Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1890-07-05
agree that it is but fair TO take the
beam from their own.

THE EVIL AS 1T rs.
The total vote returned for ten
Representatives from Georgia i'm
1886 was 1880; i'm 1888 il was
1870, 134. In Mississippi the total
vote returned for seven Representa-
tives in 1886 was 46, 74S; i'm 1883
it was 115,216. In South Carolina
the total vote returned for seven
Representatives was BOOT, while in
1888 it was 1860. l have the
figures here from one hundred and
sixty four other districts, which l
will print as an appendix, and from
which / wish merely at this time TO
draw a few comparisons (see appen-
dix, Table III, Al.
An analysis of this table shows
that there were one hundred and
fifty-one Congressional districts in
each of which the total vote returned
for Representatives in 1886 exceed
ed the aggregate vote returned from
the ten Congressional districts of the
State of Georgia; that there were
thirteen districts in each of which
the total vote returned in 1886 eX-
ceeded the aggregate vote from the
seven districts of South Carolina,
and that there were six districts in
which the total vote returned exceed
ed the aggregate from the seven
| Congressional districts mississippi.
Moreover, an inspection and COM
parison of the election returns of
1888 showed that of four Represen-
tatives, one from Colorado Mr..
townsend, one from Kansas Mr.
PETERS,, one from Minnesota Mr..
SNYDERl, one from Nebraska Mr.
| DoRsEY1, each is backed by more
/ votes than are the seven Represen-
tatives from South Carolina-from
Colorado %, 600; from the Seventh
district of Kansas, $4,000; and from
the Fourth district OF Minnesota 81,
900; and from the Third district of
Nebraska, $1,000. Here are the
figures: Total vote of South Carroll
ma for Representatives in the fifty
first Congress as returned, 1860;
total for one Representative from
Colorado, %, 300; total vote Seventh
| Congressional district of Kansas,
80, pa; total vote Fourth Congress
district of Minnesota, S2,373; total
vote Third Congress district OF
Nebraska, 1892. The one hun.
dred and fifty-one districts above
enumerated each cast more than 81,
$40 votes for Congress candidates in
1886.
There are forty-five of them each
of which returned less than $4,000
votes for "A Representative in the
fiftieth Congress, and forty-one OF
those districts are in the South
Only fifteen of those districts return
ed as many as 10000 votes each
in 1886 1.-The average for the remain
ing thirty districts, with thirty
votes in the House of Representa-
tives east and returned a total o
125,O15 votes, which was 11,O0C
votes less than the returned vote o
the three districts of Nebraska
5000 votes less than the returned
vote of the four districts of Maine
nearly 10000 votes less than the
returned vote of the six districts o
California; only 1000 more thar
the returned vote of the
lfour districts of Connecticut; less
< han hali OF the returned vote OF the
seven districts Of Kansas; 120, 00e
less than the returned vote OF th'
twelve districts of Massachusetts; lesi
than one third OF the returned vot'
of the eleven districts of Michigan
10000 votes less than the returned
vote of the five districts OF Minnesota
. 104. 900 votes less than the returne,
vote of seven districts of New Jersey
considerably less than one seventho
81, IS -r.f, 60
districts of State of New York
little more than one sixth of tn
returned vote of the twenty-one dis
| tricts OF Ohio, and considerable les
than one-half OF the returned vot
of the nine districts of Wisconsin.
: Moreover, it was $4,000 votes les
than the returned vote of the te
districts of Virginia; 107 900 vote
: less than the returned vote of tn
: ten districts OF Tennessee; and 6!
600 votes less than the returned vot
: of the nine districts ofNorth Caroline
+ $4,000 less than the returned vot
= of the six districts of Maryland
5000 less than the returned vote {
/ four districts of West Virginia, an
5 293, 900 votes less than the returne
9 Missouri.
Z These figures, Mr.. Speaker, seel
e to possess some significance The
:. do not appear to me to be mere cur
e osities of arithmetic.
II a DAMAGING COMPARISON.
10 If the ratio of voting populate
h to the total population means an,
Is thing, and it is usually perfectly a
+ curate, then the population
p Georgia decreased 145, $50 sin
., 1880; the population of Mississippi
Al 1913, 154, and that of South Car
- lima 533,027.
d In Mississippi there was an enc
,e nous decrease of the vote betwe,
" 1876 and 1880. In 1876 the tot
&c vote was 164,77S, in 1880 on
=, III, O7S, a decrease. of AT, 700 vot
n in the short space of four years.
, | 1899 tho fOtol r,,uoho,. IS 80