Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-01
PERENNIAL POLITICAL PRoFLIGAcY.

PERENNIAL POLITICAL PRoFLIGACY.
Indiana is the center of the most pecu-
liar politics in the United States. 1t is.
to politics what the clark and bloody
ground" was to the frontier settlements
of this country. Any conceivable atroc-,
ity is possible there. The perform
ances of Stephen w. Dorsey, with his
new and crisp two and fve-dollar green
backs, introduced the new and corrupt
Republican regime of that state. Dud-
ley, with his "blocks of five," reinforced
the evangel of political backsheesh.-
There is no refinement of political leg
erdemain and no .fnesse of sharp practice
that is not to be looked for from that de-
batable land. A dispatch to the Chicago
Times from Newcastle, Indiana, under
date of June 21st, shows how the census
is being worked in the Hoosier state.
1t says that: George Washington
Bunch, census enumerator of
Newcastle, while plying citizen
of this place with his multifari-
Gus questions today, by some means
dropped little book from his portfolio,
which attracted gentleman's attention.
On the first page of the book was list
of instructions for polling purposes.
The gentleman, who was once news
paper man, hastily took an abstract of
the headings of the book, which were as
follows: "Name, postoffice, Republican,
Democrat, National, Prohibition, Labor
Union, Farmers Alliance, ,Greenbacker."
In all on the first page of the little book
there were eight instructions, only two
of which the gentleman was able to
copy before the careless enumerator re-
turned for his treasure in great haste.
Instruction No. 4 reads: "In the column
for remarks insert what kind of litera-
ture will reach him." Instruction No. s
and the last reads: Remember that si-
lence is golden and be very judicious in
all things" This is, indeed, an astound-
ing evidence of the dastardly deeds to
which the Republican party resorts in
using public servants to further their
private political schemes. Evidence is
coming from all parts of Indiana that
this scheme is being worked by the Re-
publican party. J.
There is something SO essentially base
in such prostitution of the functions of
the nar1onaI government Jo par oi1an s,rf-
vantage that one would be tempted to
discredit such programme. But no one
really familiar with the history of Re
publican politics would venture to do so.
That party has not only used the ma
tional census to increase its partizan ad-
vantage, but it has also suppressed
enumerations that should have been
taken, the suppression being made to
increase its preponderance in the two
houses of the United States con-
gress. In the census of 1886
the population of New York
was notoriously undervalued, with
the view of retrenching the representa-
tion of the metropolis of the country
overwhelmingly Democratic-in the
house of representatives, and of throw
ing to the rural Republican regions both
the United States senators for the en-
pire state for decades upon decades. Of
course, this was of the essence of the
most offensive political turpitude. Yet
it was done by people who were dis
tinctively of the guild, 81 an
holier than thou by whitec
sepulchers whose .suave and in
sinuating ways were light and {
beacon-if this confusion of metaphor
can be pardoned.
Not only was the census of 1880 burkee
and butchered, but the same sanctimon
ious Republican party of New York fol
years trampled under foot a provision O
the constitution of that state which pro
vided for an intercalary census-that is
one which should provide for a census
midway between the federal censuses
They never allowed such census to bt
taken because, from the moment il
which it should be recorded, and the
people of Southern New York should bt
allowed their legitimate influence ant
numerical weight, both branches of the
New York legislature would be Demo
cratic and the New York senators il
congress would be of the same party
OF course there was good deal Of snuf
file and sniffle and beating about thu
bush in the matter, but the real princi
pie or rather the real lack of principl,
underlying it all-was base seekin.
after partizan advantage.
Certes, hypocrisy, which has been 81
luxuriant in its growth in all ages of tn
world, is not likely to become exotic il
this day and generation, and the lushes
and most artificial growths of the stapl
have taken place under Republican
leadership, and will so continue to tax
place. 1t is unfortunate that it shoul
be so, butit groups itself under the cate
CORY particularized by the poet, an
which runs, "'Tis true, tits pity, an
pity it's, it's true"
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