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Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-17

The plan was executed as Lamont had
conceived. II was successful. Fraud was
made impossible under 1t. Acute law
yers sat at each canvassng board and
intructed the democratic representatives
in the board as to their rights and ini-
tiated the protests that prevented devia-
lions from the strict letter Of the law.
There were ten anxious days of this post
campaign. And they were exciting ones
The almost frantic claims Of the repub-
lioans and tho determined stand OF the
democrats served equally to send up the
Thermometer of public feeling TO blood
heat. There we're demonstrations all along
the line and a notable one was against
the Western Union, under the belief that
the corporation had bean used by Jay Gould
against Cleveland II had the effect OF
driving that finAncler TO take refuge on
his yacht, the Atalanta, lying In the Hud-
son river. and induced him TO send, in ad-
vance OF the settlement OF the issue, a
dispatch OF congratulation TO Cleveland.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-17

On the day after election, in the late aft
ernoon, Colonel Lamont sent for the Old
Political Reporter to meet him in the ex-
ecutive chamber in Albany. He took me
into an inner room and, handing me several
sheets of paper covered with figures, said:
DO me the favor Of going over those
figures to see II you can find any flaw in
the calculations or in the reasoning
turned to the last sheet and read the
last line:
"Cleveland's plu. 1,612."
looked up in surprise and apprehension
to Lamont. He answered the look by say
ing:
1T is not the best can do; it is the
worst"
1T lie dangerously close replied TOO
close for comfort"
In due course Of time 1 returned the
sheets to Lamont, with the remark that,
while 1 had found nothing in the arith-
metic that made essential changes. ques-
toned whether he had not been too liberal
in his estimates for Blaine.
las a basis for the work that must be
done It 10 better to be under than over"
said Lamont