Evening journal., 1890-10-13
TIE CENSUS ATTACKED.
A Sensa tional Story Printed In
New York.
DENIED IN ToTO AT WASHINGTON,

A metropolitan journal Claims 70 Have
Discovered Gigantic Scheme TO Tam
per with the Census Returns for Polis-
zeal Purposes-The Alleged Ploa
New York, Oct. 13.--The Sunday World
printed a sensational story charging that
the census returns for the whole country
had been willfuuy falsihed for political
purposes. Among tho Other eharges ware
the following;
Some 81 the Charges.
'Trhat a secret Office wGs fitted mp ia
Washington, at No. sD9 d street, d. W..
where a gang OF trusted clerks were de-
tailed to alter the true census roturns-by
scaling down the totals CT increasing this
same-that the growth Of tAe Democratic
states should not be honestly reported.
''fhat an order was given BY an official
IN the census Office with or withous the
connivanee Of men high IN authority In
the government) TO seale down the popu-
lation Of New York city iSa. 90. That an
order was given an officer In the census
office with or without the knowledge and
ernmenp to reduce the true census Of New
York state 300, go sontel That the state Of
New Hampshire, which has lost popula-
ton, was to be scaled mp 80 that les pres
snt quota Of congressional representation
should not be changed
THAT Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Mains
and Minnesota were to be worry Literally
a AZ III 40
npolis and st. Paul arose from stupid
misinterpretation OF Instructions Thaf
the southern states were TO be jumped
upon States that have shown Rysates
growth were to suffer to the extent OF IA t,
| 10 per cent.
"That this infamous job has, to iarg
extent, been carTied out, aud that when tn
researches Of The World frightened tn
| eonspirators they moved the secret ofiic
| from No. 900 ID street, Washington, L
Cathedral street. Baltimore, near the monu
| ment, where Cor the past six weeks IA
iastardly work has been in progress. Tha
| enough evidence exists to discredit th
whole census, independent OF the exposure
| ia New York city"
| Prosecution of the Alleged Case.
| The World further said that a certai
| Mr.. Morton organized the work Tn
second story Of three fioored house on
street tNo 300 was rented at $40 per month
and cartloads Of material from the censu
office were removed thereto. Twelv
clerks were engaged in July aud put I
work. These men toiled day and nigh
The tally cards Of certain states weI
brought to the d street house at nigh
retained a few days and then returned
the census Office
According to The Worlds story, til
landlady OF the house, Mrs. Duling, gre
curious to know what work was bein
prosecuted She asked Stephen W. No
ton, an appointee in the census oifloe froi
Winfield, Kan, and Census Clerks Saryi
Church, Wilson and Octavius, who WEI
employed on the work, for information
She did not get any. Shortly after this il
cident a great mass OF census materil
was burned ia the second story front root
Of the ID street house. A man named Ne
son was said to be in charge OF the work.
A Denial from Washington.
The Press Washington special this NOR
ing says; 1.-The story printed in Ne
York paper charging the census dspar
ment with having deliberately and fraudl
lently altered the returns so as to increai
congressional representation Ia Republies
states and decrease it In Democratic state
Is received here With indignation amor
, Republicans and fair minded Democrat
, Even those who are nos fair minded do ii
hesitate 10 say that the story Is highly II
! probable, based as IT Is upon the unsu
/ ported statements of an irresponsible &C
respondent, who ores only one witness, al
that witness denies ever having told sui
a story TO any one.
The u Street House.
o 1.-THE people who hive in the house on
! street, where it IS changed that certain co
d sus returns were burned ia order 60 eov
: up the alleged fraudulent work, are Ell
u phatic IN their denials that any such thin
!. ever happened there. No census work
I any kind WINS ever done ia the house. I
D. lnndlady never grew curious 20 know VIII
e work was being prosecuted there, beeaul
"a ~ she says, she never had any reason
i suspect that any one did any work the
No papers were ever burned In an op
fireplace on the second floor, for the We
s. good reason that there is no open frepla
i on the second floor Of the house IN ID sire
d. Stephen W. Norton, the man mention
70 as the confidential clerk to whom the
d legged crooked work was intrusted, Is no
5. confidential clerk in the census Office.
\. is simply an employee there.
r, Nearly Every One Denies II.
u 1.-THE story, coming as 1t does when
Q. perintendent Porter is In foreign laI
&c unable to defend himself, is regarded Ii,
re MS cowaraly attack upon man VIII
integrity has never before been question:
and every one mentioned in il emphatica
denies any knowledge OF it whatever, "
es the single exception Of Mr.. Norton, "
60 could not be found He has room at
n house in u street, but the people who /
Of there say he hos never had any compa
n. in his room to their knowledge
70 Secretary Of the Interior Noble and a
en ing Superintendent Chiids both brand
In story as a malicious lie
IN The World today says that it reser
as further information until all the deni
O. are IN.
Robe burrows Made a Will
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