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Show In Iho message Governor Tillman, y of South Carolina, sent to the legisla ture of that state last week he refers to the duty of rearranging the congressional congres-sional districts in the following significant signifi-cant language: "The United States census of 181)0 having been completed far as the tables of population are concerned, it will be necessary to pa?s a law re-apportioning representation represen-tation in the house -of representatives. represen-tatives. In this connection I desiro to call attention to the matter of redisricting the congres-gressional congres-gressional districts. Our state has been held up to scorn in the national congress con-gress because of what is known as 'the black district." This gerrymander, by which a district was formed composed ajmost entirely of black votes a district the like of which was never seen before, and which should never be seen again can have no excuse for longer existence. exist-ence. We have no reason to dread a return of negro or republican rule in South Carolina, and there is now no reason, if there ever existed any, why our congressional districts should not be arranged iu reasonably compact shape." x |