Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-10-02

At It's meeting yesterday the Yankton
county republican central committee
affirmed the action OF a previous meet
ing of the committee. There was OBJ.
lection to the apportionment made at the
first meeting which promulgated q
convention call, and the committee was
re-convened to consider the objections
and act thereon. Tue com.
mittee, by a vote of six to three,
decided to stand by its original act. The
complaint is that the apportionment il.
unfair, that it gives to certain precincts
larger representation than they are en-.
titled to, and deprives certain other pre-.
cincts of their legitimate representation
in the convention. The alleged basis
OF representation was one delegate for
every twenty-five republican votes. As
a whole; the discrimination is made IN
favor of the country precincts and
against the city precincts, though in
some instances country precincts suffer
BY the decision of the committee. The
republican vote in the city is popularly
fixed at 500, and in the country at $50.
By city precincts is meant those pre-.
cincts of which the city is part. They
take in portion of the adjacent
country.
This would give an apportionment Of
twenty delegates from the city and of
twenty.slx from the country. Instead
of this, tie committee has given the city
twenty-five delegates and the country
fifty-two delegates, majority OF twenty.
seven for the country instead of six.
Taking the vote of 1880 and 1883 as a
basis, the representation would have
been materially changed from the
figures reached by the committee. In
the city in 1880, there were 4OS republi.
can votes cast, and in the country 6O2
This would entitle the city to Sc ven.
teen delegates and the country to
twenty-five. In 1888 the republican vote
was: City, 4l9; country, 81. Upon
this vote the correct representation
would have been: City,
seventeen delegates; country
fifteen delegates. Under the most favora.
BILE construction of the situation the
relative representation would stand
twenty to twenty six, instead of twenty.
five to tifty.two. Or, had it been deemed
advisable to create larger convention
an apportionment of forty to fifty.two
would have been just and reasonable
Under the conclusion reached by the
committee the city receives fifteen dele
gates less than it's share in the coming
convention.
Some special examples of how the
country representation was worked ur
and the city representation worked dowr
are visible in the figures attached to the
several precincts. For example til.
GAINESVILLE precinct in 1888 cast sixt,
republican votes and in 1850 eighty. .thre.
republican votes. Under the basis O
apportionment employed this precinc
could not possibly claim more than fou
delegates, yet it is given seven. Utict
precinct with twenty.three republican
votes in 1888 and forty.seven in 1880, i.
given five delegates. And SO on. through
the list. Another peculiar feature O
this apportionment is that what il
known as the Hanson precinct, adjoin
ing the city on the east, is given no rep
Presentation whatever.
We have not heard that any one claim,
that this superintendent ,s Just. 1t wa.
simply the result of six votes against
three.