Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-22
OPPOSE NEW PLAN
oTTuMwANs OPPOSED TO PRO.
POSED CHANGE IN CON-
GREssloNAL DISTRICTS.

personally am opposed to the pro-
posed plan of redistricting the state of
Iowa as called for in the bill present
ed to the state legislature last week
by Senator Crossley," said County
Auditor Harry Hammond, republican
county chairman for Wapello county
The same opinion was expressed today
by number of the local politicians
and in every case practically the same
reason and argument against the pro-
posed changing of the congressional
districts of the state were advanced.
my objection" continued Mr.. Ham
mond, "is that under the new plan we
will be taken from district in which
Wapello is predominating county and
be placed in district from the very
arrangement Of which we can not play
other than minor part l, of course,
would like to see Judge Wade, the one
lone democratic congressman which
| Iowa has at Washington, so situated
that any strength that he may possi-
bly, have would be harmless and his
place assured to republican as soon
as his term is ont, but personally i
lfeel THAT the sacrifices for lWapelIo
county under the present ntproposed plan
| for accomplishing this, is entirely too
great" +
Would Be With Des Moines.
1--WE do not want to get into dis.
trict with Des Moines," said another
prominent politician. "Des Moines
| is too big for us and the proposed plan
tacks Wapello and Monroe off on a
corner of the district of which Polk,
Warren, Marion and Lucas form the
nucleus 1t will be bad change for
Wapello and l am not at all in favor
of it,
Several prominent republicans inter-
viewed preferred to have the districts
left as they are at present. None fav-
ored changes in the sixth. Some be-
lieyed that some minor changes might
1 be made that would help matters some
what in the second but the majority
believed that the second would be able
to take care Of itself under ordinary
conditions and believed that the best
thing to do was to let we'll enough
alone.
All were agreed that under the pro
| posed change which would throw Con
gressman Lacey in a new sixth district
as an opponent to Judge Wade, that the
result in that one instance would be
eminently satisfactory to the republi-
can party at the polls. Under the pro-
posed plan Wapello would be in the
seventh district.
The Proposed Districts.
Under the new plan the counties
would be divided up into the eleven
districts as follows:
/ First-Muscatine Louisa, Washing.
ton. Keolluk, Jefferson, Henry, Des
Moines, Lee, Van Buren,.
| Second-Benton, Linn, Jones, Cedar
Clinton, Scott.
Third-Butler, Hardin, Grundy
I Blackhawk, Buchanan, Delaware, Du
|buque, Jackson.
Winnebago, Worth, Mitch
ell, Howard, Winneshiek, Alamakee
Floyd, Chickasaw, Bremen, Fayette
Clayton.
| h-Emmet, PABLO Alto, Kossuth
Humboldt Cerro Gordo, Pocahontas
Hancock, Wright, Franklin, Webster
Hamilton.
Sixty-Story, Marshall, Tama, Jas
per, Poweshiek, Iowa, Johnson, Mahas
ka.
Seventh-Polk, Warren, Marion, Lu
cas-, Monroe, Wapello.
Eighth--Adams, Union, Clarke, Ere
mont, Page, Taylor, Ringgold, Decatur
Wayne, Appanoose, Davis.
Ninth-Harrison Shelby, Audubon
Pottawattamie, Cass, Adair, Madison
Mills, Montgomery.
i Tenth-Ida, Sac, Calhoun, Monona
Crawford, Carroll, Greene, Boone, ,Guth
rie, Dallas.
(. Eleventh-Lyon, Osceola, Dickinson
Sioux, O'Brien, Clay, Plymouth, Chero
kee, Buena Vista, Woodbury..