The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-11-06
A HARD HIT.


A HARD HIT.
Secretary Noble, of the interior depart
ment, geve Gov. Hill, of New York, the
hottest kind of roast Monday. Mr..
Noble answered at great length, Gov.
Hills recent communication in relation
to a recount of the census of New York
city. Among other things the secretary
says:
ut was wholly unnecessary for you to
remind me of the provisions of the con-
stitution of the United States relating to
enumeration and appointment Of repre-
sentatives or the electoral college, or
that provision of the census law allow
ing amendments and recounts. Neither
did need any exhortation upon the SUBJ
ject OF fair appointments, as an equal
appointment throughout the United
States and the perfect freedom and equal
ity OF the individual elector is a reform
to which l have given my earnest sup
port, and which is worthy of that OF
every public officer and every individual
citizen. Had you read the correspond
ence with the mayor, whose immediate
concern this business has been, you would
have found your topic already exhausted.
1t is much to be regretted that in aletter
to me, when acting upon purely official
matter, you, as governor, should speak
as partisan and i,nputc Z corrupt pur-
pose to the census enumeratOrs, to secure
party advantage by diminishing the
count of the city Of New York. Your
inlputation against the enumerators
and the census work is SO entirely gra.
tuitous and unfounded as to be SANDER
Gus, as you should know that your alb
usiye course could not tend to promote
that fair and judicial consideration /
have been disposed to give to the appli-
cation of mavor. The count of the po-
lice, taken as it has been, since the police
board of New York has been made parti-
san, needs the very closest scrutiny and
analysis. The changes now being made
in New York against the city govern
meut by democrats are not of a kind to
relieve and work done by it ofthe gravest
suspicion of reckless partisanship. Your
accusations, heretofore confined to inter
views and stump speeches, began even
before the enumeration was announced
Some OF the democratic newspapers in
New York ard elsewhere made the census
enumerators' work very difficult by ex'
citing the prejudice ofignorance against
it; and it is to be remarked that you, as
earls as July last, made an address be-
tore the Hendricks club at Indianapolis
in which you bitterly assailed the census
and its work and asserted, without any
knowledge whatever, the same evil pur
pose you now send to me officially. YOU
then repeated the newspaper criticism
and spoke of the great army of inquisit'
ors sent prying into our houses asking
impertinent questions, making false
records, ETC., and you did not fail to no
tice the possible effect of all this in rails
ing popular distrust and Discrimination
to respond to the enumerators. You die
not succeed in these efforts to and con
siderable degree, but you are largely re
sponsible for any inaccuracies that may
exist. You set the example by denounc
ing law of congress, and thus suggest
it's violation by your less acute politica
followers. Your early and continuous
partisan assaults upon the census have
had necessarily a motive which is easily
d1scerned. That motive points to an
unjust en- !, which certainly shall not
promote. 1t IS but just that there should
be no delay in completing the census
that the purposes for which it is intend.
ed may be accomplished. You further
asserted, in the speech mentioned, that
it 1.-THE republican party will not repudi'
ate that even more plainly declared pol
icy of. breaking the. power of the solid
South in presidential as we'll as congress.
sional election. by deliberately ignoring
the vast increases of population in that
section of the country during the lase de
cade.' The truth is no complaint what,
ever has been received from any Southern
state, as state, against the census, and
the only serious claim of an erroneous
diminution of population and represen-
tation by a state came from the republi.
crn state of Oregon. Out of the 2,7S1
counties in all the states and territories,
there has been no complaint whatever,
save from Mnltnomah county in Oregon,
There has not been complaint from any
Southern city that has not beenprompt-
ly and satisfactorily adjusted without
recount, save at Columbus, Ca, and
there was found an increase of 1,13s
only.A You seem to be against a census
to be taken even by your own state, for
you yttoed bill passed by its.legislature
in 1885, and which was required by its
constitution. 1t is reasonable to sup
pose that the patronage you seem to
think SO influential in political affairs,
would not have fallen into your hands,
or judging you by the standard you ap'
ply to others, your official action would
have been just the opposite of what it
was. AS / have just demonstrated, the
great body of the people of the United