The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-09-24


and the constitution, but the men of the South
who were against the Union and the constitu-
ton, men whose policy and purposes are still
hurtful to the country, are bound and predes-
tined to control Democratic administration
and Democratic Congress. In the Senate and
In the House the South has an overwhelming
majority of the Democratic members, and most
OF them are men who led in the rebellion.
Every party measure in Congress is settled in
party caucus by party majority. Thus the
Southern members hold absolute SWAY. In
possession of the law-making power, of the
purse and power to confirm or reject treaties
and appointments, the South is also. to furnish
all votes to elect the Democratic candidates.
save only the forty-seven votes which must be
ratified, or counted, or certified, or produced
from the Northern States particularly, not ex-
cepting Oregon. Should Oregon be close. there
is no knowing but the two Democratic houses
may find ground on which to throw out part
or all Of any State electors. With much unem-
ployed leisure on their hands, with the danger
which the Electoral Commission of 1877 alone
oyerpassed for the time staring the
country in the face, these Democratic houses
have adopted no measure to insure order and
right in ascertaining the result of the Presi-
Dental election. Should a controversy arise,
and the election be thrown into the House,
there, the vote being taken by States, the
NOuI0 NOulu IlCd4IJ un DGLuOCTdIlC fOleS,
and in the Senate the vote for Vice President
would come from the same source. In the
event of Democratic success the Southern end
Of the Democratic party must be to the North
ern end as the locomotive is to the tender, the
horse to the cart. This is plain as any truth
in gravitation or arithmetic. The South con-
trolls the Democratic party.
Perhaps this point will seem to you to chal-
lenge some attention. For the population of the
Southern States we must go back to the census
of 1870 That count of the people was made BY
enumerators not selected by Southern Senators
and members of the House as ''non-partisans'
and professional reformers. 1t was made by
the regular Marshals and their deputies. and
the compensation was so adjusted as to induce
thorough visitation and at the same time to
guard against aggregation OF numbers. No
lmputation of fraud was cast upon the work.
Such thing as plot to fabricate q rnonstrous
increase of population in one section in order to
battle the course of nature and the logic of events
In another, to change the balance of power and
population IN order to aggrandize one section by
establishing false basis of representation and
apportionment, thus robbing other sections of
their share in governing the country, in levy
ing taxes and appropriating money, had not at
that time occurred to the conservative foes of
radlcaism. That particular spoke in the wheel
OF deviltry had not turned up to the shifty pa
triot of that day. We read of producing false
heirs to thrones and estates. but to multiply
false heirs without any one to personate them
on scale so grand as seems now in process,
would stupefy the ingenuity of a French novel
list, or anybody else, except thorough-going
conservative disciple of the Demo,
cratic persuasion, wanting nothing for himself.
utready to do and suffer for white mans gov
eminent with reform and change. The sugges-
ton now Is that the census-takers of 1870
undetermined their neighbors. Paid by the
head, by the mile, and not by the day, it is now
alleged they robbed themselves. They neither
travelled, nor counted, nor charged for doing it.
They were carpet-baggers, too many of them in
the South. Their States were Republican; they
had their ambitions and motives for increased
political numbers there and power. There was
not the remotest danger of any direct tax, and
yet, with nothing to lose, they wrongeG and
swindled themselves for the sake of being dis
honest. VISIT
This all may be. 1t is the only way of ac-
counting forthe awkward wonders of the census
now progressing. 1t cannot be called ingenious
because it is plainly the only possible explana-
ton, and it hmps badly. Ecumenical councils
may sit on these recent fabulous census revela-
tions, but men will still wonder how 43 per
cent. was added to the population of State in
ten years, during which she received exactly
l39 foreign immigrants, q fact established with
out the aid of any census. Such an increase of
population anywhere would crop out in I'M
numbered directions. Production consump-
ton, building, titled acreage, railway traffic,
postal returns, immigration, would tell the
story of such growth. Whether these tell
tale tests, which cannot be smothered. sus-
tain or demolish the proposed count in
the Southern States will incidentally appear
further on, if your patience shall endure. In
speaking of the population of the eleven
States, now twelve, by the division of Virginia
which seeded from the Union, and now consti-
tute the chief power of the Democratic party
in 1870 it was White 7,067, 213 black, A. 49,
222 total, 11,246, 4S5 The total was % per
cent, or three-tenths of the population of the
United States The whites were one-sixth of
the whole population of the country, the blacks
one-ninth. The Democratic majority in all
these twelve States represents about 6,0OO.OOO
people, or about Is per cent. of our whole peo-
pie. If to this number be added all the people
of these States of whatever color, then they
represent not more than per cent. of the i'll
dustrial, commercial, tax-paying, property in
terest of the country, the other States of the
Union representing SO per cent.
Let us see how much national control is now
in the hands of the South, scant as it is in
numbers and interest. Upward of thirty MEM
bers SIT in the House of Representatives, in
the electoral colleges. by reason of counting the
WHOLE colorad population as citizens with full
political rights, equal in all things with the
whites. This is double wrong and double rob-
berry, to just the extent to which the freedmen
are hindered or defrauded of their vote and
their voice. To what extent this is true the
election returns clearly show. This representa-
ton. based on stitied rights, is plain violation
of the constitution and OF common honesty.
But there it is and there it votes and speaks in
the nations councils. The sixteen lately slave
States, including Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky
and Missouri, which did not secede, have thirty
two Senator's. Thirty-nine is a majority of the
Senate so that the South needs but seven Senators
from the other States to make q majority of
all. She will never fail to get them. if seven
Northern Democrats are there. In the House
of Representatives there are 293 Members
majority is lat. The South has 106 members,
lacking only fortv-one of a majority of all.
The Electoral College consists of $685. ma
jority is lS5. The South has 1873, lacking only
forty-seven Of a majority. Consider the sway
these numbers have in the Senate There are
twenty-eight committees. and committees not
only prepare, but virtually control legislation in
both houses and this must be so more and
more as the houses and the business grow
larger. Of these twenty-eight commit
tees the South has the Craftsmanship
of seventeen, and the control of all
the Southern Chairmsnships are of inn
portant committees. Delaware, with 10000
people, about as MANY as the city of Cleveland,
Ohio. or single rural county in New York, has
the Craftsmanship of Revision of Laws, a COM
mittee whose business was finished years ago.
Virginia has the Craftsmanship of the Commit
tee on Pensions Georgia of Commerce Texas
of PoStofices and Post Roads; Missouri of
Claims; North Carolina of Railroads, and so
on. I have said the South has control of all
the working committees This is true i'll this
way: On every committee there is majority
of Democrats, and of these majority in all
cases consists of Southern Senators. The
same condition prevails in the House. There
are forty two committees. The Chairmen of
twenty-five are from the South. All the commit
tees are so constituted that the majority is DEM
ocratic, and of the majority more than half
is Southern. During the t'c years while this
absolute power in both houses has Lsen so
lodged the existence of the veto power and the
approach of the Presidential canvass has sug-
gested urgent reasons for 'going Slow Many
expected bills have not been introduced many
that have been introduced have not been
passed; some that have been passed have run
against such obstinate opposition as to secure
present postponement or some modification.
But whenever the hour strikes that the veto
power is in Democratic hands, put there by
Southern votes, whatever the "solid caucus
DEGREES will be written That caucus will be
controlled by those who represent less than
of the people of the Union.
/ have said, also, that they represent not
more than one-fourteenth of the producing
commercial, industrial, tax-paying and property
interest of the country. Let me prove this BIZ
the official fionrea of tho R,1rnau af Cka4;sf;os