The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-19
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
Close Figuring to Get a POpu-
list Representative
Out of Shawnee in the Legisla-
tive AppOrtiOnment.
First and Second Wards Placed With
Tecumseh and Oakland to Do It

The house and senate has agreed up
on the proposed legislative apportion-
ment. The senate has charge of the
senatorial apportionment, the house the
representative district apportionment
Each body has agreed to pass both of
the bills.
The most important changes attach
Haskell to Gray county, Stevens to
Grant, Seward to Meade, Morton to-
Stevens.
This loses three representatives, as
Morton county sends only a delegate.
jackson county is made one representa-
tive district, making a total loss of four
representatives.
This discrepancy is disposed of by
giving Marshall, Franklin and Mont
gomery and Butler counties an addi-
each.
The other districts remain practically
unchanged, except as to numbers.
Shawnee county will experience rad
zeal changes which had been anticipa ted
by the Republicans. The new numbers
VIII be Thirty seven, Thirty-eight and
Thirty-nine
The new Thirty-seventh will comprise
Soldier, Menoken, Silver Lake, Ross
vile, Dover, Mission, Auburn, Williams
port, Monmouth, Highland Park, Shun-
ganunga and Potwin. This includes ev-
cry precinct in the county outside the
city except Tecumseh and Oakland.
A more heterogeneous district could
AlOl O6 Invented Inc interests of north
ern shawnee are widely different and
always have been from those of south
ern Shawnee. There will likely be per
petual political warfare between the two
sections.
The Thirty-eighth will be Tecumseh.
Oakland and the First and Second
wards of the city
The Thirty-ninth will contain the
Third, Fourth and Fifth wards
The Thirty fifth now represented nv
Mr.. Brooke, includes all the territory
north of the river.
The Thirty-s sixth now comprises the
second, Third and Fourth wards now
represented by McKeever
me Inlrty-seVenth as it now exists
1ncIudes the territory south of the river
inner --'t-
The change will, however. make the
tnree districts within 300 votes of the
In the territory Including tho na,r
Thirty-seventh the total vote most re-
Gently recorded is as follows: Ren11h-
hcan, 2,175; Populist, 1,498; Republican
majority, 697.
In the new Thirty-eighth the POM
lists expect to elect a representative at
the next election. In this district Mr.
Larimer says: THE change is a ger
t t ana direct effort in the in
terests of whisky" The Populists do
not share this opinion, but assert that
the changes are entirely just
The vote at the last election in what
VIII constitute the Thirty-eighth dis
trlct at the last election was as fol-
lows:
Oakland-Republican 1874; Populists,
experimentation 100; Popu-
First neutrality-suspicious. IA; Pop
Second neutrality-suspicious., S72; Pop
ulists 1,137
This gives the Populists a clear ma
1ority of 1O2 in the district, which shows
a total vote as follows: Republicans.
1910; Populists, 2O42 This fragile
majority waivers about so much how
ever that there is no counting on it.
In the new Thirty ninth the Republi
cans, by the vote cast at the last cleo
is: Republicans, 2,151: Populists. 11eS
Republican majority 953
Mr.. McKeever says the new district