New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-07
4 UONCNEN7IL FRI I'D.

| MON CAE-'SAL IhH
The census lust completed under Democratic
management is deliberate swindie' he
fraudulent Legislature OF 1892 made record
upon which the people of this State Will pass
Judgment next November The general char
actor If the work done at Albany and most
Of IFS details were well understood before the
| close of the session. but almost every day de-
velops some new iniquity performed by the
Democratic majority and ratified by Governor
E1over so that it may be several weeks before
tbe ful measure of that corrupt body can be
taken. But no abuse or delinquency which
NAV be hereafter discovered can possibly com
mare in magnitude and audacity with the
revelations concerning the census which we
nrint this morning. These revelations are ex-
| traordinary and amazing. but we assure our
readers that they cannot be refuted They
are the result Of long aborious and search
inc investigation, and they are fortified at every
nont. They may be denied, but they will re-
| main the truth.
We have identified the Legislature with this
| false census because the ardent desire of the
| Democratic leaders to make an enumeration
| was one Of the chief inducements to the crime
of stealing majority because that majority
| promptly intrusted the task to the man by
| whom that majority had been stolen, and be-
cause its corrupt results were corruptly used
by that majority to supplement and confirm
its legislative acts. The census is an essential
| pant of the great conspiracy which David H.
Hill and Tammany Hall have been prosecut-
ING for the last six months. The narrative
which we print this morning discloscS the main
features of the colossal fraud, and describes
the machinery by which it was accomplished.
The story is not complete, but it will he com
pletcd in due time.
The count was falsiiied in four ways. !. The
number of actual citizens. upon which the lcgiS
lative apportionment is required by law TO be
based, was increased by the addition TO 1t OF
certainly as many as 100000 aliens. There
was no shadow of excuse for this transfer.
1t was universally made with deliberate dis
honesty, because it was obvious that the net
result would be an increase of Democratic
representation in the Legislature. =. In numcr-
Gus ms. ances unclassiiiod inmates OF penal and
charitable institutions were tabulatcd as citl-
zens, though the returns, by specifically stating
the whole number of citizen inmates, clearly
signiiied that any addition 10 that number
would be fraudulent 3. On the last day OF the
session the population Of Brooklyn was ar
bitrarily augmented by 26,530, after it had
been exactly ascertaned and formally an
nounced, because the true population fell be-
low Democratic expectations. A. On the night
before adjournment the force of computers and
verificls carefully weedcd out was ordered TO
and did alter arbitrarily, in large or small
degree, as the emergency required, the prcvI-
ously manipulated enumeration cards of twenty
counties so as to bring the totals into CON
formity
Such were the devices and achievements by
which the returns OF census originally stuffed
in Democratic strongholds and squeezed in Re-
publican were finally fasitied in the interest
of the Democratic party. Every detail Of the
enumeration and compilation had been intrlSt-
ed to Frank Rice, Secretary Of state. The law
gave him undivided control of the work, and
if not the immediate director Of all rascalities
that have enabled the Democratic party through
this census TO enact a rcapportionment scheme
which they think will enable them 10 hold their
power, he must at least be held as its re-
sponsiblc and accountable agent. In this sum
mary of the discoveries which our correspond
ent has made at Albany we sufficiently indicate
their significance. For the details, patiently
and cautiously procured and authenticated by
him, we refer our readers 10 his narrative on
the first and second pages of this issue. They
have never explored record of more egrcgious
villany. AT first thought it seems incredible,
but yet it is in perfect harmony with the whole
course of action dictated by Hill and Tammany
to their creatures at Albany, and by them car
Ied out t. the letter with pride and Joy.