Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-01-09
gov the Wisconsin Gerrymander
Fraud is Dealt With by
Democratic Papers.
gnorant the Guilty Party
They Roast IL Just the
Same.
rnportant Admission Made I'm
der a Delusion-Truth
Will be Told.

The Cleveland Plaindealer, democratic
organ supposing the infamous apportion-
rnent of last winter was the work of re.
rnblcans printed the following editorial
n condemnation of the outrage THE
rppnblican Legislators who are porting
aver map of Ohio and the election re-
turns, seeking to discover way to get
seventeen republican members out OF
twenty-ouc congressional districts, should
send up to their fellow partisans in Wis
consin for pointers in the work of gerry
Wandering. The Badger State republi.
cans are experts. The way in which the
districted the state at the last session for
legislative and senatorial purposes must
make their Buckeye brothers green with
envy The state constitution requires that
the DISTRICTS shall be arranged upon the
basis OF equal population the true basis for
legislative districts at the time being 49,
SOS A little thing like that did not
trouble the Badger state Legislators. They
made the districts according to tn charact-
er of the vote instead of the statistics of
D1pulation. One of tie new districts con-
tains SO 80l people, another 25,143, white
the other extreme is reached with districts
whose population in one instance is 1928
and in ano, her 6,823. Counties were cut
and haggIed to piece out districts in other
counties, for no other reason than to insure
Republican majorities. In the re-arrange-
meut of senatorial districts the partisan
animus was still more apparent 1t has
been so eentrived that 1855 people who
participated in thessenatorial election of
1890 may vote for senators again in 1892,
while 23l 2l8 people who voted for sena.
tors in 1888 will not have an opportunity
10 doso again until 1894 Senators elect.
ed in 1890 will represent for two years
1877 100 people who had no voice in their
election, or 1888 will have two rerre-
sentatives from 1892 to 1894, and 23l 2lS
people must 60 unreprescnted for that
period. Before the congressional redis-
tricting bill is brought out at Columbus a
committee of republican Legislators
should certainly go to Wisconsin for ad J.
ditiOnal instructions in the art of gerry
wandering.
OF course, any decent paper, no matter
what its politics might be, would den.
ounce such piece of robbery and shame,
but the Cleveland Plaindealer would not
have been pronounced its anathema
did it know that the scoundrelism was
INDUCED in by the Wisconsin democracy.
Then comes the New York Times, which
Of all de oeratic in papers in the country,
is the most partisan in its spirit 1t
charges that the Wisconsin gerrymarder
lis as aagrantly unjust in partisan sense
As any on record. 1t says that the deg
radiation of partisanship by the legisla-
ture of South Carolina and Mississippi,
was no lower than that of the Wisconsin
legislature which outraged the constitu-
ton in the last gerrymandering scheme,
The Times made these sharp criticisms on
the Iascally piece of political war, suppos-
ing tie republicans did the job! These
statements are given to show what the
democratic press thinks of Wisconsin
gfrrymandering when the republicans are
charged with the infamy.