Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1904 — POPULAR VOTE IN NOVEMBER. [ARTICLE]

POPULAR VOTE IN NOVEMBER.

It Is Expected to Reach Well Above 15,000,000 Mark. Ip 1884 the popular \otc of ths United States at n presidential election crossed ths ten million mark for the first time. This fall the total vote may be expected to reach well above 15,000,000. Just how much beyond that figure it will go would be hard to say, at least until the campaign hae developed, and the extent of popular interest in the election can be better ganged. It is a well-remembered fact that tha

total vote In 1900 was only a few thousand larger than the vote in 1890, the figures having been respectively 13.059,053 and 13,923,102. The last election was a very tame one, of course, while the one four years earlier had been the most hotly fought since the war. Between 1884 and 1892 there was an increase of just about 2,000,000 votes, and between 1892 and 1900 there was practically the same increase. At the rate of a million votes normal increase every four years we could expect a vote of approximately 15,000,000 this fall, providing that the

interest In the outcome is at the same pitch as it was four years ago. That the interest will be less this year than It was then can hardly be anticipated.