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Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Managing Editor, on Election Night. party battle-grounds—a pivotal, uncer-tain quantity—but it is full of big cities,rolling up enormous masses of votes ;and at the same time it contains wilder-ness-districts, groups of counties cov-ered by mountains and forests, wherethe railroads and telegraph circuits arefew, and whence news leaks almost asslowly as from Montana or Idaho. To canvass it, to make ready to seize its re-turns on the instant, as if a giant handwere to be put out to cover every hilland valley, is the task of the managing-editors—a task at once delicate and gigantic. Each managing editor has hisown method, developed out of the tra-ditions and resources of each establish-ment, and tested and strengthened year 533 534 ELECTION KIGHT IN A NEWSPAPER OFFICE
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The Correspondent of an English Paper. after year. The newspaper that is soeconomical as to rely on any press asso-ciation, or even upon its regular corre-spondents, is not one that is valued forits election news. The journal that isso partisan as to arrang-e only for Re-publican or Democratic sources of in-formation may be fortunate or maybe whoUy deceiving to its readers—as chance decrees. But the journalswhich are managed with pride in theircorrectness, in the getting and givingof the news regardless of even theirown political leaning, such tiiily valu-able journals take no chances, throweconomy to the dogs, and yield to nobias in arranging to turn the flood-gates of election news into their work- rooms on election night.A net is thro^^-n over eachcounty. The local politi-cal managers, the leadingcandidates, the corre-spondents in the countiynewspaper offices—all areordered or requested tofile the result of the vot-ing as soon as they areknown. Finally, personalfriends of the e

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