Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-25
Spirit of the German Press.
THE SOUTHERN CENSUS.

according to the preliminary fOOt1ngs
OF the returns of the census-taker during
the summer, the total population of the
United States amounts to about 49, 000, 900
souls. The probability, however, Is that
the actual number of inhabitants will lay
between As 600, 900 and AZ 900 900, and that
the remaining 10000 exist only in the
fanciful imagination of~Southern census
enumerators. Where and for what pur-
pose these falsifcatlOns of the census re-
turns have been perpetrated has been often
enough demonstrated Ia these columns.
The Southern States are determined to
prevent loss of their political power,
which would be the inevitable result OF
an honest enumeration. II the number
OF 10000 inhabitants is fixed as a basis,
which will entitle State to a Congress
man, and half millions Of inhabit-
ants will insure the right for the election
OF ten members Of Congress. For this
reason the Democratic Senate OF the
United States refused TO advise and con-
sent to the appointment of the census
officers selected by the President of the
United States, until the latter was finally
compelled to nominate those fellows who
were recommended by Democratic Con-
gressmen tor this purpose. VI course the
intention of these Democrats was syste-
matlCally to falslfy the enumeration, and
by such toul frauds to procure an uaab-
breviated continuance OF political power
for the South. This infamous swindle
has been carried on with such open and
shameless lmpudence that even the most
unsuspecting must perceive it at once. If
North Carolina, for instance, has in
creased in population from 1910 TO 1860,
during 20 years OF peace, only by $780,
203 souls, how can it be explained that
during the 10 years from 1870 to 1880 it's
population increased by 31S, $50 innabi-
tants? Virginia is reported as having in.
creased in population during these same
10 years since 1870 by 374 ,839-i. g only
$4,000 less than during the 70 years pre-
ceding the year 1870! Kentucky's popu.
latlon increased from 1860 to 1870 by
1S6,326 inhabitants, while during the past
ten years, from 1870 to 1880, its popula-
ton multiplied by 4l3,320, and that of
boast that, while the average increase IN
Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota and Hi
nois), since 1870. was only "a per cent,
the increase in seven Southern States
Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nilsson.
ri, Texas, Virginia and Delaware
amounted to 43 per cent! According to
this, those States OF the North west which
received three quarters of the total immi.
grafton of this country aud hundreds OF
thousands of settlers from Eastern States,
have only increased their population by
One-nalf more than those States with the
exception of TeXas) which have hardly
been touched by immigration at all. We
cannot, and no man with the brain OF q
chicken will, believe It'll The infamous
Justification is too plain! Like the city
of st. Louis for the last five years, unwar-
rantably Officially through it's M ayor)
asserted its population TO consist of nalf
q million souls, instead of 10000
so is the South determined to raise
It's population by few millions through
fraud and swindle in order to gain q
dozen seats more in the Lower House of
Congress than it is entitled to. The
question is: Is there no remedy? Ii the
Democratic party is victorious in No
vember in its Presidential and Congress
sional elections, then there is none! Then
the North not alone must accommodate
itself 10 this infamous swindle, but to
great many other things equally as in
famous. Against Democratic Congress
and Democratic President the North is
completely powerless and helpless. Only
If Republican President and Repub
Iican majority In the Lower House of
Congress should be elected it may be pos.
sible to thwart the objects of these South
ern census falsif1ers and their swindling
orlginators. So much is q settled tact:
that, if the Democrats should be success.
tul in November in gaining the power of
the Federal Government, they will main.
tain it by all the means of cunning,
fraud and force for many, many years /!
The domineering South would squeeze
the rich North to such an extent that in
the course of few decades the Northern
States would be only too glad to consent
TO peaceable separation. Thus we can
understand it when Wade Hampton tells
the Virginians that the South is lighting
IN this election tor the same principles
for which Lee and Stonewall Jackson so
heroically fought for four long years.
THE WADE HAMPTON DOCTRINE
The Pittsburg Tolksbzatt 0nd.), which
for some time leaned strongly towards the
Hancockian side of the question, is NOV
ing Its nightcap to the other ear, and, ad
justing its spectacles, writes the follow
ing: +" A few days since, Wade Hamp-
ton, of South Carolina, made a campaign
speech at Staunton, in Virginia, in which
he admonished the Democrats (among
whom there Is raging bitter feud) to be
harmonious. Among other things, he
said the following: The principles for
which the Democratic party fights to-day
are the same for which Lee and Stonewall
Jackson fought 80 heroically during four
long years So, SO! Lee ard Jackson
fought for the destruction OF the Union |
What they could not attain on bloody
fields shall now be achieved by arr
process. e., at the ballot-box And
Democracy is the standard-beare of these
fellows; it continues to do the business
for them. That is really beautiful ad-
mission indeed, and the Republicans can.
not wish for better campaign material
than such unreserved and open.hearted
assertions. What have you, Union men
of the North, Democrats as we'll as Re-
publicans, to say to this?"
WHO Is THE LABORERs' PARTY.
The New Jersey FreSe Zeitung writes
editorially: "Whoever Is not entirely
without sympathy for the fate of his fell