Six and One
Six
and One
The Committee on
Gerrymander worked late, drawing intricate lines on a map of the State, and
being weary sought repose in a game of poker. At the close of the game
the six Republican members were bankrupt and the single Democrat had all the
money. On the next day, when the Committee was called to order for
business, one of the luckless six mounted his legs, and said: “Mr. Chairman,
before we bend to our noble task of purifying politics, in the interest of good
government I wish to say a word of the untoward events of last evening.
If my memory serves me the disasters which overtook the Majority of this
honourable body always befell when it was the Minority’s deal. It is my
solemn conviction, Mr. Chairman, and to its affirmation I pledge my life, my
fortune, and my sacred honour, that that wicked and unscrupulous Minority
redistricted the cards!”
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