Show paying FOR THE WHISTLE WHIS TLE THERE ia is one thio thin thing to be considered in connection with these election matters and these excited election times and that is their expense the new york 11 erata herald estimates the tire average cost of a presidential ident ial election at a million anti and a half for each of the great opposing part partle parties ies les or three millions in all which would be fifteen times more than the four years yearby salary of the successful candidate higher than the above are made and probably with approximate correctness if we consider the time lost and the business stopped or hi hindered as well as the actual outlay throughout the whole country under these ces it might be well to ask whether the game is worth the powder whether the elections are worth to the country the enormous amount spent on them or at least whether it would not be a good thing to try to eco very materially the time the tho means and aud the attention devoted to elections and divert them towards something more advantageously productive it ia Is certainly better to put means into a rising e fund than into a sinking ono one and it cannot be denied that a knat great deal ot of means time and energy is sunk in elections |