Arizona republican., 1911-10-26
Counting of Votes In This City, Done By Profes- sional Boards of Election, Was Much Slower Than Necessary.
NEWSPAPERS HAD
 SOME REAL WORK
News Received By Republi- can Over Press Wire and Through Western Union Service was Most Com plete In Arizona.

The Republican confesses to a little pardonable pride regarding the quality of the news service it furnished its readers yesterday. It did not give the complete returns from all the counties of the territory for the simple reason the returns were not available But it did give all the news that was ob- tainable-all that had happened. and in doing that it did all that any news paper could have done.
 The energies of the entire regular force of the Republican with the addi- ton of several assistants hired for the occasion, were devoted the entire night to gathering and tabulating the re- turns. Any one unacquainted with the workings of strengthening machinery will have little conception of the size of the task. It comprised not only the collection of news from every nook ana corner of the territory. but the sup plying of information to more than a dozen other newspapers who are also trying to serve their readers with the results os the primary.
 Until almost five o'clock in the
 morning the Republican was in di- rect telegraphic and telephonic com munication with towns in every part of Arizona: and as fast as the returns were received they were sent to this office, where they were tabulated and rushed to the linotype machines and transferred to the waiting forms. At five o'clock in the morning the press was started and the latest news ob- tainable was in print.
 There was no other paper in Mari copl county. probably no other paper in Arizona. that made even an attempt to give the sort of news service furn- ished by the Republican. For instance, from seven o'clock in the evening un- til almost five in the morning steady stream of specials came by wire to this office Most of these specials came over the Republicans press wire and were received in the office. while dog ems of others were rushed to the Re- publican from tn Western Union ot- flee as fast as they were taken from the wire.
 All that costs money and labor, as matter os course. But it is the sort of thing a real newspaper undertakes to do when it solicits the patronage or it's subscribers.
 Just % appreciate the difference be- tween a real service and the other kind. compare yesterdays Republican with any of it's competitors and count the number of special dispatches. one Phoenix paper. published ten hours la ter than the Republican. did not carry single special telegraphic dispatch and did not give the vote in a single precinct in Maricopa county.
 Regarding the indesoribably ineffi- ciert manner in which the counting Of the votes was handled in this city the following from the Arizona Democrat is decidedly in point:
 "One of the strangest features incl dent to the counting of votes in Phoe- nix was the action of the election board in the first ward. which had several persons elected from the room after midnight, stating that no spectators were desired in the room. Later the door was locked and persons who tried