five o'clock in the afternoon
On election morning he was out at four o'clock , `` getting out the vote '' ; he had a two-horse carriage to ride in , and he went from house to house for his friends , and escorted them in triumph to the polls . He voted half a dozen times himself , and voted some of his friends as often ; he brought bunch after bunch of the newest foreigners -- Lithuanians , Poles , Bohemians , Slovaks -- and when he had put them through the mill he turned them over to another man to take to the next polling place . When Jurgis first set out , the captain of the precinct gave him a hundred dollars , and three times in the course of the day he came for another hundred , and not more than twenty-five out of each lot got stuck in his own pocket . The balance all went for actual votes , and on a day of Democratic landslides they elected `` Scotty '' Doyle , the ex-tenpin setter , by nearly a thousand plurality -- and beginning at five o'clock in the afternoon , and ending at three the next morning , Jurgis treated himself to a most unholy and horrible `` jag . '' Nearly every one else in Packingtown did the same , however , for there was universal exultation over this triumph of popular government , this crushing defeat of an arrogant plutocrat by the power of the common people . After the elections Jurgis stayed on in Packingtown and kept his job . The agitation to break up the police protection of criminals was continuing , and it seemed to him best to `` lay low '' for the present .