New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-18

the nurse and Of the power 10 c0hlrIi VI -. ~ gr
treates and appointments, the South ~ Also 10 i,i
| nish ali the votes TO elect the Democratic canu
dates save only the forty-seyen votes WHICH nus s
no ratified counted. or certheo OF eycepti"g
| Oregon Should the election DO closc' ~
il no know but the TWO D rh,ns
cratic houses may ma e gro9 statc,S electors
With mnch unemployed leisure on their nands; WIN
| the danger which the Electoral Commission o' Ioia
alone oyerpassed for that time staring the conny W.
| The face these Democratic house, have adopted no
measure TO insure order and right In ascertaihne'
resuf of the Presidential election. Should contTover
az arise and the election be thrown Iuto the House
there the vote being taken by states, the o'nin
wonld east nearly all the Democratic votes anu III
| fine Senate the vote for VcePresident Wouu co a
r"n The same source In every event of Democratic
success the Southern end of the Democracy pa, ~
must he TO the Northern end as the nv i; ae
the tender, the horse Is 10 tbe car InS ~ "
| pIa,n as any truth in gravltatfon or arithmetic
THE SOUTH CONTROLS THE DEMOCRATIC PAK'f'
perbans this point will seem to you to challenge
some attention. For the population or ooulncIh
States. we must 90 back to the census Oh 1917
| That count of the people was made by enuhera'ois
| not selected by southern Senators and members oi
the House as " non-partisans" and PROFESSIONAL re-
formers. II was made by the regular marshals and
! their deputies, and the compensation was 80 ad-
iusted as to induce thorough visitation and, at the
| same time. to guard against exaggeration OF num-
bers No imputation OF fraud was ever cast upon
| the work. Such thing plot to fabrIcate n
monsrrous increase of population in one section, III
order TO battle the OF nature and the logic Oh
| events in anOther-a plot to change the Da'ahce OF
power and population in order to aggrandIze one
section by establishing false basis OF representa-
tion and appOriOnment thus robbing other sections
If their share III governing the country. IN eVyihR
| taxes and apprOpriating money, had not at mat
| time occurred 10 the conservative foes OF radical
| ism. Tha particular spoke IN the wheel or dey-
trv had not turned up to the shiity patriot OF that
day. Now, such schemes seem to wax aDaee. We
read of producing false heirs 10 thrones ana esleS
but TO multiply false heirs without any TO person.
ate them on n scale grand as seems now IN process
| would stupefy the ingenuity of French novelist,
| or any body else except thorough-golnG non-par-
| tlsap conservative disciple of the Democratic per-
suason. wanting nothing for himself. but ready TO
do and suffer for white mans government with
| reform" and "a change"
| The suggestion Is that the census takers OF
1870 uuder-counted their neIahb0rs. Paid by the
head and by he mile, not by the day, IT IS now al
legged they robbed themselves; they neither tray-
ellcd nor counted. nor charged tor 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 and power, there was not the remotest
danger ri any direct tax and yet with nothing to
gain and everything lose, they wron0ed and
swindcd Themselves for the sake of being dishonest
Tbis ali NAV be- II il the only way of accounting
for the awkward wonders of the census now pro-
pressing II cannot be called ingenious because II lS
plainly the only possible explanation and 10 iimps
badly. Ecumcuical councils may SIT on these recent
fabulous census revelations but men VIII slll won
der how 43 per cent added 10 the poptr alton OF
a St'de ten years, during winch she received eX-
acty 1877 foreign Irmigrants-a TACT established
without the aid OF any Such an increase OF
population anywhere would crop ont IN unnnm-
bercd directions. Production, consumption, build
ingstilled acreage, railway traffic postal returns,
Immigration, would tell the story of such growth.
Wbrtber these teil-tale tests, which cannot be
smothered. sustain or demOllsh the proposed cOunt
in the Southern States viii incidentally appear fur
Their on, il your patience shall endure.
| was speaking of the population OF tho eleven
STATES. now twelve by the division of Virginia,
which seeded from the UnIon and now constitute
the chef power of the Democratic party. In 1870
1t was-whtte 1867, 2l3; black, 4l'3.ZZ2; t0tai,
1 246.43J. The total was % per cent, or SO OF
the population of the United States. The whites
were l6 of the whole population OF the country-the
blacks 70. The Democratic majority in all these
twelve States represents about SIX million people, or
- Der cent of our whole people, Ii to this number
be added all the people of tleSe States OF Whatever
color then tney represent not more than per cent
interests of the country; the other states Of the
| Union representing 93 per cent
TaE SOUTH IN CONGRESS.
Let us see how much National control is now in
the hands Of the South sclnt as 1t is in numbers
and interest Upward of thirty members sit in the
House of Representatives and in the Electoral Col
cges by reason of counting-the whole colored pOpu-
aton as citizens with full political rights, equal in
all things with the whites. This is double wrong
ard double robbery, just the extent 10 which the
freedmen are hindered or defrauGed of their vote
and their voice. To some extent this is trne, the
! election returns too clearly show. THIS representa-
ton based on sthod rights, is a plain violation OF
the Constitution and Of common honesty; but there
il is and there il votes and speaks in the Nations
The sixteen lately slave States Including Della
ware Maryland kentucky and Missouri, which did
not secedel have jhiTty-twO Senators. lhlltY-nlne
is a majority OF the Senate; that the south needs
ouy seven Senator'S from the other states TO make
a majority of all She will never fail 20 get them It
seven Northern Democrats are there. There are
In the House Of Representatives there are 293
members. 4 maj lrty IS ll1. 1ne S"ufn has lOO
members lacking only Al of 4 majority of all.
The Electoral College consists of 800 Il majority
Is lS5 The south has 13s. lacking only a. OF a
majority Consider the sway these Numbers have.
| In the Senate there are tTenty-eght committees,
ana committees not only prepare but virtually con-
troll egIslat on In both hOnses, and this must he 80
more and more as the houses ana the business
grow larger. OF these twenty-elght committees
the South has the chairnlnshlp OF seventeen ana
the control of all. The southern charmahsllps
| are OF important committees Delaware, Win
10000 people, ahont as many as the
county in New-York, has the chalrmanships of
thu Committees OF Privileges and Elections and
of Finance-both very important committees The
great state OF Ncw-lOrk, with live million people,
and her enormous interests and taXpaylng, mas Tor
her Democratic Senator the Chalrnanship OF the
Commit on Patents. West virginia has the
| Guardianship Of the Committee ON Appropriations.
winch holds TIA" purse strings of the country The
| great state OF Pennsy lvana has the embarrassing
of VISION of Laws, committee whose business
, was finished years ago. Virginia has the Chair
manship If the Committee on Pensions Georgia OF
Commerce Texas of Post Offices and Post Roads,
Missouri OF CLAIMS, North Carolina OF Railroads,
and so on.
have said the South has control of all the work.
inc commuters Tins ~ true nths way. On every
committee there is majority Of Democrats, and Oh
| these majority In all cases consists or southern
| Senators. >, ~,
The same conditions prevail in the House. There
are forty-two committees. The charmen OF twenty
two from the South. All the com nttees are 80
constituted that the majority il Democratic, ana
, ! of the majority more than halt Is southern.
| During the two years while TINS absolute power
in both Houses has been so lodged the existence of
the veto power, and she approach of the Presiden-
, tia canvass have suggested urgent reasons tor
: introduced. many that have been Introduced have