The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-07-17

WILD STATEMENTS.
Governor mn Ea'cs Ills lid for Popular
ity on Outrageous Llcs.

ity on Outrageous Lics.
Governor Hill, Of Now York, went to
indianapolis for the pretended purpose
of attending tho unvailing of the statue
of Hendricks. His real object was to
make u bid for tho vote of Indiana
in the next Democratic convention, and
see il he could not steal it from Cleve-
land. lie went prepared to Guido his
fat competitor in d~enunciation of Re
publican measures and thus to prove to
the Indianians that he was the best
Democrat of the two, for he could tell
the most and the biggest f~alschoods
about the Republicans.
Among other wild things which he
said in his speech was this:
'"rhc proofs are multiplying daily that a con.
sriracy exists to reduce the enumeration in
Democratic States, particularly in the South,
and to increase it IN the Republican States.
On tho result Of the pending enumeration de-
ponds the next apportionment and on that de-
ponds perhaps the control of the Government
for many years to come. The party which car.
ricd out the gigantic fraud Of 1879, and which
in this year of our Lord 1870 has stolen the rep.
rcscntation of u State in the United States
Senate. and by unprecedented abuse Of n con
stitutiUnal privilege has increased the Rcpub-
lican majority in the House of Representatives
from eight members to twenty or Whereabouts,
will not hesitate to manipulate the census for
partisan advantage"
Tho falsity of these words is so APP
parent that if they came from an ordin-
AIRY speaker it would not be worth while
to answer thcm. But they were NJ
tered by the Governor Of the greatest
state in the Union, and By a prominent
candidate for the Presidency. For these
reasons they should be replied to.
In the first place as yet not one COM
plant of a defective enumeration has
rome from the South. Scores of North
crn cities, big and little have said they
were undercountcd. Not one southern
one has joined in the cry. This ma be
because the growth in many of them
has been phcnomenally large, much
created than they expected. Places
like Chattanooga and birmingham re-
port astonishing gains. 1t is safe to
say that in the country districts every
man, woman and child, white or black,
has been enumerated. The white Dem
ocrats, who know the political import
ancc of a full count. will see TO it that
mono are omitted. Their people arc not
masscd in cities, move around little and
can he counted up with quickness and
accuracy by any one. The Southern
Democrats arc not slow to speak when
they are hurt. and if the enumerator
sl;ips half 4 dozen persons in Il county
he sure there will be an cutlery about it.
The silence in tho South proves that
there is nothing there that fault can be
found with by a very fa~ult.tnding sctof
people.
Tue complaints which have been
heard in the North come from the cities.
irrespective of politics. Republican
towns in Nebraska, Minnesota and Kan
Sas are making as much fuss as Demo-
cratic ones in Missouri or Ohio. These
places do not object to the alleged short
r"mings of the enumerators because of
any possible political effect, but be-
cause of the assumed injury to the bust
moss prospects of a place if it turns out
that It's citizens have been Dragging
too much about its growth. There were
many complaints in Chicago, but the
chief reason why those who were left
out wanted to be counted was to make
sure that Chicago beat Philadelphia if
sh" had the population to do it with.
Along with these complaints come re-
ports OF remarkable gains. The smaller
town. in the Democratic State of Indi-
ana have been credited with wonderful
progress. The same thing is true of
the smaller towns in the State of Ohio,
which happened to go Democratic last
year. There havo been no gains re.
ported from Republican States exceed
ip,r tl,Ng, "a, h,,,n,rnti, ,,,, ,,J 90
whore, except in the ease of Minncapo.
lis, has there becn Il complaint of false
cnumcrating. How much truth there
is in that charge is not yer
known. The only case of padding
the returns which cver happened
before was that of st, Louis in 1870, ant
that was done not for partisan purposes
hut to beat Chicago i'll order to crow
oyer it.
These arc the plain facts about tn,
census. They make short work of Gov
ernor Hills talk about a conspiracy.
II he mad proofs why did he not Civ,
them? A charge of perjury and frauc
made against tens of thousands of cen
HuS cnumerators and c~Ontradictcd by tn,
figures needs something more than III,
NNIt'lltlll VI IL lldH WIN was tlttUpt
Governor merely because of his thor
o~ugh-going obedience to the whisky
vendors to make it go down, even will
a Democratic audience. That tho Nortl
will gain more thar the South every
body expects. During tho last ten year
five million immigrants have landed OF
our shores, nearly all of whom stay a
the North and are rearing large fami
lies there.
1t is probable that what worries tn,
whisky Governor is tho fact that tn,
population of New York City threaten
To fall 200, 900 short of the wild esti
mates which had been made. If so, tn,
Democrats will not get quite rs man,
congressman from tho city as the,
hoped for, and their strength in tn,
Legislature will not be what they an
ticipatcd. They were confident the cit,
would grow so fast that it would be abb,
to rule the State. SO when the Governo
talks about the South he means New
York City and Tammany. But If he hai
any proofs of INSTRUMENTATION in the
city let him submit them to the propeI
authorities and they will he attended to
AS to his other f~alsehoods they can b,
answered briefly. The gigantic fraud
of 1876 began with an attempt by the
Democrats to steal the States of Louisi
ana, Florida and South Carolina, il
which they failed, and to steal thi
States of Mississippi and Alabama, il
which they succeeded, and it ended
with Il decision against the Democrat
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