The evening world., 1893-11-08
HOW The NEWS WAS SPREAD.
People Turned to "The Evening
World" for Reliable Returns.
Extra Issues Told the Story of the
Defeat OF Ring Rule.

How the news OF Maynard's defeat and
the smashing of ring rule did spread
throughout the city last night! Ring
newspapers had extras" out as early
as 100 o'clock. and. as usual. victory
was claimed for the bosses all along
the line.
1t was taken up and handed from
mouth to mouth, until soon 1t became a
matter of belief that the people had
again been defeated. There were thou
sands, however. who said, Wait"
"Wait until we see what the Extra
Evening Word has to say" they eX.
Gained.
While all this guessing n doubling
were going on an army of experts was
busy in The Evening World' office.
Reports were coming in from all sec
lions of the city; from Brooklyn. Long
Island, Jersey, UP the State, in fact,
from every place in which there was a
contest. There was no time to wait for
the official police figures. World" re-
porters had to collect their own infor-
nation. n when. after dozens of re-
ports had been received, and 1t became
certain that ring rule had, indeed, been
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umphed. THE Evening World's'' mas
sive presses were set in motion.
1t was just S o'clock when the first
election extra was put on the street. Ii
contained everything that honest voters
cared to learn, and it sent dismay to the
hearts of the heelers, who, during the
day, had been at all sorts Of crimes
against the purity of the ballot. 1t an
uounced in bold letters that Maynard
was doomed and that the Brooklyn ring
had been shattered, Mayor Body, the
dol, going down in the ruins ,
Hundreds Of copies followed the first
number on the street and thousands fol-
lowed the hundreds. Struggling news
boys mounted elevated railroad stations
armed with big bundles and started up
town. Heavily laden van were driven
swiftly in every direction. until 1t was
On evcryhOdy's lips that The Evening
World says that Maynard and Body
are heaten.'
What IA contrast was 1.-THE Evening
World with n persistent contemporary.
which kept hammering away all the
time that Tammany had won every
thing; that Maynard was not being cut
- any 'N''llA' tll' Nllh llt tlllllt l'flll-
ocratic State tickc1 had been elected.
The Evening World" might have
stopped there, for the main news for
which New Workers. and Brooklynitcs
had particularly hungered had been told;
but it did not.
Forty-tive minutes later a second
Extra was on the street. emphasizing
all that had been stated in the first
and Swing the official returns just as
fast as the tabulators at Police Head
quarters could open the official envel-
opes. 1t told of the landslide and gave
careful estimates of Republican gains
throughout the state and the country.
1t showed the race Mckinley was run
ming in Ohio, and o poorly Russell
was faring in massachusetts. 1t also
gave Richard Cookers own admission
that Maynard had lost, and that tho
Republican state ticket had been
elected. lie hoped the Legislature was
SAFE.
That same Extra gave most Of the
Brooklyn figures, showing how badly
the ring had been showed under. Then
came the last Extra. printed at ~
O'Clock. 30 that enthusiasts could carry
It homo and take the complete tidinEs
20 their families OF the peoples vic
tory. Scarcely a single political fact Is
published in any morning paper that
THE Evening Worlds" last extra did
not COhtliu.
And here It may I've said that In its
6 o'clock edition the result of the cleo
ton WIS foroshadowcl. Reports that
Maynard was being cut were received
and transmitted 10 its readers in that
clitiOu,
"Hravy Scratching Eoing Done
Maynard Has Been cut in All Diroc-
TONS bartlett Mon CONFIDENT" We're
tn, prophetic headlines, and those who
read '"rhc Evening World" were tho
only ones who were kept accurately In
formed OF the progress of the election.