New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-11

Of l16,o00. But there not 10000 inhabitants
In 1890 Why, for instance. should a New-forh
district have only 10000 inhabitants while
Just across the East River not "a district has been
arranged with less than 16l 0O0l one Brooklyn dis
trct has 174COO Both the With and With New
York districts strongly Democratic downtown dis
trcts. Other downtown districts show the same differ
ence below the ratio The idea TO make more dis.
trcts downtown than in the newer wards in the upper
part Of the city, This would make districts OF great
population in the Republican wards and deprive them
of representation.
In the new XIIIth District, comprising the XVIJth
Assembly District with 07,OSl the XXth, with 6G5J0,
and part Of the XXIst Assembly District below Fifty
nnthst. the total population in 1890 did not fall much
short Of 10000. $4,000 above the forced ratio.
In the XVIII Congress District the XIXth AS
sembly District alone has 10000, according to the
state census Then, with the XXIst Assembly Dis
trict above Fifty ninth TO Seventy ninth sts and the
XXIld Assembly District below seventy ninh-st with
over $4,000 inhabitants more, there would be total
Of over 100000 people In the district or a4,624
more than the forced ratio for the three counties.
Then again, in the new XVIII District, the State
Census (paddcd) gives for tile XXTId Assembly Dis
trct alone l79,SO3, with one election district missing,
which would make 1t over 100000 Then the parts of
the XXlst and XXIId Assembly Districts included will
add 10000 "A total of 10000 inhabitants for the
district or nearly 10000 more than the forced ratio
Last, but not least, comes the XYIth Congress Dis
trct, comprising the XXINth Assembly District, which
in 1890 had 74085, and Wcstcheser, with 146772 in
habltans. Thus the XVIII Congress District, accord
ing TO The Federal Census, had population of 100
o57, 1881 than the forced ratio in the three
Counties II We take the figures Of the padded
we would find total in the district Of 30, $50, or
C4,2O3 more than the forced ratio
Why should the upper districts Of New York City
be punished by dcprlvng them Of representation to
give II 10 rotten boroughs like the With District
other districts which happen to be downtown and
| are absolutely controlled by Tammany Hall II Is
Tammany Halls eerrymandcr this dime. The whole
state outside OF Manhattan Island has to be reduced in
representation to give Tammany more power.
In the latter part Of February II was openly as
serted at Albany and published in The Journal
there that the Democratic leaders would Ignore the
Fdcrnl Census completely in reapportionnS the Con-
gress districts II declared that the padded State
Census would be the basis OF calculating the pOpula-
ton OF the Congress districts Sheehan, Cantor and
other Democratic leaders repudiated the statements,
apparently with Indignation II this has been done
after ALL II wOud show the ratio for the whole state
be 100 5s5 For the twenty four COayresS districts in
nfty-sevcn counties II would be $500 and for the
three counties Of N.wY0rk Richmond and Westchester
COL .572. Re that II may, the fact remano that
the districts OF New York all directly controlled BY
Tammany Hail. have been shamelessly gerryman-
dcred I'm defiance alike Of the Constitution and the
rights OF the people Of the Empire state.