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will determine that. Lot the figures
and the record answer their question

and the record answer their question
ings.
COMPARISON BY FIGURES.
There are S74,7s3 voters in Pennsyl.
vania and of this number %, ,65l in 1880
were greonback, 444,70i Republican and
407 ,42S Democratic Give an equal
division of the labor vote mentioned
and the vote is 4jG,03 Republican and
41S,752 Democratic. Under existing
laws twenty seven congressman are
elected-of which nineteen were Re.
publican and eight Democratic in 1850
the ratio to the district being 81 400,
but by the old apportionment it took
"a 900 Republican votes to elect a con
gresham to the j2,3S2 Democratic. On
the test vote of 1850, on a ratio of H..
500, the Republicans elect thirty three
senators and the Democrats seventeen.
BY tho law as it now stands it requires
but 1889 Republican votes to elect
senator to 24, ,G3i Democratic. This be.
ing the fact what follows Plainly it is
to the interest of the Republican party
to have no apportionment and that is
the key to the action OF their represen
tatives here. You have refused to leg
slate when you could. You have di
rectly ignored duty to the people and
blindly pursued policy of neglect.
THE PROOF OF THE STATEMENT.
1t is well known that the Republican
legislature could have made an appor
tionment in 1851, but that legislature
absolutely sat silent and refused to do
so. This year no bills were presented
until after the Democratic measures had
been advanced to the committees and
thence TO the calendars. Why did you
adopt this course if not to hold back
the work the people expected done.
Again, the house congressional bill
reached this senate hpril I and did not
come from committee until May 3, "a
month afterward The senate bill was
sent here April 10, and it failed toreach
the senate files until May II. The
policy was to preserve the status. For
these neglects, the Democratic party is
to be indicted Let the records and the
facts determine who is responsible. Re.
member concession does not always
coucede. You have asked Of US con.
cession until nothing remains to con
cede. Then if it be true we are to have
no representation on the floor Of con.
gress take the responsibility home to
your side. The behcsts OF n political
convention, run largely by members Of
this legislature, sets itself up to DO the
voice of the people, with somebody else
behindi it. This gives to the Republican
senate stimulus for its ultimAtum'
But there are voices among the hills Of
this great commonwealth to speak an.
other approval and those are the voices
that will be heard later in the year
Think you we are blind not to see Re
publican policy. Think you We cannot
sec why strict party lines are to be call
ed in 1851 to give Republican leGjsla
lure, senator in 1855, and another in
lsS7. We understand it rs well q YOU
And for that you jeopardize this states
representation in congress by your
studied neglect here.
THE srtLwARTs sILESCED.
AZ this point Grady tapped the gayel
to call time, proceeding never rcsorted
to in the senate until towards the close
Of a regular ression, when tho days for
business demand it. Instantly, in
manner that Grady must have felt to
the marrow bone. Senator Wallace
thanked him for his courtesy, and said
he was done. The stalwart senator's
entertained as they had been by Stew.
arts assault on Gordon (the latter re.
pelling the Franklin man with stinging
and powerful eifectl, and by Coopers
VOW to remain until the crocus pushes
through the March snow, were not pre-
pared for Senator Wallace's terrible and
truthful arraignment. It took them
where they could not reply, and they
sullenly retreated, just as they have
often done before.
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