New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-18

are 3,p5G Democrats and 2946 Republicans In IL 10
suit the wishes OF John Delmar the twenty
Ward with 1884 population VIII DC msuc ''e
XVIII District Last fall 1923 Democratic ana 4'''o
Republican votes were cast In II. But oy shcns VI"
IN. Republican end Of the ward and adding some
Democratic votes from the Eighth and Ienu "a'uS'
where they are not needed. Democratic prePoh'
dcrancc will be secured. In halt dozen other ais
trIcts II has been found possible to oVefpaaioe NO
publican votes by Democrats In adjacent wards anu
the districts will be thus constituted Inc Isl Ds''s
will include tie First and Second wards, win 'o'i"
populatlon The Democratic voters number 3,20o ana
the Republicans 2,l22. The Third and Eleventh
wards with 39,92l people, will form the Iid District
II will contain 4.3a1 Democratic voters and o'o7o
Republicans. The lid District will be made up OF inc
Fourth and Fifth wards with population OF ss'4oo
It will include 4.Oss Democrats and l'9o4 kcpuDh
cans who voted last fall. The Thirteenth and Four
eenth wards vii! form the Xth District. with ooo3o
population. with 5,674 Democrats and 3'2o' hcpuon
cans who voted In 1901. The new Xlth DISTRICT VIII
include the Fifteenth and Eighteenth wards. whose
Joint population IL 90, 100 As the Eighteenth warn
ha. been subdvided three since the last elecuon
II Is impossible TO give the proportion OF voters our
substantial Democratic majority IS aesureu' inv
XIVth District will be formed from the lweh'y'hrs'
and the new Twenty seventh wards Inc popuiauoh
Is So $50 As the Twenty first Ward was carried oy
only few votes BY the Democmts last fall TINS Is
likely IN he the closest district In the city Inc
XVIIth District will be made up Of the Twenty-four
Ward and the towns Of Flatbush ana Ne"-ouecn''
The population is 3s,173, with 3,o'l peHloei"a.
voters and 2,502 Republicans. The AVili'h D's'rio'
will DO formed OF the Twenty-sixth and Iweh'yeisn'
wards and the towns OF Flabush and GraveSend FORM
ing sort OF "shoestring district with ol'4fo popu
,.tion and Democratic majority Of several hundreds
But with the overwhelming Republican wards 1t
was found impossible to put them In districts when
the Democrats could carry 81 they VIII DC pidcea
together The vth District Will be composed OF the
seventh, Nineteenth and Twentieth wards contain
Ing an aggregate population OF lo3,o'o lhcS nave
s,307 Democratic voters and 1904 Republicans, VINO
CaSt their ballots last fall. The Twenty third and
Twenty,fifth wards will be united in the XVIth Dis
Democratic ticket last fall and S676 the Republican.
The proposcd change of the boundaries Of the wards
" In the division Of the city for partisan political
purposes the ingenuity of the Democratic pohH m,I
Kane Mike corey John Dslmar Pan o Sho eh
Dan Ryan and lin MGarTy w OF n BE nSe Of
Assembly in their wards. "a they have dictated the
nominations Of Aldermen ana supervisors, ana ''"S
control Hesitation a albany IN tneiT oWn oHsen has
given cloe st ent.on t. tn que on 4 reappo Torment
Wonder II the people Of BROOKLYN understand what Is
going on In the community that all ocpartlhe.nn.H y,
In order to effect an apportonnNnt that would be
disgrace In the soudan that all departments OF the
city are Hsss as ds y ao people
shall be entitled to an Assemblyman and IN ne
publican District over 100000 people shall be entitled
to an Asscmblymnn' am wutching what IHminany
JIall DOES in New York | do not believe that any
thing that has been proposed there will approach what
is here in Brooklyn practically prGmiSee; am
beginning think that with all their hnlts. they nave
better and falrer government In New-Yorh thnn we
have here. II the policy. OF the DemoCratc machine
shall consider that am disfrRnchsed II am put IN
district where II takes 100000 people 70 nave an AS
semblyman-ny pride in Brooklyn will cease and !
VIII he ono Of thoSo who b~cnnin; 10 think that
II would he better 10 he under Tsmmanv than MS We
now are To say that 10000 Democrats can have nm
Assenslvman and 10000 Republicans can only have
one is a bold told disfranchlement CT Republican
voters"