The Republican journal., 1912-05-02
SOME sEASONABLE STATISTICS.

SOME SEASONABLE STATISTICS.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 20, 1912.
That more than Is million persons in the
United States will record their votes for
President in the campaign of the present
year is evident from the official statistics
of presidential votes published in the Sta
tistical Abstract Of the United States,
which has just been issued by the Bureau
of Statistics, Department of Commerce
and Labor. Prior to 1888 no govern
mental official record of the votes cast
for President existed, but an act passed
by Congress on February 3, 1887, made
it the duty of the Executive of each
State to report to the Secretary of State
the names of electors and the number of
votes given or cast for each person voted
for, and these reports, made to the Sec
rotary of State in 1888, and in each sub
sequent presidential election, form the
basis of the official record of presidential
elections in the United States. This
record, which has been published for
several years in the Statistical Abstract
of the United States, suggests that the
total number of votes cast in the presi-
Dental election of this year will for the
first time exceed Is millions. The total
number in 1908 was IA, 1877, 900; in 1900,
10, 965, 900; in 1892, 1904, 600, and in
1888, 1881, 900. Dividing the vote thus
officially recorded into the population
named by official counts or estimates for
the years in question, this shows the
average population for each vote cast.
as follows: in 1908, 5.98 persons for each
vote cast; in 1904, $40; in 1900, 5. "A; in
1896, 5. 10; in 1892, $40; and in 1883, SGT.
The statements published in the Alb
stract, show the vote cast in each State
for the various candidates in each presi-
Dental election from 1888 to 1908, and
the electoral vote by principal 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 Sta
tistical Abstract issued annually by the
Department of Commerce and Labor
through it's Bureau of Statistics, the
thirty-fourth number of which has just
made its appearance. 1t shows, for ex-
ample, that the average per capita
wealth of the country has grown from
1907 in 1850 to over $1,000 in 1904, the
latest official record on this subject; the
money in circulation, from S12 per capita
in 1850 to $34 per capita in 1911; the bank
clearings, from 81 billion dollars in 1887,
the first year for which an official record
was available, to 159 billions in 1911; the
individual deposits in banks, from 2
billion dollars in 1875, the earliest year
for which figures are available, to prac-
tically 16 billions in 1911; the number of
depositors in savings banks, from l
million in 1866 to l-2 millions in 1911;
the exports of domestic products, from a
little over 100 million dollars in 1910 to
over 1000 millions in 1911; and the value
of manufactures produced in the country,
from ! billion dollars in 1850 to 20 IL
billions in 1910; and many other equally
interesting evidences of national growth.
Among the general subjects stats.
tically presented in the 300 pages in
cluded in the volume are: area, natural
resources and population of the United
States; agriculture, forestry, and fish
cries; manufacturing and mining indus
tries and patents; occupations, labor,
and wages; internal communication and
transporta ton; merchant marine and
shipping; foreign commerce; internal
commerce; commerce of noncontiguous
territory; prices; consumption estimates;
money, banking, and insurance; COM
mercial failures; wealth and public
finance; civil service; statistical record
of the progress of the United States;
and the commercial, financial, and none
tary statistics of the principal countries
of the world. Statistical material for a
new and down to date edition of the COM
panion volume, the Statistical Abstract
of Foreign countries, IS now in course of
preparation.
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