Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1878 — RE-DISTRICTING THE STATE. [ARTICLE]

RE-DISTRICTING THE STATE.

It will be well for republicans to remember that under section 5, article 4, of the constitution of Indiana, it wHI be incumbent upon our legislature at its ensuing session to re-dis-trict the state into senatorial and representative districts. That is to.’say, re-apportion tlie number of senators and representatives among the several counties in the state. The importance of this wortc will be readily appreciated when we see how easily the party having the majority may manipulate such apportionment so as to place the state entirely under their own control for many years to come. The importance of this issue should not be underestimated. When we take history as

our guide, it will not be. difficult to perceive that to elect a legislature with the controlling power in the hands of the Pseudodox democracy, means to turn the state over to that faction, withoutany hope of redemption for six, and may be, twenty years to come. Our congressional apportionment may tie, and if the so-called democracy can get the control of our legislative assembly, will be, without the least shadow of doubt, manipulated in the same manner. Through our legislature we ulso choose thelndividual to represent the stiite in the senate of the United States; therefore, do the individuals we elect to represent us in ourown legislative assembly determine for us not only matters of local interest to us as a state, but also by whom we shall be represented in the national senate anti bouse of representatives. It is therefore advisable for the true patriot In casting his vote at the October election to pender well and see to it that the man for whom he casts his vote shall well and truly reflect the sentiments of the.Joyal,the true, the intelligent, the progressive element of the people; see to it that the man to whom he entrusts this very important.charge is one who has in the past stood up for maintaining the country and the national honor in Its fullest integrity; see to it that this trust which may be so easily abused is not placed in the hands of demagogic schemers, disunionists, repudiation ists and traitors.

Why will men—otherwise sensible men—repeat the, assertion that there are three millions of men out of employment in the United States? It is believed that the total population of the United States Is now about fortyfour millions. The usual method of calculating the population is one vote to every five inhabitants. One-fifth of the forty-four millions is eight millions eight hundred thousand. Who, in all this land, honestly believes that one-third of the men are living in enforced idleness?-* No fairminded or honest man can believe it. We do not believe there are fhree hundred thousand who are in enforced idleness to-day. XSStnc now>-shut up or show your figures. Captain Burnham said in his speech ftt-tiw court IIOUBC jßst wcok that u tbc republicans used the same argument agalnstgrcdnbaeks now* that the democrats did during the war.” He is as mUch mistaken in thatstatementashe was in the one he made against Sheriff Robinson. The republicans neverdid nor do not now argue against greenbacks, but they ate opposed to fiat or absolute money,, based on the faith of the nation without a promise to pay by that nation. “Faith Is the substance of things hoped for.” There is nothing promised in fiat' money, aip! of course there is no substance.