The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-09-21
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION

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| per equality between them in respect
to the number of the inhabitants there
in. The maximum number of districts
allowed by the constitution has been
adopted. How has the provision in
regard to equality as to the number of
inhabitants been followed?
The maximum number of districts al
lowed by the constitution has been
adopted How has the provision in re-
gard to equality as to the number of
inhabitants been followed? In 1890 the
population of the town of New Haven
was S6,045 and was allotted one senator,
while the same county, the sixth dis
trict, with $3.50 inhabitants. the sew
enth district with 40o44 inhabitants,
and the fifth district with 43,999 inhabi-
tants, and the fifth district with 1899
inhabitants, We're each given one sena-
tor BY the positive command of the
constitution New Haven was entitled to
two senators for the past ten years,
and when the bosses who rule the re-
publican party decreed otherwise, and
the members of that party In the legis-
lative halls followed that dictaton, it
WAS d W1llIul anu uGllDbTdle NIOldtIDH
of their oaths.
At the coming session of the general
assembly there must be a reapportion-
ment of the senatorial districts
throughout the state, and it behooves
every lover of honesty and fair play
and exact Justice to all men, to see that
those who are sent to sit In that body
will not again sully the good name of
the commonwealth by such Ubiquitous
laws.
Our political opponents, or rather
those who wish to rule that party, OPP
pose a revision of our constitution, so
that the evils which exist Hereunder in
our representative system may be REM
edied, because of the antiquity Of that
system, and the claim that there is
something sacred about territory that
it should govern, and not the people.
The principle advocated that acres and
not brains should be the basis of rep
resentation on the soil of a republic
has been diSowned and cast aside by
nearly every state in the union.
There is another subject which deep
ly concerns the citizens of the state
and that Is there should be an amend
ment to the constitution of the state so
that the officers of the state shall be
elected by a plurality vote. If such a
change is made we will but be revert
ing to the rule laid down by the people
of the colony two hundred and sixty
two years ago, that he who had the
greatest number Of votes should be !
chosen. With every other officer. coun-
ty, city, borough, town, senatorial or |
congressional, elected by a plurality of |
votes, no reasonable argument can be |
advanced why our state officers should |
be selected in different manner. For |
ty-five years ago Massachusetts by an |
amendment of it's organic law abolished |
the majority provision, and provided |
that the person having the highest |
number of votes should be deemed to
be and declared to be elected
Here are state issues which are
sought to be remedied by the demo-
cratic party, and it's position in relation
to them should mass together in one
solid phalanx the entire people of the
state beneath its banner. Our little
state has won world wide renown by
its foremost advocacy of freedom in
every form, and no clique or clan shall
be allowed to dim the luStre of its
fame The large mass of the people of
the state do not countenance wrong or
and it is only when the ex-
preston of the will of the people is
thWarted that wrong exists. BY a
unanimous vote of the convention of
in the city of New Haven
the delegates were INSTRUCTED to de-
mand in the state convention of the
party a change in the mode of repre-
of the towns. The resolution
was offered in accordance with that