The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-09

tent to enter into battle under a leadership
which ignores living questions, or which
stands aloof from problems whose difficulty
is as nothing compared with their Importance.
DEMOORATIOATPACKSON THECENSUS.
From the A.. L. Tribune.
The Su1ddGy Mercury misrepresents our
upon the vote for Hoffman, as
compared with the census. The MercuryS
trick is in suppressing the fact that aliens
and colored persons not taxed are not counted
as representative population. The entire
population of New York city in 1865 was
726, 1886, of which there we're 151, 1873 aliens
and $500 colored persons not taxed. This
leaves the number upon which representation
is based 500, G4g-in round numbers, $50, 900.
The vote of the city when Hoffman was
elected was 10000. This shows that the
vote was at the rate of one in $50, or $50
votes for each 1000 of representative popu-
lation. Now, the whole number of males in
the city above twenty years of age was
1871 ,5S2. The aliens were about q per
cent, or 40, 900 within the ages named.
Take out the males between twenty and
twenty-one years, who number about 6000, and
we find that 141, 500 males of representative
population cast 1876, 900 votes. In the great
struggle of 1864 the ratio of votes cast to the
number of voters was about 80 per cent.
Apply that to 1868, and the city vote, based
on the whole number of males of proper age,
as set down in the census of 1865, should
have been 127,440. Where did the extra
%, 200 votes come from? The Mercury can
ascertain by overhauling the books of natu-
ralization record, if any such record exists.
The census of 1865 gave us IN all 129, 900
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 November, 1868.
Oneida county is contrasted with New York
in the Mercugy'S article. and accused of giving
a large radical majority in 1868. We hardly
concede 1900 to be a large majority; but that
is of no consequence. Oneida is charged with
giving too large a vote as compared with New
York city. We assumed that in this city
about one voter to seven persons, aliens in
Guided, would be a proper rate. That would
give a vote of about 10, 600. The first time
the vote reached over 100, 900 was in 1864,
when it was nearly 10, 000-just the num-
Der demanded by legitimate proportion.
Now New York has 81 per cent. of non-
representative population; Oneida county
has less than six per cent. The num-
Der of men of voting age in Oneida
was 1900. Her representative population
was %, 713; her vote was 1850, or one in
four. In the great vote for Governor that
county bore the proportion of one in -four
and a half, or on representative population
one in four. New York city, however, made
out about one in three and a 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 the law of Congress
concerning naturalization 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 so much
of it as relates to the rural counties; in this
city, they found that it could be made a
powerful assistance in false voting, and SO
the city was allowed to remain under the
law. They opposed the act removing booths
from the polls and prohibiting voting In
rumshops, 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
| Baltimore Blood Tubs and Philadelphia
Killers to carry New York or Connecticut is
impracticable. The party always did, and
always will, oppose any and every regulation
or law that brings the people down to square,
honest voting. The Sunday Mercury wants
the public to believe that the city has a resi-.
den population of 100000. 1t has bu
little more than two-thirds as many.
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