New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-09
SOME CENSUS FACTS AND FIGURES.
DEMOCRATIC ALLEGATIONS DdePRovDD BY AN
ExAMIN ATpoN OF THE POPULATION
RETURNS BY SKATES.

Washington, Nov. (speclaD.-The Democratic and
Mugwump critics who are striving to make people
believe that the XIth Census is partisan"
and that the population statistics are consequently
not only defective but wholly unworthy of credit,
all ignore some facts which easily disprove their as
sertions. For example, they do not seem to dare
to publish any deductions from the bulletin which
shows the population Of the several States. II the
census returns OF population are the results OF par
tisan conspiracy how does 1t happen that gain of
than 40 per cent is shown in Democratic Texas
and Democratic Arkansas. while In Republican CAN
fornia the gain Is per cent less, and In Republican
Iowa % per cent essl Why should Democratic Louisi
ana show a gain Of nearly 10 per cent, and Demo
cratic Alabama gain of more than 10 per cent,
while Republican Ohio shows gain OF less than Is
per cent and Republican Iowa q gain OF less than
10 per cent? Why should Democratic New-Jersey
show gain of pa per cent, and Republican Penn
sylvania gain Of only 22.55 per cent?
In 1883 York cast her electoral vote for Harri
son and Norton and the electoral vote Of Georgia
was given to Cleveland and Thurman; Georgia gains
1895 per cent New York gains 1893 per cent. The
gain Of Florida which cast her electoral vote for the
Democratic candidates in 1883. Is ABS per cent !:
the gain Of Kansas, which voted for the Republican
candidates is only 4201 per cent the gain Of Illinois
is only 24O6 per cent, the gain of Michigan only
27 SO per cent and the gain of Wisconsin only % 90
per cent The electoral vote Of Indiana was given to
per cent while the gain Of Democratic Kentucky. just
across the Ohio River. is 1884 per cent Verify, If
there was Republican conspiracy to swell the
population returns Of Republican states and to shrink
the returns of Democratic States IL has been the most
dismal failure ever recorded OF course the truth
IS as the foregoing comparisons concluslvely prove,
that no such conspiracy ever existed and that the
howl now raised by the Democrats and their Mug
wump tools and slaves is designed simply to promote
the success of Democratic partisan conspiracy TO
defeat the enactment of appointment law by the
List Congress- as the Constitution requires, in order
that action may be postponed until after the next
Presidential election. That is all there is OF it.
1t is probable that the complete returns Will show
a remarkable increase Of the urban population OF the
country. In 1880 about 90 per cent OF the entire
population was found In cities and there Is reason
TO believe that the urban proportion, according TO
the present census will be nearly, II not quite 30
per cent. In 1850 the urban population was 1875
per cent of the total population In 1860. it was 10
per cent in 1870. 1t 20.9 per cent and In 1880
It had risen to 225 per cent. II the percentage is
decade has exceeded the increase In the two decades
PREPARING FOR TIE CONCORDS TRIAL TRIP.
Washington, Nov. 8-The now gunboat Concord
having been reported ready for trial, the Trial Board.