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I do not charge that he intentionally misrepresented the fact. but lie quotes from the last census in the table that he gives and states the voting population of the State of Rhode Island to be 76.898. That is simply art enumeration of the male population within the State who have arrived at the voting age and not of the qualified voters. Many of those men lack the qualification from a lack of residence. many others from not being naturalized. and many others from not having qualified themselves to vote under the laws of the State. I have not the exact ligures with me. but I can state with sufficientaccuracy that the popular vote at the last election in the State of Rhode Island was just about 80 per cent. of the voting population of the State. and further. that the Democratic vote at the election one year ago was the largest Democratic vote ever cast in the State. and that the Democratic vote at the last election was within about 600 of the number cast the year before. The result in the State grew out of the fact that thegood Republican people of Rhode Island having experienced one year of Democratic misrule were entirely satisfied. or entirely dissatisfied. and they rose up and hurled them from power.