The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-21
SENATORIAL DISTRICTS
FOLLOWERS OF THE UPPER BRANCH
HAVE CHANGED CONSTITUENCIES.
New Districts the Old Statesmen VIII
Observation-Disclosures of the Com
plexion of the Senate.

severally represent The work of ascertain
ing these holdover districts and of deter
mining which districts shall elect this fall
is confusing to the average citizen, but
]. w. Egnew, assistant secretary of the last
session, has been devoting some attention
to the subject. According to his calcula-
tons the districts that will elect this fall,
together with the political complexion of
each, based on the vote cast in 1886, are
as follows:
Posey and Gibson, Republican.
Vanderburg, Warrick and Pike, Repub-
licall.
Spencer, Perry and Crawford, Republican.
Dubois and Daviess, Democratic.
Washington and Jackson. Democratic.
jefferson, Ripley and Switzerland, Repub-
lican.
Franklin. Dearborn and Ohio, Democratic.
Bartholomew and Decatur, Republican.
Greene. Monroe and Brown, Democratic,
by one vote.
lican.
Knox and Sullivan, Democratic.
vigo, Pike and Vermillion, Republican
Madison, Hancock and Rush. Republican.
Wayne, Republican.
Randolph and Jay, Republican.
Grant, Republican.
Grant, Blackford and Wells, Republican.
Allen, Democratic.
Allen and Adams, Democratic.
Huntington and Whitley, Republican.
Miami and Howard, Republican.
Tippecanoe, Republican.
Cass and Pulaski, Democratic.
Lake and Porter, Republican.
St. Joseph, Republican.
Marion, one senator, Republican.
In this list of twenty six districts, eight
cen of which are Republican and eight Dem
ocratic, the district of Allen-Adams, which
is properly holdover district, is given Cor
the reason that it must hold an election this
fall to select a successor to fill the unex-
pired term of Louis j. Bobilya, of Fort
Wayne, the only holdover senator who has
resigned. There is still another district
that may hold an election this fall and that
is the LagTange-Noble district, but II is
holdover district and if it is decided that it
have no representative it will be because
of the fact that its senator has either re-
signed or been apportioned out OF the dis
tnct.
The holdover senators. together with the
district that elected each and the new dis
trict each will represent next year are as
follows
Walter L. Ball. Republicans; elected by
Delaware and Randolph; will represent
James A. Campbell Democrat; elected by
Clinton, Boone and Montgomery; will repre-
sent Clinton and Carroll.
Charles p. Drummond, Democrat; elected
by Marshall and Fulton; will represent
Marshall and Kosciusko
Jacob d. Early, Democrat; elected by
Vigo; will represent the same district.
Joseph c. Gochenour, Republican, elected
by Kosciusko and Wabash; will represent
William b. Gill, Democrat; elected by
Boone, Clinton and Montgomery; will repre-
sent Putnam and Montgomery.
Charles $. Goar, Republican; elected by
Upton, and Hamilton: will represent the
same district
Fremont Goodwine, Republican; elected
by Fountain ard Warren; will represent
Fountain, Warren and Benton.
Frank A. Horner, Democrat; elected by
Clay. and Owen; will represent the same
Enoch c. Hogate, Republican: elected by
Hendricks and Putnam will represent Hen
o. Y. Hubbell, Republican; elected by
Elkhart; will represent the same district.
X .. HaWkins. republican lie, elected BY
Marion and Morgan.
Martin NJ. Hugg. Republican, elected by
Marion; will be one of the three Marion
Lafayette johnson, Republican; elected by
Grant and Madison; will represent Madison
alone.
August LEIGH, Republican; elected by
Vanderburg; no change in the district.
Leonidas p. Newly. Republican; elected
by Henry and Fayette; will represent
Henry Fayette and Union.
Harry s.. New, Republican; elected by
Marion; viii represent the same o,oot
by Carroll, Pulaski and White; will repre-
sent White, Newton and Jasper,
w. e. Patten, Democrat; elected by Floyd
and Washington; viii represent Floyd and
Harrison.
Uriah culbert Republican: elected by
Laporte; will represent Laporte and Starke.
Joseph III. Shea, Democrat: elected by
Clark, Jennings and Scott no change in
the district
Everett E. Stroup. Democrat; elected by
Decatur and Shelby; will represent Shelby
and Johnson.
This list gives twenty-five holdovers, of
whom nine are Democrats and thirteen are
Republicans. Louis ]. Bobilya, Democrat,
of Fort Wayne, who has resigned, made
two are Newton W. Gilbert, Republican;
and William H. Nusbaum, Democrat. The
former was elected from Steuben and
Lagrange and the latter from De Kalb and
Noble The reapportionment throws both in
the same district the De Kalb-Steuben dis
trict, and leaves Lagrange and Noble with
out resident representative.