Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1895 — THE NEW TENTH DISTRICT. [ARTICLE]

THE NEW TENTH DISTRICT.

The new Tenth District as it will be when the new apportionment bill becomes a law is composed of nine counties. Their

names,! population and square miles of area, are as follows: —. Sq Milen 4 Population 8ent0n.......... 503 11,896 Jasper .....570 11,177 Lake.. 500 . 23,849 Newton., 400 8,789 Porter? 510 18,208 Tippecanoe 500 35,116 Warren......... 360 10,931 White 500 15,660 The largest cities in the district in their order,. are, Lafayette, 16,243; Michigan City, LaPorte Co., 10,776; LaPorte, 7,126; “Ham-mond,-5,428; Valparaißo,s,o9o. The figures being those of the census of 1890. Rensselaer is the very hub of this new district. It is almost the exact geographical center of the district. This point being,- to speak exactly, about half a mile north and a mile east of town. It is also, to all intents, the center of population of the district. The line dividing the population running east and west would actually strike some part of the town. The north and south line would be a few miles east, somewhere in Hanging Grove tp. In general average of accessibility for the whole district, Rensselaer is far ahead of any other county seat in the district, and is therefore the town that ought to come in for the most of the district conventions. Jasper and Newton are the connecting link between the north part and the south part of the district, In the north part are Lake, Porter and LaPorte. In the sofith part are Tippecanoe, Benton, White and Warren. These north and south parts are almostexactly equal in population and political strength. Therefore whenever, as must often happen, the north and the south are arrayed against each other, Jasper and Newton will hold the balance of power, and can swing things whichever way they will, if they will work together. This new Tenth district, as it happens, will have two Congressmen. Mr. Hatch, of Newton Co., in the present Tenth, and Mr Hanley, of Warren Co., m the present Ninth district.