Show THE OW biow AWELL AI KNOW POLITICAL ERM WAS COINED it in 1 allty at ty years year Sil lethe word M mag aisi ailed riled I 1 but the acturo n it ic iset I 1 still ill young youie wl and popular A itla the Part lex elbridge Eli ridge gerry G ard as aa in G 1 irr arr 3 was rk pi and a statesman a FIgr figuir ir of taco immortal aull and tho the ili i anil and sponsor 1 der dei ne ile w was of massachusetts in 1813 1812 wid aid hn his party majority VM dangerously benall in tho the legislature legisla turN so rr hocut efad c county into two dat in a ai way aitho the federalists despised A v wit i t said it loolam like salamander say rather lather a gerrymander said cr nd tho word was wa born bom webster it and deities it ra ns popularly flat understood governor gover acir gerry yerra diat same game year of 1813 1812 wa selected t to 0 tho the vice on the ticket H ith james ciuca Madiso llanil in 1814 ded suddenly in his hia carriage carria gein in Wadi ins ion city but the still lives though gh the recent ot of tho the court of michigan lifie bigan uy lay down legal principles which promise to malie make tin an cud of it as soon is aa they can bo be applied elsewhere for beveral years otter after gedrys ance little was heard a of tho the practice but time since tho the larger baates became politically close and fluctuating it has haij flour isbell amazingly ohio presents ii n beautiful field for the manipulator tho curious way in which a aline line of counties ruled by ono one pat ty runs inns across the state whilo while a line of opposite politics runs parallel or nearly so makes it possible to cut one way adivi and mako two thirds of the districts democratic or tho the other way and make two thirds republican Republica ii al all ion on the same vote the result has been that for the lat twenty years or so tho the states delegation dele gario in CO congress gress was often of op opposite politics to the state generally y 0 k 11 NO Z X THE GURRY UANDER indiana behaved herself fairly well till the legislature legis liture of 1873 1874 decided to drive dan voorhees out of canares can gres it pot lint his county of viso vigo in a district which began fifty miles north not of terre cianto and lan off southe aA nearly to the ohio in shape somewhat soine what like a chair with a f footrest foo the result w was is that the people rot got angry and soon after chose a legislature which bent daniel to the united states state senate and there lio lie lias has remained ei ever er ince tince t the shoestring district of mississippi iwas was lorig lon famous Follo the win windings lings of 0 the mississippi ford for the length of the state it was miles long As tho the negroes showed a marked tendency to concentrate in the ix bayon ayon region tile legislature of 1873 1875 thon glit it would be a good gooi booi scheme to put all tile the black counties in ono one district and let the co colored lorel folks have it they soon lost it however and now dow we read in the congles ional directory that julin john if 31 allen alien if ff i f tho the first received ati votes vote and joseph il beeman of the fifth votes without opposition south carolina laid out to beat ali hiis sis sippi and dill did it the tha very fint ni ht trial liy iv making her famous seventh detric t custom and ami county lines were disregarded an and 1 black townships puked up ill here anil and there from northeast sinn ter down to james island then around a three circle almost to the place of beginning tile the eidth of tile district on tho southeast bouth east being merely a strip of beach bie between tween high anil and low tide lide when mr I 1 S small mail represented this district ho joined on to ho be wilmot equally famous fainor north carolina district of mr onara and thus italis these thebe two colored gentlemen represented a region some 50 miles in le length n gt h and an d nowhere e wider than al a county the second arkansas district is nn lilt uther f y I 1 and R nd like unto it ore n re the eighth wisconsin third maine nineteenth illinois sixth Mary maryland laul Seco second liti alabama seventh alis missouri twenty seventh pennsylvania ni i a and i ua last I 1 as t but bi it far f k ir r from r call least the Lle eleventh verith kentucky this at ld t contadini con taini seventeen counties and is extremely in many of cases however the peculiar shape vt lif tho the stute state has much much to do 10 with wit tile tho apil apparent dist distortion it goes without saying alo 1 t a 1 wa iva inest be found to slop ibis his practice and yet the ti tact fact remaina that kllc n every birge state in tho the union was moru diore or le less gerrymandered gerrymander ed the net re sult suit vaa gilst the same as aa if all hall had bf biffi n fairly divi divided leil that ia is condri coil gres ss had about the party majority it should have had according to the popular majority As k was so ably shown by senator catill tile in ono one section v ete en offset by the franchised disfranchised dis in other cee tims |