The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-03-27
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Democrstic eountiss In the EASTERN pass OF
the Stase have Just esass q complains, tne
Republicans in the poPaleas counties u saa'
section have bat little lee cause. ID ma
king the superintendent ne Lsg'snsars has
aimed to give one Senator and no more 70
each county where they could DO % without
varying too far from the basis, which sabous
$4,000.
The Bugls wails bitterly over the fact that
three strong Democratic counties on the
Mississippi River with . population OF 7s,-
1872, to wit: Des Moines, Dubuque snd
Lee, have but three Senators BY this appor-
ment; while seven Republican districts, COM
posed Of Cedar, Louisa Polk, Msdison and
Dallas, Iowa and Powesheik, Benton and
Tams, Blsckhawk &C., with population Of
sc, 436, have seven Senators. Now it hap
pens that one OF these districts Is Democratic
or was 50 at theiast election, to wit: Madl-
son and Dallas. While the Bugss man was
noting these things, he managed to overlook
the fact that there are five Democratic dis
tricts on the Missouri Slope, composed Of
the Counties OF Decatur, Ringoid, Taylor
Page, Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Adsms'
Union, Adair, Cas-, Pottawattamie, Har-
rison, Monona, Shelby, Audubon GUTHRIE
Madison, Dallas, Green' Carroll, Calhoun
Crawford, Sac, Woodbury., Plymouth, Sioux
and Buncombe, the whole OF which only
have population OF 44,72l or 1914 to eacn
Senator; while hve OF the smallest Kepao.
lican districts which he parade' before the
public and attempts to show out in sucn
bold relief, contain . population OF 47,i1o
or 9,4A to each Senator. de also fails to
note the fact that there are five Republican
Counties in the Eastern part OF the State
with but one Senator each, which have
population OF SO,OO9, to wit: Scott, Henry,
Linn, Clayton and Jefferson. 1t 10 true that
the two most populous Counties in the stats
are Democratic. 1t IL also true that BY fas
the least populous district in the State il
Democratic. Scott County ssahds third in
population, having l,S23 more than Des
Moines; and taking the population OF Scott
and the smallest Republican district in the
State, and we have 453 inhabitants more
than there are in Lee County, (which is the
most populous Democratic County, and the
Woodbury. district, which is the weakest
If the Legislature has taken from the strong
Democratic Counties on the Mississippi Riv.
er. it has given to Democratic districts or
the Missouri Slope. Where We had three
Senators in the last apportionment we nov
have i've. This croaking and bowling Of
the Democratic editors il all for politica
effect, for they cannot have the least shadow
OF cause for complaint. There is not Demo
cratic County in the State which has pop
ulatIon within four thousand OF the basis o.
the apportionment, but has Senator.
II that party has lost ito strength ant
power in this State, it is not attributable t
any gerrymanderins BY the Republican party
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