Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1890 — DISFRANCHISED DEMOCRATS. [ARTICLE]

DISFRANCHISED DEMOCRATS.

It is a part of the revolutionary scheme, inaugurated by the election of Reed to the speakership, to perpetuate Republican power by congressional enactment The increase in the democratic vote of the country makes it necessary f r the Republicans to take some desperate step to prevent a tidal wave of Democratic success in tho election this year and of 1892. One method of defeating the Democrat majority of the country h-s already been disclosed in the bills prepared by speaker Reed, and introduced in both Houses by repr 6entative Wickham and senator Hoar, respectively. These bills proh bit l *tate Legislatures from changing the congressional districts as they now exist until after the apportionment under the new census shall have been made. In* every Northern state where the Republicans have held power continuously in the legislative branch for a considerable number of years Democrats have been disfranchis’d and are still disfranchised, by the gerrymander of Republican leg’filatures. "he extent of the outrage is apparent from the following figures, compiled from official data by a correspondent of the New York World:

“In the Congr* ssional election of 888 following Northern States east votes for candidates for Representatives of the twogr. at political pa .ties, as follows: Rep. Dem* States. vote vote. Connecticut,.... 74,582 74,920 California 124,816 117,729 lowa 211,588 179,889 Illinoi, 370,487 348,278 Michigan 236,370 213,459 Minnesota 142,492 104,385 Massachusetts.. 183,892 151,855 Nebraska 108,425 80,552 NewYoik 6x8,759 635,757 New Jersey.... 144,344 151,493 Ohio 416,054 396,455 Pennsylvania... 526,091 446,633 Rhode Island... 21,968 17,539 Wisconsin 176,533 155,232 Totals 3,386,399 3,074,165 The 3,386,399 Republican votes elected 125 Republican Congressmen. This was an average of not quite 26,000 votes per Congressman.

“The 3,074,165 Democratic votes elected only 47 congressman.— This was an average of 65,408 votes per congressman.” It will be observed that the states here enumerated elect 173 mem bers of congress, or ten more than a majority of the total member ship of the House. Theobjeoiof ihe Wickham-Hoar bill is to leave the situation undisturbed. It is in periect harmony with the sense of justice of that pretentious moralist Pecksniff Hoar to give 26,000 Republican voters a representative and require 65,408 ballots to be cast to secure a democratic representative. If the republicans can only perpetuate a situation which requires two and a half times as many Democrats as Republicans to elect a representative in congress the Republican leaders will feel that they have done themselves a service. But the people have got into the habit of upsetting republican schemes and they will not 1 e back - ward in asserting at the ballot box the principle of equal representation. * ■<>»■ A great wander—how a fine, all wool, 40-inch wide, in the latest spring shades, worth usually 75 cents per yard, can now be sold for 48 cents per yard. Chicago Bargain Store.

he St Louis Republic übl shea the gist of ew with a number of Kansas farmers in read to the ( o* dition of their in—du tries. Every one of them roundly denounced the protective tariff policy ts i. pa t the cause of the unprofitableness of the farming interest. Here are a couple of samples: P. Frenkhouser, oi Cowley county, said: ‘ I have v ted the Republican ticket all my life and so have my Jive eons, but never will we vote it again unless the party drop the ijfernal protective tariff. You may say to Col. Jones, editor of the Republio, thut the Republican party’s majority of 80,000 in Kansas is no more. ‘Protection has killed it.’ ” W. W. Williams, of Winfield, said: “I havel always voted the Republican ticket, but will again. It is a party pledged to the codfish aristocracy of this countiy, and it won’t do for Kansas farms s, If we must take thirteen and fifteen cents a bushel for our corn, for heaven’s sake give us a cheaper market we can buy our fabrics.— A war with ‘protection. ’ ”

A Specialty— Boots nnd Shoes of the best brands and lowest one price for cash in Jasper county. 'Chicago Bargain Store. An old rusty, but well stuffed pocket book was observed lying on the floor in Buajahn’s drug store, at Logansport, which was freely kicked by incomers, but every one was backward about examining it for fear of a sell. Finally it was opened and proved to contain S3OO in cash, belonging to Newton Donaldson . A good firsttulass spring kip boot, warranted, only $2.00. Chicago Bargain Store. E. T. Jeffrey, who has been selected as Director General of the World’s Fair if it should be located at Chicago, began his career as an office boy for the then General Manager of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, to whose position he afterwards worked hie way. His first task in that particular was jfco black his employer’s boots When twitted with having blacked boots his reply is: “Well, I blacked them well.” Just received a large new stock of men s and 1 oy6’ soft and stiff hats, best quality, in all the latest shapes and styles, and at prices below all competition. Chicago Bargain Store. A gentle spring—The first hop of a frog.