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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: the man with most rifles will the most votes. Now, says Diaz, in
effect, with an official wave of his hand, 'Settle your own rows,
gintlemen. I don't give a damn whether Megales or Valdez is
governor of Chihuahua, subject, of coorse, to the will of the
people.' Then he winks at Valdez wid his off eye as much as to
say: 'Go in an' win, me boy; me prayers are supporting ye. But be
sure ye do nothing too illegal.' So there ye are, Bucky. If ould
Megales was to wake up election morning and find that the
polling-places was in our hands, his soldiers disarmed or bought
over, and everything contributing smoothly to express the will of
the people in electing him to take a swift hike out of Chihuahua,
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