Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-10-30

/ bulletin boards on election night, but
/ the Associated Press goes on to still
! bigger task than the mere announce
mcnt of the result That would not
20 far TO complete the morning paper.
/ There are columns to fill with state
tabulatiOns, with lists of governors
/ elected, the detailed constitution of
/ the next United States senate and the
house Of representatives, and similar
tables for each state locally handled,
ON the constitution of the state legis-
/ laure. There are comprehensive
leads" to write in summary of the
. figures and contests in particular
states TO be explained.
/ There is one human cog in the cleo
/ ton night machine that is even more
interesting than the general manager
, of the Associated Press. He is the
! Paul Revere Of the backwOods dis
Itricts who gallops his horse or drives
/ his motorcycle on election night to the
nearest telegraph station. There are
4 still some remote rcgiOns-a great
Imany of where the polling of
/ a presidential vote is almost a game
/ of solitaire. and from some of them
Icouricrs must ride twenty miles be-
/ fore they can release by wire TO a
. NdlNlilE ildNIOll tIlt ltAA mat a. lfAhf 'tt
Iity Of one for -- cit would be parti-
san to anticipate the nance had been
( cast at Ranch 40. There are several
/ such remote districts even in New
I York state, whence news leaks almost
as slowly as in Montana or Idaho. And
there is no deprecating the import
auCe Of the vote that is cast at Glover
Four-Corners. II is the will of the
people that rules, and the Associated
Press can know no distinction when
it comes to the counting Of honest
ballots. otherwise it would not pay
for that twenty-mile ride.
New Jersey Thorn in the Flesh.
New Jersey has been a thorn IN the
flesh Of the election tabulators for
many years. In the first place it re-
fuses to close its polls until o'clock.
and its law requires that the counting
of the entire ballot from top to bot
tom shall be completed before another
ballot is taken up. There are upwards
Of 240 names on the Jersey ballot this
year in some of the cities, and it is
doubtful whether on election night
President Wilson will know how his
own state has gone. The Jersey meth
Cd is employed in some of the central
and western states adding a further
handicap to the difference in time
but New York and a majority Of the
eastern states put the presidential
electors on separate ballot to faCii-
tate the count
If the foregoing has not helped you
to visualize the process by which the
greatest news gathering organization
tries to satiate your election curiosity
and furnish masses of figures TO back
up its announcement of the victory,
picture to yourself this one fact on
election night the facilities for wire
communication over practically the
entire country are for the moment
devoted almost exclusively to the col
lection and distribution of returns (
The mileage of those wires yAu will
find run up into the millions The AS
ISOLATED Press leased wire system it. I.
self is almost doubled on election /
night, and the telegraph companies /
in their own way are cooperating di- !
rectly or indirectly in the great effort (
to bring the figures to a head.
Consider Human Factor.
Consider also the human factors /
thousands of operators at the key and /
transmitters, newspaper re- ]
Dorters and editors at work ON local +.
situations, while the army of trained .
Associated Press men are assembling
al their matter, and you arrive at /
like general glimpse of
he efforts that will be made on cleo