Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1911 — NEW APPORTIONMENT [ARTICLE]

NEW APPORTIONMENT

Proposed For Legislature Would Place Jasper County In New Company. The new legislative apportionment bill as proposed in the state senate would give Jasper county new company all around. > Our present senatorial district is composed of Jasper, Newton, Starke and Pulaski counties. The proposed apportionment would place Nekton with Benton, Carroll and White; Starke with Laporte, and Jasper witfr Lake and Porter, which would leave our district as hopelessly republican as ever, with no political advantage to the other counties now composing our district. For Representative we would be tacked onto Porter county instead of White, while White and Benton -are joined. Here again, no political advantage is gained by either county, and so far as Jasper county is concerned we are better satisfied with the present apportionment than with the proposed change. It is a big undertaking, however, to make an apportionment that will be equitable and generally satisfactory and at the same time inure to the benefit of the party "making it, which latter point is usually the motive for the changes.