The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-08-29
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inc 4W<s -. uouc good service n
the community Il the expense perhaps
Of is readers BY printing An article ten
columns in length upon the novel sub
lect of the popular vote Of 1876. The
World. aIasi - not liberal enough 70
give up ten columns in answering the
Itmss according 10 lists statistics.
but fortunately we need only dedicate
ourselves 20 the agreeable and easy
task q emphasizing the Times strong
points and carrying out the Times ar
gumentative processes 70 wider and
more impartial results II seems but
yeSterday-or. at most. the day before
that the Tines was using the election
returns Of 1876 As the best possible evil
dence 70 show that the population u
the United States had greatly increased
but let that pass.
II We have any quarrel with our con-
temporary. il is for failing at sufficient
length and with adequate heat to ex-
Gratis in stutiing the ballot-boxes and
manipulating the returns in the twenty
states which Hayes carried. and in
which As full vote was brought out in
1876 as in the States which went for
Iilcen- This Is the more to he re-
GREETED. that the Timss' appalling story
Of 1876 demonstrates the utter inutility
Of the Davenport system 81 Federal
Supervisors II IN spite Of books. maps.
armies Of Deputy Marshals and acres
II iron cages. millions Of bogus votes
can be cast and counted under the nose,
IS it were, q Davenport. it is surely
time 10 abolish system rs intellectual
- Il j. cumbrous and costly.
Of Florida we learn that the Demo
cratic claim rested on the Democratic
assertion that the Popularv0te amount
ed 10 1871. WHICH required that 1850
ballots should be cast in excess Of the
whole number Of qualified electors in
the State and VET. when the Repub-
hcaD Returning Board Of Florida .aTe
the State 10 Hayes. November 70, 1916.
it certified that 1862 votes had been
cast On the 10th Of December ID
certified 10 the Supreme Court that
Drew, Democrat had been elected Gov
ernor by . majority Of ls5 in = poll Of
ss.I63 votes Surely, il there were
only ~. al voters in Florida. the Re-
publican Returning Board. even II its
members felt compelled To count in .
Republican President on poll Of 49,
CO. ought not 10 have missed this OPP
portunity 10 count out = Democratic
Governor so. Too. in the CASE Of Lou
isiana- Ii the Iin<s can trust ke.l0gg's
Returning Board in 1876 10 make the
returns I5.OOO less .han they actually
were. Why should il decline 10 accept
Kellogg census enumeration Of 1875,
which makes the population lls.z77
larger than the Times desires il to be2
There can be no wriggling out Of this
IL the Kellogg count Of the votes was
good the presumption is that 50 was
the Kellogg count u the voters Be-
side. the Republicans didn't complain
that there was ballot-box sruffing in
Louisiana; they complained Of bulldog
ing. thanks TO which votes were not
counted 1T all And finally. as eli the
election machinery was in keliogg's
hands. il Is clear that in order 70 perpe-
trate frauds Of any son. he and all his
agents must have been bribed BY the
Democracy,
There il one Southern State which.
owing. doubtless. 10 . provoking typo
graphical error. the TiDes did not deal
with That is South Carolina Il went
for Hayes the total vote being ls5.543-
In 1875 census was taken by the Re-
publican Government. which showed
that there were in the State lS4.9f3
males above twenty-one. Mr. Hayes,
therefore. owes his election to the fact
that g9k per cent Of the male adult
population voted. and. as we learn
from the Times that Il i prima facie
proof Of fraud. for - per cent Of the
adult males TO vote in Mississippi,
why But reason tOtters on her
throne - such revelati0ns-and we for
bear Let us rather consider the North
To prove that the vote Of New York
was fraudulent. the Times rejects the
State census and invenfs one Of its
own IL Is really difficult to put the
salt of correction on the statistical
tail when ii Is not only airily wsgged
from bough to bough. but finally taken
up with . hop BY it, owner upon .
purely imaginary twig, which the
owner Immediately pulls up after him.
But we may assume IS = starting
point the declaration that il is = . sheer
impossibility- for $50 Of the qualified
voters Of any State 10 deposit their bal
lots It any election. and that recorded
vote Of 21.S per cent Of the whole pop
ulafion Is, therefore. record Of fright
full frauds In New Hampshire. which
went Republican in 1876. and Is
thought % be . moral and truly
rural State. we find, even II we
take no account Of probable de-
crease Of population since 1870.
that 1876 brought out . total
vote Of s0.l24. or something over s6-1
per cent II zl-3 per cent Of the pop
ulation Of Democratic New York is .
fraudulently large voting percentage.
what shall We say Of 21-l in Republic
can Iowa or ~ in Republican Kan