Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-01-10

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VIII yon have four additional represent
4tiyv9 or viii YOU not Viii you accept
reasonable increase or will you adopt the
rule o. ruin policy and say that ii we
osu1ot have majority of both houses of
the Legislature se won't have anything
a. ell? Really il seems TO us absurd to
make d yoltiosi issue OF such a matter
as this. The policy enunoiAted by
Chairman Pillins has biting off your
'' no=s 70 spite your lace" aspect that
must bs vastly entertaining to senrible |
people outside the State. They would |
naturally expect The people OF county
which Lad the opportunity for material
increase such as tais offered it to unite
without distinction of party in accepting
It. They would say, no matter whether
your delegation be Democratic or Repub,
li,ao, instruct it to rstify the representa-
ton amendment.
We confess that We can hardly compre-
bend how Mr.. Pilling could so stultify
Linself as to seriously promulgate such
policy. We should think that he would
al least admit, as matter of policy il
nothing more, that il the present pro
| posed amendment is not liberal enough,
1t would be the part Of common sense to
take what it offers in the present and, in
tue future, to utilize the energies OF
eleven members OF the House, instead OF
s4ysn, to work mors effectively tor what
he calls JUST representation. The sdvsu-
tass Of eleven over seven is selfevi
dent fact which no one can smut his eyes
TO,
Mr.. Pilling was q member of the Hous-
ia 1881 On the 18th of March as a
member of that House, he not only voted
for but urged in vehement speech the
adoption Of tue following pfsambles ami
resolution, which we're ouly defeated by
The absence of Mr.. Woodkeeper, a Repub.
liosa, and 7, N. Williams, Democrat
WHEREAS, The representation III the
General Assembly Of the several counties OF
this state has been for many years grossly
unjust aud unequal, and
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/ APPROXIMATION Of equality OF representation
tor the people Of all portions OF this state
therefore be it
Hes0irsa, That -uch legislation ought to
po promptly enacted as willmost speedily and
the nrseDt sysc S n, aH a S'isg md
representation Of the people Of all portions Of
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