Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-04

OPINION utllNeTeu 10 tue mhyOt, anu
which you state you had read in the |
newspapers. Neither did need any ex-
hortation upon the subject of fair appor-
tionments, as an equal apportlonment |
throughout the United States and perfect |
freedom and equality OF individual cleo
tor is reform 10 which | have given |
my earnest support, and which. IS
worthy that Of every public officer !
and every individual citizen. Had |
you read the correspondence with |
the Mayor, whose immediate concern
this business has been. you would
have found your topic already exhaust
ed. Such apportionmont You may. how
ever. be reminded would certainly and
permanently promote the success OF the
party TO which you incorrectly say all
the enumerat0rs OF the city OF New YORK
belong. 1t is much to be regretted that
in letter to me when acting upon
purely official matter you. as Governor,
should speak as a partisan and impute q
corrupt purpose to the census enumera-
tors to secure party advantages by d.
minishing the count Of New York city.
ISLANDER CHARGED UPoy THE GOVERNOR.
Your imputation against the enumera-
tors aud the census work - so entirety
gratuitous and uuiounded as to be SIAN
derors, as YOU should know that your
abusive course could not tend TO promote
that fair and judicial consideration have
been disposed to give to the application
of the Mayor. Your charge, imputIng
i l.. %, -
gests that rs your party think an m
creased population would lnure TO us
advantage the count of the police taken
as it has been since the Police Board OF
New York has been madep artlsan) needs
the very closest scrutiny and analysis.
The charges now being made IN New
York against the city government oy
| Democrats are not of a kind TO relieve
eny work done by it from the grayest
suspicion of reckless craftsmanship
Iour accusations, heretofore confined
to interviews and stump-speeches, began
even before the enumeration was an
nounced. Some of the Democratic news
papers in New York and elsewhere made
| the census-enumerators' work very dit
fcult by exciting the prejudice OF
| ignorance against it and It Is to be re
marked that you, as early as the
lst of July last. made an address
before the Hendricks Club at IN
dianapolls in which you bitterly as
sailed the Census Office and its work,
and asserted without any knowledgc
whatever the same evil purpose you now
send to me officially. You then repeated
newspaper criticisms and spoke OF the
great army Of inquistors sent prying
into our houses, asking impertinent cues
tions, making false records, ETC., and
YOU did not fail 10 notice the possible Ell
feet of all this in raising popular dis
trust and a Discrimination 70 respond 70
the enumerators. You did not succeed IN
these efforts to any considerable degree,
but you are largely responsible Tor
any inaccuracies that may exist. You
set the example by dcnOuncing law Oh
Congress and thus suggested its viola
ton by your less acute political iol-
lowers. Your early and continuous par
tisan assaults upon the census have had
| necessarily a motive which IS easily DIS
cerned. That motive points 10 an I'M
inst end. which l certainly shall not pro-
mote. il il but just that there should
be no delay ia completing the census
that the purposes for whichlt Is intended
may be accomplished.
THE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE SOUTH.
Yon further asserted in the speech
mentioned that lit the Republican
partyl will not repudiate that even more
nlainly declared policy OF breaking the
mower of the solid South in presidential
rs well as congressional elections by de-
liberately ignoring the vast increases OF
population in that section OF country
dnrinc the last decade The truth j.
that no complaint whatever has been
received from any southern State,
rs State, against the census, and the
: only serious claim OF an erroneous dur
mutton of population and representation
by a State came from the Republican
state of Oregon. Ont OF the ,, l8l
: counties in all the States and Territories
there has been no complaint whatever
save from MultOnomah county, 10 Ore
CON. There has not been q complaint
from any southern city that has not been
promptly and satisfactorily adjusted
: without o recount, save at Columbus,
Ga. and there was found an increase oil
1,13S only.
You seem to be against the census 70
be taken even by your own State. foi
Won vetoed tho bill passed by It's LeSlsla-
ture in 1883, and which was required by
its Constitution. 1t is reasonable 10
suppose that the patronage you seem 70
think SO influential in political affairs
would not have fallen into Your hands,
or, Judging you by the standard you
apply to others, your official action
would have been just the opposite OF
what it was.
????
Ash have demonstrated the great body
of the people OF the United States ar
, content with the census and are unin
fuenced by partisan assaults such a.
yours. Sustained by their confidence
shall proceed with the discharge OF my
official duties in this and all other bus
ness coming before me, carefully anc
t Justly, correcting what | may be con
,.;,ood 10 vvronO and fearleS,ly adherInc