Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-11-06

Secretary Noble has addressed commun-
icxsssn to Cor. Hill in really 70 his recent
letter urging . recount of the city Of New
York. in which he says.
Your communication Of the 3lss nit was
duly received There bad already been
delivered 10 me letter from the mayor 81
he e.sim Of that city 70 . secouss Of III
population by the l.. 5 census suihofitiss-
While yoa have aided ths weight Of the
governors cfics - the complaint. you hsve
failed to AID 10 those aissaty presented By
the mayor . single suggestion Of the slight
sst value. II was wholly Unnecessary fer
ysa to remind me Of the provisions Of the
constitution Of the United states relating 70
enumeration and apportionment Of repre-
sectatives or the electoral college; or that
provision Of the census Law allowing
amendments and recsunts. All Of tfas vas
very familiar to me, and your quotation Of
Il nigh. have been copied from my last
opinion delivered TO the mayer, and which
you state you had read in the newspapers.
II 10 mach to be regretted that, In letter
TO me when acting upon q purely oiiiciai
matter, you ~ governor should speak As
partisan and impuse corrupt purpose 70
the census enumerators. to secure parts
advantage BY diminishing the count OF the
city OF New York. Your iDputation agaiost
the ennmerators and the census work is so
entirely gratuitous and unfoHnded as TO be
slsudefous, as you should know that your
abusive course could not tend TO promote
that fair and judicial consideration have
been disposed to give TO the application OF
the mayor Your charge, imputtng fraud
aient motives to Others, rather suggests
that az your party thinks an increased
population would inure to it, advantage,
the count of the polite (tsken as 1t has
been since the police board of New York
has been made psrtissn) needs the very
closest scrutiny and snaiy sis. The charges
now being made In New York against the
eity government by Democrats are not OF
4 kind to relieve any work done by it from
the gtaresl suspicion of reckless partisan
ship.
Your accusations heretofore confned to
interviews and stump speeches, began even
before the enumeration was announc, d.
Some Of the Democratic newspapers IL
New York ard elsewhere made The censas
enumerator.' work very difficult by xeiting
the pr JUDGE of ignorance against il: AMI
1t is 10 he remarked that you as early a, the
st If July last made an address Def re thu
Hendricks Club at Indianapolis, in which
you bitterly asaailed the census eff ,e an
its work and asserted without any know.
Ledge whatever, ihe same evil purpose yoa
aow send 10 me sffi Tally. Your early ami
continuous partisan assaults upon the Ger
s us hav. had n eess4rilt motive which is
2alily disearned That motive points to a.
u just ED which certainly shall MT pro
mote. IL is bat Just that there should be
no delay in completing the census that thu
purpos- for which it is iatenied may b.
accomplished
You 81. EN- To be against a census to b.
tax n even by your own state, for you
vetoed bill parsed by its legislature in
1885 and which was required By its cJnsti
tuition II is reasonable to suppose that
,he patronage you seem TO think so infa-
G utial 10 political affairs would rot nav
fallen mo your hands or judging you by
tie standard you apply to others, your effi
cisi action you'd have been just the oppo
site Of hist il WAS
A. have demonstrated. the great body
of the people of the United STATES are con
emf with the census ard are uniDtiuenced
by partisan assaults such as yours. Sus
tanned by their confidence, shall proceed
with the discharge of my official duties in
this and all other business coming before
me carefully and justly, correcting what l
may be convinced is wrong. and fearlessly
to What l believe to be right. |
regret the necessity Of Addressing the CHI et
of the leading state of the
Union in the terms l have employed, but |
find my justification in the reckless intern
perance of language you have seen fit to
u.e--languags which is lacking much in
truth as it is in the dignity befitting your
great Office, which in the past has been
filed by eminent men of both political
parties of New York.
Upon the merits of the mayors applica-
ton, | shlll reply to him.