The Archive · 1900

The Cost of Electing the President of the United States

Five millions sterling! That is the sum, enormous as it seems, which conserva-tivo estimates declare will be spent by the Republican and Democratic parties of the United States in the contents to determine whether Mr. McKialey or Mr. Bryan shall have for his address during: the next four years "The White House, Washington, D.C.," and all the glory that thereunto belongs.

Five millions sterling—twenty-five mil-ion dollars! It is a good round sum. Yet it is more than probable it will be exceeded by hundred of thousands, if not by millions, of dollars before the fourteen million and odd voters have registered their ballots for the present President or for his rival of the Silver Tongue. Of this enormous sum,

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