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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION EXPENSES.

The 'New York World ' publishes the figures of the campaign expenses of the candidates for the Presidency from 1868 onwards. They are as follows :

It is worthy of remarK that the two years in which a Democrat won were 1884. when the Democrat war chest was the better stocked of the two, and 1892 when the Democratic expenditure’ though exceeded by the Republican’ reached high-water mark.

Republicans. Democrats. Year. £ £ 1868 32,090 16.049 1872 53,500 10,700 1876 203,300 192,600 1880 - ... ■ 235,400 . 75,970 1884 278,200 299,600 1888 - ... 288,900 182,970 1892 ... ... 642,000 . 502,900 1896 - ... 1.284,000 144,450 1900 3,033,000 128.400 1904 1,070,700 267,500

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Evening Star, Issue 13145, 29 December 1908, Page 6

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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION EXPENSES. Evening Star, Issue 13145, 29 December 1908, Page 6

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION EXPENSES. Evening Star, Issue 13145, 29 December 1908, Page 6