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Show 15,000 rOR TRANSPARENCIES. A Single Item of the Cost of the Political Canvass In New York City. During the two weeks preceding an election in New York city those sign painters vho make a specialty of polifr ical transparencies have something of Larvest There are only a few of them, and they divide about $15,000 paid for printing on canvas the names of the candidates and affixing the canva3 to a plain wooden frame which serves as firewood after the election. The average cost of the campaign transparency tretched in front of a party headquarters headquar-ters is $15. There were about 1,000 such transparencies in New York city this year, averaging about 35 in each assembly district Tammany had a headquarters in every ev-ery assembly district The Republicans had two headquarters in every assembly district those of the regulars and the Milhollandites. Then- there were thj State Democracy, the Anti-Tammany Democracy, the Independent county organization, or-ganization, the Good Government clubs, the German Reform union, the New York or Voorhis Democracy and the Socialists, Populists and Prohibitionists. Prohibition-ists. Next came the business men's associations, as-sociations, the young men's clubs, the social clubs which made political nominations, nom-inations, and such independent organisations organi-sations as the Italian-American Republicans, Repub-licans, the Hungarian Democrats and the Swedish -an ti-Tammanyites. Each congress candidate usually had a separate sep-arate headquarters, and some of the as sembly and aldermanic candidates also opened rooms of their own. Tbe most elaborate of the campaign transparencies was, of course, to be found in front of Tammany halL Thi9 year two changes of candidates judge of the court of appeals and mayor had been made upon it, which is unusual In one election. After the battle of the ballots was over the canvas on the transparencies trans-parencies was torn to shreds, and the wooden framework was split up. Thei was nothing left to show for the expend itureof about $15,000. New York Sun. |