Official New York, from Cleveland to Hughes . Franklin D. Sherwood, of Hornell,who had been sheriff, was nominated for senator, althoughit was known that he was ineligible under the Constitution,but it was thought that a Republican Senate would notquibble over such a small matter ; however, the electionwas carried into the Courts and the Court of Appealsdecided Sherwood was ineligible, a Democratic Senaterecognized his defeated opponent, Charles E. Walker,and the vote elected a second Democratic United StatesSenator from New York. In 1893 J. Sloat Fassett ofChemung endeavored to break in upon
Official New York, from Cleveland to Hughes . Franklin D. Sherwood, of Hornell,who had been sheriff, was nominated for senator, althoughit was known that he was ineligible under the Constitution,but it was thought that a Republican Senate would notquibble over such a small matter ; however, the electionwas carried into the Courts and the Court of Appealsdecided Sherwood was ineligible, a Democratic Senaterecognized his defeated opponent, Charles E. Walker,and the vote elected a second Democratic United StatesSenator from New York. In 1893 J. Sloat Fassett ofChemung endeavored to break in upon Mr. Parkhurstsposition, but Sherwood was renominated and elected,and during those years the west half of the county had itsSherwood and anti-Sherwood camps. The new Consti-tution altered the senatorial district, and when , in 1895, asked a renomination, the first Assem-bly district had another candidate, and Yates county, thenew associate, had a third. After 273 ballots the honor 198 f TIIZ MEW YORK Lie LIBRARY i ASTOn, LENOX A^D. OFFICIAL NEW YORK FROM CLEVELAND TO HUGHES fell upon Hon. John S. Sliepard, of Yates. Yates wasexchanged for Allegany in the unconstitutional apportion-ment act of 1906, and in 1907 Livingston county wassubstituted as a partner, and that resulted in another longcontest between the two Assembly districts of Steuben,which they settled this time without the intervention orsuccess of the smaller county. Prior to the new Constitu-tion both Hornellsville and Corning were in the secondAssembly district, which gave a larger normal Republicanmajority than the first, and two-thirds of the time theDemocratic party was able to send a representative fromthe first district, where the normal majority against it wasabout 500. When the board of supervisors, in 1895,reapportioned the county, it separated the cities and madetwo districts about equally strong in the Republican favor,and from that time on the members of Assemblv werealways of the Repubhcan fait
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