Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-28
WHAT ELECTION
RETURNS COST
1t is Estimated That s5,ooo,oo0
Will Be Spent on Wire
Service, Etc.
Special Correspondence.

| Special Correspondence.
Chicago, Oct. 26.-Getting the re.
turns of the election this year will
cost the American people over So
900, 900. it is estimated, or more than
has ever been spent for such a pur-
pose in presidential election before.
Representatives of telegraph and
telephone companies here report that
the demand for wire service on the
night of Nov. 3 is already greater
than 1t was in 1904 and the remain-
ing days will put the final figure
we'll above that total. Few persons
realize the size OF the complex mach.
inery that is set in motion that night
70 satisfy the anxious intertJst or
the millions of people who fiji the
tneaters, clubs and restaurants in the
big cities and pack the streets In
front OF the newspaper offices. To
carry the news next Tuesday, over
100000 miles Of telegraph and tele-
phone wire will be brought into SER
vice, or enough to furnish 30 special
lines to the noon and have enough
wire left over for circuits to Cincin-
natl, Lincoln and Oyster Bay. Thou
sands Of persons Will be required
to handle the crowds. The cost Of
all these Items for tho country as a
whole Is estimated as follows:
Telegraph and telephone
service ...S150O.OOO
Newspaper bulletin ser
Privite bulletins, stereopti- ''''''0
cons. rent Of halls and
laDof .7......t. 500, 900
Police service ............ 100000
100000
election is the number Of brokers'
offices which are kept open and are
thronged from early in the evening
until we'll after midnight by anxious
speculators and investors. While
Wall street and LaSalle street are
not so vitality interested as usual in
the outcome, the stock market We'd
nesday will reflect the result. Num-
bers of churches this year have ar
ranged to receive the returns and in
many places advantage has been
taken of the election interest to or
ganize charitable fairs and bazars
at which the returns will be bulle-
tined.
THOSE WHO CAN AND CANNOT.
Women will vote In this general cleo
ton in four states. Colorado Utah, Ida
no and Wyoming, a fact which cam
paign managers in the various national
isauQudFlerS IN chicago of the Demo-
cratic, Republican, Prohibition and So
cialist parties here have taken into con-
sideration. These states representa-
ton in the electoral college amounts to
Il votes out of 4s3 Voting in all5l
states but three will be by the Austria
Ian system, Virginia and the Caroli-
mas having retained the old system.
BY no means all the men of 81 in the
country are qualified voters, for the |
varying laws of the states not only bar
in the prisons In most cases |
but place other restrictions on suffrage
that become exceedingly important in
years. Michigan bars In
dams and "duelists and their abettors:r
bars delinquent taxpayers
and also felons and the insane. Mis-
souri,. Massachusetts and a few other
states peralize pauperism by taking
away the voting privilege Nevada
brings up the struggle of north and
south by barring from suffrage '.un-
amnestied confederatcs against the
United States" as we'll as Indians and
Native indians are
voters By the Oklahoma law. Ohio re-
fuses to let Tfrited states soldiers vote
IS does North Dakota. Texas and n feyv5
other states Atheists are not .yofers
n North Carolina. nor, are embezZiers
of public funds. II there are any sI,cb !
n Alabama. Non-taxpayers canno.
sote In PENNSYLVANIA nor can nersnns
lishonorably DISCHARGED from, the sap.
vice of the United States. AS neari,,
very state bars conpicts and there ara
9, liz convicts In the prisons Of ths
election day viii mean moth.
ng to whole army OF them.