The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-04-22
over Is MILLIONS
TO VOTE IN FALL
THAT PERCENTAGE OF PoPuIA-
TON WILL CAST VOTES FOR
PREslpENT.-oTHER IN.
TEREsriNo FACTS.

| I htt more IMAM 10 ullillon PERSONS IN
the United States VIII record their
| votes for president I'm the campaign of
the present year is evident from :he
Official statistics OF presidential vote
published In the Statistical Abstract of
the United states, which has just been
Issued by the Bureau of Statistics. De-
rartmont Of Commerce and Labor.
Prior 10 1855 no governmental official
record of the votes east for president
existed. bur an act passed by Congress-
! on February 3. 1887, made Il the duty
OF the executive of each state 20 re-
! names of electors and the number OF
votes given or cast for each person
voted for and these reports, made to
the secretary of state in 1855 and in
each subsequent 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 sta
tistical Abstract Of the United States.
suggests that the total number of votes
cast in the presidential election OF this
year will for the first time exceed -
millions.
The total number I'm 1908 was H.
$4,000; in 1900. 1896. 900; in 1892. H.
o44, 900, and In 1888. 1881 900. Ovid
ing the vote thus officially recorded in
To the population named by official
counts or estimates for the years in
q oh
lation for each Vote cast as follows:
in 1905. 5.9S persons for each vote
cast: in 1904, Clio; in 1900, 5.44; In
1896. $40; in 1892. $40; and in 1855.
5.27. The statements published in the
Abstract, show the vote cast in each
state for the various candidates in each
presidential election from 1855 to 1905
and the electoral vote by principal po-
litical parties, state by state. during the
same period.
Wealth Has Increased.
The above statement, showing the
official record of presidential elections
during the last quarter of q century,
illustrates the variety of interesting
and official information presented by
the Statistical Abstract issued annual
~ by the Department of Commerce and
Labor through its Bureau of Statistics
the thirty-fourth number OF which has
not made it's appearance. II shows, for
example, that the average 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 circulation. from $12 por
1871 the bank clearings, from 50 bill
lion dollars i'm 1887. the first year for
which an official record was available.
TO 1853 billions In 1911; the Individual
deposits in banks. from billion dol
lars in 1875, the earliest year for which
figures are available to practically 10
billions i'm 1911; the number of deposit
tors in savings banks. from l million
in 1866 to 9ls millions i'm 1911: the ex-
ports of domestic products from a lit
tie 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 2Oh billions in 1910; and many 9th
er equally interesting evidences OF ma
tional growth.
General Subjects Presented.
Among the general subjects statist-
cally presented in the 500 pages in
cluded in the volume are: area, nat
ural resources and population of the
United states; agriculture forestry,