Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-11-02
THE ELECTION RETURNS.
HOW THE NEWS WILL BE SENT
THROUGH THE COUNTRY.
Within a Few Hours After the Polls
Are Closed the Result VIII Be Known
In Every City aud Town-Where the
People of FreeIand Will Hear 1t.

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Are Closed the Result Will Be Known
In Every City aud Town-where the
People OF Freeland Will Hear 1t.
"Bshold what God hath wrought" was
the first message sent over Morse's cleo
trio telegraph into the ears of the listen
ers. Tomorrow night 70,000,0O0 Amer
leans, and waiting world outside, will
bend their ears to the clickings of that
same instrument to hear "the voice OF
| the peOple-the voice of God" in the
| greatest vote of freemen ever taken in
the history of the world. The wee,
small voice of the American conscience
will become as the thunder.
1t requires u stretch and strength OF
human understanding to size up the
plan and take in the details of the won
derful organization of wires and hands
and instruments that will be concen-
trated on the one supreme duty of catch
ing and repeating the voice of the people
that night.
There are hundreds of thousands of
miles of trembling wires in big circuits
and smaller loops and still smaller loops,
extending like the feelers of an immense
centpede into every part of the country.
In the little sparks of the instruments,
like the winkings of the eyes of IA, 4,O0O,-
900 voters, watchers of that night may
see the lightnings of American common
sense.
over the mountains from California
from the cattle ranches of Texas, from
the pines of Maine, from the mines and
mills and farms, from every cross roads
and almost every home, to every other
home and to every eye and car will come
the electric clicking and flashes.
Extra miles of wires, extra instru-
ments, extra linesmen, extra operators
have been getting in readiness for a
month past for the great task of Tues
DAY night.
Like the backbone distributes the
nerve wires to the body and returns
another set to the brain, hundreds of
wires start out from New York and
Chicago, and then divide and sub-divide
themselves over the country. 1t would
be very interesting to trace each one of
these wires along its lonely way over
that night, under rivers, along railroads,
through capitals, over mountains,
through tunnels, in thousands of dark
and perilous places, the long way ovor
which it clings to its poles and glistens
in the moonlight and sings the whispers
of the wind.
1t makes the big-hearted boy of Ameri-
ca feel as if he could hug the white tee-
graph pole and protect the trembling
wire as a sacred thing, as he holds his
ear to hear THE voice of the people, the
voice of God, that night. May no storm
blow the wires down, but gentle winds
and fair winds breathe upon them in
the spirit of truth and fair play from
every corner of ''the land of the free
and the home of the brave"
Freeland people can learn the news
free of charge at DePierro Bros. cafe,
where the regular Western Union SER
vice will be received by an operator in
the building. The proprietors extend
an invitation to all persons to call and
make themselves comfortable.
Another connection will be made with
the Western Union wires at the rooms
of the Tigers Athletic Club This enter
prising organization will receive com
plete returns for the benefit of the mem
bers and their friends. Persons who de-
sire to hear the returns there should
apply for admission cards this evening
or tomorrow at the club rooms.
The returns will also be received at
the Blass Overall Company's building by
the members of the firm and their
friends.