Not Unprecedented

It is an error to suppose that tho Democratie Legislature of Ohio has no preceedeut for a second redistricting of a State after a United States census before another apportionment is rendered necessary by a uew census. It is f urnished with ono in the history of lts own State, as is pointed out by the Cincinnati Enquirer. ín 1842 a Democratie Legislature in Ohio made an apportionment whioh tho Whigs considered unfair and unjust. The Whigs, in 1846, as soon as they obtained the majorityin the Legislature, repealed it and adopted a new one, This is just what the present Democratie Legislature proposes to do. Tho last Republioan Legislature adopted an appointment measure whioh shamolessly trampled upon the rights of tho Democracy in tho State. Governor Allon, with a majority in the whole State in October last, only carried eight of the twenty congressional districts, when, if the Stato had been fairly districted, he would have carried eleven. Tho Liberáis and Democrats have now only seven of tho twenty Congrossmen in the National House of Representativos. Had they the nuniber to which thoy are fairly entitled there would be a differenoe on a división in favor of the Democrats of six or eight. Tho Enquirer' s correspondent makes a strong point in favor of reapportionment in calling attention to the possibility of the next PreBÏdential eleotion being thrown into the House of Itepresentatives. Kepublican proponderance in the Ohio Congressional delegation, caused by iniquitous gerrymandering, might decide the olection, and it mightdo it, too, in the face of the adverse sentiment of a majority of the people of the whole State as expressod at the polls.