Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-05-02
IT NAY BE TRUE.
AN ALLEGED PIOT TO STEAL THE ELECTORAL
VOTE.
Black Enough b Have Originated in the Mind d
the Arch-IhiCi and Political Trickster.
Quay's Lieutenant Gives RePu6-
lean Scheme Away.

New YORK. May l.-Tha star pub
fishes an article in which a startling cX-
pose is made of an alleged Republican
plot to steal the electoral vote of the
country. The Enumeration of the next
census is toplay part in this. and the
plan is nothing less than 10 cut down
the enumeration in the South
by faulty and negligent work so
as to decrease its representation
in Congress and electoral vote.
Frank yelling Leach, the private see
rotary OF Matt Quay, is alleged To have
given the plot away at the late Pitts
burg banquet. Leach is represented to
have said in conversation with a Magce
Republican:
The census cnumeratOrs viii discover
very few Southern ncgros this year.
You can see in a moment, the important
result of this. We expect TO have the
census completed by June 20, thanks TO
an amendment To the laws proposed on
the subject by Sunset Cox The certlil-
cate of Superintendent Porter is all that
Congress uccdS TO take action for a new
apportionmcnt by our system OF count
ing. We expect the Southern States 10
lose AT least eighteen or twenty Repre-
scntativcS. If the negro is not counted
at the polls hc shall not bee i'm the
count.
The Northwestern States will gain
lust about the proportion that the South
ern ones will lose Minnesota will get
three or four more Congressman. and
Kansas and Nebraska perhaps "a half
dozen each, not TO speak of the D1kotas
and the rest of them.
But can such action bc forced through
Congress at the eleventh hour, against
an prcccdcut?" exclaimed his listeners.
in aSt0niShmcut.
1T can. and easily, too: You sec this
is not hasty scheme. Ii was decided
upon as soon as il was found that the
Democrats would re-district Ohio. Nc
ComaS' bill viii not be passed. as it does
not cover the cXigencics of the case.
PART OF A GREAT PLAN.
There is need for more radical ac-
tion. Everything that has been done
in Congress So far. continued Mr..
Leach. "has been part of great plan.
With Reed and his rules We now have
the House iu such shape that any meas
ure can bc rushed through whenever
and in as short time as may be neccs-
Sary.
The Senate has still To- be fixed, and
that is why Chandler introduced his res
o'ution for the new rules few DAYS ago.
Morton has gone away and will not bee
hazel, mill fine bottl.. is over
With ingalls, in tie chair, and the im-
proved rules in force. the measure can
be rushed through. If the Republicans
are solid. and right there is the only
stumbling block. There are "a few old
fogics I'm the Senate like EdmUnds.
Blair and Evarls. who kick 40 every
thing which is not done according TO
precedent and tradition. But they must
Doe forced into line The salvation of
the party demands il. The apportiOn-
mcnt bill is not all of the plan. however.
and special sessions of the Legislature
/ i'm certain States viii be called under DE-
rcctious from the National Committee
10 So rcdistrict for Congressional pur-
poses as TO make good most OF the in-
creased opportunities. II will bc Of no
use for the Democrats 10 attempt to fol-
low this line of action, for. with the
exception of one or two States. they
will find decided decrease. and not an
increase. to deal with.
WEST VIRGINIA CAPTURED.
"Now." asked the speaker trium-
4 phantly, what DO yOu think about the
next CourrO s.. and. of course. the same