Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-18
Weather Forecast.
THE RETURNS.

The tabulated returns published by
us on Saturday disclose some curious facts.
Mr.. Markham's plurality over Pond is
1881; but Bidwell receives 10000; the
result is that Mr. Markham lacks some
1900 votes of a majority of all the votes
cast. Los Angeles and. Orange counties
together show decrease of 2,3O3 votes in
two years-that is, between the vote for
the Presidency in 1888, and the Guberna-
torial election in 1890. Sacramento at the
same time shows an increase of 1877 in the
two years. The increase of votes in the
whole State is nearly 5000 between 1888
and 1890. The counties of San Diego
and Los Angeles decreased about 5000,
thus making the increase of votes
north of Tehachapi in the neigh
borhood of 5000 The most remarkable
showing, however, relates to San Fran
cisco. In the State election of 1882 San
Francisco cast 3S,913 votes. In 1890 it
cast 53,260, being an increase of 1858.
The vote for Governor in 1890 is an in
crease of about As per cent. on the votes
of 1882, while the entire increase of the
population of San Francisco, according to
the census, from 1880 to 1890 was 90 per
cent 10 city, then, whose population
Shows an increase of 30 per cent from l $50
to 1880, there is exhibited an increase of
Its voting population of 45 per cent. in
the last eight years of that time.
In the decade between 1890 and 1900
the population of Yolo county is said to
have increased but 912 Of these. Sl2
were credited to Woodland, leaving prac-
tically nothing for the rural districts of
that county. There is, however, gradual
Increase of the votes of that county from
1879 to 1880, as follows: 1879, 1923
votes; 1882, 1872 votes; 1886, 1854
votes; 1890, 3,24S votes. The in
crease from 1879 to 1890 in the voting
population is about 80 per cent. Yolo
county had over 1900 inhabitants, ac-
cording to the census of 1880. The whole
population increases less than a thousand
according to the census of 1890, while the
voting population in the same time in
creases 80 per cent. The whole population
according to the census of 1890 shows an
increase of but per cent.
Butte county, according to the census,
lost 81 inhabitants between 1880 and
1890, decrease of six per cent. The
votes at the State elections in Butte county
ran from {, 426 votes in 1879, to 4, 469 votes in
1880, an increase of over 200, which upon
the 3, 426 votes cast in 1879 is an increase of
over so per cent; or to state this in more
conspicuous form, a county that has lost
SIX per cent. of its total population gains
thirty per cent. in its voting population.
1uba county furnishes more striking
instance of the difference between its vot-
ing population and the census of the total
population. The total population in that
county in 1880 was II ,2S4; in 1890, 1856;
loss of LIS, or about twenty per cent.
of the population of 1880. Now the vote
at the State election Immediately preced-
ing the year 1880 was 2,193 in 1890, it
was 2,5l1, which is gain of 10 per cent.
In this example, county loses twenty per
cent. of its entire population in single
decade, and gains 10 per cent. in its voting
population.
The increased vote in the city of San
Francisco is very suggestive of fraud. At
the same time, we are beginning to enter
tain serious distrust of the accuracy of
the census entertainments when counties
like Yolo, Butte and Yuba, wherein fraud
on the election is almost impossible, show
decided and healthy increase in their
voting population, when the census dis
closures indicate very serious decrease in
the totals.