The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-01
a HosT Of TELEGRAPH MEN.
THEY WILL WATCH STATE AND
COUNTY HEADQUARTERS FOR
IL NEWS.
-sREcIALs. WARE TO WHITE HOUSE.
Hows.tHe, Gandfdates Will Get the
NeTs-Inferest Everywhere
Intense.

NEW YORK, Oct. 31.-If the street
corner Debates the torchlight paradas
ana the hurrah heard from one end of
the United States to the other did not
demonstrate the interest men are TAX
ing In this campaign, the orders for
special wire returns on election night
would DO so. The makers of electrical
instruments tell me they have had or
ders in the last two weeks for more
Instruments to be used in receiving the
election returns than the war depart
ment ordered for the government tele-
/ graph in all the years of the war. 1t
Is saIe TO say that one-half the voters
OF the United States will sit UP until
late hour next Tuesday night SO as
70 learn as soon as possible whether
| hcAln1ey or Bryan has won Perhaps
lney won't know even if they sit up all
night. Not all election results have
peen known within twenty-four hours
after the polls closed
w men hayes ran against Tilden. the
result was determined just in time for
the Inauguration in March That was
! the longest contest in the history of
presidential elections.
When Blaine ran against Cleveland
/ Twelve Wears ago, the result was in
doubt for several days. Both parties
claimed the victory on the morning
! AFTER the election. Only one Repub-
lcan editor, I believe, gave up the
contest That was j. B. McCulIagh
OF the st: Louis Globe-Democrat He
did not wait. for the paper. to go to
press, but went home at his usual
hour after. telling the foreman to s.put
the ROSTERS away The Globe-Dem-
ocrat was a. very sombers sheet on the
morning after the election. A great
many people still claim that Blaine
was elected and counted out. Just as
Tllden was swindled out of the presi-
dency. yaDs9"
But usually there is some decided in
dlcatlon of the drift Of sentiment in the
electlon returns, and unless the contest
is very close good hazard at the re-
suit can be made before midnight Of
election day. It is for this that the
throngs remain in front of the bulle-
tin boards for hours yelling themselves
hoarse
An onther indication of the interest
taken IN the contest is the fact that
| Ine newspapers of NeW@York CITY. not
coHtent with posting the news in one
place. VILE have bulletins all over the
CITY. BUSINESS Manager C.~M. Palmer
OF the journal, set the pace for them
tasl summer When the nominating
4 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES held. He establish.
Fu pulletin boards under the noses of
ms rlVais,a and i'm place of the we'll
"ofn stereoptfcon he had 'chaIl<
ldik men, who wrote the bulletins on
pts plackboards and sandwiched them
between political cartoons Next Tines
oay night the Journal will have doz-
en- pulletln boards in different parts of
'he CITY, and the other papers will
spEeao out, too, though possibly NOT
so far. ho'
IN addltlon to these public bulletins
mere VIII be bulletins ait the cf11hs
GU ~ many other semi-public nlaces
anu TINS year for the first time thera
wlL De bulletins in private houses
~ 49, tle "a nave ordered private wires
run into their residences, and thev will
nave special. operators to coDv the
news as the receiving instrument ticks
~ Oh. Altogether there will be aho,,t
Wv puHetn places in the city of New
aorh. h other cities there will be
| proportlonatelY smaller numbers
Al Canton the special wire which
runs INTO Maj, McKinley's house will
be manned early Tuesday morning
anu the operator will be kept busy ali
cay Maj. Mckinley will want to
Know the state of the weather in
piaces where sFhe contest is likely to
De close. Il The weather is a serio,1a
element in elections. Republicans are
| recKoned fair weather voters. and a
rainy day is considered auspicious for
the Democracy. Besides the weather
news there will be reports from the
pig cities OF the way the voters are
turning out. n There are ALWAYS r11
mors during the day of the way the
TIDE Is running in this city or that. but
they are mot very valuable and the
nVel1est interest will be reserved for
the actual figures which come in after
nightfall Maj. Mckinley will sit in
his Office, surrounded by a few of his
friends. and watch and wait for the
result
In Lincoln William J. Bryan will
hear the returns sitting in the parIor
OF his modest dwelling, with his wife
to read the bulletins to him as the
| telegraph operator copies them. The
telegraph companies will run wire
into Mr.. Bryan's residence if he likes
and give him all the news as fast as
| it can be learned.
Mr.. Sewall, at Bath, and Mr. Wat
son. at his Georgia home, will get the
returns over special wires if they
choose, and Mr. Hobart, if he does not
remain at, national headquarters in
| New York, will have a wire to his
home in Patterson. Both the teIe-
graph companies will offer these facil-
1 ties to thes candidates, and the two
press associations will keep them sup
piled with bulletins.
No bne will be better supplied with
news than the president of the United
States. He will get all the bulletins of
the telegraph companies and the press
i associations over special wires and by
| messenger at the White house in Wash
ington. The telegraph room at the
White house is in the northeast corner
Of the building above the east parlor
The president can get into communi-
cation with any part Of the United
States from this telegraph room on a
few minutes notice. He has his own
telegraph operator, Mr.. Montgomery
On election day there will be an extra
operator in the telegraph room and
the bulletins will be received ON two
wires. What cannot get over the wires
will be sent to the White house by mes
Senger. -
Those of the cabinet officers who
| want them can have private wires, but
usually the, cabinet people who do not
go home to vote, get their news at the
White house. Mr. Lamont, if he likes
can vote IN New York in the morning
and be with the president in the after
noon. s 80 ~
on election day when he was in the
cabinet
whether the cabinet officers will go
home sto vote will depend in some in
stances on the value they think their
votes will have. If they live in states
where every vote counts, they may go
Ehome.s Usually there are two or three
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