The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-29

yoke0 SucH aCttVu "" NV f'"'' y.
~ would prevent the southern States from
being deprived Of their fair share OF repre-.
sen,stIce In Congress, as they had peen Ior
years deprived, aud which wrong 70 ''e
sou,h a. the matter n representation mao
besu sae means OF defeating MI. tiLpSs :"
nj, = ce for the presidency in 1915. :.
m June OF last gear the same Cincinnati
fo<.mercial which Is now attempting 10
make lis readers believe that the census OF
she South Is incorrect. although large ma
ority OF the Supervisors IN the South are
Republicans, soreshadowed Its present
conrse. The following remarkable dec'ara-
ton appeared In that paper about tue iase
81 June. We find 1t reproduced ia the
Ddiiu Dispdtch OF July 4, 1879. The de-
claration was in the words following 10
wit:
Affsr The merit census II ,oW make Gerry
1 tue difference uhether The South IS SOFA or
not"
That ut,erance, remember, came out
wear besore the census was taken! no"
did the Cincinnati stalwart know SO wen
a wear beforehand that an attempt was
again 20 be made 10 defrand the South OF
her due share OF representation 10 Con-
pressss The wish was father to the thought.
The Commercial hoped earnestly Tor re-
nor,ed decline In the strength OF this Sec
tiou as compared with the northern section
Of the Union, anG, misiaking maligBny lot
4 nsisration, undertook to prophesy what
copeprnQd wand lie
the result Of the new census.
Eere Is another most untustihsoie pre-
diction OF the same Cincinnati Commercial
This one appeared about the list OF Jniy,
1879. We qoute:
nThe NEXT census will tell against the
Soutb. taxing from that section, on Iair
basis of representation, about twenty mem
bers of Congress; and the census oil le9o
will be still more sweeping Then the
sol,dity OF the South will be OF political con-
sequence only in being fatal to any party
that accepts it.. The South, instead OF DeihS
n coeouai section, will shrink to aquarter
section, and our sectional troubles VIII ter
inmate"
The census OF 1890 would, 1t was pre-
. dicted, take away about twenty OF our
Southern members OF Congress! Oh, false
prophet, the South will gain large number
of members il the present ratio OF represen'
tation be continued las Of course 1t VIII not
be). and will gain a few members under any
probabIe ratio. Certain il is that she is
more populous relatively to the North than
she was in 1870 according 10 the bogus
census OF 1870.
In replying TO the remarks last above
quoted. we, on the 4th OF July, 1870, said to
the Commercial:
"This opens up fine prospect for the
South. But happily for Us OF this section,
the Commercial Is ignorant OF the subject
which II discusses. Professor Walker, who
will have charge OF the taking OF the next
census, said in a recent interview that peo-
nile who talk as the Commercial does are
mistaken, it being, in his opinion, doubtful
whether the South would lose any OF her
relative strength In Congress. We might
saw that we knolo she will not II fair re-
apportionment OF representation is made:
1--WE have said that the commercial is lg-
uorant Of the subject which 1t discusses.
The increase OF population in Texas since
1870 Is equal TO the entire population OF
Kansss. Texas now has but six congress
men. She will be entitled TO from thirteen
to fifteen under the next reapportionment
whilst all the New England States togetner
will not gain one member. As TO Arkansas,
the gain i'm that State alone will offset the
gain in Kansas. Virginia has doubtless in-
creased in population more rapidly in pro-
norton 10 numbers than any one OF the
northern middle States. IL is Impossible
that Virginia can lose even one congress
man under any fair re&pportionment unless
the ratio be placed above 100000. In the
first place, she was cheated out OF her que
propertion OF representatives under and by
means OF the census Of 1870. Her popula-
fion now is surely not less than 100000
a number that would entitle her to ten rep
resentatives based upon population OF
$4,000 to each. SO as to all the southern
States without exception. we suppose. Inc
last census was fraud uponthem. III was
census manufactured in the interest OF the
s Republican party. Topetendtobelievet that
the finest States 10 the Union, now That
dhere are no slaves to deter Immigrants
from settling In them, have not increased In
population as rapidly, relatively, aS the
northern States, which were already over
crowded, aud which are oyerrun with yaga-
bonds and tramps, is TO show that prejudice
Minds the judgment OF the man pretend
iUg so to believe.
All we desire ia the matter is fair CEN
<yus, II such census results In giving Mas
saChusetts two congressman to our one we
shsI: not complain. But we do not wish to
be%hested again. The South has only lbs
uutpf $3.50 electoral votes. Surely she is en-
tiux6 20 MORE"
Considering that those three paragraphs
were,y.it teu In July, 1870, the guesses as
to the census are remarkably good. Arkan-
sss shows gain Of 32s,s0t ON population
in lS7Q Of 4S4,47l-not quite as large an in
erase. VA think, as that reported In Kan
sas. but large enough to prove our predic-
diction snostantially true. Arkansas now
reperis "a population OF Se9,IU. Texas
has gained largely enough to entitle her to
about twelve congressman il the present
ratio OF representation be continued. All
the Etsy England States together will not
gain q .membes under the new ratio. Nir.
GINA Ans Increased in population more
rapidts,fn proportion TO numbers than any
one Of the n9ttbern Middle States. she
will nos asse "a congressman.
Let The rcader,not overlook the fact that
General M%LKxg, refused In 1879 to coneede
that the Southwould lose any part OF her
representation In Congress. We have conf
dence In Gsaperal WALKER, and trustingly
expect him todo all that Ia his power lies
TO secure a eGfreet census OF every State In
the Union. AS we said last year, we say
low, give us a fair census, and we will