The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1870-05-12
The Vote Of Maryland.

isfaction sums up quite nice Radical
majority. Its estimate is as follows:
White Republican voters $4,000
Black voters $4,000
Aggregate Radical vote 10000
As against this, says the Tribune,
The Democratic vote cannot exceed 10000
Thus leaving the Republicans a clear
majority OF 10, 900 votes. ....
Now, if figures did not sometimes lie,
this pleasant way of counting up on
paper the respective forces OF the two
political parties would turn over, very
ctFectually, the control of the State to
the Radical.
But the Tribune has a way Of pat.
ting things which will not stand the
test.
In the first place, the heaviest vote
that was ever polled by the Radicals in
this State was in 1868, at the election
for General Grant. At that time there
was every possible incentive to poll the
fullest vote Of which they were capable,
and they did it. The official count
shows that the number of Radical bal.
lots cast on that occasion was 30 ,43S.
We very much doubt whether 50 large
a vote could be brought out again, aud
propose to give our reason for this pre-
sently.
At the same election the vote, Demo.
cratic aud Conservative, cast for Mr..
Seymour was so, 357-his majority over
General Grant being 3l,9l9, We throw
out the Gubernatorial election entirely,
for the result of the contest between
Judge Bond and Mr. Bowie, our present
governor, was foregone conclusion.
But, although Il c latter virtually walk.
ed over the course, aud there vas, by
no means, full Democratic vote cast
the vote of Baltimore city alone falling
very far short of the number the D.mJ.
Gratis are capable of polling-hi, agsre
gate vote was G3 ,G92.
Taking the total population Of Mary.
land Into account, and the political
affiliations of her people, We are safe IN
saying that, in any hotly contested
election, the Democrats eau easily poll
ten thousand more votes than they cast
at the last Presidential aud Guberna
torial elections
Everybody knows that the nomina.
ton of Governor Seymour was far from
being popular one with the Democratic
Conservative voters OF this State, aud
many of them therefore, felt no interest
whatever in the contest. In the Guber
Material election the assured certainly or
the success Of Mr. Bowie, owing to the
known weakness OF his opponent, also
served as an excuse, on the part of many
Democratic voters, for staying away
from the polls These are our reasons
for asserting that, at thoie cleo; ions.
nothing like the full Democratic vote of
the State was cast
Turning back to the statistics of the
Tribune, We fnd it there asserted thata
late canvass Of the State shows IL. 900
black voters. Let us see how tins tai.
lies with the census Of 1869. In that
year the free aud slave population of
Maryland was classified as follows: Free
blacks, $4,000; slaves, $1,000 mixing
in all III 900, If we take the black
voting population as one 9th of the
whole, We get 81, 1000 as the total num
Der OF that class of voters in the State.
or II 900 less than the Trbml's es,i.
mate.
Adopting the same rule with respect
to the whites, we had of them also 10
1850 total population of SIG, 900, one
fifth of which would be l03 900 as the
actual number of voters. This approx.
mates very closely to the Tribme's es.
Innate. But to get its Majority for the
Radicals, the Misunderstanding to
the ratio of voters to population we
have laid DOWNS forced to make the
black population of Maryland 220 900.
or nearly fifty thousand inc excess of what
it was in 1850; whilst, at the same time.
it makes the white population entirely
stationary. That the black population
has Increased to any appreciable extent
over what it was in 1860 we most en-.
phatically deny. 1t has crowded more
into cities, and has depleted to the
same extent the rural districts but the
actual numerical increase by emigration
into the State, if any, has been com.
paratively small
On the other hand, there has been a
large increase of white citizens, aud
notably so by emisrating from Virginia
and tho States further to tho South 1t
is owing to this cause that Baltimore
now numbers some $4,000 iuhabi.
tants, against 2l2,4S5 in 1860, being
an increase in Que decade Of nearly 70
per cent.
1t is by tricks of figures such as we
have quoted from the Tribune that the
Impression is sought to be conveyed
that the Radicals aud negroes constitute
a majority of the voting population of
Maryland. We have shown that not
only is this not the case, but that the
Democrats and Conservatives. in point
OF numbers, are capable of maintaining
their present political ascendancy if the
combined votes of tho negroes and
their white allies were cast against
them. -Bahimore Gazette.
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