The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1901-02-20
M ORE RE pp on 81 ION MEN
The Fight is Being Carried q
NTH Renewed Vigor.

The Fight IS Being Carried on
With Renewed Nigor
Reapp ionment IS Still the all
absorbing question of the present
session Of the legis stature, and it IS
probable that this week will Wit
mess the beginning ofoneof the liveli-
estfghts over redistric citing that has
ever been Witnessed IN this State.
The redistricting Of the Second,
Third and Seventh will be the battle.
grounds. 4ss
The first district will consist Of
Wabasha. Steel, Dodge, Olmstead.
Winona, Houston, Fillmore, Mower.
and Freeborn counties. he Fourth
district will consist of Ramsey and
Washington counties. The Fifth
district will consist Of a portion Of
the city of Minneapolis and Henne
pin county or all Of the city OF Min
neapolis, leaving the county, OUT
| side Of the city, to be placed IN
another district. The eighth dis
trict will consist of the counties Of
Anoka, Chisago, Isanti, Mile Lacs,.
Kanabec. Pine, Carlton, Aitkin,
Itasca, st. Louis, Lake and Cook.
| The ninth district will consist of
Beltrami. Marshall, Kittson, Roseau,
Red Lake, Polk, Norman, Clay,
Becker, Wilkin and Otter Tail coun-
tiles.
The other districts will be affect
1 ed by the battle now being Waged.
The second district forms the bone
of contention. The friends of Rep
resentative McCleary, backed up by
that gentleman personally, who is
using the wires to carry out his
plan, want the second district to be
composed of Blue Earth, Faribault,
Brown, Walton wan, Martin, jack
son, CottonW wood, Mobiles, Murray,
Rock and Pipestone counties, al pro-
posed district which there is not
! the least doubt but what will be
dominated by Blue Earth county
for all time to come. These Blue
Earth county politicians would
place Nicollet over in the third, and
would make Redwood, Lincoln and
/ Lyon the southern boundary Of a
new seventh district to be com
posed, in addition to the three, coun-
ties named, of Lac qui Parle, Chip
l.pewa, Renville, Kandiyohi, Swift,
Big Stone, Traverse, Grant, Stew
ems and Pope counties. In this the
Blue Earth county men are receiv-
ing some aid from some Of the poll
ticians living in the central portion
of the proposed new district some
iiof them seeing a good opportunity.
Ito squeeze Representative Frank
N. Eddy Of the present seventh dis
trict. and receive the. Congressional
nomination. Among these proposed
candidates is Speaker Bowling,
Representative Jacobson, Lieut..
Gov. Smith and Senator Ed. Young,
| all Of them claiming a rather CEN
trail residence. The cutting out Of.
Douglas county from this district
and placing it over into the new
sixth known as the j D. Jones
district, is a direct slap at Repre-
sentative Eddy, who, at one time
taught school in Redwood county,
and where he would have some
friends in case the districts shaped
out according to the Blue Earth
county idea, and Mr.. Eddy should
decide upon being a candidate for
denomination.
i At the present time the men of
the secord and first districts who
have the reapportionment idea up
permost in their minds, propose
cutting Blue Earth out Of the sec
ond, Waseea out Of the. third, pos
sibly Nicolletout Of the second and
pushing them up in the third dis
trict to be composed Of, aside from
the above named counties, the coun-
ties of LeSueur, Carver, Scott, Rice,
Goodhue and Dakota, and possibly a
portion Of Hennepin. They argue
that these counties are nearly all
about the same size in population,
and that it would be no more than