ELECTION EXPENSES IN GREAT BRITAIN.
Vo to .write. M.P.” .after one's name OdsW 1 a round sum for the 'privilege. " Not, long agb' a Demip^wtic I politician * •in j Pennsylvania wjas expendedii^iSjiQdO.tto, get a nomlna- a tion-* fqp ; Congress,’ • and ?! to ,*hay© i J faiied^at 1 last; ," Bnt'; i kt';/^/, i ;TCteenl ! :-’/: election in England candidatefor ,: i .L8,136i’-16fi 6d;-while the election- of his rival cost LIO,OOO. In the expense ; 71 account of the defeated, candidate voire . ; . the 26'Usffor r “Conveyancesllsuichurailway passes" ; L 2,114 Os 8d for ** ig^dy: s ” f : !l El;'44S a ' < 5s | I'Od for ; clerks* and messengers/Vand ;L97 : 7ifohfafdr “advertising andliistationeiy;”.'! itißaaiM contest in ArgyllMhilrtf,' Sddtwnd, iJ 4 ; fledr/ weeks ago, inyolv^d,.,outlays estimated ' f; at i £20,000. otb ordinary source* of expense, eachcandidaie had a small fleet ol -steairten at
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Western Star, Issue 281, 25 January 1879, Page 2 (Supplement)
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131ELECTION EXPENSES IN GREAT BRITAIN. Western Star, Issue 281, 25 January 1879, Page 2 (Supplement)
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