Show THE SUN SHINES posting footing the books and finding out where the balances are and in whose favor la Is the regular pastime of most political newspapers for a long time after an important and exciting contest why it was wa la in a stereotyped heading on such occasions occasion and the inventive venti lve ingenuity which that subject develops la Is really wonderful at dimov cimei the recent earthquake was a little too stupendous a performance to be disposed of with more mere words and fanciful figuring but it la is receiving the customary attention nevertheless nevert beleu the now new york fork sun shows how bow the empire state Is ie an aa she has been since the war the pivotal one never going in favor of either party in two successive elect elec tons tone all of them in leap years as follows 1864 republican 1868 democratic 1872 republican 1876 democratic 1880 republican 1884 democratic 1888 republican 1892 democratic new york has baa oscillated impartially between the two political parties for twenty eight years says saye the sun the victors of one presidential elec tion have bave been overthrown in the succeeding one the defeated of one contest have triumphed four years later the result of this years battle strengthens an and d clinched the sanguine expectations of the republicans that they will win in new york in 1896 perhaps they will and certainly no one will begrudge them in the heyday of ft glorious democratic victory such harmless consolation as they can tx tract from this reassuring circumstance il without meaning to be captious it is ift necessary to point out that the now new york luminary Is not sufficiently exact in its ita language the victors of one presidential elec election have bare not always alway been overthrown in the succeeding one notwithstanding new yorks oscillation in favor of the rule that the great tate state went democratic ini in 1868 did not prevent general grant as aa a republican from being elected as successor to lincoln and wore also elected by the republican Republic ant p arty and ana that its ito electoral vote to in 1876 1870 was given to tilden the democratic nominee did not prevent hayes hayea from being inaugurated whether fairly elected or not an ae the republican sue BUC cessor of general grant the only part of the suns sums rule which ap pears to be good for any thing Is ia that in presidential pre years yeara the empire state alternates between the parties parliee part iee the inference which that paper would draw that as aa new york goes so BO goes the union la Is seen to have been unquestionable wrong once hodoe within the time name d and in effect twice iwic and it is ie likely to be still more frequently wrong in the future if recent events are of value BB as a basis for future calculation new york will boon cease to be in any degree pivotal |