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press reports that Hughes was elected. I called up the World and other news- papers as well as the United Press and urged them to undo, as far as possible, the harm done by the morning press in conceding everything to Hughes. I was afraid if this was not done everything would go by default, and states which we carried in the West by close margins, would be neglected and we might be robbed of victory. I shall not go into details here of the strenuous hours which have fol- lowed up to this moment. It seems to me everyone I know was telegraphing, tele- phoning or wanting to see me. I visited Headquarters to find a motley mob. The Campaign Committee were running about in a frenzy, totally disorganized. The all night vigil and the certainty of defeat followed by hope had been too much for them. There was not an old stager around excepting Hugh Wallace who was more composed. I asked the Attorney General to remain over until tonight, and I have been in constant consultation with him regarding measures to protect the ballot boxes in states where the votes were still being counted and which were in doubt. Last night, Governor Stanchfield, de Lancey Nicholl, Tom Chadbourne, Bernard Baruch and Morganthau came up for consultation. It was <add>a</add> futile pilgrimage for everything they suggested in regard to protecting the count had already been done. The President has left everything in our hands and has not telephoned, written a suggestion or given a word of advice, although his fortunes are so wholly at stake. He seems to have been confident that every means were being taken to protect his interests, and he has allowed it to rest at that. Several times he has had the White House Offices telephone me to ask how things were go- ing and what I thought of the outcome. I believe I can truthfully say that I have not worried a moment. If I had, I could not have stood the strain. It was not that I was altogether
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press reports that Hughes was elected. I called up the World and other news-
papers as well as the United Press and urged them to undo, as far as possible,
the harm done by the morning press in conceding everything to Hughes. I was
afraid if this was not done everything would go by default, and states which we
carried in the West by close margins, would be neglected and we might be robbed
of victory.
I shall not go into details here of the strenuous hours which have fol-
lowed up to this moment. It seems to me everyone I know was telegraphing, tele-
phoning or wanting to see me.
I visited Headquarters to find a motley mob. The Campaign Committee
were running about in a frenzy, totally disorganized. The all night vigil
and the certainty of defeat followed by hope had been too much for them. There
was not an old stager around excepting Hugh Wallace who was more composed.
I asked the Attorney General to remain over until tonight, and I have
been in constant consultation with him regarding measures to protect the ballot
boxes in states where the votes were still being counted and which were in doubt.
Last night, Governor Stanchfield, de Lancey Nicholl, Tom Chadbourne, Bernard
Baruch and Morganthau came up for consultation. It was |
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