Scribner's magazine . The City Editor. often very dishonestly. Later far thanHorace Greeleys time, when he de-manded the best figures that were ob-tainable for his journal, there was farmore tampering with the vote thaneven the most unprincipled scoundrelsdare to attempt in these days. Onlythe other evening a politician told mesomething of this nefarious business, in most numerous. The returns theystudied were therefore those of theirantagonists. If these showed only anormal vote they took no action, butif, as often happened, the ring rule hadangered and stirred their opponents topoll a very h
Scribner's magazine . The City Editor. often very dishonestly. Later far thanHorace Greeleys time, when he de-manded the best figures that were ob-tainable for his journal, there was farmore tampering with the vote thaneven the most unprincipled scoundrelsdare to attempt in these days. Onlythe other evening a politician told mesomething of this nefarious business, in most numerous. The returns theystudied were therefore those of theirantagonists. If these showed only anormal vote they took no action, butif, as often happened, the ring rule hadangered and stirred their opponents topoll a very heavy vote of protest, thebosses studied the vote, calculated itseffect, and issued secret orders to their 536 ELECTION NIGHT IN A NEWSPAPER OFFICE 4^. The racing reporter came m, drawing off his red gloves henchmen to add a couple of liiindredvotes in the first ward, to swell thevote in the third ward bv five hundred,and so on until, when they were readyto let the public have the returns, theywere so doctored that the ring wasseen to be still in power and the popu-lar protest of no avail. To-day thatcannot be done. In every district, atevery head-quarters, there is a companyof reporters — imi)atient, resourceful,possessed of but a sint>le aim, and con-fident in their knowled^^-e of their ri*xhtsas well as of their power—demandinj^*the returns from this ward, from thatone, from such a villa<i^e—for The Sun,The Timex, or The Herald, or TJte Trib-une. Colonizing: and ballot-box stufiing were report-ed to the newspapersfrom two places inNew York State dur-ing the gathering ofthe revolutionarv voteof November, 1893,but there were no re-turns held back to bedoctored, and morethan one boss wentdown. Now, to come backto one of t
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