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Show I ! republicans as possible of the right of rep- reseiitation in national and state legislation. Districts were formed without any regard ' to the constitutional requirement of con-j con-j tiguity atid equal population, and when tho democrats got through with their work j thy thought they had secured absolute con-j con-j trol of Wisconsin for a long time to come. The republicans of that stale, however, I are not the men to be defrauded of their : rights without a light, and so a ease was , made up to test the constitutionality of both ; acts in the supreme couit. The ablest at. I torueys in the state were employed to make pleadings for and against these acts, and the legal contest which followed was notable in every respect, j After a full hepriug and careful consideration, considera-tion, the supremo court has decided that both acts are unconstitutional and invalid, because they practically disfranchise a large i proportion of the citizens of the slate iu the I various congressional end legislative dis-. dis-. 'rie!3 framed by the democratic legislature. We believe that the decision will have far j reaching consequences In tho direction of I better government throughout the United States. It has becomu the rule in tiiU country for tho dominant political party to utterly disregard the rights of the minority iu making congressional and legislative reapportionments. re-apportionments. This practice wa6 orgiu naiad in Massachusetts by Elbrldge Gerry, Hiid bis name has been nttacbed to It ever since, it is a monstrous and unjustifiable wrong, no whether practiced by royublicau or democrats, and it is to be hopinl that the good example set by the supreme court of Wisconsin will be followed by similar bodies in other states until gcrrj maudcring be-. be-. 'lien merely a hideous reminiscence. Tiiero is no doubt that the legislative reapportionment re-apportionment enacted by the last legislature legisla-ture of Colorado is open to the same objection ob-jection which applied to the Wisconsin Iniquity Iniq-uity although partisan advantage cut uiniicn small' r figure here than there. Under the existing law in f'olorado thousands of voters vot-ers in Arapahoe county are praclically dl fraueliised in so far as tho selection of state senators and representatives is concerned, in order to L'ive undue representation to the Manlier counties of the slate. When this measure whs before the legls-lature legls-lature the RepkbH&m vehemently opposed It on the ground that It was both unjust and unconstitutional, and after it passed the legislature we did everything in our power to convince the governor tl at it was his duty to veto it, but without avail. With the Wisconsin precedent fully established, es-tablished, we believe that it is the duty of tho citizens of Arapahoe county to take steps at the earliest possible date to have the constitutionality of on: present legislative apportionment act passed upon by the su-preme su-preme court of the state. We have no doubt that if (ids shall be do the law will bo de clared unconstitutioi 1 1, old w special session ses-sion of the legislaturi will ne called to pass a new act based on the prl ciples of complete com-plete representation and l-.stice. WHAT "GEMtt MADER"IS ma -as City siar. Elbridge Gerry, a Massachusetts politician of the latter part of the eighteenth and the ea 1 y part of the, present contury, a signer of the declaration of Independence, was ac en ed of having instigated the ttrst division of states into congressional districts without regard to Hie natural order and conditions In order that his party might meet with sue cess. From his name a ccriiiln district in Massachusetts wis called a ' 'Gerrymander." BlUca then, whenever a similar attempt has been made, it hat been known as "gerrymandering '' Worcester's diction-nry diction-nry says It was so named "after tJ K rSi!:v )V's,.JI 1 MB (jUMUKAli ' dKltllVMANDEIt" OP MASsA- CBCIITT. Slhrl Orry, who, as (jovcrnor of Massa-afaUMltt, Massa-afaUMltt, sanctioned this fraud. A person on looking .it the map of a portion of Masf-a fihUMttl rstmiicd for political purposes rcinarkid that It vesemhled a salaiiiuiidi'r. 'S'iy miller u (ierryniuniler,' rejoined tt friend TTlio stood near." Contiiiuiin; the detlnition it Btates that Is a term of American polities meaning "to rc-rianue rc-rianue .-iectwial districts ol a state or part of it so as to enable .ine politii al party to re-turn re-turn a greater number of representatives than It is fuirly entitled to " In 181!, while hi wa governor t Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, only a few months before lie was elected vii e -president of the United States, a plan was boldly put Into execution for OeafUieniag bis jiarty, and the plan was curried out. The '"Gerrymander" was ntudc -5-' ' I vtX if Vv, JJji PT.-,J mttmtf Vr POL At TIIK MODERN "GElltt YMAXDEIt" OP MISSOURI. Hp ol the counties ol Salisbury, Amenlmry, Haverhill, Met token, Audover, Middietou, Lynnneld, Danvors, Cbeleea, Lynn, Salem and Marbleheud. The neenmpanying cut SboWl toe relative location of thu counties. It h a copy ofju contemporary caricature, wlili li the urtist of that time ootbeUtabsd -n itli a head, a tongue, a tail and claws. The toil and loni;ue are, however, thu only pert that are not to be found on tho map. Gerry, who was a democrat, found things pretty warm in hi own district. Me was governor by the skin of his teelh, elected on his third acpeaalTC candldaev, haying been defects 1 on the first two. Be w as accused of taking this way of making things open in casu ho wanted to bo returned to congress Where lie had servml four term prior to his coin mission to accompany Pinekney and Harebell on a mission to France and his election us governor. Gorry died shortly alter t!ii- while riding .u ills carriage iu aoetaffton, ii. 0. it was eighty years ago and tince that time it has been iuatued that Gerry really op Keed the gerrymander, but the. name stuck av.d Uiere ham been other examples following follow-ing closely the original gerrymander. Almost every state has h i.l the same experience in one way or another. Sometimes it is not a congressional district but merely a county commissioner's district or stato legislature gerrymander. One of the most celebrated of fhciK political steais was the famous Ohio gerrymander of congressional districts In 1SH0. .Missouri, therefore, Is one among numerous examples. Wisconsin lias also been gsfrymandeaed in o.ie instance, that of ti e Twenty-eighth eeuatorial district, por-ti por-ti ins of three counslea being taken to nmke u;i the liistrlct. This is considered one of boldest gcrrymsB lets ever made trum the fact that the legislature in making it d:"rc-l. d:"rc-l. rded all rtileH and custouis as far as county lines urc concerned. Denver ltepubliean, Martn il. Yesterday the supreme court of Wisconsin handed down a decision declaring that the C agression! and legislative apportionments enacted by the i.ite demccratic legislature of that i-ia'e arc unconstitutional and therefore Bull and void. !n the whole history of the infamous practice prac-tice of gerrymandering states for congres. si iiial and legislative purposes of a partisan character, It Is doubtful If auy cxamplos '-' , (,'iite so bad at; those afforded by ihe W is- consion legislature lust year can be found Niturally Wisconsin is a republican itato, and it has cast its voto for the repabli ,n presidential ticket in overyqnadietiufal elcc-tion elcc-tion since 18M. t)u only two occasions in that long period has it elected a democratic governor, and we believe that it has never chosen a democratic United States senator Since its admission in'o the union in 1SP In !!, however, owiug to the disaffection of the large German population on account of the advocacy of the Bennett school law by the republican party, the democrats i.iau-aged i.iau-aged to secure a majority in both branches o: the legislature, and as the reapportion-nient reapportion-nient required by the federal constitution for congressmen aud the state constitution for members of the legislature by the eleventh census devolved upon that legislature, the democratic bosses of the state thought their timo had come to show what they could do in an artistic effort to deprive as uiauy |