Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-01-12

front of the name Of every candidate
for whom he desires to vote.
1.-The duties of county and city boards
Of election should be more clearly de-
finen.
"a deadlock as to signing the re-
turns, and another as to to issuing the
certificates Of election in one Of the
Senatorial districts, and the lack Of
remedy in the courts TO solve the diff
Guilty, show that in other particulars
there is imperative demand for amend
ments TO the law.
"You will be required under the new
census to redistrict the State for Rep
resentatives in Congress. This will
afford you an opportunity to arrange
the districts with fairness to all. Make
the districts so fair in their relation to
the political divisions of our people
that they will stand until new census
shall be taken. Make them so impair
tial that no future Legislature will dare
disturb them until new census
and new Congressional appor-
tionment will make change i'm
perative. Extreme partisanship in
their arrangement should be avoided.
There is sense OF fair-play among the
people which is prompt TO condemn a
fragrant misuse Of party advantage at
the expense Of popular suffrage. Par
tisanship is not to be discouraged, but
encouraged in all things where princi-
pie Is at stake; but partisanship which
would take from the people their just
representation, as In the case OF the
Congressional redistricting by the last
Legislature, is an abuse Of power which
the people are swift TO rebuke. You
must have observed from the returns Of
the late election that the party which
carried the State by plurality of more
than twenty-one thousand and which re-
ceived a plurality in fifty-one counties
of the eighty-eight in Ohio, carried but
seven Congressional Districts Of the
twenty-one-the minority party thus
controlling two-thirds Of the Congress
sional Districts, and the majority party
only one-third. 1t will be your duty TO
re-enfranchiSe the citizens Of Ohio who
were disfranchised by the last legisla-
tive gerrymander, and to restore to
the people their rightful voice in the
National House Of Representatives
Free suffrage is of little service to the
citizen II its force can be defeated by
legislative machination in the form OF
a gerrymander. The districts should
be made so as to give the party majority
In the State majority of Representa-
tives, and so arranged that IL the party
majority shall change the Representa-
tive majority shall also change.
THE elections Of last November have
given to one OF the political parties OF
the State an almost unprecedented ma
jority in both branches OF the Legisla-
ture. So large majority will require
from every member OF the dominant
party the exercise Of the greatest con-
servatism. l need not remind you that
exceptional responsibility follows the
great trust which has been reposed in
you by the people, who in turn will
hold you to tide highest and strictest ac-
countability."
Upon the conclusion OF Governor Nc
Kinley's inaugural, he and his staff and
party proceeded to the grand stand, on
East Broad street, to review the parade.
This evening, from o'clock to 1890
o'clock, Governor and Mrs. Mckinley
will give a grand reception to the pub
lie at their headquarters, the Chitten-
den Hotel.
Gov. Mckinley bravely stood the
fatigue incident to his inauguration,
although he had only few days before
arisen from his sick bed, and had to
face one Of the coldeSt, raweSt days OF
this winter, and run the gauntlet Of tens
of thousands assembled eager to grasp
him by the hand.
The election Of a United States Sena-
tor to succeed Senator Sherman will oc-
cur tomorrow.