Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-27

agreed upon for the next congress Texas
will be entitled to thirteen congressman in
stead Of eleven. The election taking place
in 1892 there will be 10 means Of providing
districts for the two new members which
the state will elect unless special session
of the legislature shall be called for that
purpose. If that is not done two members
from the state at large can be elected, who
will give us our quota in the lower house;
but justice to the people calls fol a redis-
tricting of the state. SO that each part of it
Will be able to command its proper strength
in national legislation. Population is the
basis of representation. It is unjust to
withhold from the people of one part of the
state their proper representation in con-
gress while giving to another part more
than its numbers give it a right 10 claim
Two hundred thousand people in North and
West Texas are virtually DISTINGUISHED by
the congressional districts as they now
stand, and these people have claims that
call for fair hearing.
Again, directing attention to the
same injustice, THE GAZETTE compiled
table showing the present population
Of every senatorial district in the state,
comparing it with the population in
1880. No more powerful argument
than these figures could have been
brought forward. in favor of a special
session. Commenting upon this show
ing, THE GAZETTE said:
To readiust on a more equitable basis
these discrepancies that the lapse of de-
cade has made in different quarters of the
state; TO give the citizen of one part of the
state an equal voice in governmental affairs
with the citizen of another part; to guar
MT h of
n2ent, in which all men are equal, requires
OF US that the state shall be redistricted
upon the basis of population as aScertained
by the latest census returns, so that the
legislature that is 10 be elected in 1892 shall
fairly represent the people of Texas as now
distributed over the state. Unless this re-
appOrtlonment IS made before the next
election it can not serve the people until the
election of 1894. when, supposine that the
TWentV-third legislature will not neglect
its duty in that respect as the Twenty
second did, an assembly Will be chosen,
based upon the distribution of political
strength as it stood in 1890. 4 special ses-
sion of the legislature is the only power to
which the people can turn for relief before
1894. II rests with Governor Hogg TO ex-
tend this relief to the people, or to with
hold it from them. He has 4 precedent for
such action in the calling of the legisla-
ture together by Governor Roberts in 1852,
to reapportiOn the state, and the people ap-
proved the act. Such action is as necessary
now asi it was then, and the people look 10
Governor Hogg to give them the relief that
can come from no other source
THE GAZETTE is always ''of and for
Texas" 1t is OF and for the whole state,
not of section. That is why THE GA
zETTE contends for justice and fairness
to all parts of the state, and for equal
representation in the state Legislature
and in congress.
The Express is growing careless, and
it is not reading THE GAZETTE as
carefully as it is 10 its profit to do, 9TH
erwise such blunders would meyer be
made.