Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1910 — CANNOT BE UNFAIR. [ARTICLE]

CANNOT BE UNFAIR.

Political Parties Restrained By Court in Unjust Reapportionment. It is impossible in Indiana for the Genera] Assembly to make an unjust appointment for Legislative or Congressional purposes. This Is acknowledged to be a fact by all fairminded men, and is clearly shown by Judge Charles E. Cox, of Indianapolis. Democratic candidate for the Supreme bench. "The Republicans are making much ado by word of mouth and through newspapers over the fear that the election of a Democratic General Assembly would bring aboat the enactment of legislative and congressional apportionments so unfair that the Republicans could never again elect a majority of the Legislature or more than one Congressman, and the attempt is made by this bogey to hold their broken ranks together,” said Judge Cox. “That the people do not let an unfair apportionment stand in the way always is evident from the fact that the Democrats carried a majority in the last General Assembly and eleven of the thirteen Congressmen under Republican apportionments not wholly fair. “It is true that the duty Will devolve upon the next General Assembly of making a reapportionment for Legislative purposes and probably for Congressional purposes. But it is also true that it has been settled in Indiana that grossly unfair apportionments cannot stand. The courts stand between such a purpose and its accomplishment and it must be remembered, incidentally that as we elect but two Supreme Judges this year that court, will still have a majority of Republican judges on it if it needs such assurance, although Democratic judges have united with Republican judges in holding grossly unfair apportionment acts invalid.