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Show Representation of Political Parties The glaring lncons;riilt y between the vote polled, by the various parties and the .lumber of representatives In congress con-gress elected by them forces into public attention again the crying need I for some form of proportional representation repre-sentation There were 48E renresent- atives elected At the tlm of writing I 't appears that about 15.600.000 votes were polled, and that approximately 6.500,000 Democrats elected 2f5 representatives, rep-resentatives, against about 181 to which they were entitled; that 4,500,- 000 Progressives elected twelv e representatives, repre-sentatives, instead of 125 and that 3.-500,000 3.-500,000 Republicans elected 128 representatives, rep-resentatives, whereas their total vote I , should entitle them to but 100 Nine hundred thousand Socialists ought to ! be represented by about twenty-three roemDers of the house. They are, as a matter of fact, entirely unrepre-; unrepre-; sented, and so are the 175,000 or more j members of the Prohibition partv and the 25,000 members of the Socialist Labor party. Such a result is a travesty on de-mocracy. de-mocracy. A party the total -0te of which Is 2,000,000 less than a majority major-ity of the electorate, has a representation represent-ation more than double that of the combined opposition, while three of the parties, polling an aggregate of more than 1,100,000 votes, have no voice in the national legislature If only a part of the energy that has been glvon to the campaign in behalf of the Initiative, the referendum and the recall should be given to the demand de-mand for proportional representation, some practicable Bchemo for correct-1 lng this absurdly inequitable condition condi-tion mlKht be v-ery soon instituted. W. J. Ghent In the Metropolitan. |