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The Jackson Standard
Jackson, Jackson Court House, Jackson County, Ohio
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The Delaware Gazette reports the party composition for the next Delaware Legislature: Senate has 21 Democrats and 8 Republicans (13 majority); House has 59 Democrats and 46 Republicans (13 majority). It criticizes the apportionment as unfair, designed to favor Democrats despite a Republican popular majority of over 2000.
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The Delaware Gazette gives the state of parties in the next Legislature. They are divided as follows:
SENATE.
Democrats ........ 21
Republicans ........................ 8
Democratic majority ............... 13
HOUSE.
Democrats .... 59
Republicans ................. 46
Democratic majority ........... 13
The Gazette states the exact truth when it says,
"The present apportionment was designed to utterly swamp the opposition to the Democracy, by which party it was arranged. Nothing but an overwhelming Republican majority can overcome it—and of its unfair and iniquitous character no stronger proof is necessary than the fact that, with a Republican majority of more than 2000 over the Democracy, in the State they have a majority of 13 in one branch of the Legislature, and 7 in the other."
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Delaware
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democratic majority of 13 in senate and 13 in house, despite republican popular majority of over 2000
Event Details
Party divisions in the next Delaware Legislature as reported by the Delaware Gazette: Senate - 21 Democrats, 8 Republicans; House - 59 Democrats, 46 Republicans. The apportionment is criticized as unfair and designed to favor Democrats.