Telegram-herald., 1890-11-05
NEEDS no ADVICE
Secretary Eohls's Oaustie Reply
= Governor Hill.
Hs Rss@ats the lmpst4ticas Of the
latter Segardieg re Csns4s EnuFs-
sr4fssa Ct Ne~ YORK.

WAsHISsK0N. Nov IA sll pe re-
usabsFe1 that several days sgo Gov
ern0r nm. % New Yosk. addressed =
lester 20 Secretary Noble complaining
Of the ineonp.eteaess ~ the of1ciAl
enumeration of the eity Of New YORK
dasing the taking of the census and
demanding recount In the course of
bis letter the GoveraoF said.
Year e1avletioa - % tie completeness q
the Federal ceu0s j. uadO4pied 3 basel upoa
yo1r eoo1seaee n he thoEoaghasss q the work
d91e ~ ths Federal employees. o1t the sane
eoun4ence does not seem % hs slars1 regret
4 szY ~ snF considerable portion of The peo-
PIE oi Ses YORK. Sar do tae people Of that
cify appear % share your teAef ia he
ualmpeaehable character of tAe Federal
saamersiors. TAis is tlEe fer plata
words. EFeTy enaneFatog selected 10
count he luhNtilsnts 81 that great Demo
cratic Cliy Has e partisan 81 TIE Dasiy aow
iu control ~ the - sfiauzi Government appoint
el ior past political service aaa upon the rec
onmendatica % .ocai party leaders Many II
them ere notog.ously Incompetent, ignorant
azd careiess j. zgs 10 t1eir political interest
thai the party fran which they had received
p&troasse saocld be the beneficiary q their la
lovs Under these conditions the sasplci0n is
he diy unIustinable thai, directly or Indirectly,
political motives 70 a large degree explain the
effectiveness OF tEs Federl count"
Secretary Noble has mailed the fol-
lowing letter 70 Governor Hill:
"H0H DAVID b HILI. GovEsSoR OF TIE
STATE oF NEw IoRR-Sir; Your communities
lion q tae 5lst uit Was duly reciyed There
had already been delivered 10 the . letter from
The mayor u the cts OF New York on The same
sub.eet-the claim OF that city 10 recount
OF its population by The United States
census authorities. While you have added
the weight o. the Governors once 70 the com
plaint you nave failed TO ada to that already
presented by the mayor single suggestion Of
the slightest value. II vas wholly unnecessary
for you % remind me OF the provisions OF the
constitution OF the United states relating
70 enumeration and apportionment Of
representatives or the Electoral College or the
provision of the census law allowing amend
ments and recounts. AL OF this was very fsmil-
lar law 70 me and your quotation Of II might
have been copied from my last opinion deliy-
erei 10 the mayor. and which you say you had
read in the newspapers.
Neither did need any exhortstion upon the
subject OF fair appointments, as an equal ap-
pOrtionment throughout the United States and
the perfect freedom and equality OF the indi-
vidual elector IS a reform 10 which have given
M earnest support and which IS worthy that
zen. Had you read the correspondence with
the mayor whose immediate concern this bust
ness has been. you would hare found your topic
already exhausted.
at is much 10 be regretted that in a letter TO
me when acting upon purely omcial matter
you, Governor should speak a. partisan
snd inpute corrupt purpose to the census
enume-ators 10 sec1re parry advantage by
diminishing the count ol the city Of New York.
- n.
and the census work is so entirely gratuitious
and unfounded as to be slGaderous. as you
should know that your abusive course could
not tend 10 promote that fair and judicial con
siaeraiion have been disposed 10 give 10 the
app ication Of the mayor Your charge inn
putting fraudulent motives 10 others rather sug-
gests that as your party thinks an increased
population would inure 20 its advantage, the
count OF the police (raken IS it has been since
the police board OF New York has been made
partisan) needs the very s!osest scTut.ay and
analysis The charges now being made in New
York against the city, government By Demo
Gratis are not Of a kiad 10 relieve any work
done by il from the gravcst suspicion Of reck-
less partisanship.
your accusations, heretofore confined to in
teryiews and stump speeches. began even be-
fore the enumeration was announced. Some Of
the Democratic newspapers in New York and
elsewhere made the census cnumeratoIs' work
very dficut by exciting the prejudice
Of ignorance, and it IS TO be remarked
that you as early as the 1st CT July last made
en- address before ths Hendricks Club at
Indianapolis. Ind, in which you bitterly as
sailed the Census once and its work, and as
serted without any knowledge whatever, the
same evil purpose you now send 10
ne officially. You then repeated the
newspaper criticisms and spoke of the
.great army OF in9uis.tors sent prying
into our houses asking ilpertinent
questions. making false records etc,
and you did not fail % notice the possible effect
o; all this in raising popular eistrust aad disin
clination 10 respond 10 the enumeratOrs You
did n. succeed in these Efforts 20 any consider
able degree. but you are largely responsible for
any inaccuracies thnt rsay exist You set The
example by denoupeing law OF Congress and
the suggestion q its vlolGtios by your less acute
political followers. Your early and continuous
partisan assaults upon the census have had
necessarily motive which is easily discerncd
That motive points TO an unjust end which
certainly shall not promote. It is but Iust that
there should be no delay in completing the
census that the purposes for which IL is in
tended may DC accom- pl.shed-
'you further asserted Ia the speech men
toned that il (the Republican party will not
rspudiate that even more plainly declared poi
icy breaking the power of the solid South IN
Presidential IS well as Congressional elections
by deliberately Ignoring the vas. Increases oi
population IN thst section of the country
dnrirg the last decade. The truth is no
complaint whatever has been received frou
any Southern state. State. against
the census and the only serious cain o
an erroneous diminution Of population and
representation By q state caro from the Re
publican state OF Oregon. Ont Of the 2.7sl
counties IN oil The States sn6 Territories there
has been no complaint whatever sase from
Nutnorch County in Oregon There has no
been a complain from any Southern citF thai
has not been promptly and satisfactorily al
i-sted without recount save ~ Columbus