The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-04-22
FIFTEEN MILLION
VOTERS THIS YEAR
Statistical Abstract of The United
States, 1911.

That more than Is million persons
in the United States will record their
votes Tor president In the campaign
of the present year is evident from the
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-
partment of Commerce and Labor
Prior to 1883 no governmental official
record of the vote 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 re-
port 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 secretary of state in 1883 and in
each subsequent presidential election.
form the basis of the official record
of presidential electors in the United
States. This record, which has been
published for several years in tbe 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 ex-
ceed Is millions. The total number
in 1908 was 1887 900; in 1900. 1866
900; in 1892, l2.004,OOO, and in 1888,
II, 1891 900 Dividing the vote thus Off
cially 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, sos persons
for each vote cast; in 1904, Clio; in
1890, 5.44; in 1896, $40; in 1892, $40;
and in 1888, 5.27. The statements pub
lished in the Abstract show the vote
cast in each state for the various can
didates in each presidential 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 Statistical Abstract issued annual
" by the Department Of Commerce and
Labor through its Bureau of Statistics,
the thirty-fourth number of which has
just made its appearance. 1t shows,
for example, that the average per cap
ita wealth of the country has grown
from 1907 in 1850 to over 1900 in
1904. the latest official record on this
subject; the money in circulation, from
s12 per capital in 1850 to $34 per cap
ita in 1911: the bank clearings. from
50 billion dollars in 1887, the first year
for which an official record was avail
able. to l59 billions IN 19l1 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 practically l6 billions IN 1911; the
number of depositors in savings banks
from million in 1866 to 9h millions
in 1911; the exports Of domestic prod
uets, from little over 100 million dol
lars in lS4O to over 2O00 million in
1911: and the value of manufactures
produced in the country from billion
dollars in 1850 to 2012 billions in 1870;
and many other equally interesting
evidences Of national growth.
Among the general subjects statisti-
cally presented in the 500 pages in
cluded in the volume are area. nat