The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-25
WILD STATEMENTS.
Governor I'm Bases His hid for Popular.

Governor Hill, OF New York, went TO
indianapolis for the pretended purpose
of attending the unvailing Of the statue
Of Hendricks. His. real object was to
make q bid for the vote of Indiana
In the next Democratic convention. and
see II he could not steal 1t from Cleve-
land. He went prepared to Guido his
fat competitor in denunciation 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 falsehoods
about the Republicans
Among other wild things which he
said in his speech was this:
The proofs are multiplying daily that con-
spirscy exists to reduce the enumeration in
Democratic States, particularly in the South,
and to increase it in the Republican States.
On the 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.
ried out the gigantic fraud OF 1876 and which
In this year Of our Lord 1880 has stolen the rep
resentation OF o State In the United States
Senate, and by unprecedented abuse OF Q con-
stitutional privilege has increased the Repub-
lican majority in the House Of Representatives
from eight members to twenty or Whereabouts,
win not hesitate to manipulate the census for
partisan advantage"
The falsity Of these words Is so ap-
parent that if they came from an ordin-
airy speaker it would not be worth while
to answer them. But they were ut
tered by the Governor of the greatest
State in the Union, and By prominent
candidate for the Presidency. For these
reasons they should be replied to.
70 the first place as yet not one COM
plant of q defective enumeration has
come from the South. Scores of North
ern cities, big and little, have said they
were undercounted. Not one Southern
one has joined in the cry. This may be
because the growth in many Of them
has been phenomenally 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
ance Of full count, will see to it that
none are omitted. Their people are not
massed in cities, move around little and
can be counted mp with quickness and
accuracy by any one. The Southern
Democrats are not slow to speak when
they are hurt, and If the enumeration
skips half dozen persons in a county
be sure there will be an outcry about 1t.
The silence in the South proves that
there is nothing there that fault can be
found with by very fault-tinding setof
people. ... - .t.t
The 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
comings of the enumerators because Of
any possible political effect but be-
cause Of the assumed injury to the busi-
ness prospects of place If 1t turns out
that its 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
she had the population to do it with.
Along with these complaints come re-
ports of remarkable gains. The smaller
towns 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 have been no gains re-
ported from Republican States exceed
ing those in Democratic ones, and no
where, except in the case of Minneapo-
lis, has there been complaint Of false
enumerating. How much truth there
is in that charge is not yet
known. The only case of padding
the returns which ever happened
before was that of St Louis in 1870, and
that was done not for partisan purposes,
but to beat Chicago in order to crow
over it HE
These are the plain facts about the
census. They make short work of Gov
ernor Hills talk about conspiracy"
If he had proofs why did he not give
them2 A charge Of perjury and fraud
made against tens of thousands of CEN
sus enumerators and contradicted by the
figures needs something more than the
statement of man who was elected
Governor merely because of his thor
ough-going obedience to the whisky
vendors to make 1t go down, even with
q Democratic audience. That the North
will gain more than the South every
body expects. During the last ten years
five million immigrants have landed on
our shores, nearly all of whom stay at
the North and are rearing large fami-
lies there. Tf En
1t is probable that what worries the
whisky Governor is the fact that the
population of New York City threatens
to fall zoo, 900 short Of the wild esti-
mates which had been made. If so. the
Democrats will not get quite as many
Congressman from the city as they
hoped for, and their strength in the
Legislature will not be what they an
ticipated. They were confident the city
would grow so fast that it would be able
to rule the State. Sowhen the Governor
talks about the South he means New
York City and Tammany. Buff he has
any proofs of INSTRUMENTATION in the
city let him submit them to the proper
authorities and they win be attended TO.
As to his other falsehoods they can be
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, in
oh &ha fasl - ~
States of Mississippi and Alabama, in
which they succeeded, and it ended
with decision against the Democrats
given by tribunal to which the ques-
ton at issue was referred for arbitration