Arizona republican., 1911-12-25
HE DIDN'T LIKE THE HOLY
 JUMPERS"

We seldom raed the editorial ser mons of the Fresno Republican on week days. but in this midseason be- tween Thanksgiving and Christmas turkeys. ones taste turns oddly. at frequent intervals. to stuffing and chcstnuts-due. doubtless to some vague. conscious. mnemonic titil- lation of the glossOpharynSeal nerve
 Get that. Br'er BakerO This ac- counts for the falling foul of the fol- lowing moral essay:
 one of the things which obstructS 1sicD a calm consideration Of the ap- portionment muddle in the legislature is just that spirit of contempt by the city for the codntry expressed by the san Francisco Examiner yesterday in the phrase 'cowhide caucus applied to the combine of country members. This Iarticular phrase may have been the mere invention oc some smart boy on the Examiners staff. but 1t was ait tributcd to the city members. and it expresses a spirit oi which they have often been accused. It is not the spir- it by which they can get the rights
 
 turc in which the 'cowhide caucus has the majority of the votes. The fact is that the rights of the cities in tLiS apportionment are based wholly on their population and not at all on the superiority. intellectual. moral or social. of the men the cities send to the legislature Leaving out of con sidcration the present legislature, in which the cities are singularly forum ate. every person who has long ob served legislatures knows that it has usually been the task of the country members to protect the state including the cities themselves. against the gov ernmental consequences of the sort of representation the cities had provided for themselves
 Now. there you have the holy-jump- ing doctrine of political righteousness in all its ugly. naked meanncss and dishonesty Consider. There is un- der discussion in the legislature a most dishonest proposal to cheat the voters in the city of San Francisco out of their fair. legal, constitutional rights by reducing their proportiOnate rep resentation. In other words, it is pro- posed to make the vote of d citizen living in Fresno or in Stockton. or in a smaller place. count more than the vote of citizen living in san Fran cisco pr Oakland or Los Angeles. It iS a plain theft of the political rights of thousands of voters and it has no excuse in morals or in decent politics. It is precisely such a mean and shame ful trick as the old political gang used to put up on the state The man who will promote or excuse such dishon- esty in politics is a political crook. Stripped of tedious verbiage. the argu- inert is this:
 First-The san Francisco Examiner speaks cOntemptuOusfy of the country therefore. the country are eXcusable if they deprive the citizens of San Francisco of their fair representation in the state i 
 Second-The representatives sent by l San Francisco in the past have been | inferior in ability and in morality to l the country delegations; therefore. ci- tizenS of san Francisco have no right | to complain if they are deprived of | fair representation in the state legis- lature.
 Third-And then this absurd com ment: The fact is that tine rights uf [ rities under the apportionment are ! based wholly on their population and