The New Apportionment.

New York, 1895

The board of Supervisors will be obliged to reapportion the Assembly districts in this county very shortly, and the board being Republican, party men are expecting such a division as will give them the advantage. Two propositions are under consideration: Long Island City and Newtown to compose the First district, Jamaica and Flushing the Second district, and Hempstead, North Hempstead and Oyster Bay the Third district. The second proposition leaves the First district as above, makes Flushing, North Hempstead and Oyster Bay the Second district, and Hempstead and Jamaica the Third district.

The advantage to the Republicans would be in constituting the districts as first proposed. Long Island City and Newtown must go together, and they would make a strong Democratic district. Then Hempstead, North Hempstead and Oyster Bay would wake a strong Republican district, while Jamaica and Flushing would make so close a district that the party that named the fittest candidate would be most likely to succeed. If Flushing, North Hempstead and Oyster Bay were linked together they would constitute a pretty certain Democratic district, while Jamaica and Hempstead together would make a certain Republican district. The result of the first proposition would be to give the Democrats two positive districts and the Republicans one. The second proposition would give each party a positive district, and there would be a fighting chance for each in the third.

Close districts are desirable in the interest of good government. It is only where the majority is overwhelming that bad nominations are made and objectionable candidates succeed.


Fire

Fire damaged McMahon's store in Whitestone $500.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 31, 1895, p. 4.