midnight
No one knew whether other articles of this kind might not be concealed about the building , but the Mayor and councilmen refused to go home , and even assisted in the search for possible bombs . Secret service men were called from Washington , and went into consultation with Bishop Chuff . It was a night of uproar . A reign of terror was freely predicted , and many prominent citizens sat up until after midnight on the chance of discovering similar explosives concealed about their premises . The morning papers rallied rapidly to the cause of threatened civilization . The Daily Circumspect declared , editorially : -- The alcoholsheviks have at last thrown down the gauntlet . The news that the ginarchists have placed a ginfernal machine in the very shrine of law and order is tantamount to a declaration of war upon sobriety as a whole .