Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1903 — Jasper County Will Have New Mates. [ARTICLE]

Jasper County Will Have New Mates.

There have been something like a baker’s dozen different legislative apportionment schemes proposed at this session of the legislature, and in about everyone of them, Jasper county is given different connections in Representative or Senatorial districts. The scheme that has finally been settled upon by the Republican caucus and has been made the law will give our county entirely new connections in both Representative and senatorial districts. In , both respects we have been placed . with counties that we have had no such relations with for more than a quarter of a century. The Representative district will be composed of Jasper and Pulaski counties. The latter county is pretty strongly Democratic, but not so strongly as Jasper is Republican, so that the district will still be safely Republican in ■ politics. ■ The Senatorial district will, now consist of Pulaski Stark and Porter. That district • will be very strongly Republican ■ The bill originally proposed that ' the district should consist of ' Jasper, Pulaski and Stark, and Porter was tacked on at the very last minute. Without Porter the district would have been under the limit in population; with Porter it is probably over the limit, Newton county is tacked on to Lake for a Representative, and Newton, Benton and White for a senatorial district. It is of a fishhook shape, and probably made like that for Senator Wolcott to catch another nomination with.