New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-04
TWO MILLION THE MARK.
TANlMANY'S FRAUDULENT CENSUS.

! ROLLING UP PERFECTLY RIDICULOUS FIGURE =
! SOME STRIKING SPECIMENS.
| The Tammany Hall enumerators were forging
ahead yesterday toward the 2, 1000, 900 mark which
the Wigwam bosses have set for them as the
figure which the population of this city must
| reach Returns from fifteen Assembly Districts
most Of them complete, have reached the County
Clerks Office. IN The other nine Assembly Dis
tricts many election districts drc missing and 1t
is charged that they are withheld for purposes
closely allied with the interests of Tammany Hall
That gigantr frauds have been perpetrated in
making up the immense increase in the number
of inhabitants over the Federal Census of June
l 500. and the Police Census of October in the
same year cannot he denied after even cursory
examination of the figures.
The Federal Census, made under the direction
of Superintendent Robert p. Porter and Supervisor
Charles ii. Murray. showed total population of
l,5l3,5Ol. The Police Census, taken by order
of the Mayor and supervised by Chief Inspector
Byrnes, Supervisor w. j. X. Kenny and Private
Secretary Spear. aided by Special Agent Olcott Of
the Census Bureau at Washington. footed up IL o.
10 The lasi-named enumeration was believed
TO be frightfully padded and at least 100000
above the real population Of the city. hut the
Tammany Hall patriots who are running the
State enumeration machinery srt up hy David Il.
Hill are under orders 10 carry their total far
beyond that secured ny the police. who openly
made use of desperate methods to ovcrrun the
Porter Census The returns of Assembly Districts
nearly or altogether complete make 1t apparent
that the mnions of the Wigwam will indicate a
population in this city 800. 900 or 100000 greater
than it actually is.
Take. for instance the Sixth Election District
Of the With Assembly District, bounded by
Allen, Canal, Division, Essex, Hester, Orchard.
Ludlow and Norfolk sts.. which last year had q
total registry of "A? voters and poc1 total OIL
336 votes for Governor The Tammany counting
machine who enumerated" this election district
has fixed it's population at the appalling number
OF OOsj Will any fair-minded man attempt to
defend such bald rascaity is disclosed in these
figures
1t is openly declared that the big total returned
for the Ist Assembly District was obtained by in
cuding in the count the shiploads of immigrants
which have arrived at Ellis Island since the he
Ginning of the year, and the number Of alleged
inhab abtants made for that district far 20 sup
port the charge The Federal count of the lst
Assembly District 1890, was 2s,l3j. and Tn"
police count 20.s75. The WCwam cnnmerators
selected by the Tammany Hall leaders for the del
icate job OF obtaining for The STATE Census the
number of the Isl Districts inhabitants, place 1t
at 3O.os9. or lO1i4 over the police census. ana
1854 above the Federal census. Yet Il II Assem-
hly District last year poled but 5.307 votes for
Governor. and has shown constant dimlnuton
in its voting population for several years When
the registry Of voters in the district last year
portended another drop in the annual vote, the
Tammany men then explained it By saying that
our people were moving uptown. what could
you expect? -
The bnlated returns from election districts CON
timed 10 he brought 10 the County Clerks Office
yesterday, and Mr. McKcnna and his aSsiStants were
kept busy classifying them. and shipping them Y"
the Secretary of state at Albany. Nine Assembly
Districts were still SO incomplete that no attempt
was made 10 ascertain their iOotines These are
the Vth. XIIIth, MYTH. XNlllth. AlAth. AAth.
NXIId. XXlIId and NXINth The air is hlcd
with rumors that the enumeration papers OF these
districts are being held back for extraordinary
doctoring. At the County Clerks Office II was
explained that the number OF names OH some Of
the return lists was 80 great that the enumeiu-
tors who were not in all cases expert penmen' had
cen unable 10 transcrlbc the duplicates. But
the impression prevailed, nevertheless. that there
were other reasons for the detention. Ihc AS
sembly Districts which are complete, or nearly
So are as follows: