Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-08
ALIKELY STORY.

The work OF taking the census o.
population of the United States viii
begin on the first Of next month
For months and months the New
Orleans Times-Democrat and Other
leading Southern papers have beer
suggesting the probability of par
tisan attempt being made to make
false and fraudulent return of the
population of this section with the
object of cutting off our representa-,
ton in the national house of repre-,
sentatives. SO likely did the sug,
gestion appear, judging the republi'
can party by its entire previous IN,
scrupulous and unconscionablA rec
ord, that the legislature of Louis
lana took steps to forestall any at,
tempts to falsifY the returns of that
state or at least to expose the fraud
in case it was practiced and to pre-
vent the republican party from prof
iting by it, by providing for an
enumeration under authority of the
state government. And now comes
a report from Pittsburg, Pa, pub
lished as special matter to the st.
Louis Republic, which bears out the
suspicion of a deep-laid plot being
formed among the republican manip-
ulators for the purpose mentioned,
and which shows that the papers
have not been too previous IN sound
ing the note Of warning. As is
known there is a considerable revolt
going on in the republican party at
present against the leadership OF
Quay, chairman of the national COM
mittee. This revolt is local as well
as national. A banquet was given
at Pittsburg by the Americus club,
which is said to be Quay organza-
ton, in honor Of General Grants
birthday anniversary, at which wine
flowed freely and a number of those
present became quite timber
tongued and confidential. During
a heavy poker game which followed
the banquet and between rotations,
an anti Quay man present began to
denounce him and his methods, de-
claring that Quay had sacrificed the
republican party for the sake of one
victory, that the coming house of
representatives would undoubtedly
be overwhelmingly democratic, and
that, foreseeing the disaster, Quay
was getting ready to resign. One
of the convivialists present when
this speech was made was the pri-
vate secretary and confidential clerk
of Quay who knew all of his en-
ployer's plans by reason of the con-
fdential position occupied. He re-
torted in an angry speech that the
gentleman need not fool himself
that plans were to be perfected,
some of which were already well I'M
der way, which would insure the
permanent control of all branches of
to the republican party.
When those of his hearers who were
in the dark looked at him quizzically
as if they hadn't caught the full
force of his meaning, he became still
more confidential and more explicit,
and said with a knowing wink that
the census enumerators would dis
cover very few negroes in the South
this year, by our system of enum-
Grating we expect the Southern
states to lose at least eighteen or
twenty representatives" he said.
This conspiracy, the confidential
secretary declared, was no hasty
scheme, but was decided upon as
soon as it was found that the demo-
Gratis would redistrict Ohio.
An absurd rumor came from
Washington last week that the re-
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