One argument is quite as logical as the other.

It was impossible to answer every falsehood about the system.

But it was possible to answer certain falsehoods, especially when uttered by some Senator or Congressman of note.

Usually these false statements took the form of assertions that we had asked preposterous questions of applicants.

At times they also included the assertion that we credited people to districts where they did not live; this simply meaning that these persons were not known to the active ward politicians of those districts.
One opponent with whom we had a rather lively tilt was a Republican Congressman from Ohio, Mr.Grosvenor, one of the floor leaders.