Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1845-01-24
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INDIANA, FRIDAY MORNING.
JANUARY e., 1915.
The next Annual Election.

marty. We had hoped that the result of tho late
presidential election would have been such as TO
have relieved tho people from the labor ana eH-
citcment of such another campaign but the
"price Of liberty is eternal vigilance, ana 50
long as we would maintain that liberty and the
prosperity of our people, We must be over vig-
liant. watchful and active. Tho importance of
the next session Of the legislature will consist IN
the apportionment Of tho State into Senatorial and
REPRESENTATIVE districts. If tho locos should
have a majority at that tme, wo have sufficient
evidence Of what that party would do, in the
course they pursued in the Legislature of Ohio,
fow years since. The State will be gerrymander-
cd in all unsoemIy shapes, without tho least re-
gard to justice equality. In this, Wayne
county has an especial interest. Possessing as
she docs a largo wing majority, and tho ability
to send wings to the Legislature, she would be
tho especial mark at which tho locos would speed
thoir vengeance. They would probably give her
ono Senator and ono representative, whilst thcy
would give the county of Sullivan with far less
than ono half tho population of Wayne, Sem
tor and two three representatives, simply be-
cause sho Will send Ioens TO the legislature.
We venture but littlo when say that if tho
wings do not have majority, or a controlling IN
fucnco in tho next legislature, that they will not
have a wing majority there for many years.
Tho wings Of Ohio have been for years strug-
Cling for majority in tho Legislature, and havo
only obtained it when locofocoism had wcll-high
destroyed all her local interests, her currency,
and her people oppressed with taxation almost be-
yond their ability to bear; and not until the wings
had large majority of tho popular vote of the
State. DO political friends wish Indiana to
DO similarly situated? We know they do not and
VIC assure thom that the present timo is the only
time that they will have it in ,hoir power to pre-
vent it. It is never! And when we
mako this declaration, wo moan it to convey its
meaning in its fullest and most emphatic sense;
for if the State should be districted next winter
by the locos, tho next, and tho next apportion-
ment will DO made by tho same party.
In addition to the districting of tho State, an
United States Senator is to be elected. Th, will
require a majority in both branches Of the legis-
lature elso tho result may be similar to the infa-
nous conduct Of the last session. The party
which will violate oaths of office. disregard
tho law of tho land, and set at naught the lnter-
osts of the people to advance the interests Of tho
party to which they attached, will at any fl-
ture time, do the Same thing. if not worse. A
whig majority in the Senate ard house, will next
year secure the election Of whg to the Senate,
who will represent the wishes of tho majority of
tho people Of this State.
Another important act that the next legisla-
|uro will be called upon to perform will DO the
Eaining the Supreme Bench as it is now consttu- |
tuted. To maintain its purity from political in
fuence, and sustain it, as it now is, tho only
pure branch in our State government. In view
IF these important duties which will devove up
OH tho next legislature, will not the wings of this
county willingly enter again tho field of conflict!
If wing principles wcro ever worthy the support
Of our people-if thoy worth the blood and
lives of the immortal patriots of the revolution.
hey equally deserving now. They arc the
'amo now that they have been. Truth is
ho embodiment Of wing principles. and whc
it and sound policy prevails republican in
situations will endure, and the prosperity and
happiness of tho American people will be pro-
noted.
BY the result Of the last presidential election,
he wings appear to be in tho minority in this
State. This was doubtless brought about by ille-
yal voting, and division in the whg ranks
sut we must take it it is, and all our
xertions to change it by bringing out full vote
nd selecting candidates who unobjectional to .
he people. Mako no now issues-stand upon
he old and broad platform, and permit no local
uestions to divide us, but truo to our own and $
ur country interests, pursue the seven tenor of
ur way" and old Wayne will not be numbered ,
nong tho recreant counties of tho State. r
Congressional Election. I,
The people of this Congressional district :,