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Show Naming the Gerrymander. The gerrymander was christened in 1S13, although it must have been in operation long before that. A stanch old Federalist, Gov. Elbridge Gerry, controlled through his legislature the" redisricting of Massachusetts under the census of 1S10. In the offlce of Benjamin Russell, ao ardent Republican editor, hung a mng of the state as newly subdivided by Gerry and his men. Gilbert Smart's ready pencil whimsically added to tha outlines of a grotesque district tht wings and tail of a dragon. "Ha!" he said when he tin,) fir ished. "How's that for a sahunan. der?'.' .The Republican Russell growled: "Fetter call it a Gertyiumulor." Anj American politicians have mk.nt hit advice. Th Independable |