The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-12
Wisconsin Will Not be In the
Doubtful Column Next Presi-
dental Campaign.
disappointment of the Senator
ial, Assembly and Congress-
ional Districts.
savers Days are Pretty Surely Num-
bcrcd-Denlocrats for Cleveland
Statesman Who Will Retire.

SAWYGr8 lJAyS = AAoASy HouAoAy SuA
Embellishments for Cleveland
statesman Who Will Retire.
MADISON, Wis, May 1.-THE democratic
majority of the legislative committee ap-
pointed to apportion the state into new con-
cressional, senatorial and assembly districts
has reported to the Legislature. and doubt
less it's report will be adopted without
change. BY the terms of the congressional
superintendent the democrats will get six
and the republicans four OF the new dis
tricts.
Dane county, the home of r. NJ. La Fol-
lette, has been placed in a democratic dis
trict SO strong that the member of the Nc
Kinley bill ways and means committee can
mako up his mind to stay at home and prac-
tice law for some years to come. His sue
cessful opponent in the recent election,
Capt. A. r. Bushnell, has moved from his
homo in Grant county, which has been put
into q strong republican district, to this
city, for the purpose of succeeding himself
if possible. But as the democratic strength
of the district comes from Jefferson and
DOQRS COuutlGb i Is OoAICNCA tA6o "A
county OF Dane will not get the next con-
gresham.
The putting of jefferson county into this
democratic district will also permanently
retire Congressman l.. b. Caswell, who has
his home therein. He began his congress
eional life in the Forty-ninth session. He
was not renominated by the republicans at
the last convention, but his hold on the
party was such that it was believed that he
would again become q formidable candi-
date if this landslide had not placed the
state out Of the hands of the republicans,
not to come back, so far as the congress
sional districts are concerned, until Mr..
Caswell is too old to think of a nomination.
Nils Haugen is safe in the northwestern
part of the state, and Congressman Thorn
as territory is republican, although it will
be represented in the next congress by a
dsmocrat-Frank Coburn. Clark's district
ia democratic, and SO much SO that it is not
believed that even with his popularity in
The counties comprising it under the new
apportionmsnt he can carry it. Myron Nc
Cords district in the northeastern part of
the state is fighting ground, with a slight
detection toward the democratic side. The
SOuEl6Eu OlbGI1Cb. d EdIb VI ulCu Lh IOl
lette and Caswell each used to represent, is
solidly republican, so that there is no
chance that Clinton Rabbit, of Rock coun-
ty, the new democratic member, can get a
second term.
Congressman Van Schaick's district in
the CITY and county of Milwaukee has been
fixed into a certain democratic district, and
no republican will be again able to see his
way to a seat from this territory. But
while these republicans will be retired, it is
by no means certain that Brickner and
Barwig, the two present democratic con-
gressmen from the state, will ever return
after their present terms expire. notwith-
standing the fact that their districts are
still democratic. On the contrary, it is be-
lieved that they caanot again get the nomi-
nation. The county of Dodge, from which
Barwig halls, has been put in, as before
stated, with Jefferson and Dane. In both
of these there are new men springing up
congressman from the second district to
the seat. Burr w. Jones, of this city, who
was accidently elected from this district
during q republican row, will want to COM
plete his congressional life now that his
county has been placed in a situation to in
sure his election. There are, however,
aspirants in Jefferson county and they will
contest for the nomination, which is now
equivalent to an election.
Brickner comes from tho Lake Michigan
coast, and his county, Sheboygan, has been
put in with a lumber of others which will
be anxious to be represented now that they
have a chance. And SO the situation III this
state at tho next congressional campaign
will be somewhat unsettled. The demo-
cratic majority in some instances under the
new distributing act iS 30 small that the re-
publicans say that the democrats will not
be able to get more than half of the dis
tricts, if they even succeed 80 far. Some of
49, H., .o rn ~ oro scg.{iuf lad ruifh @h> ,,a,lr
of the committee, but the trouble lies in the
fact that the preponderance of the demo-
cratic vote is all in one part of the state,
the eastern, with a %sprinkling only in the
central portion. This does not give the
committee much chance to do better than
get six of the ten new districts in n state
where the normal republican majority is
about 10000.
Those who understand the situation are
willing to accord to the committee a judg-
ment and ingenuity that is commendable,
while the a~pportionment cannot in any
sense be called a gerrymander, for it is fair
to the republicans and a marked contrast
TO the strange figures which the maps of
the republican congressional apportion-
ment represented. There is but one dis
trict which can even be discussed by the re-
publicans as such, and that one is a boot
shaped set of counties, which is absolutely
unavoidable by reason of the cut-up coast
4ll0 I'll IdAo n1lCAikAA oS UuSS POIIts IL Ii
the district in which the county of Door,
lying between Lake Michigan and Green
Bay, 10 contained.
The assembly districts are so made that a
democratic majority of six is assured, with
a possibility of seven more. The senate will
stand probably sixteen republicans to sew
enteen democrats when the change in its
membership is complete. This will not be
until 1895, as only half of the members are
elected every two years. The republicans
lost several of their districts at the last
campaign, and these, with the democratic
senators promised by the superintendent,
will make that body overwhelmingly demo-
cratic in 1893. Illus democratic United
States senator to take the place of Senator
Sawyer is provided for. Senator Spooner
has already been succeeded by ex-Secretary
Villas, who was a member of President
'Cleveland's cabinet. The republicans will
not be able to recover from the defeat given
them at the recent election in five years at
least, and there are some republicans who
say that the state is gone from them for
ever.
Although the Farmers alliance has not
yet obtained much of a hold in Wisconsin,
it has a beginning, and Ignatius Donnelly,
the northwestern head of the alliance, who
expects, by the way, to be the farmers can
didate for president in 1892. says that the
state is ripe for the movement and that If
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