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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-05-18

and was born in 1868. He got his
schooling in Kansas, where he was
graduated from two colleges, and
soon afterward he staE&ed buying
newspapers, building thelA up, and
letting them go for something big
ger.
Murdoch, though, is a native Kan
san, and was born into the newspaper
game. His father owned the Eagle
and Victor grew up in the business
He was born in II.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-05-18

the two monkeys that recently es-
capped from Bayview Park, and after
roaming the housetops Of the city for
several days, were finally captures
by the police. They were remanded
to the city jail where they are held
without bail, although no formal
charge has been preferred against
them.
Extradition proceedings are pend
ing to effect their return to Bayview
Park. When a decision viii be reached
it is impossible at this writing to fore
cast, but it will not be before the park
IL opened to the public, when a keep
er viii be there to look after Fauntle-
roy and Fauntlerette.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-05-18
Germany Ano1Us
Export of 1900
Tons Dyes Here
~ AssocIATEp PRrss.

Washington, May 17.-Count Won
Bernstorff, German ambassador, saw
Counselor Polk, of the state depart
ment, today on dye stuff expectation
which Germany said it would be will
ing to permit the United States. OF
Gals said that the possibility of get
ting through the fifteen hundred tons
Germany will permit, seems 70 be re-
mote.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-05-18
Senator Worried
.Ouer Americans
In Dublin. Ireland
BIZ ASSOCIATED PRESS

Washington, May 17.-Senator
Kern of Indiana, introduced a resolu-
ton today directing the secretary Of
state to make an official inquiry as to
the safety Of American citizens IN Ire
land in districts affected by the recent
revolution, and take steps to safe
guard their lives and property.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-05-18

Fort oglethorpe, Ga, May IL
The mimic war game over the his
toric battlefield Of Chicamauga Park,
inaugurated by Col. D. w. Ketchum,
Monday, as an important part of the
instructions for the city soldier at
the southern training camp, was con-
tinued today. The infantry detach-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-05-18
WAR ON THE
CT1ICAMAUGA FIELD
- AssoCTATEp 80.


ment, detailed TO cheek the invasion
Of a foreign foe, sent north from At
lanta, Ga, was sent down the La
Fayetts road as far as the historic
Lee and Gordon Mill, where they
checked the advance of the invaders
toward Chattanooga and the same
manoeuvers were repeated by the cav
airy today, were deployed.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-05-18
Eight Hundred Said to Be
Marching Against
Sibley's Band.
LANGHORNE ATTACKS
MEXICAN BANDITS
Two Americans, Carried Off
by Raiders, Are
Rescued.
BY Assoc1ATEp PRESS.

San Antonio, Tex, May IT,
S. F. Setter, who arrived at Eagle
Pass today from TorreOn, is re-.
ported as saying that eight hum
dred Yaqui troops have started
north three days ago to wipe out
Colonel Sibley's column.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-05-18
Reconsideration
of the Rublee
Rejection Moued
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Washington, May 17.-Senator Hill
lis moved in executive session today
to reconsider the vote by which the
nomination of George Rublee as a
member of the federal trade commits
sion was rejected. No vote will be
taken on Hills motion until Tues
day.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-05-18
PRESIDENTS REPLY
TO POPE IS SECRET
~ AssocIATEp PREss.

The president is understood TO have
informed the pope that he was very
eager to keep the United States out
of the war and would do everything
possible consistent with maintaining
the honor and rights of the United
States. Neither message would be
made puh1Sa
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-05-18

Washington, May 17.-White House
officials refused today to discuss the
pope's message or the reply of the
president, but in other quarters it
was indicated definitely that the ex-
change of messages had only remote
~ to do with the question of peace
in Europe.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-05-18
Will Not Go to
Convention as An
Alternate: Bryo11
q Assoc1ATEp PRrss.

Lincoln, Neb., May 17.-WilEian J..
Bryan announced today that he is not
going to the Democratic National
Convention as an alternate delegate
from Nebraska. Neither is Charles
". Bryan, defeated candidate for the
democratic gubernatorial nomination
in Nebraska, planning to run inds-
pendently. Mr.. Bryan,s statement,
he explained, to correct the delf0-
crate and malicious znisrepresentA-
tons of corporation-controlled news
papers"
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ignate candidate.
That recommendation would carry
all the weight of a national conven-
ton. But, as we have said, in neither
case is the recommendation binding.
Since national conventions we're
first held in Andrew Jackson's time,
no presidential candidate has died be-
fore the election.
When Van Buren, was elected presi-
dent no one was elected vice presI-
dent. The United States Senate then
exercised its prerogative and elected
K. NJ. Johnson vice president
A presidential elector in a New en-
gland state refused to follow his par
ty and vote for James Monroe. "just
so he could not be unanimously elect
ed, as was George Washington.
Eleven states did not vote at all for
president in 1864. In 1868 three
states that had tried to secedc could
not vote,
In 1880 one OF Californias presiden-
tial electors who had been chosen by
the Democrats refused to vote for Han
cock. That state, therefore. gave Gar
field one elector and Hancock five.
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tives, and similar tables for each
state, locally handled, on the consti-
tuition Of the state legislature. There
are comprehensive leads" to write
in summary OF the figures, and con-
tests in particular states to be ex-
planned.
Paul Revere.
There is one human cog. in the
election night machine that is even
more interesting than the general
manager Of the Associated Press. "a,
Is the Paul Revere Of the backroods
districts who gallops his horse OF
drives. his motorcycle on election
night to tn nearest telegraph station.
There are still some remote regions
"a great many OF them-where the
polling Of presidential vote is al
most a game OF solitaire. aLd From
some Of them courlers must ride
twenty miles before thev can re-
lease by wire to waiting nation the
fact that plurality of one fort
would be partisan to anticipate the
name) had been cast at Ranch 40.
There are several such remote dis.
tricts even in New York state whence
news leaks almost as slowly as in
Montana or Idaho And there is no
deprecating the Importance Of the
vote that is cast at Glover Four-Cor-
ners 1t is the will Of the people
that rules, and the Associated Press
can know no distinction when 1t
comes TO the counting OF honest bal
lots. Otherwise It would not pay
for that twenty-mlle ride
New Jersey has been a thorn in
the flesh OF the election tabulators
for many years. In the first place IL
refuses to close its polls until 7
o'clock, and its laws requires that
tho counting of the entire ballot from
top to bottom shall be completed be-
for another ballot is taken up. There
are upwards OF $40 names on the
Jersey ballot this year in some OF
the cities, and 1t Is doubtful wheth-
er on election night President Wilson
will know how his own state has
gone. The Jersey method is employed
IN some of the central and western
states, adding n further handicap to
the difference in time. but New York
and majority of the eastern states
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put the presidential electors on
separate ballot to facilitate the count
Wires Devoted to Returns.
II the foregoing has not helped
you to visualize the process by which
the greatest gathering organi-
zatlon tries to satiate your election
curiosity and furnish masses OF fig
ures TO back up its announcement Of
the victory, picture to yourself this
one fact: On election night the IA
cilities for wire communication over
practically the entire county are for
the moment devoted almost exclu.
sively to the collection and distribu.
ton of returns. The mileage of those
wire you will find run UP into the
millions The Associated Press
leased wire system itself, is almost
doubled on election nigth, and the
telegraph companies in their own
way are cooperating directly or in
directly in the great effort to bring
the figures to head.
Consider also the human factors
Thousands of operators at the key
paper reporters and editors at work
on local situations, while the army
of trained Associated Press men are
assembling all their matter, and you
arrive at something like a general
glimpse OF the efforts that will he
made on election night to supply the
missing name in the first sentence
of this article.
Surprising though it will public in
terest In the great war, or in the null
titudinous events that the world
daily contributes to the excitement
Of the breakfast table, the news Of a
preidsentlal election will by no means
attract all of the argus-eyes Of the
organization whose field is the world.
So elastic is the system of this clear
ing house for news, that its CORE.
spondent in Picking may come in at
the height of excitement over the
election with new revolution in
China, its representative in Panama
with disastrous slide in Culebra
cut. its bureau in Petrograd with
stirring speech in the Duma, or its
men at the front with great vic
tory. The usual designated men are
on deck to handle any emergency, in
the election or out of it.
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been made certain that the full vote
OF the place has been poled and the
results then made known.
First Figures DribIcts.
1t is only by driblets that the first
figures come in, but once the avaa-
lanche Is started there is no let-up
to the tick Of the telegraph saunders,
and q swarm Of the Colored blanks is
kept flying from the receiving opera
tors to the tabulators. The figures
are first entered by the tabulators and
passed along to the designated chief
who keeps a "Doomsday Book, "
showing the running total OF the
vote throughout the night. Evory If
teen minutes the business of tabula-
tion is punctuatod by the issue Of u
bulletin on New York state, which
Is rushed TO the leased trunk wires
Of the Associated Press-and over
these main arteries and secondary
ones-some $4,000 miles Of them,
some eighty different clrcuits-the
news circulates. keeping all OF the
nine hundred mad forty newspaper
members OF the association posted
on how the country is going.
The form OF these bulletins is
known to thousands who have seen
them flashed on the election screens:
sos election districts out OF 500
In New York state. for president,
give: WILSON,; Hughes--."
Bulletins Grow.
So, district by district, these bull
letins grow until 1t looks so certain
to some of the experts that one pa
per or another will concode some
body's election. But the Associated
Press comedies nothing. 1t must
know.
In III year OF the Odell-Coler fight
Tor governor in New York in 1900,
Its system had a severe test. Coler
ran up big vote in New York City,
and the heavy vote OF Odell up
state was overlooked by many of
the newspapers which conceded Col
eds election. The Associated Press,
in the midst of this confusion was
led TO wonder If its figures were
right. The general manager had an
abiding confidence in his men and
figures, but in the face OF conces-
sions that some OF the papers were
making Of Coler's election, something
must be done 10 check the matter.
He ordered recount. The system
provided for Just such an emergen-
cy. and this odell-Coler year is the
only time 1t has ever been called into
play All Of the county returns. af-
ter being tabulated, are hung on a
large rack Of hooks. classified by
counties, where they are Immediate
ly available for recount. on the hooks
came these hundreds of telegrams,
and In Just fifteen minutes time the
entire state vote was recounted. The
head tabulator, forgetting for the
moment that he was in newspaper
othce. instead of his bank, exclaimed:
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-10-29
INDIANS NOT A DYING
RACE, SAYS CATO SELLS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S.-The race
OF Indians is no longer a dying race,
according 10 Cato Sells, United States
commissioner o. Indian affairs, who
has returned ID Washington after a
tour Of inspection. He finds there are
$4,000 Indians in twenty-four states.
settled on eighty reservations. The
death rate has been reduced by a Wig
orous health campaign and the birth
rate is increasing. The wealth OF the
Indians is about s9O0,OOO,OOO and in
cludes 6O,OOO,OoO acres Of land.
Mr.. Sells observes that the Indian
problem has changed in recent years
and that the red man is looming IN
as a race which will hold its own.
There are more Indians now than at
any time since the bureau on Indian
affairs was established
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Mr.. Stone, we check to n penny"
The recount tailed exactly with the
hgures the Associated Press had pre-
nously given out and the papers
which. independently OF the Asso-
clated Press figures, had conceded
Coler's election had eventually to ad-
nit their error
The accuracy OF the Associated
Press figures has seldom since been
questioned. In connection with the
recent New York state primary, In
the fight between Coler and Bacon
for the Republican nomination as
candidate for seat in the United
States Seante, the majority given by
the Associated Press was only sew
enty-nine votes at variance with the
official count. In a Massachu setts
state election last year the Boston
bureau scored record by announc-
ing the returns only three votes on
from the official figures.
Election Machinery.
The election machinery Of the As-
ISOLATED Press Is at work in all the
states, but 1t is developed to its high
es pitch of efficiency in the states
having the largest electoral votes
and the smallest average OF consist
ency in presidential years.
Given u definite line on New York
state. on Massachusetts, which is
Invariably prompt, and reflection
Of the vote in central and western
states, where a difference in time IA
handicap to early returns, the re-
suit Of the presidential election may
be pretty definitely announced al an
early hour and often the full extent
OF the victory indicated, so accurate
ly has the gauge of election figures
been fixed by previous experience.
Knowing with near certainty
whether it is Wilson or Hughes will
be sufficient for the throngs at the
bulletin boards on election night, but
the Associated Press goes on to a still
bigger task than the mere announce
ment Of the result. That would not
go far TO complete the morning pa-
per. There are columns to fill with
state tabulations, with lists of gov
ernors elected. the detailed consti-
tuition Of the next United States Sem
ate ana the House OF Representa-
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the systematic conduct OF the serv-
ice. thousands Of typewriter sheets
distributed listing candidates and
showing votes four years ago as a
basis Of comparison. special CORE
spondents appointed and special wire
facilities arranged for this particu-
lar work.
In the collection OF returns, the
county is everywhere made the unit,
and II 10 the purpose OF the system
to hear definitely from every election
district Of the moro important states.
In New York alone these districts
number $500. In Illinois there are
over 5000 and In other states a pro-
portionately large number of dis
tricts To be heard from. Taking New
York state as typical OF the system
that will be followed In principle at
least by other states. the service there
Is worked out broadly as follows:
HaFing arranged for some compe-
tent man to take charge of each ooun-
~ upstate and for cooperative effort
with the New York City News AS
ISOLATION for the collection OF the
metropolitan returns, the New York
Headquarters OF the Associated Press
is made the center Of tabulation. The
upstate county man is stationed at
the most convenient center, usually
the county seat. from which he
throws out his net for the gathering
Of his local returns.
Special Work In Hand.
For the special work in hand,
twenty-five extra wires are strung
into the Associated Press Offices In
New York, giving direct and exclu-
sive connection with the principal
cities. Before the operators ia
stacked varied assortment OF print
ed forms. whose blank spaces await
the figures that tell the story. There
are pink forms. blue forms, bun,
green, yellow and white to make
the various compilations OF the vote
for president. governor, Senate, Con-
gress and the two houses OF the
state legislature.
In an adjoining room there have
been assembled u stun of a hundred
men to serve as tabulators. Previous
TO the election the Associated Press
has arranged with some of the best
banks In the city to furnish expert
accountants for this work. They
work in relays, the first crew report
mig at the close of the polls ut Ave
O'Clock, compiling the figures until
two o'clock in the morning.
Less than ten minutes after the
closing of the polls. the work be-
gins. The first returns In New York
are invariably from some Of the up
state cities, where voting machines
are employed. There are, however,
some localities on Cape Cod and
down in Maine which for years have
prided themselves on being the first
in with their vote, In such small
places the law permits the opening
of the ballot boxes as soon as 1t has
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-10-29
SISTER TRIED TO BREAK UP
THE WEDDING WITH AN AXE

MACON, Ca. Oct. 2s.-Mlss Eliza
beth Haddock and T. D, Ingram, the
latter blind. were united in marriage
here, while the police stood guard TO
prevent an enraged sister of Miss Had
dock from renewing trouble which a
short time previous had broken up
the wedding ceremony.
Just as the Rev. T f. Galloway was
about TO pronounce the magic words,
Miss Mary G. Haddock, it is alleged,
burst in the door Of the room with an
az. Mr.. Galloway fed from the scene
and did not return. The police were
called and after Miss Iaddock had
been quieted, Dr.. W. n. Aainsworth
was called and pronounced the couple
man and wife.
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"F-L-A-S-H" IS A SIGNAL OLA THRILL
Word AS Osed by the Aoeaed Press Greatest News
Shortly after the NoDen1

Z NEW YORK. Oct 28.-F-L-A-S-H,
- is ELECTED! On the night
pr Tuesday. November Z, the missing
name in the foregoing sentence viii
pc supplied by the Associated Press.
In the business of news-g gathering
as developed by this worldwide or
ganiZadon, the first word sent over
the wires telling Of any extraordi-
nary event is FLASH" 1t is the sig
nal of a thrill. The ordinary routine
of the Associated Press bureaus and
their hundreds OF newspaper mem
bers is often punctuated with the
''F-l-a-s-h!" Operators from Bangor
20 San Diego, from Tampa to Tacoma,
tighten their tagging nerves, and cdi-
TOYS come BcurryinR to the wires to
hear Pope Is dead. Titanic sunk
another country at war, n Lusitania
torpedoed, battle won, king de-
posed, or a president elected.
Like a Comet.
This latter thrill has recognized
periodiclty. like the passage OF com
ct, and the experience of it is again
Imminent. Within few hours after
you have scratched your ballot, the
&Au1OGAnbGA ACaS VIII nave luSNtu
Ehe verdict which you and sixteen nit.
lion fellow voters have rendered-will
have flashed 1t within few minutes
after the last Of these sixteen million
ballots have been dropped in its box
in some of the western states. where
three hours difference in time makes
late the closing Of the polls.
How, in this brief time. anything
approximating an accurate account
ing of these sixteen million votes can
be achieved. the returns assembled.
and the result made known through
out the land is a process both Simple
and marvellous. II Is true. Of course,
that all of those sixteen million yct-
es are not counted. but when the As
ISOLATED Press announces the election.
that announcement viii be rs trust
worthy as If they were
The gathering and distribution OF
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IF a Candidate Should Die
Voting at Presidential Election Proceed in the Usual way
philadelphia Ledger)

Suppose one of the candidates for
president of the United States were
10 die the night before election, how
would that situation be handled?
That question comes TO us from
The manager of large industrial
plant Answer.
Nothing would happen The cleo
uon would be held on November Z
and the voting would proceed as us
ual.
We do not vote for either Charles
l., Hughes or Woodrow Wilson. Their
names Will not be on the ballots. What
We do vote for is set Of presidential
electors, none Of whose names we
bother to learn.
one set Of electors il it wins is ex-
pected TO cast the state vote for Hughes
and the other set, il it wins, for VIII
son
Not Legally Bound.
But the Republican electors il sue
cessful in election, are not legally
bound TO cast their ballots in the cleo
toral college for Mr.. Hughes. They
could vote for anybody who is quail
ned under the United States constitu.
ton to hold the office OF president
The Republican electors could legally
vote for President Wilson.
An elecior is an independent agent.
AS matter OF practice he will vote for
the candidate chosen at party con-
ventlon last June, but he can legally
break the instruction, Just as dele
gate TO the convention could have done,
Hence II either presidential candt-
date were TO die the day before the
election all the states would on the
Il .ai5a,,,i,r -. - 80
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Up to National Committee.

II one OF the candidates selected by
either convention we're to die the ma
tional committee Of that party would
some time after November I and prior
to the second Monday In January, des-
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RETURNS this year will mark one Of the
greatest cooperative efforts thar has
been made on any similar occasion to
accomplish this purpose In previous
elections the Associated Press, rely
ing largely upon Its oRu resources,
has done notable work IN the prompt
and accurate reporting Of tho election
figures. In the ROu3a -veIt-ParkGr con-
test Of 1904 the orgln alton was able
not only definitely 10 announce the re-
suit but also To Indicate the fun cN-
tent OF the victory a. early as 8 o'clock
on election night. Equally remark
able service has been rendered in
other elections. and the value Of the
Associated Press's figures has been
such That defeated candidates them
selves have, on the strength of them,
sent their kilograms OF congratula-
ton to their victorious opponents.
The service has been such that 1t has
invariably brought to the executives
Of the organization flood Of tele-
grams on the day after In tribute 10
the "comprehensiveness," speed"
and accuracy with which the work
has been done. This year II is possible
that all records will be broken, for
the Associated Press has for the com
ing election enlisted the corporation
OF its members from coast to coast
In 4 more concerted effort than ever
before.
Covering the News.
More than two years az, prepara-
lions were begun. under the direc-
ton OF the general manager OF the
Associated Press. to cover" the
news which VIII be served to the pub
lie on the night of November z.
Election experts of the organization
have during these two years can
vasscd every state in the union and
bnd arranged with the papers of
each state TO work together on a CO.
operative basis under the supervls-
ion of the established Associated
Press bureaus. Thousands Of spe-
cial forms have been prepared for