Weekly journal-miner., 1920-10-27
THE CARDS STACKED AGAINST REPUBLICAN
 STATES FOR DRAFT BY
 DEMOCRATIC CENSUS
(From Thursdays Daily) Special to the Journal-AIiner)

seem to bear out ii they do not con clusively prove the assertion made in | 1917 that the South was favored in the administration oi the conscrip- ton law" declares the Republican Publicity Association, through its president, Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Jr., lin the following statement:
 It will be remembered that on January l, 1917, in accordance with ia long standing custom, the census bureau issued an estimate of the population of the different states making its estimates in accordance with rules. which 1t had long ob-
 erved. In July, 1917, the same bu- reau made an estimate of population for conscription purposes, and this estimate disclosed amazing reduc- tions in population in the Southern states. There were some equally surprising increases in population in Northern states.
 Alabama, for instance, lost 4O0,- |0OO of its population for conscFip- ton purposes while Connecticut gained 100000.
 Georgia lost approximately 400,- 0OO population for conscription pur- poses, while Illinois gained more than a million.
 Louisiana lost 10000 population for conscription purposes while Iowa gained 100000.
 Kentucky lost 36O,OOO for con scription while Michigan gained nearly million.
 Mississippi lost 46OOOO for con- scription purposes while Massachu- setts gained nearly 100000.
 North Carolina lost 27OOO0 for conscription purposes while Ohio gained 9OO,OOO
 South Carolina lost 250,OOO for conscription purposes while Pennsyl- vania gained 100000.
 Virginia lost 25OOOO for conscrip- ton purposes while New York gain ed S00,0O0.
 The strange feature of the whole business is that the recently pub lished statistics of the 1920 census show that in nearly every instance where these Southern states lost population to such an amazing ex- tent for conscription purposes, they have gained it back for the pur- poses of apportionment of represen- tation in congress.
 Tt is difficult to imagine what ex- planation the administration can of fer for the marvellous decreases in population between January l, 1917, and July l, of the same year, in view of the restored population as shown by the census of 1920.
 "No one has ever questioned the absolute loyalty of the South in the recent war. No one has questioned the valor or the fighting ability of the men who went overseas from that section of the South Never theless the administration has made up the record under the conscription law and the census law and that rec ord is open for the inspection and comment of all who can read and compare figures.
 "If there was sectionalism in the prosecution of the war the people of the South should not be held re- sponsible for it. If the North feels that it was called upon to bear more than its share of the burden. its re- sentiment should be not against the South but against those officials who are responsible for a decreased esti- mate of population when the figures were to be used for conscription only to be followed later by a restoration of former figures for purposes of representation in congress.
 How Arizona Was Served
 Following the statement as issued by Mir. Bourne, came a tabulation showing the annual census estimate | of the government for January l. 1917, the bureaus estimate upon [ which transcription was basel and i he based and the result of the decen- 1ial census of 1920.
 The figures for Arizona showed hat while the estimated population 1n January 1, 1917 was but 259,666 he federal government estimated" hem at 409,2O3 for draft purposes. quotas for the various sell .ctive service contingents were made ID on a basis of 4O9,203 and this des- ,ite the fact that many of the ap- 100000 actual inhabit- lnts, many were aliens, many Indians many health seekers and many in other ways disqualified for military ervice.