The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08
Singing Small.

When the South Carolina Legislature
had completed sgerrymanderfor Con-
ggressonal elections. there was grand
Wagnerian concert of criticism from the
Northern Republican press; but we no.
tice that the chorus now sings small,
and the enthusiasm has evidently abated.
1t is not the custom of our Republican
contemporaries to let a good thing drop
when once they get it in working order,
and there must be some exceptional rea-
son in the present instance The rea-
son is fully apparent in the revelation
that has been made TO the critics, that
the fortifications from which they hurled
their moral proiectiles were made of
glass, and such exceedingly thin and
brittle glass that they have heard at
frequent intervals lately the fearful
sound of shattered'crystal. The Charles
\ ton Nel0s and Courier has gone into the
map business, and it is publishing an
Illustrated serial upon The subject of
Republican gerrymandering. that is
very interesting and instructive. Its
latest is map of the Senatorial districts
of Connecticut, arranged in such d way,
that while the State issDemocratic on a
Il popular vote, the Republicans feel rea-
.sonably sure of getting over two-thirds
of the Senate We have seen that map
before IN one or two Democratic papers
of Connecticut, but we have never seen it
IN the Boston AttcrttSer. though placed
! side by side with the South Carolina won
l-der, it would take the medal every time.
T The Charleston paper does not claim that
all this justifies gerrymander;ng in the
South, but says: '.Our purpose in dis
playing the gerrymanderins z feats of the
lsRepubicans isato remind those avorthies
ltthat they themselves are STEPPED to the
lzlipsi POLITICAL sin, and that they are
the last persons seH- earth who should
cast stone at the white people of South
Carolina We mean that the public
here and everywhere else shalt know
that the Republicans have. for years.
gone far beyond the poor efforts of the
South Carolina Democrats in the matter
of gerrymandeffng esIfs this has the
effect of disgusting the people witlrsuch
practices in the n orfh as well as in the
South. we shall be satisfied, and one of
the objects of the honest and we'll
meaning gerrymander in South Carolina
will have been handsomely accom-
plished.'' An ..honest gerrymander'
may sound little paradoxical, and SO
far as we are concerned, it seems a
rather irreconcilable idea. But the
Nescs and Courier has made an honest
preSe entatlOn OF the evil IN It's DrOduer
relations, and we unite our hope with
that which it expresses, that the North
as well as South may come to see the
unfairness of this way of dividing States
If our theory of government By the peo-
ple is correct, then is the gerrymander
never iustiiable. If it is !, M staken
idea, then it should be changed for some
other before SMALL ma orit-es. snd some
times no ma critics. at all. are allowed
to dispose of the people votes in any
way that suits their own arbitrary and
selfish purposes 4Besto,a Ststtes''a ass9 !
There are now thirty or morewomen
established in law practice in the United
States; five in Illinois. four each,in Iowa
and California, three each in Wisconsin
and Ohio, two each in Michigan. Kansas
and the District of Columbia. and one
each in Maine, Indiana. Minnesota, Ne