Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1920 — CAMPAIGN FUNDS AND ELECTION RESULTS [ARTICLE]

CAMPAIGN FUNDS AND ELECTION RESULTS

Wall street is a center of wagers on nominations and elections, and the bettors take into account every possible element The Wall Street Journal points out that ever since 1860 the candidate with the largest campaign fund has always won the election, with a single exception; but since the single exception was the last election, this may not give a very reliable basis for prophecy about the result next November, and probably even in Wall Street it would not be claimed that a reversal in the 'size of the funds would have defeated Lincoln, Grant, and Roosevelt. The Wall Street Journal gives the following table prepared by. a Washington statistican, showing expenditures and the electoral vote in each campaign since 1860: In the following table the first column gives the year, the second the candidate, the third the campaign fund and the fourth the-elec-torial vote. . 1860 .Lincoln I —loo,ooo 180 Douglas 50,000 12 Breckinridge 12 1864 Lincoln 125,000 212 McClellan 50,000 21 1868 Grant 150,000 214 Seymour 75,000 80 1872 Grant 250,000 280 Greely 50,000 1876 Hayes 200,000 185 Tilden 900,000 184 1880 Garfield 1,100,000 214 (Hancock 355,000 145 1884 Blaine 1,300,000 182 'Cleveland 1,400,000 219 1888 Harrison 1,850,000 283 Cleveland 855,000 W 8 1892 Harrison 1,850,000 245 Cleveland 2,350,000 277 1896 McKinley 18,500,000 271 Bryan 675,000 178 1900 McKinley 9,500,000 292 Bryan : 425,000 155 1904 Roosevelt 3,500,000 836 Parker 1,250,000 140 1908 Taft 1,700,000 321 Bryan 750,000 162 1912 Taft 750,000 8 'Roosevelt 325,000 88 Wilson 850,000 485 1916' Hughes 2,012,535 264 — Wilson 1,400,229 277