The Cost of Congressional Campaigns

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 8, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 49.

The Cost of Congressional Campaigns

According to the New York World, one candidate for Congress in that State swears that he spent $6,610 in his campaign just closed; another spent $6,971; another spent $7,500; and another spent $3,000. These figures do not include the sums spent in securing nominations. In his two years’ term of office the New York congressman draws only $10,000 in salary. There is something seriously wrong with the politics of the republic when official positions have to be bought with money.