, 1881-05-15
Dan Shepard's Views on the Con.
:: gressional Apportion-
~. fnent.
Fourteen Republican,, Five Dem
: ocratic, and One Doubtful ..
i District.
Great Difficulty in the Matter Of Re-
districting the City.

CllSSN6l Ill LII. otale soeulle. iii. oHeptlA
who. as Secretary Of the State Central Com
Inittee, is in a condition to speak intelligent
ly, gave his opinion as follows.
About the city districts l am unable II
spcat, with much posilivencSs. The Fourth
iftll. Sixth. and Seyentl, Districts IRE badly
broken up. l am speaking OF the Congrcs
s1o:al districts. The Fifth District is made VI
OF Mc11enry, Rnone, and Winncbago Conn.
ties, which were in the old Fourth District
and Stephenson and Ogle, in the old Fifth.
should imagine that some Of the people III
that district would yet up on their
car. The Sixth District Is composed OF
the set which ten years ago were i'll
the ola Fifth District The Seventh, is conf
posed Of Kane and de kalb, now in a district
together, to which are added Kendall.
Grundy and Will. This is somewhat bad. as
the people of Kane County can communicate
with those il, Will only by coming to Cllica-
20 and going back. The Eighth District is
abou: tile salae as at present, except that
TazeweIl is substituted for Marshall. The
Ninth District is badly mixed. 1t consists Of
parts Of what are now three districts-La
Sale County, in Cullen's district, Bureau
aud Putnam, in Henderson's constituency,
and Marshall County, i'll Payson's district.
Rock Island IS put in and Schuyler taken
out This makes
THE DISTRICT STRONGER REPUBLICAN,
adding about loo to the majority. The
Eleventh District is about the same as tie
Ninth now. The Twelfth Is strongly Demo
In the Thirteenth. which is the Bloomington
District, there is this change: Tazewell and
Mason Counties, which are both Democratic,
are taken out, and Macon and Piatt, two small
Republican counties, are put in. The Four
teenth District at present is composed of
Champaign, Vermilion. Douglas, and Chris
tian: Edgar and Cumberland, two Demo-
cratic counties, are put III in place Of Piatt
and Macon This reduces the Republican
majority, but does not jeopardize it. I
In the. Seventeenth Mason has been sub
sutured for Scott. This is Democratic with
out much cl1ange- Tie Sixteenth is also
badly mixed. There is Macoupin. now in
Blu Morrison's district part If Sparks. part
Of Sngleton's, and part Of Moulton's dis
tricts. So you see there are parts Of
four different districts rallied into one, all
Democratic. There is no Congressman there,
and hardly candidate. The district will,
the Seventeenth.-1 don't see anything par
11cular the-e, except that there would be a
small Democratic maturity Of 429, which
might be oyerthrown. There are uo states
men or Democratic leaders there The
Sparks and Townshend, throwing botE into
fresh districts There Is there Young
blood. who is now in the House at
Springfield, Tom Merritt. and Will
ian m T. anderson, and several Others
into the same strong Democratic district
district where there viii .,e small Repub-
7iean majority t is made mp Of S.. Clair and
Washington. Two Republican counties, out |
OF Sparks district,
MAKING 1T NORMALLY rEp1Ynr1cAy.
although it will dcpcnd on hov St clair
(I,nnrv ooes Tha T,rant;oth n1sr,;cr e" ~ Sa'ti
that nov, renr.tar,a 10, T, H. - su
What can rnn sau ahnnt ~, ~ a;t' ~.
tr;c,sSs -" '"' "oou' e'4e e''s uis-
~ don't want tn n,ss irdoro o,+ ~, +ha,n
know SO litfie cnn,narn1ivai,s ahn,t M '@.H ttn,n
,r won1,i = T nt anssE E,, -, u Wetner
It IN, into fnnr .istr;c3s am thara l. -, ;'Iz veiS
.an ba done safy an fhnt ft uet!eve " Ii lnat
siderrd.'; ''''' A1'1 'l''' ""t''' - '' ''1t-
s.IYhat ,r;,, ta +ha ,,roh,b,o ,,o,;+;oo1,t,
no of 1s he mr nev u g ppane po;Lcaa staa
.rict yofe ~ 4''' nv" VIII '"e" us
..'rhn First to the Etaronth i,c,re;,-o 4ha
nj; ;r...i Hot ~ S1e Lseseiltn, inclusive the
It'll w1uii ,Toha'I1 ha an,,h;a :.,,r ts 1weh T
Twelfth, Fifteenth. Sixteenth seventeenth
md Eighteenth would certainjv i,e demo,
:ratic The Democratic majority in the Sew
,ntrenh will ,ot ,,e taroa ani - ,,;4tSt ~ |
:a1ried BY the Republicans in IN Presi5entiaI in M
car, be carrir!i Lv th,. Rrn,bins tie
tns. but Should prefer tn ca1, + dnnptfmi
THAT would make fonrt1.pn Rrn,,h1;can
ire Democratic. and one doubtful 1iistrict );
igured out the reporter. 1 'A'A''
"What is YOUR oninion az IN th,s echen,o
or apportion1nept - ''' '~14>''"'
{. As a wholt. the Conprassiona1 onnor+io,-