The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-06-20

favorable to your party; we DO
not expect you to tell your read
ers that the republican from Har-
per county will only represent
800 people while the democrat
from Latimer county will repre-
sent 10000; the republican from
Custer county will only represent
| 1915, and the democrat from
Love $4,000; the republican from
| Ottawa 1900 and the Democrat
from McClain 5000; the repub-
lican from Washington $4,000
and the democrat from Okmul-
gee $4,000; The Republican from
| Beaver 1900 and the democrat
from Sequoyah $4,000. We do
not expect you to tell them that
! Congress gerrymandered the
congressional districts in such
way that the democrats may car
ry the state by 100000 and the
republicans will carry three out
of five congressman; that in or
der to make the Second district
republican Gas they thought, but
we will show them) they had to
pull it and stretch it and stretch
it and pull it until it reaches all
the way from the greasers Of
New Mexico to the mosback dem
ocrats OF Arkansas. We do not
expect you to tell them that Bird.
lie carved out for him self a little
district that is overwhelmingly
republican and contains only
l224, 900 people, while they made
two democratic districts-ths
Fifth containing $4,000 people
and the Fourth containing 306,-
900 ipeople. We do not expect
, you TO tell them that when Teddy
Roosevelt was in the New York
legislature the republicans ger
rymandered that state in such a
manner that the democrats may
carry the state by 100000 and the
republicans will still control the
legislature. We do not expect
you TO tell them that the repub-
O lican legislature of Oklahoma in
1901 gerrymandered our territory
q in a way that is ten times worse
than under the proposed consti-
tuition.
Let us investigate a little,
Frank: Suppose that Governor
I Frantz should call the present
Legislature in special session, how
would the counties be represent
= ed?
= Democratic Pottawatomie, with
a population of $4,000 has one
4 representative, and republican
: Woods, about the same popula-
8 ton has two; the republican from
Custer would represent 1912
v people and the democrat from
n Greer 40, 900; the republican from
u Blaine represents $4,000 and the
q democrat from Comanche 81 600;
t tho republican from Grant 49,
@ 500 and the democrat from Okla
It homa 55, 90; the republican from
II Kingfsher $4,000 and the dem
% oorat from Roger Mills and Day
81 900, Now let US lnok at som,
IS of the senatorial districts: Th'
y republican from the First dis
trict, Kay and Noble, representa-
Ie 49, 900 people, and the democra
IF from the Fifth, Pottawatomie anC
in Cleveland, 60, 900; the republican
d from the Ninth, Custer and Blain
{. 34,162 and the democrat from
i. the Thirteenth, Greer, Roge
g. Mills and Day, 76,500
/. No, Frank, don't talk abou
a gerrymander. Remember tn,
,e maxim says: "He who seek
IL equity must do equity" He VIII,
Il comes into a court of equity mus
te come with clean hands, and yer
" lily the hands of the republican
,e party ere as black as the hand
le OF any nigger in Guthrie.
ne No, Frank, do not overdo it
le We are your friend and want t,
le caution you. We expect you h