no counter demonstration as the
drunken gangs of machine heelers paraded in the streets with bands and
torches.

Kelly observed and was uneasy. What could be the meaning of this meek
acceptance of a theft so flagrant that the whole town was talking about
it? What was Victor Dorn's "game"?

He discovered the next day. The executive committee of the League
worked all night; the League's printers and presses worked from six
o'clock in the morning until ten. At half-past ten Remsen City was
flooded with a special edition of the New Day, given away by Leaguers
and their wives and sons and daughters--a monster special edition paid
for with the last money in the League's small campaign chest. This
special was a full account of the frauds that had been committed. No
indictment could have been more complete, could have carried within
itself more convincing proofs of the truth of its charges. The New Day
declared that the frauds were far more extensive than it was able to
prove; but it insisted upon, and took into account, only those frauds
that could be proved in a "court of justice--if Remsen City had a court
of justice, which the treatment of the League's protectors at the
Courthouse yesterday shows that it has not." The results of the
League's investigations were tabulated. The New Day showed:

First, that while Harbinger, the League candidate for Mayor, had
actually polled 5,280 votes at least, and David Hull had polled less
than 3,950, the election had been so manipulated that in the official
count 4,827 votes were given to Hull and 3,980 votes to Harbinger.

Second, that in the actual vote Falconer had beaten Hugo Galland by
1,230 at least; that in the official count Galland was declared elected
by a majority of 672.

Third, that these results were brought about by wholesale fraudulent
voting, one gang of twenty-two repeaters casting upwards of a thousand
votes at the various polling places; also by false counting, the number
of votes reported exceeding the number cast by between two and three
thousand.

As a piece of workmanship the document was an amazing illustration of
the genius of Victor Dorn. Instead of violence against violence,
instead of vague accusation, here was a calm, orderly proof of the
League's case, of the outrage that had been done the city and its
citizens. Before night fell the day after the election there was no
one in Remsen City who did not know the truth.

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