Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-16

An intelligent correspondent Of the New
York Times in North Carolina, furnishcs to
that paper elaborate tables Of the election
returns and CENSUS Of that State, which
seem to prove incontestably, tlat the Demo
cratic frauds there were fully equal to Mr..
| Tilden's majority. Tho statistics from
| official sources, show that the total male
population Of North Carolina, of y years
| old and upward in 1870 was Oh ,9l3, adding
to which per cent We have 22S, 1Oo as the
total adult male population in 1876, accord
ing to usual rate Of increase. Of this
population, of course the usual proportion
were idiotic, lunatic, and too sick to vote !;
and some were absent from the State, and
Others by neglect and mischance failed to
vote. NJ honest vote can ever equal the
whole number of adult males in the State
Upon examination, however. we find that
the Electoral vote Of North Carolina aggre
gated 234 ,73I, or 6,023 more than the phois
number Of adult males IN the State, This
showing is 80 astounding that the only at
tempt to account for it has been by the
claim that the census is inaccurate. As each
voter represents at least five persons, in order
that this excuse shall be held valid it is neces-
sary that We suppose an error Of more than
30 900 to have been made in population Of
Il little better than q million, even il every
adult male in the State was entitled to vote
and did vote. But the correspondent states
that from 200 to 1000 of adult males
were confined in different prisons Of the
State On that day, 20 that the census error
could not be less than ~ 600 to make the
vote cast an honest one. But it is to be
noted that the vote tell naturally below the
aggregate humber Of adult males resident
therein m every county in which there
was d RcpuLliean Board of Commissioners,
except two, aud in those two the excess was
very Slight The aggregate deficiency" in
the State is 1904, or, in other wCrds, there
were ,Uil adult macs scattered through
these counties who did not vote. They must
be deducted Us well as the G,O23 which are
in excess Of the total adult population. 81
that we have, in reality, u vote III the State
Of lG.0GI in excess of the aggregate ., adult
male. II it should be proposed To cover
this gap with the cry of error in the census,
it will require an error of upward Ut 80 geo
in littls better than 900 600 10 other
words, the census takers aust have missed
about every twelfth person III the State
That is prepo.terous This enormous vote
was the result of fraud 1t was accomplish |
ed, says this correspondent, by systematic
ally voting 1.-THE cradle and the grasc - At |
hundreds Of precincts there was scarcely n |
Republican who could read. Probably four !
ffths Of the young white Of the State |
were banded together in Den,0critic clubs. |
No cu.ored man dare dispute the age oi one
Of them So the Infant class" voted SOLD |
ly Tor Vanca aud Tilden. II any one viii |
take the pains to estimate from the census
of 1870 the number Of white male children
in the State who would bv ut thi4 time
bClNttu ~ anu - ythiN Oiu' ne WIS IthuHy
see where tho bulk Ui this impossible vote
came from So astounding IL the result that
tho Democratic papers Of the State had not
dared to publish the result by counties. 1t
will be seen that the jemonstrable fraud was
not lesI than 10 900 yote1 The actual fraud
was much gTenter. and ho fact ear be clearer
taan that uu honest count vi the legal vote
Of the State would have given its ten Elee-
tO-al votes To Hayes by considerable ma
jority. TiId.n's money aud the combined
effort Of unsefupulOu- Intelligence against
lgnorauce and poverty were sufficient 10
overweight the will OF the people. Yet in
the face of tins astounding iniaE.y, these
political Pharisees are horror strlEeu al the
ideu Of Republican frauds in louisiana, and
claim that an honest count would give Mr.
Iiden tl,, election