The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-07-02
DAILY PAPERS
GIVEREADERS
REAL SERVICE
Tribune and Other A. P. Pa.
pers Use Every Effort to
Get Returns Quickly

One of the many occasions on. which
q daily newspaper goes to unlimited
effort and expense to serve its read
ers quickly and efficiently is state
wide election such as was held We'd
ncsday, and now that the rush Of
election returns and tabulatiOns is
subsiding, it may not be amiss to tell
Tribune patrons how such affairs
are handled from . news standpoint
so that the readers may secure au-
thentic information ut the earliest
possible moment.
The Tribune and all other Associat-
ed Press member papers in North
Dakota are cooperating in the as
similation of statewide returns. The
Associated Press has' set up it's elec-
tion headquarters ut Fargo only
because Of les superior telegraph
line connections and all returns
coming in to the various daily
papers over the state arc immediately
relayed BY special wire to the Fargo
office. There they are tabulated and
the totals sent out over leased wire
to the member papers. Two telegraph
circuits are set up in each daily
newspaper office for the period Of
the election where only one Is or.
dinarily used and two operators are
at work through the busiest hours.
The telegraph service was maintain
ed all night following the election
day.
Every County Covered
In order that returns might be
more quickly gathered each Associat-
ed Press member paper in the state
was assigned certain number Of
counties In its territory, from which
it was held responsible for bringing
in the returns as the votes were
counted. In each county q CORES.
pondent was chosen to tabulate the
vote for that particular political sub.
divisions, who sent the totals to the
strategic center" designated.
Part Of the Tribune's service to its
patrons this year was the relayina
Of all returns to the Hoskins- Meyer
radio studio, from whence they were
broadcast SO that the entire country
side might keep in close touch with
every development. A large crowd
Of people gathered in the streets
near the Hoskins- Meyer store We'd
nesdsy night and heard the returns
AZ they were given over the loud
speaker 1t the same time they were
broadcast.
Retnrns Qaickly Gathered
In addition to the gathering Of
statewide returns, the Tribune set
up q complete cOverage Of Burlei9h
county SO that returns were quickly
brought or telephoned to the Tribune
office from each county as we'll as
city precinct as soon rs the count
was completed. This enabled the
Tribune to publish complete totals
Of the vote In of Burleigh county's
60 precincts the first afternoon fol-
lowing the election. and the Tribune
takes pardonable pride in the fact
that within 20 hours after the polls
closed the vote for all but seven pre-
cincts in the county had been tabu-
lated and totlled. The missing pre-
ctnets were for the most part re-
mote and hard to communicate with,
and their total, vote would not change
the ultimate results one way or the
other.
Tomorrow the Tribune will pub
lish the unoffical tabulation Of
the vote in Rurleigh county for both
the state and county Offices includ-
ing all available Of the county's 60 pre-.
ctncts. Persons interested in knowing
how each candidate Jared in each in
dividual voting place should study
these tables carefully and then clip
them out tor filing. These tables will
not appear again, but the vote for
each candidate IN the precincts which
are missing thereon will be published
separately 81 soon ~ available. Blank
spaees viii be LEFT on the tables print
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