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seventh. 5.124. In South Carolina the fg
ures were First, 9,543 second, 1913; third
T. 1O5; fourth, 11,224; fifth, 9OS6; sixth,
10. $50; seventh, 100S6. Total vote in Mis-
sissippi, 80 581; total vote in South Carolina,
81. 645; average vote per district in Missis-
sippi, 5,655; average vote per district in
South Carolina, 9,092 In the same year the
average vote per district in Indiana was
az, 600; in Texas, "a 1000; in Illinois, 80 900;
in Kentucky, $1,000; in North Carolina,
30 800; in Connecticut, $500. Recently the
Nc,os argued that it is manifestly unfair for
/ 1852 voters in Mississippi to have repre-
sentative in congress, while in Texas 1t re-
oures "a 600 to 10000. Indeed, in 1894 the
vote in the sixth district in Texas was
40, 494, against total of &c., 81 in the seven
Mississippi districts. Congress ought not
to permit this inequality to longer exist.
This the Houston Post is pleased to declare
vicious agitation" In other words, the
Houston pander to all manner of vicious
politics pretends to believe that it is equal,
even, and fair for the 1852 voters of the
third Mississippi district to select member
OF congress with the same salary and pow
ers given by 40 494 voters in the sixth Texas
district to their representative. This is a
fair illustration of the ideas which moral
degenerates of political perversity have of
equality, justice and truth. How about tn e
law relating to such case7 Is it to be OBJ
served or disregarded? II it should be dis
regarded in this case, why apply it any
where? Article IA, Section 2, amendments
to the Constitution, declares:
Representatives shall be apportoned
among the several states according to their
respective numbers, counting the whole
number of persons in each state, including
Indians not taxed. But whenever the right
to vote at any election for electors of pres
ident and vice-presioent, or for United
States representatives in congress, execu-
tive and judicial offices, or the members OF
the legislatures thereof, is denied to any OF
the male inhabitants OF such state being
twenty-one years of age and citizens of the
United States, or in any way abridged ex-
cept for participation in rebellion or other
crime, the basis OF representation therein
shall be reduced in the proportion in which
the numbers OF such male citizens shall bear
one years of age in such state.
| The law of the case is certainly plain.
The equity of the demand for equal repre-
sentation in congress and in the electoral
college will not be questioned save by dem
agogues who are eager to profit by inj Justice
and fraud. Give to Mississippi and South
Corolina just what Texas has, a represen-
tative for every $4,000 votes. or give Texas
just what Mississippi and South Carolina
have, q representative for every $685. or
| 1902 votes no more and no less. This is
right. Anything else is wrong.
The discussion of this subject is now
where it can be conducted to the best
advantage of republican principles.
With something more of emphasis and
directness than any Northern paper has
employed, the Ne,os has exposed those
things that for generation have been
a reproach to republican government
1t is hopeful sign, this plain preach
ing of the law and gospel of the funda.
mental principles of this government
by one of the late Confederate states
to its erring sisters. There has beer
nothing like it since the conversion o
Saul of Tarsus, and may the results b
as beneficial.