New-York tribune., 1870-08-08

DEMOCRATIC ATTACKS on THE CENSUS
The Sunday Mercury msrepresents our COM
ments upon the vote for Hoffman as compared
with the census. The McTcurys trick is in
snppressing the fact that aliens and colored
persons not taxed are not counted az repre-
sentative population. The entire population
of New-YOrk City in 1865 was 726,%S0, OF when
there were i5l 1873 aliens and $500 colored
persons not taxed This leaves the num-
ber upon which representation Is based
at 565,649-in round numbers, $4,000. The
vote of the city when Hoffman was
elected was 10000. This shows that the
vote was at the rate of one in 1850, or 3GO
votes for each 1000 of representative popula-
ton. Now, the whole number of males In the
city above 20 years of age was lS75S2. Inc
aliens were about 81 per cent, or 10000 within
the ages named. Take out the males between
20 and 21 years, who number about 5000, and
we find that al 900 males of representative
population cast 10000 votes. In the great
struggle of 1864 the ratio of votes cast
to the number of voters was about
90 per cent. Apply that to 1868,
and the city vote, based on the whole num-
Der of males of proper age as set down in the
census of 1866, should have been 127,44O.
Where did the extra $4,000 votes come from
The Mercury can ascertain by overhaullng the
books of naturalization record, If any such
record exists. The census of 1865 gave us IN
all 10000 voters; the increase since then has
been very light, and it is as clear as MONDAY
that no such number of voters ever lived in
this city as the swindling aggregate of NOyem-
Der, 1868.
Oneida County is cOntrasted with New York
in The Merca1yS article, and accused of giving
large Radical majority in 1868. We hardly
concede 300 to be a large majority; but that
is of no consequence. Oneida is charged with
giving too large vote as compared with New
York City We assumed that in this city
about one voter to seven persons, aliens in
cuded, would be proper rate. That would
give vote of about 10000. The first time
the vote reached over 100000 was in 1864, when
twas nearly 110000-just the number demanded
by legitimate proportion. Now New-IOrk has
81 per cent of nOn-representative population;
Oneida County has less than six per cent. The
number of men of voting age in Oneida
was 27,900. Her representative population
was 95,713; her vote was 23,S50, or one in four.
In the great vote for Governor that county bore
the proportion of one in four and half, or
on representative population one in four
New York City, however made out about one
in three and half. That there were from
thirty to forty thousand false votes cast in
this city by the Democratic leaders and their
tools in 1868, is a fact as plain as daylight. The
census is proof of it; hence the groans of the
wounded. 1t is a part of the clamor about
IL &c lizntin
and false voting.
Indeed, nothing intended to secure honest
voting was ever proposed that did not meet
the determined opposition of the Democratic
party. They opposed the Registry law of 1910,
and finally repealed it. They opposed the late
Registry law, and repealed 80 much of it as
relates to the rural counties; in this city, they
found that it could be made powerful assist
ance in false voting, and so the city was allowed
to remain under the law. They opposed the act
removing booths from the polls and prohibit
ing voting in rum-shops, and also the closing
of liquOr-shops on election days. They opposed
the glass ballot-boxes. They opposed the act
of Congress regulating the time for choosing
Presidential Electors, because when all the
States vote on one day the transportation of
Ddi"hoie Dioou iups anu fnllauelpnla hliltls
to carry New-YOrk or Connecticut is mpracti
cable The party always did, and always WILL
oppose any and every regulation or law that
brings the people down to square, honest vot
ing. The Sunday Mercury wants the public to
believe that the city has a resident population
of 100000 1t has but little more than two
thirds as many.
PROTECTION And PRICK