New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-31

familiar, and they win illustrate the whole Aiken
Bornwcii and lexington Counties This census claims
for Aiken County lS2i17 while the three o nn eI
| or about As per cent. Hampton County was created
| in 1878 by cutting of the upper part OF Beaufort
County. This census claims for oosz7
Beaufort County $50
For Hampton County .....-.--... 1904
The same territory had ~ 1850
| cain Of 40 per cent ...1 IL. 742
Hampton County was by this showing a new Demo
| cratic county; Beaufort County contains a
large pIepOndcTance OF coored inhibiants VINO mostly
live the islands and the rice plantations near he sea
coast while the upper part OF the county near Hampton
| fort and hampton Counties. and | know that
oSsa TO h Be,pG County, a from Hampton Esreed
aud Barnwel 10 be free from Democratic controi ana
Beaufort County las Increased at the expense Of the
upper counties though the census VIII not snow tns
fact II assume that Beaufort County had not grown
any under Republican rnle, as the Democrats cain
thcn the difference between the population OF 1870 ana
the present population plus gains since the separa
non must represent the population OF HAMPTON. This
difference II 5.sO2 and yet Hampton claims 1904.
gain OF 1912 IN two thing which Is TOO prepos
teros figures Hampton Is sparsely settled farm
ing county of poor pine land and swamp IL las no cry
and town OF magnitude; only few cross-roan
villages Of from so to 100 inhabtsnts and only two
places in the county have country tavern IL mas DO
manufacturing and is emphatically one OF tne poor
countless but solid for Democracy. do not believe that
ten new families nave moved INTO the county s ',,s
off, while many have moved away Inc returns
of this census Will uniformly show loss OF popuaaon
ones Ihis is the VII Congressional District Beaufort
County counted below It's population WINE me upper
or white counties awarded the following gains:
Barnwell. 4o62 Coleton .-".---- 9.S4o
Aiken and Edge field 3l.3ls - oco
Han pton............l2,742 Total.-..-..-.37'e62
This is about AZ per cent OF Democratic coun-
tics. - III,
That this census prepared for Democratic use VIII
apparent BY looking at the figures or past eectobs
The Republican Administration of 1874 was admitted 10
be The OF any the war AZ that line i'm.
the parties Stood taking the i've Confessions Dis-
tTlcts units TO ecOn0mlZe space as IoHO"S'
Republican majorties IN LIST, lid, IVth and WIN
Democratic majority lid 2,159
Republican majority.
PURPOSE OF THE DEMOCRATS.
Ii was the manifest purpose of the Democrats to wipe
out that majority the next election and they thought
they had done so. But 1876 Presidential year
and called the largest vote ever had in that state
The Republicans beng in power would prevent good
deal Of fraud and South Carolina opening to be one OF
the deciding States on the electoral vote much at
tention was directed it that ii was impossible for
Them after the election to rectiiy any omission Con-
sequently the result was as fOows
Democratic gains in Republican gains IN
Win Distncts % 663 Districts. 49,. 1925
Loss III Hid District 2'ls7 Losses IN illd ana -,
Net gains. .........10,614
This gives as the total Democratic gain. 9s62 Bat
this was not enough they succeeded In some way IN
getting things fixed" in 1878. when. on a very much
smaller vote being poled we ma tne IooWlnG Ic'u'
announced:
Democratic gains IN every district 26912
Republican losses in every dlstrict-.-..--- 44'e4o
Total Democratic observation-disclosures. 71752
There change of opinion in two years equal 10
of the population in the South have not
heard of any budCzng then. and cannot see rea-
for while this count stands good The analysis by
districts showsthe successive votes ana counts to be: