It will always be remembered as the purest, cleanest election ever held in the precincts of the city.

The citizens' organization turned out in overwhelming force to guarantee that it should be so.

Bands of Dr.Boomer's students, armed with baseball bats, surrounded the polls to guarantee fair play.

Any man wishing to cast an unclean vote was driven from the booth: all those attempting to introduce any element of brute force or rowdyism into the election were cracked over the head.

In the lower part of the town scores of willing workers, recruited often from the humblest classes, kept order with pickaxes.