, 1860-06-19
Drcss 4 Griihutre.
AN oLp rALSE11ooD REVIVED

AN oLD rALSE1tooD REVIVED.
This is the caption Of IN cditorio! III last
Sundays Chicago Times. The article in qucs-
ton ia d!shoue e. in purpose and false IN us"
s,r.io:. and ia harmony withe its cap :
ton, Tho effort to wi9gle, Douglas out Of q
minority in.o majority Of the popular; vote,
is a manifest failure. as is the attempt TO break
the tor.s Of the recent articles on The subject
which appeared in the Press AND TRIBUNE.
In tho first Itsre' piper ihas mot
asserted That Linooln'a vote exceeded that
Of the Daoite and Douglas vote combined, al.
though /: very nearly:equa'lea them; But by
what authority does tho Time, add the votes
Of the Daaises to the soses OF .ha squatte rites?
Ths former, scorn and sepudiatc Douglas ana
Squatterism.
Bat We did demonstrate that Lincoln bent
ooug!es 4,085 on the popular vote. The
Times did 10. dare to gaiusay it. We also
showed that tue 25 Legislative districts which
L;uc-lu CARED. contaiaet by the census Of
1885, population Of G9o, $40 while the 80
districts Djhg1as carried, contained only Co6,-
27s Inhabitants. We proved that in a Douglas
district, tic ratio o. repres snta,ion was only
1876 inhabitants; while in r publican dis
,ric,, it required 1880 inhabitants. We
showed 1hat hal the Legislature been elected
On til, true and equal ratio Of ono member to
17,42t inhabitants, the districts carried bs
Lacau, would have elected FORTY msn,-
bers ot tie House, and the D5u.ias Districts,
thirty five members, which, would have sent
Lincoln to Washington and kept Douglas at
homa. Tuese facts and figures the Times has
mol dared to d.ny.. But it cyadcs them by
getting up falte issue: counting III the Dauitc
vote on the Dzu:las side, sud paradipg coup.
!e Of distorted satl:s figures, which if stated
1sathfullg, would have tiauy given the lio to the
deduction which it se-ks TO draw from them-
In oce ct thssa tables it undertakes to CIPHER
cut 4 majority Of population n ,ha Dis:r.e:s
carried BY Douglas, aud after adding them a!l
u,it makes our populnr on OF Cos, ,205; but as
this leaves neatly 1000 population in the
Republican di.uic:s. the Tines commits
the fraudulent trick Of 4bstractiug the
Peril and Stark, aud the Marshall.
Woodf,,d and Tn!nam Districts from
the R4pu' Icsn column ard transferring
them 10 ,.la Douglas side, when they both
elto: Lincoln presep:a:ives! By thus steal
ing 5a,s27 population from tue Republican
di4,r c:s, a=d adding it to The Squarh rites, the
Times 1.ures Gu: a excess Of population in
the Douglas d:strictS! Tho s;mple expos
sure Of tEie kcavisA trick is The b=st answer
TO H. The Tines has au5tl=r table Of popu-
!a.i W hy couute., in which it nskcs out an
excess u the Democratic counties Of 1G, ,498
It ob.ains this resul. hy Transferring tbs pop.
uatiou Of the Republic III counties Of Bond
aal Edg,r 10 the Douglas side Of the table
B3th these couEtes went for Lincoln and the
Republican candidates f,r Congress. So that
on Any 1e=. of the popular vote, there were
more people aad men for Lincoln 1han Doug
laa. We aya:n remark, let us have no more
Of this 1alseicoi and ballerdash about Doug
las being tlectcd 1y 4 1naiori,y cf the voters
Of illinois, lie was no.oriously secord best
in the race, and owes his election to grossly
unfair eppcrt;onment system which enabled
$4,000 PERSONS in tho southern districts to
Offset 20, 900 people in the northern districts