New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-06-03
sprc,vESS or THE CENSUS FRAUD


Secretary of State Frank hlce mas ho' sup
nlomented his denals Of our charges a9a..iS'
tho integrity of his census report by any oi,cr
n show the rolls and other records OF Ms
office The truth is i'll them. EVaSloiis anu
do,;ols are of no account whatever when inc
oc,roI facts exist in black and white and arc
=. any moment available for inspection MI
Rice has possession of these records. lie Is
nrordiro them under lock and key and under
tho virilant eyes of watchmen and police
mon. and he refuses to allow them to be seen
This undoubtedly is as illegal as 1t Is lnpudei'-
" defiant of public right and public morality
But while Mr.. Rice weakly explains ana
eoolJv denies we have reiterated our original
alterations and to them have added other ana
now ones. We charge not merely that laiSe
roport was made by Rice OF the contents .,
the onumcrators' rolls, as those rolls were iieu
in his office ut Albany, but we charge also .iia'
tho rolls themselves especially those from ,ni'
o;ty and Rrool,lvn were false and fraudulent
statomont Of the population. The comparisons
,,o instituted on Monday between the Federal
coosus Of June. 1890 tho police census OF NO
vombcr. 1890. and the State census OF epru-
ary. 1892. concusively show the lrauu..ic
character Of the Rice enumeration Ill New OTIS
and Brool<lvn. Another form OF comparisons
that by percentages, gives newer ana eve"
moro striking proof. In the Ist Assembly DIS
trct for instance the police made gam over
tho Federal census of 621 per cent, while hlce
made an increase of 41.s0 per cent the largest
Incense he made in the entire city. The lSt
pistrict rms from the Battery on both sideS
of Broadway. on the west side to Canai-S'' anu
nm the cast side TO Fcrry-st No RESIDENT Oh
Vov-YorIS needs TO be told that TINS district,
instead Of gaining. must, in the very nature OF
things. be losing population. And yet hice
,rotonds 10 say that it has increased by great
er ncrccntage than the uptown districts along
Contral parl, and about the Harlem River
Now if we had only the Porter census ana
the Rico census for comparison, the partisan
dofonco Of Rice would of course be that the
rodo,ol onumcrators had cheated the lst DIS
,r;ct bv emitting large numbers OF people ana
,bot Rico had merely made up true state
mon, srlpplying the names that Porter had
loft ont But. having the Tammany police
consns also M hand, this defence cannot be
modo When Mr. Porter returned 2s.2O1 pop,
ulation and the police, six months later ana
everybody in sight or out OF sIght' re'ur"c'
only o0.g52 Porter was vlndicated so lar d.
that district was concerned ana kiccS oIa'n
If \ population of 39.9s9 becomes an obvious
fraud The IVth District supplies another IL
Iustration of the scoundrclly work OF RICE
onumcrators There they made gain OF ~
pcr cent over the Porter figures, whereas th'
notice gain was only 81 per cent. Inc " I"
| district runs along the East River between
Cathariuc-st and Jackson ST., with DiVISIon-S'
p its boundary parallel to the river IT, 100 /
| , district in which there has been loss rathel
than gain. and Yet Rice gives it gain greater
even than those he allows 10 the districts I'M
modatcly south of Forty socond-St. In the
XVIII District. which is over on the West SId'
between scvcnth-avc. and the North KIvc
and West Twenty sixth and west fof'lo'h
St. the police count was I22 less than the ! ell
| cral count. or IL per cent. Here hlce aHcSc
tbo enormous increase over the Federal coln
| of 1915 pcr cent In the XNlld District the
policc count was 1902 less than the Fedora
count or 3.l3 Der cent, and yet in this dStnc
picc ALLEGES 4 Gain over the Federal count o
| 1S.22 per cent.
TIE TRIBUNE is prepared to show by mos
conclusive evidence that the frauds accom-
nliShcd i'm tho taking and computing OF th'
| State census of 1892 have resulted in the thci
Of not less than two Senators and six Assem-
blymcn from the Republican country district
that are entitled to them for the benefit OF thu
Democratic organizations of Tammany Hall an'
Erooklyn. Frauds moro abomnablc have no
been pcrpetratcd in this state since the day
of Tweed Indeed, even Tweed, with all hi
audacty, would have hoStatcd to 60 as Far a
Frank Rice has gone in partisan wrong doing
| Trr EOCUGRIUY VAR on TIE PULPIT