The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1900-09-13
The Decenial Census
VIII Make Fifty Three More Congress
men.--Who Will BE Disfranchlsed.

WASHINGTON, sept. l, lJOO.-Ihe
Census office announces that if the
rate of increase as shown in the re.
suits in the thirty largest cities in
the country is maintained in the
rural districts, the total population
of the country will be somo S0,000,-
600. This, the bureau points out,
will necessitate an increase of repre-
sentatives in Congress of about 50, II
the present basis of representation is
maintained, making the House both
unwieldy and crowded. An increase
in the basis, would reduce the num-
Der i'm the House but would cause
certain states-presumably northern
ones-to lose Congressmen, II thing
most unpleasant for these states.
The bureau therefore naively sug-
gests that perhaps solution may be
found by cutting down the represen-
tation of those southern states that
have disfranchised the negroes-of
course, without disturbing tn north
ern states that have disfranchised
their illiterate whites. This the bu-
reau evidently thinks would be an
ideal arrangement, for it adds that
the new census will show how many
negro illiterates there are in the
south and consequently permit an
es.imate to be made of the number
that have been dlsfranchised. This
manifesto of the Census bureau out
lines the attitude of the Republican
party toward the disfranchisement
of the Southern negroes. The party
as a whole IS opposed to laws which
enable the white people of the South
to remedy to some extent the evils
of unrestricted negro suffrage at u
time when he was utterly untitled to
exercise it with Intelligence or dis
elimination, the Republican party
res ents any effort on the part of the
south TO protect itself against negro
majorities. The southern whites
have not yet, it would appear, been
punished sufficiently for their course
during tie civil war, and, if the
courts sustain their devices for pro-
lection, partisan majority in Con-
gress will be urged to cut down their
representation in the House of R'p-
resentatives and in the electoral
college. 1t is significant, that while
the republican party displays such a
tender regard for the political rights
of the negro in the south, it has no
sympathy for the political aspira.
tions of the Porto Ricans. the
Hawaiians and the Filipinos. In
order to maintain"white supremacy
in the Republic OF Hawaii, the re-
publicans imposed restrictions upon
the suffrage which disfranchised the
majority Of the natives. At the first
opportunity, they enacted law
denying the Porto Ricans American
citizenship and made them subjects
of this Republic. Further, they are
now committed to the principle that
yellow races can be bought with a
price and held as subjects. If the
imperial policy is approved in the
election this year, it is their inten-
tion to hold the Philippines as con-
quered territory after the war of sub.
jugation ends, and to permit no eX.
ercise of the suffrage by the Filipinos
which will interfere with the plans
of their conquerors.
The m ost stirring fight lnaugurated
by the democrats in the east foi
twenty-five years will soon begin
Mr.. Bryan is to make dash through
West Virginia, and will deliver, first
and last, no less than twenty speeches
in that state. Branch headquarters
of the National Committee, fully
equipped for business and manned
by experienced political managers
will be opened in New York. The
Hon. William j. Stone, of Missouri
one of the most sagacious politicians
in the country, will have genera
charge of the New York headquar-
ters, and will be assisted by Campau
of Michigan; Guffey, of Pennsyl.
vania, and Richardson of Tennessee
These managers will also personally
direct the campaign in Maryland
Delaware, and West Virginia, and il
is confidently believed that they
will carry these states, representing
seventeen votes, for Bryan and
Stevenson. They will closely ex.
anime the ground in Connecticut and
New Jersey, and, if there is any
chance to make successful fight IN
these two states, no effort will be
spared to do so.
There is a story, old but neverthe
less good, which tells how a certain
washerwoman brought suit against
another of that trade for the value o.
a tub, which was said to have beer
injured or destroyed by the other
The woman who was sued made {
triple answer: First, she said, the
tub was broken when she borrowed
1t; second, it was all right when sh,
returned it; and third, she never had
the old thing, anyhow. The mora
of this story lies in its application.
The republicans ASSET that it is un-
patriotic and treasonablessfo for thu