Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-23
The Presidential Vote in 1912.

The Presidential Vote in 1912
According to the Statistical Abstract
of the United States, just issued by the
Bureau of Statistics, Department Of
Commerce and Labor. more than 15.-
O00, 900 persons win record their votes
for President in the campaign of the
present year. Prior to the year of
1888 no governmental official record of
votes cast for President was kept but
in February, 1887, Congress passed an
act making it the duty of the ex-
eeutive of each state to report TO the
Secretary of State the names of the
electors and the number of votes given
for each person voted for. These re-
ports are made the basis of the official
records of presidential elections in the
United States. This record suggests
that the total number of votes east in
the presidential election of this year
will for the first time exceed 10000
600.
The total number in 1908 was ~.
SS7 600: in 1900, 1860 in 1892,
1904. 600, and in 1883, 1881 900. Di-
viding the vote thus. officially recorded
into the population named by official
counts or estimates for the years in
this shows the average popu-
Iation for eaeh vote cast. as follows:
In 1908, 5.9S persons for each vote
cast: in 1904. 61o.- in 1900. 5.44: in
1886, $40; in 1892, $40 and in 1883,
527 The statements published in the
Abstract show the vote cast in each
state for the various candidates IN
each presidential election from 1883 to
1908, and the electoral vote by princi-
pal political parties, state by state,
during the same period.
The above statement showing the
official record of presidential elections
during the last quarter of a century,
illustrates the variety of interesting
and official information presented by
the statistical Abstract issued annual
iy by the Department of Commerce
and Labor through it's Bureau of Sta
tistics. the thirty-fourth number of
which has just made its appearance.
II shows, for example, that the aver
age per capita wealth of the country
has grown from 1907 in 1850 to over
1890 in 1904. the latest official record
on this subject; the money in eircula-
ton, from SIP per capita in 1850 To S34
per capita IN 1911: the bank cIearings,
from 50 billion dollars in 1887. the first
year for which an official record was
available, 10 1853 billions in 1911: the
individual deposits in banks, from ,
billion dollars in 1875. the earliest year
for which figures are available, to
practically Is billions in 1911; the
number of depositors in savings banks.
from | million in 1866 to Y millions in
1911; the exports of domestic products,
from a little over 100 million dollars in
1870 TO over 2000 millions in 1911; and
the value of manufactures produced in
the country, from / billion dollars in
1850 to 20l2 billions in 1910: and many
other equally interesting evidences Of
national growth.
Among the general subjects statis-
ticalIy presented i'm the 500 pages in
cluded in the volume are: Area, nat
|ural resources and population of the
United States; agriculture, forestry
and fisheriesa manufacturing and min
ling Industries and patents; occupa-
tions labor, and wages. internal COM
Imunieation and transportation; mer-
chunt marine and shipping; foreign
commerce; internal commerce: COM
merce of noncontiguous territory:
prices; consumption estimates; money.
| banking, and insurance; commercial
| failures; wealth and public finance;
civil service; statistical record of the
progress of the United States. and the
commercial financial. and monetary
statistics Of the principal countries of
the world. Statistical material for a
new and down to date edition of the
companion volume. the Statistical Alb
stract of Foreign Countries is now in
course of preparation.
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