The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-12-11

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present in the application III 4.s Rrinci-
pie to the elecilon of meunbrrs Of the
State LsxiAature, Senate ai1d EIbuse
Of RessAentaaivsp, Itkfor the Con-
stitutionaI Convection pbcut to meet,
70 see Lhat Il 10 embodied in the new
Consultations, il order that hereAfter
the laws for Illinois may be made by
tho people Of Illinois, not by Partv;
and il is fortunate circawAtanc per-
haps, that in the Convention about to
assc nb!e, 10th the leading parties will
be about equally represented. Another
iaEieasioa of-the aseevtsinty of the
continued ienure Of power by any party.
and Of the importance Of the principle
which gives 10 all parties representa-
ton in proportion to their numbers.
In applying the principal Of Proper
Tomato Representation by free voting
the State Of Illinois, members should be
apportiened to counties that would be
entitled to Eve or more members
when the population Of . county
would justify it; when it would not
justify an apportionment of five mem
hers, then ii should be joined to one OF
more contiguous counties to form an
election district. A.. ,st
Under the present system, Cook
county % entitled 70 seven members Of
the lower house and. two Senators, ar
the number Of members of both houses
will be increased under the new Con,
stitution, we will assume that Cook
county, under. the new Constitution
win be entitled to ut least twelve mem,
hers of the Lower H"use and 1--WE Sen
ators. A proportionate iacrsass .
members throughout che State would
under the new Constitution provide
A Senate composed of (oS) sixty
three members. Van 49, .4
A Horse of Representatives com
posed of I46) one hundred and forty
six members, which will certainly b
within bounds, and might well be in
creased; r.; S5:: l2:l4e LILO
'2:25:: $500 5-10,) t.e-
Now to apply free voting TO chr
this election, the law has only to Civ,
Cook county its representatives. and n,
in the Congressional act herein beior,
gives, allow each voter as many voter
as there are members 10 be elected il
his district.
There are twelve members to b.
elected to the Lower House from Col
county; SO in voting for those eacl
voter has as many votes as there are
members TO be chosen that is 70 Say
tsOsvls DOtes.
In voting for Senators, as Cool
county is entitled to FIVE Senators
every voter in Cook county would b
entitled to give five votes for Senators
Now "a far az the individual voteI
himself is concerned, he need not ne
cessarily give himself any particular
trouble about the preparation of his
ticket. We will illustrate by the
wOIkingmen's party again. The
Workingmen's Convention in called ior
nominating candidates for Senate and
House of Representatives. 1t meets Al
The Court House as usual. After dis
custom AMI cxamin alton Of statistics,
it il found that the WOrkmgmen's
Party has from one-filth TO one sixth
of the voters in Cook county; so one
candidate for the Senate and two can
didates for the House OF Representa-
tives, are put in nomination.
The names are placed on the ticket
in the order Of the strength of the NOM
mating vote received in convention.
This viii guide the committee on
tickets in preparing the printed tickets
or boAos to be distributed and cast at
the election. In this case the ballots
will read
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2 WORKINGMENY TICKET
ron sENArK OF ILLINOIS.
John Doe, 5 votes.