Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-10-21
The New York Census.

The Republican Administration, which
sits at Washington and rules the country
to the evaporation Ct the Democracy,
has thrown two huge bombs in the Demo
cratic ranks of New York and slaughter
ed enough Democrats, it is thought, to
diminish the number of Democratic Con-
gressmen from that city. The first shell
was in the shape of law calculated to
prevent repeating, ballot box stuffing and
false counting. The Democracy have
writhed under this, and have proposed
measures to defeat the operation of the
law, without thi,a far accomplishing any
thing definite. The second was the cen.
sus returns, a missile which has carried
off nearly ss many from popular expecta-
ton as the European war has from actual
life, and which reduces the population of
the metropolis to such an extent that one
or two Democratic representatives can be
dispensed with. But the census returns
have done more than this to the discom-
future of the Democracy. They have ex-
posed the election frauds by which Grant
was defrauded of the electoral vote of
New York and Hoffman placed in the
Governors chair, and have thus demon
strated the wisdom of the law by which
Congress proposed to prevent these out
RACES upon the ballot In the Tenth Elec.
ton District of the Sixth Ward the total
vote last fall was 707. The census shows a
population of $40. The usual rate is one
vote to six inhabitants, but the New York
Democracy have been able to bring out q
vote for nearly every lnhabitant
The Democracy are alarmed, and are
demanding a census taken by the city
Democratic authorities in order to expose
what is called the fraud OF the census.
| Mayor Halls attack has been successfully
| met by the Marshaps defense, and it is
| shown that in number Of cases where 1t
was claimed the census was not taken the
| names are upon the lists. The Marshal
appointed ten days during which correc
tions might be made, and has invited the
public to call and examine the manner in
which the work has been performed. He
proposes further, if it can be shown that
in any subdivision the returns are materi.
ally incorrect, to have that district re-
enumerated. This should satisfy the De-
mocracy if they are honest in believing
| that the returns are false. They have
only to show wherein the lists are incor-
rect to have the correction made. The
proposed census by the city authorities
cannot bs of any other service to them
than to give them pretended exposure
of what they call a fraud, and the public
will trust their census no more than their
vote, for party which can get. 707 votes
out of population of $40 can get any
required population out of a given dis
trict.
The country at large is greatly inter-
ested in this matter, not only from an in.
terest in preserving the purity of the bal
lot-box in general, but from the possibili-
ty of national election turning upon the
vote Of New York. If sufficient repeating,
stuf1ng and false counting can be done in
New York to cheat the Republicans out
of the State, the time may arrive when
the same amount will cheat the Republi-
cans out of President. 1t is natural
that the Democracy should vince under
the exposure which the census makes,
and their claim that the census is fraudu-
lent is only an attempt to cover their
shame.-I0let5o B9dds.