The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-05-07
General Topics.

Cass counties, with population Of 4s,ssl, are
Joined together as one
SENATORIAL District.
Van Buren, county has q population OF 29.156,
and Cass county OF but 20,525. II will be seen
that the population OF Van Burenis S,63l greater
than that of Cass, II has been usual in such
cases, when calling district conventions, to
apportion delegates on the basis of represent
alton in the state legislature. II that should be
done when the next Senatorial convention Is
called. Van Buren, would be entitled to twice
as many delegates as Cass rs she has two rep
resent atives while the latter has but one in the
Legislature. This would give Van Buren, the
contro Of the convention and enable her to
DICTATE
who the nominee shall be every time. G. T.
thinks that fair dealing in this matter would
require that the two counties should go INTO
convention on
EQUAI TERMS,
az without equality Cass would practically be
dsfranchlsed.
This is the came question that divided Kala-
mazoo and Van Buren, counties, and put three
candidates in the field at the late
JUDICIAL ELECTION.
Kalamazoo has population Of 32, 2S4, including
about $500 insane, with their attendants and
the pupils in the college and IN two eeminaries
and commercial school. who are ozly tempo
rary residents OF that county their homes being
elsewhere, while Van Buren, has population
of 29,156, not subject to any such deductlons.
thus leaving less than 1000 as the real differ
ence in the population OF the two counties. II
Kalamazoo was right in demanding a larger
representation in the Judicial convention, what
can Cass say;f Van Buren, shall seek
TO DEPRIVE HER
of an equal voice in the selection OF candidates
for State Senator?
The South Haven Sentinel has been taken
with a terrlble-what you call EN-. over an
article that appeared in the TRUE NoRTHERNER
four or five W eeks since, concerning the
RAILROAD PROJECT,
wherein Railroad, with it's present northern
terminus at Elkhart, Indiana, wishes to move
on northWerd and form o junction with q
branch OF the Michigan Southern railroad at
Allegan, by which means it would reach Grand
Rapids over the latter's track. 1t was also said
that the company proposed ia build q diverging
iine of road to some lake port, as the agent
said probably Saugatuck." G. T, sees nothing
in this that should 80 excite the terrible ire"
of the Sentinel. He has looked at that article
and fails to discover anything therein disrespect
full to South Haven, or the
WESTERN PORTION"
as the bair-brained BOBBY chooses to style it,
G. T. 10 of the opinion that if that road shall
be extended northward. and Paw Paw shall be
point on the line, that the people here will
unite with the people OF South Ha-
ven to induce the company to run their diver
ging line to that port. q. T. If well satisfied
that If that sheet would as sumo little COM
mon sense, and work as diligently for the COM
mon good Of the whole county, as it has IN
past to create
SECTIONAL JEALOUSY,
il might be enabled to be Of some assistance to
it's own locality. But G.. T. regrets to say that
that has no. been the case IN the past. In the
late canvass that journal worked might and
MAIN TO secure the election Of .
DEMOCRATIC JUDGE,
elected. and for no other al parent reason than
that the Van Buren, county candidate did not
live in
SOUTH HAVEN.
G. T. notices that the Detroit Pest Is still OK =
erclsed about the proposition that was before
the Legislature, in which the House of Repre-
sentatives, in committe Of the whole agreed
to Joint Resolution concerning the right OF
WOMEN TO VOTE,
wherein it provided that upon financial ques-
tons every widow and unmarried woman whose
property is assessed under state, county. or
municipal authority. shall be an e,ector and en-
titled to vote" The Post says, ''the people of
Michigan, not long ago,
VOTED DOWN
a Woman Suffrage amendment by an over
whelming majority majority which unmista-
kably declared that they wished to settle that
question cnce for all, and 80 that 1t would stay
settled" G.. T. notices that the Poet favors an
INCREASE OF sALARIEs.
and has he'd something to say in favor Of sub
hitting TO the People proposition to increase
them by an Amendment to the Constitution.
G.. T. wishes to remind the Post that the peo-
pie of Michigan, not long ago, Voted Down an
for the Increase Of Salaries ''by an
OVERWHELMING MAJORITY
"a majority which Enthusiastically declared that
they wished to settle that question oace for all.
and so that it would stay settled g. I. notI-
ces that considerable time vas consumed dur
ing the recent session ia the discussions aud
necessary to bring this Salary
question before the people again, although The
Legislature very we'll knows that the people
DO NOT DESIRE
any such amendment, do not wish to be both
cred with any such proposition; and that it has
not the slightest chance of succeeding. The
people do not want any more fooling with this
INCREASE OF SALARY BUSINESS.
They most emphatically pronounced against it.
and they expect the legislature to
RESPECT THEIR DECISION,
aud let that dead issue entirely alone.'
After considerable discussion Of the pros and
cons, the city attorney OF Detroit has filed his
Ill