Daily Republican., 1880-08-10
REpUBLICAn TICKET.
Southern Census Frauds


Southern Census Frauds.
It is not alone in the use Of the tissu
ballot and the false count plan that th
Southern Democrats have proven then
selves masters Of duplioity and fraud
but in the enumeration Of the presen
census they have actually taken sew
eral degrees advance upon the election
frauds. II was however but Q small
matter to pass from false count ct a
election poll to false enumeration o
the people for political purposes. w
have generally been in the habit o
pointing to the young and thrivini
West as sample Of unparalleled pros
perity and rapid increase in population
Thithsr the vastitids of immigrants WHIT
reached our shores took their way and
cities and towns.sprangsipto existence
as if by magic. Bssides.this there was
= steady tide Of emigrationa from the
Southern States To the North and
Northeastern States and territories. not
only Of black people but Of white peo.
pie. 1t will be remembered that q
committee which has not yet reported,
was appointed by the Senate, to inves
tigate the causes which led to this Gre.
mendous hegira Of colored people from
the Southern States and it will also be
remembered that the Southern planters
did all they could to prevent the
blacks from going. and that they Sc
fiously entertained the idea Of intro
ducing Chinese laborers to take the
place Of the negroes who were leaving
by the thousands. Nobody ever
dreamed that there would be any in.
crease in the population Of the South
ern States with the possible exception
of some Of the border States and Texas.
It was generally conceded that II the
South held its own on the population
of 1870 it would do we'll. But now
comes the astonishing but not altogether
unexpected news from the South that
the Southern States will show an in
crease in population equal to thirty
and thirty-three per cent. This is
equal to if not greater than the increase
in the most prosperous Northern and
Western States except Kansas, Nevada,
Nebraska and Colorado. When the
stand was taken in the Senate against
the confirmation of the Supervisors OF
Census who President Hayes nominated
for confirmation, it was suspected that
some crookedness was intended and
that the object Of the Democrats was to
have some Democratic tools appointed
who would stoop to any fraudulent
plan to keep the census of the South
up to an equal standard with the North,
and had not the President given way
and nominated. the tools recommended
by the Southern Democratic politicians,
the South might have gone without an
enumeration of the census. As the re-
suit of this scheming and planning it
is announced from South Carolina by
no less parsonage than Senator Ham
burg Butcher Butler himself that the
population of South Carolina will reach
one million, which will be, an increase
of thirty per cent. over the census OF
1870, and General Kennedy at a meet
ing of the Confederate Survivors re-
union held at Lexington, in that State,
congratulated his auditors that the
census returns would show an increase
of thirty-three per cent. The evidences
of Wholesale fraud is shown in the fact
that while the greatest increase is in
the population of the cities in the
North, there is no increase in
Charleston and Columbia the two
principal cities in South Carolina. The
population Of these cities remain about
the same as it was ten years ego,
Where then can be South Cardinals
increase In the rural districts
The CENSUS all over the country show
that In the rural districts except in
new settlements there has been bu. O.
small advance. Even in Delaware
where we believe an honest census has
been taken while the percentage of in
cress8 Ia the city of Wilmington is
about thirty-three per cent, the increase
in the balance of the State has been at
the ia1thest not mere than eight per
ont. In South Carolina this condition
Of things has been reversed. The in
crosse has been entirely in the rural
districts, while the cities have shown
no advance. Can there be palmer
proof of fraud? 1t was expected that
had an honest census been taken there
would have been a decrease from the
South Of from fifteen to eishtesn Con-
gressnen, ard a corresponding increase
of that lumber from the North, but ao-
cording to the present fraudulent CEN
SOS count, thu 6oalh will not only ont