In every part of the city motor cars, supplied by all the leading businessmen, lawyers, and doctors of the city, acted as patrols to see that no unfair use should be made of other vehicles in carrying voters to the polls.
It was a foregone victory from the first--overwhelming and complete.
The cohorts of darkness were so completely routed that it was practically impossible to find them.

As it fell dusk the streets were filled with roaring and surging crowds celebrating the great victory for clean government, while in front of every newspaper office huge lantern pictures of _Mayor McGrath the Champion of Pure Government_, and _O.

Skinyer, the People's Solicitor_, and the other nominees of the league, called forth cheer after cheer of frenzied enthusiasm.
* * * * * They held that night in celebration a great reception at the Mausoleum Club on Plutoria Avenue, given at its own suggestion by the city.

The city, indeed, insisted on it.
Nor was there ever witnessed even in that home of art and refinement a scene of greater charm.

In the spacious corridor of the club a Hungarian band wafted Viennese music from Tyrolese flutes through the rubber trees.