The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-09-13

The census takers in this city are
making sad havoc with our immense
Democratic victories; and, of course.
the Democrats are making loud out
cries of fraud against the census tax
ers. There seems to be a state OF
earnest war between the two classes.
Just why it should be, so the reader
will be more capable of judging after
he is made familiar with the few
facts.
New York city usually returns from
$4,000 to $4,000 Democratic majority,
according to the exigencies of the
case or the necessities of the party
throughout the State. The State,
outside of New York city. has been
largely Republican until last fall, the
great Democratic prepondersnce 10
this city alone making it at all close
or uncertain. Last fall, however, the
rural districts manifested a weakness
In the faith and the State went Dem
ocratic. independent of the city. But
this was an exceptional instance.
Usually it rsaHires the overwhelming
vote of the unterrifed In the metropo-
lis to counterbalance the Republican
expression Of the sober, staid and in
telligent agriculturists.
New York city has a population of
between 800, 900 and 100000. In 1860
it was returned at 815, 1000. It is now
estimated by the census authorities
that the pending enumeration wall not
show over 100000. This does not
argue lack of growth in the metropo-
lis proper; but merely that the cost of
living is so great within the city limits
as to drive the middle and poorer
classes into the suburbs, and there
our growth for the last decade will
manifest itself By the suburbs of
/ New York is meant Brooklyn and all
of Kings County, l.. l.; Staten Island,
which Is Richmond County ;Westches-
ter County, which is now thickly pop
ulated and is proposed to be attached
to the city; jersey City, Hoboken,
Newark, Elizabeth, Paterson, and the
greater part of Middlesex, Union,
Hudson and Essex Counties in
New Jersey. All this immensely
populous region is peopled from New
York. Oar mechanics, mer-
chants, clerks, bankers, profess
sional men, and, in fact, all classes
doing business in this great mart,
return at night to their domiciles To-
Gated throughout this wide region,
and where their families reside. Thus
the limits of the city proper, which
are the shores of Manhattan Island,
give residence to but about one-third
Of the actual population of what is
really comprehended in the term me-
tIopolis. And the census, when COM
pleted, will show that throughout the
region indicated there has been an
immense expansion of population
since 1860, which, for general and
statistical purposes, should be cred
tied to New York; but which can, by
no possible means, be made to
furnish a basis for an increased
vote In the city proper. On the con-
throughout four ffths of the city, a
tolerably correct estimate of our en-
tire population is possible, which
shows, as stated above. that we are
still under 900,000-a growth of less
than 100000 in the city proper, within
ten years.
But allowing the growth to have
been the full 100000. our voting pop
ulation should have increased,
according to all recognized |
rules of computation, only IA .286, if |
we count one in seven as voters, or
20 1000, counting one IN five. The |
facts, however, are very far from this |
showing. At the Presidential cleo
ton in 1860, we polled 1888 votes,
which was one for about every 81 in
habitants In 1864 the vote posled |
was ITO, 800, gain of 1887, which,
at the ratio of voters to population 10 |
1860, would show an increase of pop |
ulation of 125, 859, or a total of over
$40 900. In 1868 the vote was in
creased to 156, ESQ, a gain of 60,467
voters over 1860, showing an increase
of population of 513, 1863, or total at
that time of about 1929, 900. In the /
face of this nice calculation, so graft
flying to metropolitan pride, and so
convenient for Democratic purposes,
along comes this ruthless census of |
1870, and arbitrarily strips us of up
ward of four hundred thousand of our
paper growth. These sWindling cen
sus enumerators, the Democrats tell
US, have ignored nearly half a million |
of our population for miserable Radi-
cal purposes. They mark the figures |
down from ], 100000 and upward to
600, 900, and tell US that instead of |
one in eight and one half of the pop
ulation voting, one In every five and |
one half has been voting.
Now please to make a note of this |
fact: This remarkable increase of |
voters has been almost wholly Demo-
cratic. In 1860 the vote stood g, 1890 /
to 81, 293 Democratic. In
1864 it was sc, 6S1 Republican and 49, |
ZOO q A O0T Qo
publicans and 11.416 Democrats. In \
1868 it stood 47,747 Repu blican-a
gain of Ii ,066. to los, BOB Democratic |
"a gain of 1854. Thus, since 1860,
the Republican vote has increased /
vote has jumped up 46,010. This dis
parity is at least suspicious. In fact,
it confirms the accuracy of the very
developments the census
is making. of which now proceed to
speak.
The city is divided into twenty two
voting districts. The United States
Marshal in subdividipg the city for
the purpose of taking the census, has /
made each voting district census dis
trict, and the returns come In in adj
mirable order for comparison with
election returns. Thus in thirty six
districts In which the enumeration is
complete, and in all but one of which
large Democratic msjorities were re-
turned at the last and preceding cleo
tions for a series of years, the result
shows less than five inhabitants to
voter. In most of the districts re
ferred to there are not three inhabit-
ants to a voter; in some OF them not
two; and in one instance there WIRE
actually more Democratic votes est
at the election IN May than there
were residents IN The dlslrieb