A Republican, he was nominated by both the Democratic Party and the Independent Party and was elected mayor of Bayonne, defeating incumbent Republican mayor John Newman in a highly contested election in 1891. Farr, who received the nomination of both the Democrats and the Republicans in 1893, easily won a second term.
This passage describes the successful mayoral campaign of a Republican politician named Farr in Bayonne, New Jersey. He won both elections by defeating an incumbent Republican mayor.