The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-01-16
How the Wisconsin Gerry mander
Fraud is Dealt With by
Democratic Papers.
Ignorant the Gui lty Party,
They Roast 1t Just the
Same.
Important Admission Made Un-
der a Delusion-Truth
Will be Told.

The Cleveland Paindealer, Il democrat ic
organ, supposing the infamous apportion-
ment of last winter was the work of re-
publicans printed the following editorial
in condemnation of the outrage The
republican Legislators who are poring
over map of Ohio and the election re-
turns, seeking to discover way to get
seventeen republican members out of
twenty. one cor rgrsssional 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 they
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 l6..
S6S. A little thing like that did not
trouble the Badger state Legislators. They
made the districts according to th charact-
er of the vote instead of the statistics OF
population. One Of the new striCts c IL
talns 3S, sol people, another 25,l43, wl lie
the other extreme Is reacned with districts
whose population in one instance Is 1928
ar in another 6, 1913. Counties were cut
and haggie cd to piece out districts in otker
counties, fer no other reasen than to insure
Republican ma ajCrities. In the re-arrange-
ment Of sedatCral districts the partisan
animus was still more apparent. 1t has
been so centrived that l6S, 800 people who
participated in the senatorial election of
1890 may vote for senators again in 1892.
while 23l 21S people who voted for sena.
tors in 1888 will not have an opportunity
TO do so again until 1894. Senators elect
ed in 1890 will represent for two years
1877, 1872 people who had no voice in their
election, or l68, 500 will have two rel re-
sentatives from 1892 TO 1894, and 23l 2lS
people must 90 unrepIesC nted for that
period. Before the congressional redls-
trictinG bill is brought out at Columbus IA
committee of republican Legislators
should certainly 60 to Wisconsin for ad-
dltional instructions in the art of gerry
mandering.'
Of course, any decent paper no matter
what its politics might lie, would Den
ounce such piece of robbery and shame.
but the Cleveland PIaindealer 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 ocratic in papers in the country
is the most partisan III its spirit. Ii
charges that the Wisconsin gerry mnrder
lis as tlagrantly unjust in IA partisan sense
a. any on record" II says that the deg
radiation Of partisanshlp By the legisla-
tuIe of South Carolina End Mississippi.
was 10 lower Than that of the Wisconsin
legislature which outraged the constitI-
tion in the last gerrymand,rlng scheme.
The Times made these sharp criticisms Oh
the lascaIly piece of political var. SUPP ;.
ing the republicans did the job! Ii ese
statements are given to slow what the
demo cratic PRESS thinks of Wisconsin
gerry ymancerlng whom the ltluLl.caLs are
charged with the infamy