The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-14

State. What the Democrats themselves say
about these measures reads we'll in connection
with the record. In the House Mr. French and
Mr.. Loup denounced it as unfair. Mr. McHenry
said: 1t will return upon US and swamp the
Democratic party Mr. Kelison said the meas
ure was infamous. and he could not support it,
looking at his oath. Because his party associ-
ates saw ut tocnact measures that were unfair,
in concert with them Senator johnson
of Tippecanoe said it conficted with
his ideas of right, justice and fairness, and by
voting for it he would sanction the Legislature
In committing wrong which could find no ex-
cuse apology in the dictates of party. So
indefensible were the bills in the fair fields of
argument that none was permitted in the House
in regard to the congressional apportionment
bill, bat it rushed through under the opera
ton of the previous question, no apology being
offered for its infamy except that OF
Mr.. Patten, because 1T was Tor the
interest of the Democratic party Under
the congressional apportionment 1t takes
"a, 5l4 Democratic votes to elect congressman;
79, 24S Republicans to elect congressman. One
Democrat has as much congressional representa-
ton rs 81 Republicans. Under the legislative
apportionment bill. in which the Republicans
ought to have 40 per cent and the Democrats 5l
per cent according to the last vote for Governor,
the representation would be on the same basis,
nearly two Democrats to one Republican. In
the congressional gerrymander, as originally
passed by the House and submitted TO the
Senate. the Fourth congressional district con-
sisted OF the counties Of JefferCon, Ripley, De-
catur Rush, Franklin, Union, Dearborn, Ohio
and Switzerland. Six of these nine counties are
Republican; together they cast total Repub-
iican vote of between $4,000 and l9,OOO;
yet these counties have been so doctored
by combining them with Democratic
counties within and without the district that
they will not send single representative to the
State Senate. The Republican majority of
Union county is swept away by combining it
with Franklin and Ripley. The Republican ma
jorities in Ohio and Switzerland are neutralzed
by The Democratic vote of Dearborn county.
In order to defeat the Republican majority in
Jefferson county. the Democrats connect it with
the county of Clark, with which it has scarcely
any territorial contiguity Decatur is in like
manner joined with Shelby, and Rush with
Hancock. Thus this entire Republican vote
OF six counties is disfranchised. The Demo
cratic county of Clark is made to do double duty
in voting for two senators and two rep
resentatives. 1t is joined with Scott and
Jennings for senator, so as to overcome
the Republican majority in Jennings, and with
Floyd and jefferson for representative to over
come the Republican majority in jefferson.
Brown county. with voting population OF less
than q 800 also aids in selecting two senator's,
in order to defeat the Republican majorities in
Monroe and Morgan, respectively Marion county,
which is probably Republican, as was shown
in the last election for Governor, is deprived of
its proper proportional representation of three
senators and six representatives, ard is COM
PEELED to snare one senator and representative
with Hancock and Shelby, both Democratic
counties, a plain violation of the Constitution of
the State. The Democratic county of Hancock
is much overworked, having the right to
vote for two senators and two representa-
tives, although its voting population is barely
more than 900, while Wayne county with TO-
600, votes for one senator only. Clinton county
also does double service for the Democratic
party in the same manner, and Vermlllion,
which has hitherto had one representative of its
own, is now compelled to share with Vigo and
Sullivan the honor of electng one representative,
it being necessary to go through Vigo to Sulli-
van for the sufficient Democratic majority to
neutrallze the Republican vote of Vermillion
The Republican majority of Lawrence is dsfran-
chised by combining it with Jackson for sena-
torial purposes, aad with Orange and Dubois
for the election of single represen-
tative The floating, representative be-
away and given to Cass and Miami,
which have less population, simply because
these counties happen to be Democratic. These
measures are as outrageous in their results as
the shotgun policy of Mississippi and the tissue
ballots of South Carolina. They only differ in
the fact that they are enacted under the more
solemn forms of the law"
ExTRAvAGANT EXPENDITURES.
'iHave not the expenditures been larger than
by previous Legislaturesr
''The Democrats condemn the extravaganza ex
penditures of money under Republican rule, and
yet the appropriations made during the present
year by the Democratic Legislature are about
"a, 600, 900. do not say that these expenditures
have been wrong. Most of them have been
necessary and desirable. / only condemn the
cheap spirit of the demagogue which appears in
the Democratic platform, complaining CT Repub-
liean extravagance.. They say they are IN favor
of economy; yet when the Republican senator
from st. Joseph Mr. Campbell) proposed to re-
duce the pay Of the employees of the Senate to
So 80 per day and that of the pages to 81 per
day, prices for which competent persons could be
selected for the positions the Democratic ma
jority postponed consideration of the resolution,
and finally defeated it, thus saying to the people
of the State that the Legislature ought to pay
more than individual for the same service
rendered. So the splttoon cleaners and paper
folders. as well as all the rest, continued TO re-
ceive So per day for their valuable and efficient
services. This is Democratic economy
The first bill passed by the Gen
eral Assembly was an appropriation of
the Who'll sixty days it was impossible to pro-
cure the passage through either house of bill
appropriatlng money to pay the other general
expenses of the State. When the special ses
sion came on there was compact for the con-
sideraton of one hundred bills before transact
ism enough to suspend the order for the consid-
Grafton of the general appropriation bill. 1t was
only the payment of their Sc per diem that was
of more Importance than their sacred compact
and special order There was only one thing in
regard to which the patriotism in the Demo
the contract, and that was where it involved the
payment of their own salaries"
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