The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-09-12
DEMOCRATIC PLAN
TO GERRYMANDER
NEW YORK
District Lines Will Be Changed
by Dominant Party
TO UPSET REPUBLICANS
viii Also Try to Corral Republican
Leaders So As to Cause
Friction

New York, Sept 1.-THE legisla-
tive Reapportionment Committee,
headed by Senator James j. Frawley,
went to work with a will yesterday
at its task of carving out six new
Congress districts in this State, all de-
signed to be safely democratic. 1t
has already been agreed by the lieu
tenants OF Tammany Leader Murphy,
who will dominate the councils of the
Reapportionment committee, as he
does those Of the legislature, that all
the new districts allotted to this state
by congress shall be located in this
city, where it will be easy to make
them right" from a Tammany point
of view
The committee so far has not touch
ed New York City. so far as the actu-
al mapping out of districts is concern
ed. The members decided TO tackle
the upstate districts first. where some
shifting will be done. The Democrats
are DESTROYS OF creating, in territory
which in years past has shown Itself
strongly Republican, at least one ad
ditional Democratic district and Ia
make as much trouble as possible by
shifting the district lines so as t.
put two or more Republican bosses OF
aspirants for congress nominations OF
denominations into the same congress
district This is on the we'll known
and well established theory in politics
that two bosses cannot occupy the
same throne simultaneously, any more
than two bodies can occupy the same
space at the same time, and that the
more Republican bosses crowded int
one district the merrier-from the
Democratic point Of view.
| Senator Frawley in discussing tn,
Injecting held by the committee at II!
headquarters, in the Hotel Knicker
booker, yesterday afternoon, said tina
1t had consisted largely of good inten
tons. willingness to work, and a 10
OF talk Today, according TO Senator
Frawley, FIVE or six different plans
will be submitted 10 the congress dis
trict carvers. Out OF these the lattel
hope to be able TO evolve one tina
will stand the light of day and ye
meet the approval OF Boss Murphy.
Il think everybody will be satisfied
when our reapportionment plan /:
made public" said Senator Frawley
I'VE are trying our best to make 9
fair and honest reapportionment.
think everybody is agreed, practically
that the six new districts should &c
to this city, where the increase in pop
lulation has occurred And in map
ping out the districts in this city VIZ
are trying as nearly as possible tC
make the boundaries run in a straight
line clear across Manhattan Island
Nothing could be fairer than that.
The straight-line and clear-across
the-map districts in Manhattan will
OF course, all be south OF Central
Park. The park will serve as bar
rier north OF Fifty-ninth street. II
was reluctantly admitted yesterday
by some OF the Democratic members
of the Reapportionment committee
that there would be two Congress dis
tricts almost safely Republican on the
west side in Manhattan.
The Bronx today is one Congress
district, the largest in the United
States in the point of population. A
piece will be chopped of the Bronx
and patch of Westchester with sew
eral little communities in which the
Democrats are doing we'll will be an
nexed TO make an additional Demo
cratic district there. Part of the S5th
ASSEMBLY district, which has shown
sickening tendencies to turn Repub
lican in recent years, will be segrega
ted and added to the Washington
Heights district, which is looked up
on as Republican beyond cure.
In Brooklyn Il is planned to create
two new districts. II John II. Nc
Cooey, the Democratic leader In Kings
has his way these districts Will be
laid on the Democratic water front
from Grecnpolnt TO Coney Island. IN
order to make some mischief In the
Republican ranks 1t is planned "a
bunch two progressive leaders, Con
gressman William NJ. Calder and Ma
val Officer Kracke In the same con
gress district. Both are anxious te
be the biggest figure In Kings county
Republican politics, now that Timothy
l.. Woodruff is giving his undivided al
tentlpn, TO the real estate business
They are said to be none too friendly
now. although both are classed az
progresslves, and Il Is expected thal
| the reapportionment arrangement
which the Democratic reapporuonist'
are brooding over will not tend t'
Improve their relations. The Dor
ough OF Richmond Ia to be LETT as a
present-a portion Of the Congress
district represented by Congressman
Daniel ]. Rlordan of the Eighth dis
ltrict.
IL was said at the Hotel knicker
lbocker last night by member OF TN
lrommittee that little or no progress
had been made in the shifting abou
of the upstate districts as yet. Tn
democratic district Il Is hoped to ere
ate upstate will probably be carve
Tout so as to include the Counties Q
lDutchess. Columbia, Greene, and U
lster. which are situated, two on eitl
or side Of the Hudson, just south 9
Albany. Columbia County for man
years was the political stronghold {
} Marshal Lou" Payn and is regarde
a. safely Republican, but the oths
three counties at present are repre-
. lepted by Democrats In the Sena'
and have a partly Democratic repre-
-at.tton In the lower house as wei