The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-18
MAP OF THE GERRYMANDER
SEEN IN IT'S GLORY IN NEW CON-
GRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
The Democratic states tho worst
Offenders. as shown by the Diagram
OF Congress Districts - Votes Got
IN Curious and Wsuderful shapes.

Offenders. as shown by the Diagram
OF Congress Districts - Votes Got
IN Curious and Wsuderfui shapes.
WASHINGTON March 1.-THE second
edition Of the Congressional Directory for
the present special session OF the Senate
contains a new feature that 10 attracting
some attention. 1t is a diagram Of each
state, with the boundaries Of the Congress-
districts heavily marked. These lines are
fearfully and wonderfully drawn, in some
States resembling Chinese puzzle.
The gay gerrymander Ii seen in all it's
glory. The Democratic States arc the
worst offenders. Some Of them show
districts whose boundaries appear to have
been drawn by drunken man In the dark.
Alabama, Missouri. Arkansas. Texas and
Georgia have shining examples.
E,rtucky's districts are dizzy in the
.Ntrene, but inasmuch as there il hardly
= county in that State with rectan gular
boundaries. the makeup is excusable and
may not represent much gerrymandering.
Alabama, the first on the list, is perha pa
tho worst Of the lot in showing the trail Of
the gerrymander. Tho Fourth. Seventh
and Ninth districts are shocking. The
Fourth, represented by the Hon. Sydney
Johnston DOWlc oi hunlctO0s ndB tnS Out-
lines Of a corkscrew or broken bottle.
The Seventh. represented by the Hon.
John lawson Burnett Of Gadsden resem-
bes an Indian warclub or an old wrinkled
boot 1t runs clear across the State. but
on jagged and uncertain lines, taking In one
county on the west and five on the east.
The Ninth district il represented by the
Hon. Oscar W. Underwood, whose voice
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is in the heart of the State, but the heart
sppears TO suffer from spasms. Two ragged
forks Of lightning. beginning In Blount
county and striking southwest wardly
through Jefferson, Bib and Perry counties,
uniting in little jog near Dallas county,
constitute the confines Of this remarkable
hailiwick.
The Sixth Arkansas district is another
ronstrosity. 1t h shaped much like q
weasel, though viewed from another per-
spective it In backed like whale. On the
northern edge h a funny. dizzy little edge
rosembling a fine tooth comb. Near this
comb. to the eastward, is jutting line,
like chimney. running up into another
district comprising Lonoke county, which
furnishes the Representative. the Hon.
Joe T. Robinson. This is Mr.. Robinson's
PHEASANT fact that his vote was the largest
received by any Democrat. and that of his
opponent, W. n. Carpenter, the smallest
rcceived by any Republican.
Charles Lafayette Bartlett OF the Sixth
Georgia boasts of district shaped like a
teapot. Henry county Ia the handle and
Baldwin county the spout. Epson and
Bhb are the counties supporting this in
teresting pot, which poured out 1 ,522 votes
for MIR. Bartlett, and not q single vote for
anybody, else, Republican or Democrat.
The snout Of this teapot projects into
the bowels of the Tenth Georgia district,
represented by the Hon. Thomas William
Hsrdwick Of Sandersyille. II q Yale key
ably hattened. h would give a general out
line of the Tenth district. Yet the Hon.
Thomas William Hardwick managed to
strike the keynote in that district to the
tune Of 2.o7s votes, and to lock out all
The famous sMonkey-wrench" district
in Iowa n shown in the book. This IL the
Third district. formerly rspresented by the
time Speaker Of the House. The handle
OF the wrench Ia In Dubuque, handy TO the
Speaker, and the jaws are out In Hardin and
Blackhawk counties
Two districts In Missouri arrest the at
tention and arouse the awe Of theobserver
These are the Seventh. represented by Court
ney Walker Hamiin Of Springfield. and the
Fourteenth, represented by Willard Duncan
Nandiver. OF Cape Girardeau.
The Seventh district may he Q hammer in
shape, but Is more like gigantic letter T.
and vet IL might be described AZ something
else. II begins In q modest way down in
The southern part OF the state. runs without
attracting much attention through Hick-
ory, Psttis.. Benton and Saline counties.
and then suddenly bursts out In both drec-
lions and takes in Lafayette and Howard
counties, east and west.
The Fourteenth district. gliding along
The southern end Of the state, resembles
az eel with its head squashed In by soms
'ightful cat astrophe. The els tail IN In
CHRISTIAN and fancy and Ozark counti@s.
sud is head Ia rsmm@d down In Dunklin.
F@inl-cot and New Madrid counties. Both
II these wonderful districts gave fat re-
'd-ns 70 the distinguished Democrats rep
re-anilng them.
s'uking originality Wa. shown by the
trainers ~ the sixth district of TenAs.
l'st state. hat the Sixth l,sars "a the palm.
u - SHAPED like the lettef X, or like q tightly
a'@d cf-e' The Hon. hcost Field of Csi-
80 represents this district. Ne -ays,
IN ~ autobiography, that he vas nomins'sd
Is'moysrs. ard elec,sd 20 the Fii,y-~lshsh
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