Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-03-20
LA SALLE COUNTY
GETS RAW DEAL IN
REVISED STATE MAP
TREATED AS LODESTONE IN CON
GRESSlONAL REAPPoRTIoN.
MENT is HUNG UPON NECK OF
THIRTEENTH DISTRICT BY A
SILLY SENATORIAL PLAN.

I THlRTEENTH DISTRICT BY A
SILLY SENATORIAL PLAN.
With the worst possible jumbled up
/ mess Of appointments imaginable,
Adam Clifc, Of De Kalb, and his sen.
atorial committee to rearrange Hi
nois congressional map yesterday re.
ported to their colleagues, the results
Of their rcmaking the state map to
eliminate two congressman at large
and give them comfy homes in their
own sections
La Sale county, elected the lode
stone on the neck Of some political
pet looms as the one big outcast un-
der the Cliffe plan. 1t is treated so
rough the only wonder is tina. il
gots admission to any of the districts
at ALL
Cut free from the old 10th Fuller)
district, the proposed reapnortionment
t1cks la Sale county on as the tail
OF the Thirteenth consisting of the
six extreme northwestern counties
Stephenson 10 Davies, Carroll, Ogle
Whitcside, Lee The only excuse for
mailing La Sale onto the Thirteenth
is that a little gateway into the dis
trict is found thru the townships of
Mendoza and Meriden Otherwise un.
der the pending bill the county is
literally divorced geographically from
the remainder of the district
To make Fuler's going a little more
snug and coy, the old Twelfth is re-
duced to Lake McHenry. Boone and
Winnebaeo Grundy and Kendall. for.
merly of the Twelfth are gobbled up
by the Twenty-seventh district. with
VIII county as the nucleus for the re
De Kalb. another
Twelfth county, is joined with Du
Page and Kane to fill out the Twenty.
sixth district,
Untold surprise is being manifested
today with the announcement Of the
reyamp Of the states districts. which
give vent to themselves in express
sions Of wonderment that anything
was lof of the Twelfth for even Ful.
Ter to roost in. The new Twenty
seventh district. with its three coun.
les. has total population about
Equal tc La Sale cOunty's alone. The
! n .iNIb =
La Sale county if its three counties
were thrown into one pot. Yet
La Sale county is Topped OFF into
eternity to shift for itself as best it
,an with a lot Of mismates, with very
little, if anything, in common politi-
2ally. The move is apparently an
lttnmpt t. mollify and please Ira Cop.
ey Of the AurOra-Joliet district and
Chuck Fuller of the Twelfth. Cap
ey always had more or less trouble
IN the Joliet end Of his district and
Fuller always found La Sale county
not TOO much to his liking. When the
ards were played and turned face
lp Copley and Fuller both won with
he honors even
That "A fight to the last ditch against
he reapportionment by the La Sale
'ounty contingent in the legislature
goes without saying A glimpse of
my state map will show the Stiffness
md incongruity of the thing Cline and
MS crowd are trying to pawn off on
he people as fair and equitable
of territories by report
ng an impossible makeshft intended
or an equitable revamp of the state
map,
The Districts.
The official reappOrtionment as ap-
proved in committee shows the fol
owing districts outside Cook coun. {
y:
Twelfth district-Lake McHenry
Boone, Winnebago.
Thirteenth Stephenson. Jo Davies.
Carroll, Oglos, Whatesi4e, Lee, La
Sale.
Fourteenth Hancock Henderson,
NcDonough, Mercer Rock Island,
Warren.
Fifteenth-Adams, Fulton, Henry,
Knox, Schuyler
SiXteenth--Bureau, Marshall, Pc.
Dria, Putnam Stark, Tazewell
Seventeenth Ford. Livingston, Lo-
gan Mclean WOOdford
Eighteenth -Clarf Cumberland.
Edgar, Iroquois. kankakee Vermil-
ion
Nineteenth-Ch Champaign. Coles, De
witt, Douglas, Macon, Moultrie, Shell
by Piatt
Twentieth Brown, Calhoun, Cass,