Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1890 — The Unrepresented Vote. [ARTICLE]

The Unrepresented Vote.

\ 'fFrom the Detroit Free Press.] 'A. few of the Republican organs are to justify the Lodge bill indirectly b,’ reproducing certain figures which have long been on duty nnrl are supposed to represent the effects of “suppressing” the Southern vote. As a matter of fact, tba figures show nothing of the kind. "What they do show, and all that they show, is that in South Carolina, Mississippi and Georg'a the Congressional vote by districts is very much smaller than it is in Kansas# New Jersey and Michigan, and, inferentially, that a good many of the voters in the Southern States named do not or did not in 1886 go to the polls. That the vote was “supress- • ed" or the voters intimidated the figures neither show nor in any degree tend to •how; for there would be precisely the same array of figures if the voters voluntarily abstained from voting as if they were kept away with shotguns, according • to the Republican theory r There is, however, a "suppressed” Congressional vote in the country, as the figures abundantly prove; that is to say, a vote which, though cast, is absolutely unrepresented in Congress. But because it is a Democratic vote it receives no attention from the friends of the Lodge bill. There are fourteen States in the Union in which the Democracy is wholly unrepresented in Congress, although the Democratic rote in those States amounts to

more than half a million. ' Here are the figures: UNHHPBKSENTKD DEMOCBATIC VOTE. Colorado 37,725 Kansas ; ..106,129 Maine 60,977 Minnesota ~ 166,010 Montana 18,264 Nebraska 81,638 New Hampshire 45,271 Nevada : 5,682 North Dakota 12,006 Oregon 25,412 lib ode Island -. 17,051 South Dakota 21,229 Vermont 19,331 Washington 24,992 Total. 534,937 It is trne that there are several Republican voters who are also unrepresented, bnt not so many as there are of the Democratic persuasion. Here are the figures, according to the claims of the Republican organs themselves: UNREPRESENTED REPUBLICAN VOTE. Alabama 2h 55,547 Arkansas .77 60,804 Delaware 12,9:15 Florida 26,534 Georgia 33,476 Mississippi 2-3.600 Bouth Carolina 9,704 Texas 92,707 West Virginia 73,716 Total 397,053 Here, then, is a net loss to the Democracy of the nation of representation for 187,884 voters, that being the difference against the Democracy in a comparison 0? voters unrepresented in the two parties. When, therefore, the organs talk of “suppression” it is well to remember that under our present system of representation by districts the Democracy is swindled out of Representatives enough to give it a majority in the present House, even though every Republican voter in the country were represented according to the most extravagant claim of the g. o. p.