The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-11-12
A Plea for the Truth.

into the hurly-burly of charge and
countercharge which animates the
aftermath of the New York munich
pal election. comes the Sun. of that
city, with a word of tempered wis
dom. The Sun has headed It's contri-
button Why Not Stick to the
Truth?" and. really, there seems to
be no quite adequate reason why
this course should not be followed.
five may rely upon the Sun-and
we have its own authority for the
belief that whatever we see in its
columns is rock-ribbed veracity-
diligent, painstaking and impartial
searching has disclosed the follow
ing state OF facts:
/ The report that Mr.. Hearst caused
scores or thugs and Tepeaters 10 be
/ brought on from San Francisco and
I Chicago to Coney Island and other dis
! tricts Of the Borough of Brooklyn, and
! that the returns from those districts
were held back on election night in
I order to make a bigger Hearst show
! ing, IS found on Investigation 10 be un-
true.
The statement. widely printed. that
I
! ing places or police stations and thrown
/ into the North River is found on inves-
| tigatiOn TO be untrue.
The assertion that ballot boxes were
I burned by Tammany heelers and those
/ interested in the election of Mr. Nc
/ Clellan has no foundation IN fact what
ever
/ The public reports that repeaters
Z We're brought from New Jersey, Con
necucut. and other States and paid s.
4 Tor every time Of the fifteen or twenty
Z times they voted the Tammany ticket
nave been investigated and found TO be
The averment that seals were broken
ana ballot boxes tampered with in pc
lice stations IS found on inquiry to be
It has been stated 4lat blue pencils
! instead Of black ones were placed in
/ some booths in order that ballots mark
] ed herewith would be invalidated.
/ Careful inquiry by the Suns reporters
] rails 70 discover single case OF this
sort.
The story that ballot boxes were stuff
/ ed 10 any degree is proved untrue bv
the fact that the vote on Tuesday was
/ entirely normal ANY extensive bal
/ lot box stuffing or any extensive fraud
( ulent voting would have affected the
! total vote and made II more than nor
/ NAL
There seems TO be no doubt that
there was much that was rough and
a good deal that was crooked in that
election fight in New York on Tues
/ day last. These matters are to be
Investigated in the courts and it is
] assumed that in the end justice viii
prevail and the man for whom most
; votes were cast seated in the mayor s
chair. These objects are not sub
/ served, however, by an indiscrimi-
nate abuse of everything in sight,
and the casual imputation to the
other fellow" OF every crime in She
calendar and every sin in the deca-
logue
1t is an excellent opportunity for
that gravity of department and sane
deliberation Of decision, that we hear
SO much about and see so little of
while we are in New York. TO get in
their work. After all, truth is what
the courts are supposed to be after
and 1t is expedient. if this apparent
. zeal be real. not to muddy the
stream. Newspapers that follow a
contrary course are doing a real in
/ jury TO their readers and themselves,
however little, just at present, they
are able TO understand that this is
/ the fact