Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1871 — The Infelicitous Democracy. [ARTICLE]

The Infelicitous Democracy.

.’a qp, their addreM to the people of liMinnn, the thirty-four Republican ftcprcecntativea in the legislature, r .Vho recently broke a quorum by Yceigningand going home, gave aa one of th© principal reasons In justification of that count©, that the Democratic minority of that body ha<l dented and were about topttts a bill for re-districting the State for senatorial and representative purposes, which was unjust and outrageons in the extreme. The intense partisanship of that iniquitous measure would have tnrned tho State over to the Democracy for the next fifteen or twenty years. J”, was so outrageous that although people elected a republican Governor and other State officers by twenty thousand majority and elected republican representatives to Congress they would yet be controlled by a Democratic legislature who would keep Democratic members in the United States Senate. The gross unfairness of the bill can best be illustrated by u table showing the number of population required to elect members—taking five that arc sure to elect Republicans and five that always elect Democrats, and comparing their population, as follows: Rcpub Bep. Pop. Dem. Rep Pop. RuiintM 1 26.891. Tipton 1 11,953. KWnAu 1 231*23. Fatten 1 >2.717. Elkhart 1 35,993. Welle 1 13,573. Delaware 1 25,254. Martin 1 11,089, Lute A Pcrtor 128 454. Hancock 1 75,112. Total 5 118,551. Total 5 C 4.444. From this table it will be seen that under the bill proposed by tho Democracy, in lhe districts cited above, one Democrat would have as much influence in the legislature ns two Republicans. Uinler the present apportionment n very different showing is made, as may be seen by the following tables: Reunb. Rep. Pop. Dem. Bep. Pop, Vermilion 1 10,893. Allen 1 4G, 416. Warren 1 10,207. Jackson ) . ,„ nn4 Porter J 13,038. A Brown } 1 '■ Uke 1 12,352. Dearbon 1 24,118. 1-awrence 1 14,497. Montgc mery 1 23,704. Total 5 60,86”. Total 6 122,332. This table shows that in the districts cited one Republican has aa much legislative influence as two Democrats. The principles of the Republican party always being right and tho measures advocated by it always being the best for public welfare and its candidates always being better men than those nominated by the Democratic party, no truly loyal Republican can fail to see that the present apportionment of the State is infinitely better for tho people than the iniquitous one proposed by the Democracy. No man who has the interest of Republicanism at teart can fail to see what a narrow escape the dear people have had from the imposition of a monstrously unfair measure, and all will agree that in the adoption of a loudly denounced precedent, the action of the noble thirty-four, who sacrificed personal pleasures and quitted the allurements of the capital, that public welfare might not be endangered, are entitled to, and should receive, the pl audit™ “Well done good and faithful servants.” The Golden Age is the name of Mr. Theodore Tilton’s new paper, the first mimber of which was issued on ■ ■& the 4th day of the present month. A copy has been sent us by the editor, with this request printed in the margin: ~“lf you like this paper say so; if you don’t like it say so.”— H e like it, for its independence, its lilteral views on all subjects, its literary talent, and for its winning modesty. Its prospectus is the shortest and most comprehensive we remember of ever seeing in a jnetropolitan publication. It reads: “This journal 16 devoted to the discussion of. all living questions in church, state, society, literatqre, irt, and moral reform.” It‘ it would not appear presumptive we should like to ask it for an I • ■ • ■* 1 exchange. The Rensselaer Union says: “The Democratic members, of the State Senate expelled Mr. Burson, of Delaware county, beca.use he is a Republican.” According to that then Republican is synonymous with corruption, &c. We were not prepared for such and admission, but upon reflection we remember that our cotemporary is one of the honest kind. Play.— South Bend Union. Play? Play, h—owl Play nothing! You hold all the knaves and quedns in the pack. We don’t hold anything—since the 23d. Rake down;, but don’t snatch. Give us a new deal from a new\pack. Whistle Captain Jinks. Many of the stanchest Republicans of. this comity condemn the action of those members of the legjslatuic who deserted their post. 1