Our populationwas 50.000. 000atthelastcensus. itundoubtedly must be 65.000.000 now. and 15.000.000 is a little more than onefourth to represent the increase at the present time. Therefore. there is not far from 14.500.000. possibly 15.000.000. voters in the United States at the present day. but with reference to proportion and averages the calculation is sufficiently accurate. Assuming onehalf the foreignborn males of voting age to be naturalized. we have a voting element as follows. making allowance for increase of oneeighth in each element since the census was taken: Nativebornwhite votErs 9.203.332. foreignborn white voters. 1.728.274. colored (excluding Cbinese. Japanese. and Indians). 1.479.739. total voting population of the United States in 1884. 12.411.345. or in round numbers there will be 12.500.000 men whose ballots will or may decide the next Presidential election. I have here a table which shows the condition of the suffrage. or the number of illiterate voters. in certain States at the time of the last census.
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