accordance with
the provisions of Section 9 of chapter
202 of the Laws of ls!M.
And, In what manner, thus, our Com
mand, is executed, make appear at our
said Supreme Court, at its special term
to 1 held in the citv of New York on
the2Sth day of October, 1890, at 10 a.
in., and then and there returning this
our writ according to the provision of
title 2, of chapter 10 of the Code of Civil
Procedure.
Witness, The Hon. George J. Ingra
ham, Justice of our said Supreme Court
at the Court House in the city of New
York, this 27th day of October, 190.
By the Court
P. JoSF.Mi Sct'LLY, Clerk.
First it was Harrison, now it is If ill,
stumping th- West. The one is a lie
publican, the other a Democrat. The
presumption to the green and gullibl j
was that they would proceed upon
different principles. Yet so complet-dy
one are the interests of Uth, that one
and the other are found engaged in the
same work, proceeding from the same
principle, and aiming at 'he same end:
the boosting of a capitalist issue, the
tariff, into prominence, and the sup
pression of the scores of labor issues
which force themselves to the surface
of even the hostile capitalist press, and
are the subject of discussion throughout
the land, in field and city, on farm and
in factorv.
TIIU CA.Ml'AlliX.
GENERAL REVIEW OF THE
SITUATION.
Work Aceuinplislieil in Various llis-Iriels-l'iiexpec
led Strength Dis
played in Sonic OnarL rs (iood
Klleet of Open Air Meetings.
Of the twenly-four Assembly Districts
into w hich the city is divided, fourteen
have been regularly organized and will
have a full set of candidates on the offi
cial ballots. In ten a regular organiza
tion could not be effected 111 time. These
are the First, Second, Third, Fourth,
Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, Eleventh Thir
teenth ar i Twenty-first; they comprise
t wo brown stone-front districts, being the
abodes mainly of brokers, manufacturers,
stock-holders, coupon punchers, and the
crew generally who eke out a living
from those classes, they comprise also the
"Sleepy-Hollow" west of liroadway be
tween 23d and Iileecker streets, and
finally they comprise the janitor, and
other like sections which in the shoit
space of the campaign could not be con
veniently reached.
In the fourteen districts that have
been fully organized, the campaign has
been conducted according to the special
features of each locality. In the
SIXTH AsSKMHLY DISTRICT
a fair organization was established early
m the campaign, and increased steadily
all along. The membership consists of
several nationalities, and of members of
labor unions; it is the home of the par
ty's candidate for Comptroller, August
Waldinger, and is expected to cast a
fair vote. Its headquarters are at 80
Clinton street; its candidate for Assem
bly is Samuel MajiAver, and for Alder
man, Aaron Lefkowitz; it is included in
the Eighth Congressional, where Alexan
der Joriaa is running. The
KIGHTII ASSKMHLY DISTRICT
was the earliest to open the campaign.
It also will vote for Alexander Jonas for
Congress; Hugo Vogt is its candidate
for Assembly, and John Rose for Alder
man. While the work done in this dis
t"i?t justifies the expectation of a vote
about as strong as that in the sixth,
nevertheless, a new element, the Rus
sian, Polish and German Jews, who are
numerous in this district having joined
the party in largo numbers, the vote cast
here may be surprisingly large. This
will depend, however, wholly upon the
number of naturalized citizens among
this new element. In all respects, with
the exception of open air meetings, the,
managers of the district have conducted
throughout an active campaign, and the
voters have been addressed on the issues
in German, Jewish and Russian, besides
English. The
TKNTH ASSKMIII.Y DISTRICT
has not been behind either of the two
preceding ones n the work of agita
tion, yet it is possible that, unless a large
number of converts has been made dur
ing the campaign and in the course of
the last two years, its vote may not be
up to its usual standard, seeing that
there has been quite an emigration from
this neighborhood towards up town,
This fact notwithstanding, the district
is strong. The requisite signatures for
the nomination certificates were ob
tained without difficulty; and what with
the activity of its members, and the
standing of its local candidates in the
district, a good vote is expected here.
The district forms part of the Ninth
Congressional, its candidate to the fe
deral legislature is Christian Ensminger;
for Assembly it has put up Julius Gab
ler, and for Alderman Henry Schmidt,
all of whom are progressive workingmen
well posted upon and thoroughly imbued
with the principles of which they have
leen made the standard bearers bv their
I follow proletarians. Similar in many
1 respects to this is the
I
TWKI.ITII ASSKMIILV DISTRICT.
I Like the Tenth, perhaps to a greater
i extent even, it has sutfcied from the
; emigration up town of a large number
of its best trained men, whose places
have been in turn taken by the immigra
j tion from the lower districts of raw rua
i terial, whose understanding of their
: rights and duties remains yet to be test
i ed. To what extent the education giv. n
during the campaign has lieen able to
nerve and discipline the masses of its
voters, fin now be only a matter of
conjecture. The meetings have here
bien fewer than in any of the preceding
districts; on the other hand the quiet
man to man propaganda has been car
t ried on steadily. With all its draw hacks,
the district, nevertheless, sjieedily en-
roll, d the requisite number of signa
ture to us nomination certilicates, has
! gathered together a good and elithtisitis
: tic working organization, and is one of
j the few who, understanding the iiseful-
nessof a banner, bravely decidt d to put
! its hands into its pockets to collect the
' means thereto and spread over it head
! quarters a canvass w it It its part v's name
mil the full name of its candidates.
The e are, besides those running for
State and County offices. Christian
EliMiiinger for Congress, Louis Feld
m.m for Assembly and Adolf Jahlinows
ky for Alderman Next in line is the
KM 111 I l:tll ASM MItl.Y DISTRICT.
This is one of the most promising, It
consists mainly id' tenement houses.
Tompkins Square is within its hounde
ties and is a standing memento of the
police outrage of 171 at one of the lirsl
proletarian demonstrations during this
generation, when Labor began to de
mind justice and its rif h;- and received
a brutal clubbing instead. In lssd this
district was carried by Labor; in the
following, the "Progressive Year'', it
still Killed a good vote; and even two
years ago, despite the inefficiency and
incompetence that then characterized the
management of the party, it come out
among the best. Its meetings have been
numerous, well at tended and drew quite
a perceptible number of new faces never
before seen at labor agitations, Its
certificates of nomination were quickly
tilled; its organization is strong, well
disciplined, active and enthusiastic.
Here also Christian Ensminger runs for
Congiess, for Assembly Joseph Langen
auer is the candidate, and for Alderman
Henry Peiu. The
I IITI KNTII ASSKMIII.Y DISTRICT
is the lowest one on the West Side w here
a complete organization could be set on
foot in time to collect the requisite sig
natures for the certilicates of nomina
tion. As much as from the Fourteenth,
is not expected from this district. Still,
the activity of the members of the orga
nization may be rewarded with tangible
results. The field is here good; the ele
ments to whose interest it is to stand by
hihe Socialist. Labor party is numerous in
the district; it is the home of thousands
of workingmen who, although they are
not yet fully affiliated w ith the progres
sive wing of their fellow toilers, already
have glimpses boMi of the insufficiency
of (he purely economic struggle, and of
the capitalist features of all the other
parties who bid for their votes. How
many of them have been converted in
time to cast an intelligent, independent
vote this Fall remains to be seen; that
there will be a goodly number cast there
can be no doubt; at any rate, the seed
has been cast far and wide in the dis
trict through direct agitation in the
shops ami the unions, and if the new
crop is not gathered this, it will Is gin
to be gathered next year. For Congress
August Freudig is running, for the' As
sembly Albert Modrow, and for Alder
man Carl Finkenstaedt. The
SIXTKKNTH ASSKMHI.V DISTKKT
lies again on the East Side and its com
plexion is much like that of the Four
teenth. For some unaccountable reason,
however, its certificates of nomination
were the last to be filled. This might
indicate weakness. Nevertheless, its
known strep '., it being the home of
many of ' most progressive working
men, and the steady agitation which
these have conducted throughout the
campaign, remove all apprehensions of
its failing to come up to the mark on
election (lay. It is a portion of the
Tenth Congressional and its candidate to
Washington is Charles Wagner, the po
pular and active member of the Frame
Guilders' Union; Herman M. Stoffers
runs for the Assembly, and for Alder
man Charles liehncke. Across the line,
on West Side, is the
SKVKNtKKNTH ASSKMIII.Y DISTKKT.
Unless the Nineteenth, just above it,
and whose proletarian population has
latterly increased stupendously with the
barracks of tenement houses that have
gone up in it, should develop, as it
might, unusual strength, this district is
expected to be the banner one on the
West Side. It is the home of the party's
candidate for President of the Hoard of
Aldermen, James A. liostwick, who
was taken from the Nationalist contin
gent at the nominating convention. Au
gust Freudig's canvass for Congress,
covers this district too; Samuel Philipps
is the candidate for Assembly, and
Charles Stephan for Alderman. Here
reside a large number of the party's
most intelligent and active workers,
w ho, thoroughly familiar w ith the field,
have carried on a pushing campaign.
Their meetings hae U-en uniformally
well attended, and the arguments made
there in favor of the Socialist cause
have been carried hy word of mouth to
those, who, for one reason or another,
do not put in an appearance at head
quarters. Ojn air meetings w ill, dur
ing the idosing d;i)s of t he campaign,
be the feature of the agitation here as
elsewhere in the city, ,m behalf of the
Socialist Labor party, and as the other
parties also coiitompl.ile outdoors speak
ing, not a few hearers may decide to vote
the Socialist ticket through the contrast
the surely will be able to establish
between the vapid, hollow declamation
of the boodlers and t he practical, earnest
language that comes Irom the heart of
the Socialist speakers, Moving ( ast ward
again, we strike the
1 K. Ill MM II ASsf Mltt.Y lilsl UU T.
Here, on general principles, is a In Id
almost as unpromising as that offered by
the Eleventh and Twenty tilst, in neither
of which an organization was effected,
or endeavored to be effected, for that
matter. Hut while the barrenness for
principle or a sense of justice in the lat
ter two arises from the circumstance
that they are almost exclusively the
homes of the very elements w hose whole
interests are centered in the perpetuation
of the causes of existing social w rongs,
in the same measure in which the slave
holders in the South were interested in
in the perpetuation of their "peculiar''
institution, and while the candidates of
their choice have always been such
characters as the late Robert Kav Ha
milton, or such platitudes as William
Nicholas lloag, Howard Crosby Jr,,
and Richard J. Lewis, the reason of the
difficulty presented in the Eighteenth is
that it is, to a great extent, the dump
ing ground of the shady politicians a
class essential to the plutocracy of the
Eleventh and Twenty lirst, in order to
do their dirty work. Nevertheless,
among such tares and thorns, (rue to its
proletarian character, this district pro
duces the pure wheat stalks in numbers
sufficiently abundant to have enabled it
to gather toget her a strong organization
and promptly fill its certificates for local
nominations. Besides the feature of this
organization of being like an oasis of
iurity in a desert of corruption, there
is the other notable feature of its con
sisting to a largo extent of workingmen
of Irish birth and parentage, who not
only have outgrown the childish idea
that Socialism is a German movement,
but have thrown off the slough of race
prejudice, and tutored hy experience,
come out as Socialists flat-footed in
search of their redemption. Charles
Wagner's Congressional District extends
itself over this district, John A. Daven
port is the candidate for Assembly, and
William F. Gallivau for Alderman. The
N IN'KTKKNTII ASSKMItl.Y IUSTKICT
is one with regard to which little can be
foretold with any degree of certainty,
It stretches, west of Central Paik, north
ward from T2d street to Spuyten Duyvil,
a distance of more than nine miles. Of
lato years it has been filling rapidly, and
that its population belongs largely to the
: lass of the disinherited may be gathered
from the fortress-looking armories that
have been recently reared within its
boundaries, quite as much as from the
numerous tenement houses whose build
ers and ow ners have sailed as (dose to
the criminal code (some times right into
it) as their "pull" or other political ad
vantages made safe. The gathering of
the membership for an organization in a
district thus circumstanced was no easy
work. Accordingly, its certilicates of
nomination were among the last to In
filled, placing in the field Eugene H.
Eckert for Congress, Henry Pohl for the
Assembly, and liOiiis Smmger for Alder
man Nevertheless, the w hole complexion
of the district justifies the hope that it
will contribute a good, round figure
towards the total in the city. Two Na
tionalist clubs are located in the district;
one at its lower, another at its upper
extremity, Washington Heights. These
clubs comprise several active workers,
whose influence for good in the cause is
not slight, and who have buckled on the
armor, and are in many ways agitating
the issues. Furthermore, this district
is the home of not a few of the unhappy
strikers of the New York Central. No
other ticket, but that of the Socialists,
is in the tield which these severely tried
men could honorably support. The agi
o tion among them Iris been quietly car
ried on. Mountains of prejudice are,
however, to lie leveled. To a certain
extent this important work has In-en
accomplished; and w here it has not yet
been fully accomplished sufficient has
b"en done and w ill yet be done, during
the remaining days of the campaign, to
produce still greater results next year.
The remaining four districts that have
been organized in good shape lie mainly
on the East Side. Of these, the first is
the
TWKNTIKTM ASSKMIII.Y DIsTltlCT,
whose local candidates are, for Con.
gress, John J. Flick; for the Assembly,
Charles Gneib; and for Alderman, Jacob
P.o hm. Tbe district is naturally strong.
Like almost all of those on the East Side,
it is the home of the proletarian. Able
representatives of that class reside there;
among them the party's candidate for
sheriff'. Ernest liuliin. and for one of
the Judges of the Supeiiulir Court,
Henry l-'oih. The meetings have been
well attended, much enthusiasm was
infused into the organization hy the
accession of II Ghn, the enthusiastic
Nationalist of ( 'lub No. 3, whose work on
the tail of die trucks, as well as in less
demonstrative manners, has had visible
effect. This district is expected to do
well by reason of it own efforts and
also by reason of the inevitable influence
upon it of the intense enthusiasm de
veloped in the contiguous, the
T I VI Y-sl ( iimi ASSKMIII.Y DIS
TICICT. Nowhere in the city has the campaign
been pushed w it h equal vigor as i'l this
district. It was the banner district in
1NS0. and kept that position in all the
subsequent political contests of Labor.
Its organization numbers more than
200 active members in good standing; it
has two large-sized sections: an Luglisl
and a German one; it was the first in
the lield w ith a full set of certificates of
nomination, 102 signatures being ob
tained on one night, and 200 or 300 more
voters were ready to sign if their sig
natures were wanted; from the start it
inaugurated a systematic agitation in
halls large and small from Parepa
Hall, seating over 1,000, to places sealing
only 10(1, in the various sections of the
district; and soon after that it started
in addition regular open air meetings.
These were held every single evening
w hen the weather permitted, and soon
became the feature of the agitation in
that section. The whole district was
covered in that way. The endeavors of
the heelers to break up these open air
gatherings failed pitiably; at times even
the police tried a trick or two, but they
gave over the attempt as soon as they
discovered they had to do with men
w ho knew their rights and were resolved
to maintain them. The Committee on
Agitation had these meetings especially
in charge; they provided the platform
sometimes a truck, sometimes two bar
rels with a couple of boards on top and
also the illumination. The speakers
were promptly on time; and the audi
ence never failed; it varied in ize, but
never in attention; and handbills giving
valuable information were distributed.
That many converts have been made in
this manner is certain, that the ground
has been plowed ready to bear fruit in
later campaigns with many more is
equally certain. Resides the two sec
tions of the political organization, the
district has had the advantage of a third
body, composed mainly of its residents:
the "Arbeiter Ma uiif ichor," w Inch has
put its shoulder to the w heel in the mat
ter of agitation and has enlightened the
in-doors meeting with choice selections
of songs. The district is the home of
Charles F. Wilson, the parly's candi
date for County Clerk. The locid can
didates are John J. Flick for Congress,
James J. Daly for District Judge, Daniel
DeLcon for the Assembly, and Win. F.
Ehrct for Alderman. Over the head
quarters, at No. 1-122 Second Aviiiue,
a broad banner is spread and is illumi
nated at night, displaying in large letters
the party's name and the full list of the
candidates. This district is expected to
cast a large vote. North of it is the
TYYKNTY-TIIIUD ASSKMIII.Y DISTRICT
w hich is the home of Edward J. Thim
inc, the party's candidate for District
Attorney; tin local candidates being
Eugene II. Eckert for Congress, Fred'k
G. Yoerg for the Assembly and Albert
Falke for Alderman. Here also good
work has been done during the cam
paign and a good vote is expected. Hut
more favorable than this is the
TWKN I Y-KOI 1(1 II ASSKMIII.Y DIS
TRICT considered to be. This district lies in
the 14th Congressional, in which Fred'k
Hennetts of Yonkers is nominated and
which has become celebrated through
the attempts of Deputy Secretary of
State lieiiediet to throw out Hennetta'
certilicates. The proceedings for a
mandamus compelling the would lie of
licial law breakers to perform his duty
has had the effect to stir the district
workers great ly , and added point to their
canvass. The district covers the w hole
of the annexed portion of Westchester
County; it offers a good field; the prole
tarians are numerous in it; among these
are thousands of men working on the
railroad and who have always shown an
inclination to vote for a lalior candidate
and many of whom, together with the
organization of the party, will probably
cast their ballots for Anton Frank for
the Assembly, for William II. Wech
miin for Street Commissioner, and for
Ernest Miller for Alderman in the 23d
Ward of the District, besides Iiennetts.
Put it is not in these organized dis
tricts only that the voters w ill have an
opportunity to cast a ballot for the
Sicialist Labor Party. In all the ten
unorganized ones, local candidates will
be nominated, and their names will be
printed together with the State and
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