Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-15
For State Omcers.
THE VOTING ARMY.

The officials of the census office estimate that the population has increased about twelve per cent. since the census was taken | in 1880. Estimating the increase of voters at the same rate it is found that the number l of male inhabitants twenty-one years of age 1 and over in the United States, emitting the territories, is in round numbers 14,O0O, ,000. Of this number 5000, 900 are native white, $500, ,000 foreign born, and 300, 900 colored.
 New York has 100000 foreign born males over 21 years of age Next in the list come Illinois and Pennsylvania, with 300, 900 each;
 Ohio, fourth in the list of foreign. born vo- ters, having but 100000 foreign born citi- zens over 21 years of age Wisconsin has nearly as many, the number being but fraction below 100000. Massachusetts and Michigan have nearly 100000 each; Califor- mia, Iowa, Minnesota and Missouri about 130, 900 each. The State with the largest number of co1ored voters is Georgia, which has nearly 150, 900 males above 21 years of age. Mississippi has nearly many, and Virginia has 130, ,000. Connecticut has 56,- 900 foreign voters out of population of 200, 900. Probably considerably more than 50 per cent of the foreign voters of this State are Irish Florida has about 7O,0OO voters, of which nearly one-half are colored, and 1, ,000 foreign born. The foreign-born vote of Florida is largely Cuban. Illinois has over $50, 900 voters, of which 300, GOO are foreign born, and 15, 900 co1ored. Among the foreign born citizens of Illinois the Ger mans and Irish are about equal in numbers,
 with sprinkling of Norwegian, French and Italian Maryland, which has been spoken of as possibly doubtful State, has 25O, 900 voters-50, 900 of them colored, and 40, 900 foreign born. Massachusetts has 550, GOO voters-about 190,000 of them foreign born,
 and 6 ,0O0 or 1000 colored. The majority of foreign born citizens in that State are Irish
 In New Jersey there are 330, 900 voters-1O,- 900 colored and 0O,000 foreign born-proba- b1y more than 50 per cent. of the foreign element being from Ireland New York has ], ,50O, ,OOO voters, 600, ,00O being foreign born,
 the majority, of course, from the Emerald Isle. There are also in that State over 10000 colored voters North
 Carolina has in it's 3O0,O0O voting population 10000 colored voters
 South Carolina, which has 225, 900 voters,
 has 125, 900 colored and 4,OO0 foreign-born, OnlO, out Oi SUU,OUU HOGorS, mas SUU,UUu 1Of- eign-born and nearly 25,O0O eolored The large majority of the foreign-born element of Ohio is German. Pennsylvania has 1 1,OOO,- 900, about BOG, ,O0O of them being of foreign birth and %, GOO colored. Tennessee, which
 has BOG, 900 voters, has about 9O,OOO oolored votes and 10000 of foreign birth. Virginia has, out of 370,0 ,000 votes, 40, ,000 col
 ored and 1O GOO of foreign birth West Virgin ia has 15O, ,O00 voters, 10000 of them foreign born and 1000 colored. Wisconsin has over 200, 900 voters, large proportion being Ger mans and considerable percentage Scandi-
 navians. The colored vote in Wisconsin is very small, being no more than 2,000 out of the 40O, 900 voters in that State. The State
 with the smallest number of voters is Neva-
 da, which, supposing it to have increased double the general ratio, will have in this election less than 40, 900 voters, while Della l ware has but 5000, Oregon 10000, and I Rhode Island little over 75,000.