Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-29

OF the Associated Press. lie is the Paul
Revere or the backwoods districts who
gGllops his horse or drives his motor
cycle on election night to the near
est telegraph station. There arc still
some remote regions--a great many OF
them-whcrc the polling OF Il prcsidcn-
tinl vote Is almost Il game OF soil.
tnire, and from some OF them couriers
must ride twenty miles before they can
release by wire to Il waiting nation
the fac, that plurality OF one for
- it would be partisan to antici-
pate the namc) had been cast at Ranch
-. There are several such remote dis
tr:cts even in New York State. whence
news leaks almost AZ slowly % in Mon.
tana or Idaho. And there is no deprc-
eating the Importance OF the vote that
liz cast at Glover Four Corners II is
the will of the people that rules. and
the Associated Press can know no dis
;!nc;ion when 1t comes to the counting
of honest ballots. Otherwise IL would
not pay for that twenty-in!lc ride
New Jersey has been Il thorn In the
flesh Of the election tabulators for
many years. In the first place, II re.
fuses TO close Its polls until o'clock.
and It's law requires that the counting
tom shall be completed before another
ballot is taken up. There are upwards
or $40 names on the Jersey ballot this
year In some or the cities. and IL /,
doubtful whether 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
hnndicnp to tho difference i'm time but
New York and majority OF the East :
ern States put the presidential electors
OH II separate ballot to tailitatc the
count.
MILEAGE OF WIRES
Up IL THE MILLIONS
If the foregoing has not helped you
To visualize the process by which the
greatest news-gatherinS organization
tries to Satiate your election curiosity
and furnish masses of figures to back
w its announcement OF the victory.
picture TO yourself this one fact: on
election night the facilities for wire
communication over practically the en-
tire country are for the moment de-
voted almost exclusively TO the collcC-
ton and distribution OF returns. The
iniiaGc OF those wires you Will find
run UP into the millions The A!sso-
ciatcd Press leased wire system itself
u almost doubled on election night
ana the telegraph companies I'm their
own WAY are cooperating directly or
indirectly in the great effort 10 bring
the figures 10 head
Consider also the human factors
thousands of operators "A: the kew and
telephone transmitters, newspaper re-
portcrs and editors a, work on local
situations. while the army of trained
Associated Press men are :: sernhIing
an thc!r matter. and you arrive at
something like :, general glimpse Of
the efforts that Will he made on cleo
ton night 10 supply tho missing name
In The first sentence Of this article
Surprising, though il will public in
tcroat IN the great war, or in the null
titudinous events that the world daily
contributes 10 the excitement of the
breakfast table, the news Of u prcsi-
dental election Will by no means at
tract all of the argus eyes Of an organ
iI1ii"n whose field is the world SO
elastic Is the system Of this clearing
mouse FOR news. that its corrcspondcut
III PekinS may come in at the height
or excitement over the election with
new revolution in China. its reprc-
sentative In Panama with disastrous
slide In culcbra cut. its urcau In
PetroGrad with a stirring speech I'm tho
i'nha. or It's men at the front with
n great victory. The usual designated
men arc on deck to handle any emcr-
Eenc!, in the election or out OF it.