The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-20
THE CENSUS siATTER.

THE CENSUS NATTER.
AS the enumeration Of the people O
Roanoke progressed, he TINES mor'
than once had reaso.' 10 criticize tn
work. It claimed, aud not withou
reason, that the enuu,eratcrs were no
doing their duty, and several times prs
sented the names Of )oople who ha'
not been called on.
In recent editorial We suggested
that the citizens take the matter into
their own hands and ave police cen.
sus taken so as to rove to OUTSIDE
parties that our popu alton was more
than the enumerators gave. The PEG
pie who resided here needed no sucl
proof. The suggest. n was received
most favorably by th" citizens gensr
ally and by our conte 1poraries.
No one for an ins mt doubts tina
Roanoke has more tn l6 400 people
This is the number g, 'sn by Snperin
teudent SLEMP, and was printed ex
clusively in the TIN IS Of yesterday
morning. No one aili doubt eithe
that the position Of -..is paper on tbs
census question is ne proper one
When the enumeration was finished We
printed the following .ditorial, and il
our opinion it cor aims good sole
sense.
At last the census his been compiet
edand the returns fir II Roanoke have
been forwarded to tt authorities a
Washington.
1t is now too late have any Of tbs
returns corrected, nd whatever i
given us we must tah as our portion
and accomplishing y submit to the
most unjust and inc rect census ever
made in these Unite, States.
From time to tine this papei
pointed out gls ling inaccura
cies in the census. ne TIMES coult
name at this mon Mt fifty people
who have not be- I counted, ano
Mayor ESQ is among ne number.
The enumeration 8 it was done IL
Roanoke cannot be considered ser
ously. The returns will be perhaps
1000 persons, and t. ere is no doub'
in the mind of any Ole that there arr
a great many NOR people hvlns
here.
What is needed is police census
We should have it b all means, anc
there is no good ! ason why this
should not be. TIL public-spiritee
citizens of this town should show tc
the world the correc. census OF Roa-
noke, the marvel of re New South
In Denver and st. Luis the citizens
are Paying for a n y census. Why
can't they do it in Roanoke.
Now comes our e.teemed contem-
porary of the postc ice loft with {
comment. We prin; it in full so tina:
our readers may judi for themselves
who is or is not risat. The TIMES
IS able to stand GOV It snsers with E
serene contempt, b,. it never let's &c
liberate misrepresen iation so unchal-
lengsd. This, we thilk, our morning
contemporary is gu y of. But hero
Is the Herald editorie.
We take the above rom yesterdays
Roanoke TINES.
We hope it is not . fair sample OF
our contemporaries accomplishing
submission to wroizs.
But, seriously spe, King, the TIMES
has several sins Of o,.tission and COM
mission to answer fr in connection
with the census as it effects Roanoke.
The lists were returned to the emu
lnerators for correc ION, and our
neighbor could hav had the fifty
names added by han ing them to the
enumerators. Then, again, it has
been ascertained the Messrs. HoUs-
TON, MCCoNNELLan and lthers theTI3IEs
not long since nance as having beer
missed by the enrnerators We're
listed. If, by Ma. II ESQ Mayor
Evans is meant, the eaumerator says
he will swear that hi name is on his
list.
Out of twenty-one rames handed to
the Herald with the charge that the
enumerator had miss ] them, it was
found that eighteen lad been listed
here. and two in MOI .gomery county.
The Herald is confdef.t that Roanoke
should be credited wi not less than
&C. 900 population, blu, the census has
been completed and there is no way
TO remedy any of it, defects. Roa-
noke will have to ST, nd it, and she
can Just as well as sh can stand the
publication to the world by our
neighbor that the e. umerators had
counted sufficient L lmber of people
twice to make up for hose who had
not been counted at l..
A police census VIC ID not be one
whit more satisfactory than the one
just completed. If tie City Council
will provide for an enumeration to be
made by men specially adapted TO
the work an accurate count can be
secured, but in no OIL 4 way.
Our nsighbor Of the P stoffice loft says
that "Messrs. HoUsTc y, MCCONNELL
and others the TIMES ,ot long since
named as having beer missed by the
eaumerators wero lis Id We say
that they were not And hele ia
what the gentlemen I'll .mselves say;
You can say mos amphatically,"
said Mr.. George Houston yesterday,
"that l have never SCI census emu
merator and have new filed blank
for one,"