The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-09-25
SOME INSTRUCTIVE FIGURES.

of it's researches is the following highly
interesting and well-digested article:
Horace Greeley used to say, in his
inimitable way, that the Democratic
party was the synonym of vice and ig-
norance and he proved his assertion by
q comparison of the records of illiteracy
and crime in the respective Congress
sional districts OF the city of New York.
These figures showed that where the
largest quantity of whisky was con-
sumed, where there was the most wife
| beating, where there was the most
squalor, Indebtedness, poverty and
crime, there Democratic majorlties were
largest. Greeley is dead, but the con-
.ditioDs under which the Democratic
party fourishes remain the same. The
worst districts of New York now, as in
the time of Greeley, return Democratic
Congressman, and the best districts
elect Republican Congressman. That
which is true of New York city is true
of Chicago. The wards of this city
where vice and crime are most preva-
lent are Democratic wards. Given
the character for intelligence, virtue,
and thrift of political subdivision
of the city, and any student of
politics will very accurately estimate the
division of its votes between the two
great parties of the country. An expert
statistician at Washington city has been
engaged lately in the preparation of a
paper which shows that the distinguish
ing characteristics of the Democratic
party in New York city and in the city
OF Chicago are equally its distinguish
ing characteristics in all parts of the
country. For instance, the writer
shows from the ninth census that the
States which gave Republican MAORI
ties for congressman in 1878 contained
697 ,238 illiterates Cpersons who could
not read), while the States which gave
Democratic majorities contained 3,722,-
3oS llllterates-o foe to one. He
shows that the Republican States pos
sessed $2l,0O0,0O0,Oo0 in property.
while the Democratic States possessed
but $9,000,0OO,O00; that in the Repub-
hcan States customs revenue to the
amount of $116,O00,OOO was collected,
while in the Democratic States customs
revenue to the amount of only $1,000
600 was collected; and in internal rev.
enue the Republican States show an ex-
cess of collections over the Democratic
States of $8,0OO,OOO. Thus it appears
that illiteracy and lack of enterprise go
hand in hand, and both cling to the
Democratic party.
A curious feature of the exhibit 10
found in the analysis of the vote of 1878
for congressman. By the census of
1870 the Republican States contained a
population of 19,289,823, while the
Democratic States contained popula-
ton of only lS,314,435-an excess in
Republican States of 996,399. The Re-
publican States polled $780, 1884 votes.
while the Democratic States polled
only 1889, 1876 votes 1898, 249 votes less
than the vote of the Republican States
But, with nearly 100000 less votes.
the Democratic States secured sixteen
more congressman than were chosen by
the Republican States! On the aver
age of the total vote, assuming, in
equity, that it requires the same num-
Der Of votes to elect Democratic as
Republican Congressman, the Republi-
can party would have secured 1859 mem
bers of the present Congress. and the
Democratic party 125 members. This
is startling proposition, but it results
from the comparative votes of the two
parties. The excess of Democratic
Congressman on the deficient vote of
the Democratic party as compared with
that of the Republican party represents
Democratic methods - terrorism, in
timidation, the shotgun policy, BULLDOG
ing, and fraud. No matter how humiliat-
ing and shameful the reflection may be,
it is best that the American people
should realize that Democratic control
of Congress was secured by crushing
freedom of political discussion and
action, by coercing citizens, by the
spilling of blood, and by deliberate
frauds upon the ballot-boxes.
But the Washington statistician
shows much more than this. He shows
that the control of Congress secured
by violence and murder is lodged en-
tirely in the hands of Southern men
ex-Confederates who lately sought the
destruction of the Government. The
Democratic side of the United States
Senate counts twenty-eight members
from the South and only twelve from
the North, while the Democratic side
of the House consists of 100 members
from the South and only fifty-five from
the North. The committees OF both
Houses are SO constituted that major
ity of each is Democratic, land ma
jority of that majority is Confederate"
Thus the South controls with an iron
hand all the legislation of the country;
and let it not be forgotten that this
control was secured, not by the free
will Of the people of the South, but by
prohibiting a free expression of their
wills through exhibitions of force, and,
whenever necessary, the commission of