The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-11-07

solitaire, and from some Of them
couriers must ride twenty miles be
fore they can release by wire " a
waiting nation the fact that a plurality
Of one for--Gt would be par
tisan to anticipate the name) had been
cast at ranch 40. There are several
such remote districts even in New
York State, whence news leaks almost
az slowly as in Montana or Idaho
And there IS no deprecating the impor-
tance Of the vote that is cast at Clover
-Four Corners. 1t is the will Of the
reople 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 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 count
ing of the entire ballot from top to
bottom shall be completed before an
other ballot is taken up There are
upwards Of 240 names on the jersey
ballot this year in some Of the cities,
night Presidest Wilson will know how
method is employed in some Of the
his own State has gone. The Jersey
Central asd Western States, adding a
further handicap to the difference in
time, but New York and a majority
of the Eastern States put the Pres
idential electors on seperate ballot
to facilitate 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 fol
wire communications overpractically
the entire country are for the mo-
ment devoted almost exclusively
to the collection and distribution of re-
turns. The miliage Of those wires
you will find runs up into the millions.
The Associated Press leased wire sys-
TEN itself, is almost doubled on elec-
ton night, and the telegraph conr
panies in their own way are cooper
ating directly or indirectly in the
great effort to bring the figures to Z.
head.
Human Factors
Consider also the human factors
thousands tt operators at the key and
telephone transmitters, newspaper re-
porters and editors at work on local
situations, while the army of trained
associated Press men are assembling
isg all their mater, and you arrive at
something like general glimpse of
all their matter, and you arrive at
the efforts that will be made on cleo.
eion night to supply the missing name
in the first sentence of this article.
Surprising it though it will public
interest in the great war or in the
multitudinous events that the world
daily contributes to the excitement OF
he breakfast table, the news of Presi-
dentoial election will by no means at
thact all of the orgus-eyes of a or.
ginazation whose field is the world.
So elastic is the system of this clear
ing house for news, that its CORES
pondent in Peking may come in at
the height of the excitement ovxer
the election with a new revolution in
China, it's representative in Panama
with disastrous slide in Culebra cut,
its bureau in Petrograd with stir.
ring speech in Duma, or it's men at
the front with a great victory. Ths
usual designated men are on deck to
handle any emergency, in the election
or out Of it.