Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1870 — Disclosures of the New York Census. [ARTICLE]

Disclosures of the New York Census.

Tub Democratic Mayor of New York and bis partisans are not at all pleased with the developments of the United Slates census in that metropolis. They assail the United States Marshal and his deputies severely, accusing them of having intentionally performed their work of enumeration imperfectly for political purposes. The total population falls considerably below a million, instead of, as was expected, exceeding that number. But it is not this disappointment that .disturbs the Democratic Mayor and his friends. The census developments have convicted their political party of gross rascality, by demonstrating that in the Democratic strongholds the votes that have been polled at recent elections, are out of all proportion to the actual population. There is where the Shce pinches. For example, the census enumeration in one of Ihe most infamous Democratic r;wdy districts ahowwan actual popu'ation of only 870 persons, including men, women and children, while the number of voters m that district, at the last election, wsß reported' at 707!—almost solidly “Democratic,” of course. In another dis trict the Democratic majoritji was alnwet as large, as the entire peculation, and in many other districts the" vote was from fire to one to two to one of the population.

In IMO, at the Presidential election, New York city polled 98,688 votea. The population at this lime, according to the census, was 815,000. In 1864 the vote was 110.800, which, at the ratio of voters to population, would show an increase in the latter of 125,859. In 1868 the vote was increased to 156,050. showing an increase in population of 518,069, or a total of 1,820,000. Now come in the census takers in 1870, and the total population nf the city is shown.to be less than 900,000. It is to be remarked that the increased vote which is shown to have so far outrun the population was almost wholly Democratic This explains the thing, and ac counts for the enormous majorities rolled up in-that city for the Democracy. Let us compare tne vote at different periods : Republican. Democratic. Tout. iroo hw es.so’i lur.si twu 88.(181 7S7(fl 110 SW ISO 47,747 IWM It 6 O'.O

No stronger evidence would he required to convict a man of murder than the census returns adduce against the vile Democracy of New York, proving that they have for years resorted to the most outrageous frauds at the polls, violating, systematically and with impunity, the sacredness of the ballot-box—that safeguard of Republican government, upon the purity of which the existence of a free people depends. These frauds are committed through what are called re-peaters-men who vote early and often. The voting places in most parts of the city being in the hands of the- Tammany ring, these frauds are committed with impunity, and thus thieves, cut-throats and human blood hounds carry New York city elections against the legal voters, and thuscontrcl, not only the politics of the city, but also the politics of the 8 ate. Of the 61,000 majority given for Seymour in 1868, which carried the State for that candidate, thirty thousand, at least, were fraudulent. Had the electoral vote of New York decided the contest between Grant and Seymour, the decision of the honest majority of the people of the United States would have been overruled by the thieves who are hired to vote fraudulently by the New York Democracy. This waas undoubtedly the object of the enormous frauds committed in 1868.

This becomes a very serious question, in which not only the people of New York, but the whole nation, are deeply concerned. If this sort of thing is permitted—nay, if it is even possible—how long will <>ur republican form of government last? If this business is to be continued and tubmltted to, we may soon expect to see the National Government pats into the hands of a class of men who have, in New York city, reduced public robbery and election frauds to a science. Mayor Hall demands that a new census shall be taken under the authority of his own scoundrelly administration. This would not help his parly’s case an iota, for every or e knows that it would be just aa easy for them to take a fraudulent census as it is to vote fraudulently. The New York Tribune expresses its con viction that the United States census has been fairly and fully taken in that city, and such is no doubt the fact Chicago Journal.