The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-14
The Evening Post and the Truth.

On Saturday last we inquired of the Netc
York Erening Post how it justified the as
sertion by it, made positively, specifically,
and without qualification, that the election
of MCKINLEY and the defeat of BRYAN and
Organism was due to the nomination at In
dianapolis Of rel PALMER and Gen. BUCK
NER. These are the exact words of the Post:
"The gold Democrats became. under the circum.
stances. little more than an influence. They did all
they could do. they reorganized what was left OF their
following. reEsserted their principles, put up two ex-
cellent candidates for President and vice-President,
and bv this means elected MCKINLEY"
We showed on Saturday by the election
returns, evidence accessible to all, that so
far from electing MCKINLEY, as the Post
alleges, the Palmer and Buckner vote of
$4,000 in the whole country did not in
the least degree affect the general result.
Locally, the only possible effect which it
could have had upon the choice of Presi-
dental electors was in Kentucky and in
California, twelve electoral votes in Ken
lucky and seven in California; and If those
votes had gone to BRYAN, Mr.. MCKINLEY
nevertheless would have had an electoral
majority of not less than 81. In every
other State of the Union the effect of the
indianapolis ticket was absolutely nil;
that is to say, supposing every Palmer vote
had been cast for BRYAN, an extreme sup
position, the result everywhere would have
been unchanged.
In n fashion characteristic of our ~extraor-
binary contemporary when it is caught in a
false position, called to account for an indie
feasible proposition, or detected in a square
misstatement of facts. the Erening Post
does not reply directly to this conclusive
demonstration but incidentally and indi-
rectly, In the course of an article on "Ding.
leyism," repeats it's original assertion with
some additional show of emphasis and par
ticularity. We quote now from the POst's
second misstatement as to this question,
contained in its issue Of Monday last:
The most logical opponents OF tarln s~wIndling are
the National Democrats, the men who nominated
PALMER and BucRSER. These men really elected Nc.
KISIEY bv Ofrfng him the roirs u indiana. Kentucky.
-SsD Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland and West Ifr.
Vintd. '"ffhout rhfch the Republicans could not haze
put their candidate In the Presidential chuir.
The true measure of the effect of the In
d~ianapOlis ticket upon the salvation of this
land from Organism is II question of great
historical Importance, and also of some
little interest to The sun, which began the
koi" Democratic campaign ny ADVISING all
sound-moncy Democrats to make their
votes count double by giving them directly
to MCKINLEY and HOBART, instead of
Withholding them altogether, or, what
amounted to the same thing, wasting them
upon a third ticket. For the sake of the
rectitude of future political chronicles,
therefore. we intend to nail the Erening
Post to it's alleged facts, and TO hold it re-
sponsiGle for the enormous dose of misrep.
reaentation which it is dealing out to Mug.
wump vanity.
Now the Post ventures so far as to cnum-
crate certain States which the indianapolis
ticket turned from BRYAN to MCKINLEY,
Sccoreing to it's statement, and without