The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1890-08-01
WAS NEW YORK STOLEN in 1888,

The Albany Argus has been comparing
the census returns with the election statis-
Tics OF some Of the republican counties In
the state, with the interesting result VI
showing the insufIiciency OF the census
enumeration, or else the stuffing OF the
ballot boxes. II says
Quitting Hudson, .hc fourteen rui al
towns Of Columbia were credited 3f,6z8
population In 1880, and east 1898 votes for
president. In 1888 they cost 5,IoI votes,
yet now are credited with only 37,o72 pop
ulation. Thus, alihouhg these towns
cast ago more votes, they are said to have
lost 4, 500 IN population. II is = notorious
fact that republican repeatcrs were colo
nizcd In Columbia coudtv In 1885, but Il Is
Incredible that 10 many could have voted.
Thus, although Cathan, the home Of the
republican boss, Marshal "Lou" Payn, has
diminished in population by $50, yet It's
vote IN 1853 was 100 against 900 In 1880,
loss Of only ~ Ifcatham Is $50 smaller
than In 1880, It's vote In 1853 would have
beea at least 100 less than In 1880, unless
the republicans swelled the vote fraudu
lently by bringing sixty or seventy repeat.
crs into the town on election day. The
census figures will give the people of Col.
umbia county something 10 think about.
Mess there were hundreds Of fraudulent
votes cast In 1883, the census Of 1880 IL a
fraud.
Some Of the other counties afford equally
curious results Between 1850 and 1883
the republican county OF Oneida, emitting
the cities Of Utica and Rome, increased
their vote over 100 while the population
diminished nearly 1000. The republican
national ticket, II will be remembered, was
saved by unexpected increases in the vote
In the republican rural counties Of New
York. Here Is one OF them wnere the
vote increased 100 as compared with 1880,
though the census shows 4 decrease 0i
nearly 1000 In the population. Is II Mr.
Quay's count or Mr. Porter's count that is
wrongi Mr. Quay's count Is the more
susPicoas Of the two. Oswego cousty has
a large republican majority: between 1880
and 1883 the population of the county.
outside OF the city of oswego, appears to
have fallen of 1000, but the vote Inc, eased
747. We ask the earnest attention Of that
eminent political mathematician. Henry
Cabot Lodge, and that equally eminent
mathematical politician. George FriSbie
Hoar, to these highly suggestive figures.
Comparing the census figures with the
election returns from t6 counties in New
York. the Argus shows that they are al
legged to have gained u 900 votes between
1850 and 1883 and ye: to have gained only
$1,000 inhabitants between 1880 and 1890
We would like TO ask Mr. Henry Cabot
Lodge II that Is not conclusive evidence
That the ballot boxes were stuffed Ia 1883?
The eircumstanilal evidence Is still
stronger when the vote OF the cities Is sep
Grated from the vote OF the agricultural
districts where the Unexpectedly large re.
publican vote gave Harrison New York
State and the Presidency. In these 10
counties, Il OF winch are republican and
Two democratic, there are - cities and
large towns purport to have increased their
vote between 1880 and 1883 10000 and
their population between 1850 and 1890
64.ooo. This Is about four inhabitants 10
a vote and il perfectly reasonable, but de-
dneiing the vote and population oil the en-
tire counties and we obtain these startlin e
and impossible results for the rural and
overwhelming republican towns In those
counties: Decrease OF population between
1880 and 1890, $1,000; increase otvote be
tween 1880 and 1890 1000.
This is impossible; no one can for a
moment believe that while the population
decreased $1,000 The honest vote increased
1000. The republican census bureau af'
fords the evidence that the republicans
secured the presidential election of 1881 BY
stufiisg the ballot boxes in the republican
agricultural towns of New York State
National Republican.