None has been communicated to this body. It is simply a matter of inference because of the difference between the votes polled in the Southern States and the number of persons of voting age returned in the census. My own State is designated as one of those which require legislation of this kind. but the American Almanac shows that in 1884 her vote as compared with the census of 1880 was 97 per cent. of the whole number of her male population over twentyone years of age. and two out of the three having a higher average are States into which a much wider stream of immigration is constantly flowing. A smaller percentage in 1888 is easily accounted for by the yellowlbver epidemic of that year. The two States having the smallest average in 1884. below any Southern State. are situated one in the far East. the other in the far West.
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