five o'clock
The Pope would use no money . The judge wired the Pope 's manager warily offering a thousand of his own . The answer came -- `` Too late . '' At five o'clock they were running neck and neck . Ten minutes before the polls closed old Bill Maddox rounded up twenty more votes and victory was his . And all the while the judge was making reports to the Pope : `` Runnin ' easy . '' `` It 's a cinch . ''