Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1890 — IT WILL BE THE FAULT OF THE REPUBLICANS. [ARTICLE]

IT WILL BE THE FAULT OF THE REPUBLICANS.

Ne w Albany Tribune. If the next Indiana Legislature is carried by the Democrats, it will be because Republicans permit it to be done. Do those Republicans who play the part of Achilles reflect upon the consequences of their action. A United States Senator is to be elected, but that is a very small matter, for the ifational Senate is sure of a Republican majority without one more from Indiana. A far more important thing is that if the Democrats secure the next legislature the State will be gerrymandered under the new census, both as to legislative and congressional districts as infamously as now, or more so. If possible to do so, by means of , shoe strings, ram’s horn and mule ’ shoe districts, the Democrat majority, j in emulation of Kentucky, would make but-one Republican district, and then in emulation of South Carolina and j Mississippi would steal that. The leg- ! Mature would be insured to the Democrats for the next ten years while the tremendous State debt with its vast burden of interest would continue to backs of the people. And all tills we are likely to bring upon 1 ourselves because a few petty offices were not distributed according to our notion.