midnight
It was on the night of the twenty-first of December that the amendment passed the House . On the morning of the twenty-third the _ Herald _ sprang a front page sensation . It charged that the editor of the _ World _ had ruined a girl named Nellie Anderson at a house where he had boarded and that she had subsequently disappeared . It featured also a story of how he had been seen to enter his rooms at midnight with a woman of the street , who remained there until morning reveling with him . Attached to this were the affidavits of two detectives , a police officer , and the druggist who had furnished the liquor . The story exploded like a bomb shell in the camp of the progressives . Rawson tried at once without success to get Jeff on the telephone .