HIGH COST FOR PRESIDENT-MAKING
High Cost of President-Making AN ATTEMPT to estimate the amount of money spent by the American people every year in electing and inaugurating a President is made by Alfred E. Keet, in the Forum...
...I now distinctly say this: If you shall be appointed a delegate to Chicago I will furnish one hundred dollars to bear the expenses of the trip...
...An estimate of the campaign expenditures for 1920 totals $50,000,000.—Review of Reviews...
...Then he goes to the city—and starts in all over again...
...Single subscriptions to the Republican fund were as high as $200,000 each...
...Re spends more than twenty of the best years of his life in acquiring them and in proving to the people of his home town that he has them...
...1,300,000 182 Cleveland 1,400,000 219 1888—Harrison...
...These candidates each received a large popular vote in the primaries...
...1876 - Hayes 950,000 185 Greely...
...3,500,000 336 Parker 1,250,000 140 Bryan 750,000 162 1912—Taft...
...In the campaign of 1920 the Senatorial inquiry showed that large sums were spent in the primaries on behalf of the various Republican candidates...
...It was certified that the cost of General Wood's organization and publicity was about $1,500,000, Governor Lowden's nearly $500,000, Senator Johnson's nearly $200,000, and Mr...
...I cannot enter the ring on the money basis—first, because in the main it is wrong...
...Aren't they industry, integrity, character, and friends...
...Year Candidates Fund Vote 1860 - Lincoln ____$100,000 180 Douglas ____ 50,000 12 Breckenridge 72 1864 - Lincoln 125,000 212 Mcclellan 50,000 21 1868 - Grant 150,000 214 Seymour 75,000 80 Greely 50,000...
...This decline is, however, not due to any marked depletion of the gold deposits, for Alaska contains enormous potential reserves of gold and other valuable minerals, but since the purchasing power of gold has decreased it has been impossible to exploit profitably many of the gold deposits, so that the miner and prospector has been forced to leave...
...the use of money is wrong...
...2,012,535 254 Wilson 1,400,229 277 The vast sum spent in 1896, to elect McKinley, was due to the extraordinary educational effort of that campaign...
...The apparent prosperity of the Alaska mining industry during the year is due solely to the increase in the output of copper from 47,220,000 pounds, valued at $8,783,000, in 1919, to about 71,000,000 pounds, valued at $12,400,000, in 1920...
...750,000 8 Roosevelt...
...After all, what are the things that enable him to make money...
...325,000 88 Wilson 850,000 435 1916—Hughes...
...1,100,000 214 Hancock 355,000 155 1884—Blaine...
...Alaska has been seriously affected by the world-wide depression of the gold-mining industry of the last four years, during which the output of her gold mines has been steadily declining...
...This brings the value of the total mineral production of the Territory up to $460,000,000, over half of which is to be credited to the last decade...
...The output of gold in Alaska fell from $9,426,000 in 1919 to about $8,000,000 in 1920, bringing the total gold output up to a value of $320,000,000...
...16,500,000 271 Bryan 675,000 176 1900—McKinley...
...9,500,000 292 Bryan 425,000 155 1904—Roosevelt...
...Live With Your People By ERNEST O. THOMPSON EVEN from the mere money-getting standpoint, a young man may be making a great mistake in rushing off to the city...
...This condition is most serious, for about 60 per cent of Alaska's population has been supported, directly or indirectly, by gold mining...
...Mineral Output of Alaska THE value of the total mineral production of Alaska increased from $19,620,000 in 1919 to $22,070,000 in 1920, according to estimates of Alfred H. Brooks, United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, just made public...
...The free coinage of silver was the issue that year, and it is said that the printing bill of the Republican Party alone exceeded a millions dollars...
...900,000 184 1880—Garfield...
...High Cost of President-Making AN ATTEMPT to estimate the amount of money spent by the American people every year in electing and inaugurating a President is made by Alfred E. Keet, in the Forum (New York...
...It appeared from the Senate investigation that the various candidates had spent a total of at least $10,000,000 in the primaries...
...Alaska has now produced 616,200,000 pounds of copper, worth $127,000,-000...
...Abraham Lincoln's opinion as to the use of money in national elections is stated in a letter written in 1860, in which he says...
...Roughly, we spend for primaries $10,000,000, for conventions $15,000,000, for the campaign (all parties) $50,000,000, for expenses incident to voting $30,000,000, and for inauguration $30,000,000— a total of $135,000,000...
...Hoover's about $170,000...
...Following are the figures as to campaign expenditures from 1860 to 1919: Campaign Elec...
...The total Lincoln campaign fund for his first election as resident was $100,000...
...1,350,000 233 Cleveland 855,000 168 1888 - Harrison 1,850,000 145 Cleveland 2,350,000 277 1896—McKinley...
...The nomination expenses of the successful candidate, Senator Harding, are stated to be $113,100...
...but for certain objects in a political contest the use of some is both right and indispensable...
...It may take him years to prove to an entirely new set of people that he has these qualities...
...and secondly, I have not and cannot get the money...
Vol. 13 • January 1921 • No. 1
