The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-02
THE APPORTI0NMENT Bill.
Indignant Expressions Of the State Press Upon
the Congressional and Legislative Steals
OUGHT TO Dix DEFEATED.


OUGHT TO BE DEFEATED.
Indianapolis Independent.
The apportionment bill Is UNANIMOUSLY wrong
and ought to be defeated
AN INFAMOUS BILL
Logansport Journal.
The bill itself is infamous, but the methods
by which its passage was secured were damnatle
Lafayette Courier
:, by this outrageous act, every place where q
republican majority could be DISTINGUISHED it Is
DONE
CHEEK, GREED AND DEv1LTRY.
Marion Republican
=. For the quintcssence of cheek, greed and POI
iltical deviltry commend us to tAe present Demo,
cratic Legislature.
THE SAFEGUARDS OF GOVERNMENT.
Fowler Era
Such legislation sweeps away all safeguards Of
government. This needless. senseless Demo-
cratic Legislature should be given to unde rstand
safety.
SHORT OUT.
shelbyvilIe Republican.
Why not make short cut to the object Ia
view of passing law that no Republican shall
hereafter be elected to the State Legislature of
Indiana.
THOROUGHLY VICIOUS.
Terre Haute Mail.
The bill is a thoroughly vicious one. and it ID
to be hoped that it will not be able to gel
through the Senate, though the chances are
that it will.
POLITICAL scoUNDRELIsM
Martnsve Republican.
There never was more political scoundrelism
exhibited than the Democrats are exhibiting now
IN their effort to get their apportionment bill
through the Legislature.
DOWNRIGHT scoUNDRELIsM.
veedersburg Reporter.
This is one OF the worst cases of downright
scoundrelism ever perpetrated in the Indiana
Legislature. Only a Democratic Legislature is
capable OF such an outrage upon the people.
GENERALLY CONDEMNED.
Warsaw Times.
The bill to redistrict the State of Indiana, in
an infamous character as to bring down upon 1t
the condemnation Of every right-thinking man
in the State.
AN OUTRAGEOUS THING. -----A-@
Boonville Standard.
The State appoftionment bill is the most out
rageous thing that it was ever proposed to per-
petrate. If the reaction which is sure to como
ism t for the benefit of the Republicans will
have missed our guess.
DAMNABLE CRIME.
Rensselaer, Republican.
No words can express the indignation which
every true friend Of republican government and
the rights of the people should feel at the in
famous political swindles, the legislative and
congressional apportionment bills, now before
the State Legislature 1t is wicked, infamouS
and damnable crime, and should be opposed by
all possible means short of actual revolution.
FLAGRANTLY UNJUST.
Liberty Herald.
This measure is the most fagrantly unjust
that ever disgraced the calendars of any legis-
lative body, is the first attempt to transplant
the Infamous DISTINGUISHING methods that have
prevailed in Mississippi and South Carolina in
the free North, and it should meet with earnest,
unrelenting opposition from every man who
loves justice and believes in perpetuated repre-
sentative government.
CASE IN POINT.
indianapolis independent.
The city was redstricted several years ago. al
together in the interest of the Democracy. 1t
was most brazen, bare faced fraud. not only on
the Republican voters, but on the city The peos
Pile saw it, and at the very next election elected
nearly every Republican councilman. In fact,
it was almost q clean sweep. The brazenness Of
tho present apportionment bill pending,
made additionally absurd from the fact that it is
done to boost Johnny Lamb into congressional
seat, will no doubt be a boomerang that will
knock the Democratic party out Of time.
EVERY NEWSPAPER SHOULD PROTEST
Warsaw Times.
Against such an infamy as this every power
and privilege should be used to the utmost and
the Republican minority will be upheld by the
people in any measure less than revolution to
protect them in their political and individual
rights 1t is the duty of every journalist in the
State, no matter what may be his political feel
ings, to keep his readers informed of every stage
of this infamous proceeding; but it Is particu-
larly the duty of Republican Journals to speak
out, and speak plainly of an outrage so undemo-
cratic and SO thoroughly at variance with the
principles Of free government