POLITICS IN AMERICA.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 711, 6 January 1903, Page 4

POLITICS IN AMERICA.

UNIQUE TACTICS OF RIVAL CANDIDATES. New York, Nov. 1. Seldom has the east side seen such a campaign as is now being waged between Charles A. Adler and Henry M. Goldfogle for election to Congress in the Ninth Congressional District. Goldfogle is the present Congressman from that district, hut sinco his election two years ago Adler, through his influence with the Republican Legislature, had the district so reapportioned as to make his election possible. Although nominally the district is Democratic by about 1000 majority, Adler is so popular that his friends believe that he can easily overcome that majority and defeat Goldfogle by 500 votes. On the other hand Goldfogle is more popular than ever, and he believes that he can easily defeat Adler Adler and Goldfogle belong to almost every benevolent association in the city. Alder is a member of twenty-one lodges and societies and is the president of eighteen. Glenfogle is a member of thirtyeight lodges and is the president of twentytwo, and is a member of the Board of Governors in the other lodges. Abovo all is the fact that both men are also bachelors. It is the boast of Adler and Goldfogle on the stump that should they be elected to Congress they will in all probability take a wife with them to Washington, open a magnificent residence there, and invito their constituents to visit them. Adler has a point the best of it on the marriage question. “Goldfogle,” he said on the stump, “has been your Congressman for two years. Why hasn’t he married and takon a wife with him to Washington? Why didn’t ho follow the example of our illustrious statesman, Timothy J. Campbell, who, when a Congressman from this district, married one of the hollos of the cast side and took hor to Washington. I intend to follow the cxamplo of Mr Campbell, and should I be elected to Congress I will marry one of your daughters ou the east side and take hor to Washington. “ It’s too late in the day,” continued Alder, “ for my opponent to say that he is going to take a wife with him to Washington now. He has had two yoars to do it and ho has failed. He is therefore not deserving of any support at your hands and should bo overwhelmingly defeated.” Adler’s plea has aroused the young women in the district, but so far they have not all flocked ever to him. They are about cvonly divided. Goldfogle while on the bench of the Fifth District Civil Court in Clinton street, whore he had been for twelve years prior to his election to Congress, had been of great assistance to the charitable young women in the district. They therefore cannot be made to believe that Goldfogle is a hard-hearted bachelor, and think that ho will take unto himself a wife after his next election to Congress. The two handsome bachelor candidates for Congress made the circle of the tcncmoi]ts yesterday. They have to start thus early because thero are over 8000 tenement-houses in their Congressional district. They will have to Hustle pretty lively in order to make a tour of the tenements and to visit each of tho families. There are four families to every floor, but that does not mean that they climb up to the sixth story of the building and visit each particular household. That is not necessary. Adler and Goldfogle have a scout with them. The scout reaohes the tenomont in advauce. He announces that cither Adler or Gollfogle is coming. This is a signal for mothers with babies in their arms to come trooping down the stairs into the hallways and make a bea-line for the candidate. Adler and Goldfogle do not go together. While Adler is touriog one section, Goldfogle is at tho other. So far in the campaign they have met only once. Personally they are the best of friends, but of course politics is politics, and each wants to win. “ How many tenements have you visited up to dato ? ’ askec Adler of Goldfogle. Goldfogle took out bis notebook. “Forty-eight,” he said, “and have kissed two hundred babies.” “ And have you come across any one who is going to vote against you ?” “ No,” lie replied, “ not one. They are all going to vote for me.” Well,” said Adler, “ I’m in the same

boat, but I think I’ve got you beaten. I've been around 500 tenements so far, said ‘ Wootsoy, wootse.y ’ to about two thousand babies and kissed every one of them.”

Yesterday being Saturday, Adler attended fourteen christenings on the east side, and Goldfogle seven. Goldt'ogie, however, has four more families he will visit within a day or two in order to bo present at the christenings. To morrow 100 schoolboys on the cast side will go on the stump for Adler and Goldfogle. Theso boys stand on soap boxes on street corners and mako interesting speeches. Tho Republican boys tell what a good man Adler is. They say it was he who settled the coal strike. On the other hand, the Democratic boys tell what a"good man Goldfogie was when ho was a "Judge, and of his many charitable deeds.

The boys received their instructions at the respective headquarters of the candidates last night. According to many of the politicians the youthful spellbinders are more interesting than others, because men will stop to liston to a boy and hear his amusing talk, but they won’t stop long and watch an ordinary campaign truck orator. These boys go to school and do their spellbinding only after 8 p.in. Tho great point that each candidate is dwelling on particularly is that he was born in tho Congressional district and that he is a comparatively poor man. This, the politicians say, is looked upon by the voters as showing that both men have been faithful to their constituents. Adler has been elected six times to the Assembly from the Eighth Assembly District, and he is just as poor to-day as when he entered political life. Goldfogle has been a Justice of the Civil Court for twelve years, which was his first political office, and has been once in Congress, and though he has but little money, the money was earned through his profession of lawyer, Goldfogle is a member of the firm of Goldfogle, Cohn, and Lind, and is an able orator.