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Indiana , where he had made the strongest efforts because the control of its statute book was vital to him , had gone his way barely but , apparently , securely ; Scarborough was beaten for governor by twenty-five hundred . Presently he had Culver in to begin the day 's business . The first paper Culver handed him was a cipher telegram announcing the closing of an agreement which made the National Woolens Company absolute in the Northwest ; the second item in Culver 's budget was also a cipher telegram -- from Merriweather . It had been filed at four o'clock -- several hours later than the newspaper despatches . It said that Scarborough 's friends conceded his defeat , that the Legislature was safely Dumont 's way in both houses . Culver always sorted out to present first the agreeable part of the morning 's budget ; never had he been more successful . At the office Dumont found another cipher telegram from Merriweather : `` Later returns show Scarborough elected by a narrow majority .