Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-06-18 | Page 7 | Cost of Electing a Senator

1 COST OF ELECTING ! A SENATOR. It cost Gifford Pinchot $124,000 to be nominated for senator in the Penn Isylvania Republican primaries, and the expenditure of this large sum has ( caused some unfavorable comment to the effect that Mr. Newberry spent ' something like $200,000 to carry a senatorial primary in Michigan not so very long ago; that Senator Isaac Stephenson spent $100,000 in the Wisconsin Wis-consin primaries away back in 1908: and in 1909. when there was no ques lion of a primary or a popular election. elec-tion. Some one remarked of a recent election of a United States senator by the Illinois legislature: Well, we put Lorimer over down there at Springfield Spring-field and it cost us about $100,000 to do it." According to Literary Digest, Mr. Pinchot's friends have arisen ever -5where to point out, as we read in the Minneapolis Journal (Republican), "that with two million voters or more to reach In the stale of Pennsylvania, the wonder was that Pinchot had been able to make a thorough campaign for so small a sum six or seven cents apiece. In Pennsylvania it costs a pretty penny merelv to send a postcard post-card to each voter." Under existing primary systems, remarks The Tribune Tri-bune of the same city, "a candidate Is obliged to spend a considerable sum of money to carry his message and hi? political identity to the electorate i in perfectly legitimate ways ' And a Democratic journal like the Norfolk 1 Virginian Pilot sees no need of be- : Bg "unduly pressed by the faci that gating the Old Guard cost Pinchot and his wife an eighth of a million dollars." oo