The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-24

| ia on beer 1t is declared that the United
| States Brewers Association is lending aid
| TO many Democratic candidates for Con
| gress, with a view to forcing the repeal
Of the obnoxious tax.
Democrats In Washington appear little
| concerned because of the return to the
| Republican party of Senator Stewart, Lee
| Mantle and A. VI. Stevenson. OF Colorado.
As a set of. the Democrats point to Bourke
| Cochran. Edward NJ. Shepard. Perry Bel
mont. and Patrick A. Collins. Each of these
notable Democrats spoke and voted against
| BryanNin 1886.
Mr.. Cochran outlined his position in the
| letter which he wrote to the Liberty Goa
gress and in which he declared that when
the Republic is in danger. the only place
for the patriot is in the ranks of its ac-
| tive defenders
Mr.. Shepard has said: I'VE have in
/ 1900 a true battle for the precedence Of
| the man over the dollar
| Perry Belmont has said: "If President
Mckinley is reelected there will be an
end of the great political experiment based
upon the strict observance of our writ
ten Constitution
Gen. Patrick A. Collins has said: THE
commercial men who are running the Re
publican party, are far out of :heir reeb-
oning when they assume that the people
commercial issue or commercial basis"
Census Returns Manipulated.
An employee OF the Census Office, in con-
versation with Times man in the lobby of
the Metropolitan Hotel yesterday in COM
menting on the efforts being put forth by
the officers of the Twelfth Census to show
Hood Of prosperity, said:
1T has been charged that the Twelfth
. ha CHI -f.,rf.
of prosperity. with view of influencing
the result Of the approaching Presidential
election. Every day some new abuse IS
being brought to the surface which has
tendency to bear out the the truth of these
charges. In fact. the perversion of this
work is becoming so notorious that the
employees of the Census Bureau are begin
ming to remark II.
The Twelfth Census is developing some
queer statistics. owing to the fact that it
/. is being edited to show a condition of
prosperity which does not exist in the Uni
ted States today according to the face OF
the returns. The Eleventh Census cannot
compare with the Misrepresentation which
is edited into and out of the Twelfth
Census.
The blanks which we're furnished the
various census enumerators contained.
among others. two columns. one Of viii b
is being radically changed. while the fig
ures III the other are not being complied
the former column is numbered 20. and
shows the number of months not en-
ployed.
"a recent order issued by Edward W
Koch to the chiefs of departments. will
show that this column is being manipl-
lated
IF the enumerator's returned blank for
column 20 is not filed out. and this is true
of fully cIehaf Of the whole. Mr.. Koch
assumes that the person enumerated has
been employed the year round. This show.
state OF employment of labor which is
false.
Ute last column on the bank is in
tended TO show whether or not the person
enumerated owns his own home; if So
whether it is mortgaged or not: or, wheth-
er the person enumerated is a renter.
Honestly, l have not seen from all the
blanks which have passed through my
hands, 10 exceed half hundred people
who do rot rent. and those who own their
own homes are shown TO have them mort
gagged 1t would be impossible, of course.
to edit this column to show anything but
a national calamity, and for that reason,
the figures in this column are not being
compiled