Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1889 — How the Republicans Control New York. [ARTICLE]

How the Republicans Control New York.

Some Republican Senator of an inquiring turn of mind—Bill Chandler, for in-stance-ought to direct the attention of the Senate and the country to the fact that Republican control of the United States Senate is due to the suppression of the Democratic votes iu the State of New York. This is not done avowedly, the form of a free vote being kept up, but it is done as effectively as it would be if there were a law on the statute book of New York, put there by Republican legislators, declaring that in legislative olectious oue Republican vote should count ns much as two Democratic votes. Republican Legislature lifter Republic m Legislatuie has persi-tently refused to order an enumeration of the inhabitants of the State of New York, though required by the Constitution so to do, and Democratic counties are deprived of their proportional strength in the Senate and tho Assembly. At the late election there were four Assembly districts in New York and Kings Counties which cast an aggregate of about 88,000 votes. Seven interior counties, with a smaller aggregate vote, elected thirteen Assemblymen, so that the voting power iu the latter c ise was three-fold what it was in the former. This is the Republican method of controlling the New York Legislutu.e.—Detroit Free Press.