The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-12-22
NOTE AND COMMENT.

In 1890 there were IN Ohio i.0i6i 6i mi,e
Voted in age: ob ore nan msrs xo.
over lS'2 was l64.126. 1ihl. was drawn from
nc reserve vote OF nearly 2olV0 whiei
| did rot 20 TO The polls In 1902 and tbs
crc5ecd population. The loss In the
New. England and Northern States may be
the result was foregone conclusion and
there was no occasion for great campaign
ACTIVITY. which is essential TO a ful! vote.
| me same Is largely true OF the result III
me Southern States, with the adiition that
the legal abridgmen: OF suffrage also. had
| tendency TO keep citizens away from
the polls. Galveston News.
The population OF Ohio Is estimated at
about 100000. and according TO well rec
| ognized tables the vote Of the State nhoull
be about $4,000 proportion of voters to
| population observed In nearly every sec
ton of the United States. and In the Ma
'iion Itself. in its aggregate popular vote.
/ This proportion has approximately OBJ
tanned in Ohio up to 1896. In the PRESIDENT
| al election OF 1892, holly contes ed as II
was In the guhcruatorial election II 1888
| and again In 1895, both bitterly contested,
| the vote was but a few thousand over 500
V9V-ncver as much as $1,000 This year
the vote was more than 1,0i5 0)9--repre-
seniing under fair normal conditions
population of 505.ooo-or a gain of 900 90
people In less than a year, This was SO
manifes,ly an Impossible growth OF pop
ulat!on in Ohio. even in four years that
the vote has been criticised in Washing
ton, New York and other papers as a
prima facie evidence of fraud. The Gal
Yeston-Dalas News of Texas appears az
the apooglst of Ohio It can no: see any
indications of fraudulent or Illegal voting
north OF the Ohio river While Northern
papere charge that this abnormal vote of
OHIO was an outrage and an impossihillty
under fair conditions. the Galveston News
jumps into the fight for Ohio with specious
explanation. 1t goes further and is gra-
cious enough to explain the small vote In
New England States as the result merely
of confidence in the result" while the
small vote In certain Southern States was
IN consequence of "abriigment OF the
right OF suffrage" 1t will be remembered
that the South IS as solidly democratic as
New England is republican. and there
fore as certainly and as confidently to he
counted on In an election 1t will be re-
membered a.eo that "abridgments" OF the
suffrage, through property ana educa-
tional qualifications. exist in as many New
England as IN Southern States-but the
small vote in New England Is explained
while the Ike results In the South arc at
trihu'ci 10 Interference with a free ballot.
When The Foat attacks the News for its
uniairncss towards the South. it does SO
simply because the patent evidences OF
the Ncws' hostility in the direJton ind!-
Gated can not be passed over m justice to
the southern people. The South is not to
hiamc-not an objection urged against us
bat will apply with more force to the
North, and yet this journalistic asp which
has been nurscd in tho bosom of the
soGih would destroy its hensfactor while
apologizing profusely for the riscals and
r1"f3lity of other sections. 1t is the low
mean, vicious ana dishonest policy of the
News towards the South that The Pos,
has sought to expose to the contempt
which, 3, 80 richly merits. Bafhed ana
beaten in Texas abandoned aud desplsad
by thousands who once read it, it is but
proper that the public should know the
calse OF its revengeful, disappointed and
now dehant!y malicious course agains. the
section whose people are repudiating It.
Secretary OF the Interior Francis, in
letter to tho Kansas city boilers who raet
al banquet recently in that city. said:
sound money In the fight recently made
'utFt are many principles advocated by
some OF those VINO have been advocates OF
1hat cause 10 winch can no, subscribe.
u some legislation Is not enacted 10
check the growing influence of wealth and
Clrcumscrbe the powers of trusts and
he nlorie ocora WI ne an UPRISING Of
VIII 'enianger our !nstitutione" '''o''
The secretary voices once again one OF
the kcynotes of the Chicago platform, but
1t was unheeded In the hur!y-burly of the
canvass and drowned out with cries n.
.,,.o,u,it,.to,,n ~ .,, 3,
anu mar chS' now
smash tho trusts exclaim9 "A gold or
gan. and a cabinet officer practicable nd
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90. "''' w ora'orS warm
s',1 a,,,,o o' ,gyv' p,'l''o'.'lS' ana ue''-
millions of readers. The trusts and syndi-
o,tea con,rihpted nroh,htv moe r,oro,,
P'U'"''S my "'o"VS
ana influence to Mchinieys election than
all else combined, and we say TO the re-
publican nnrtv ihat II can not vet rid az