Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-10-02
The Seftz Law Again.

/ eleCTlOn law III the HERALD, passed ttJ the
! late session of the Ohio Legislature but,
for the purpose of keeping our Demo-
cratic friends advised of the danger they
will incur if they should violate its pro-
visions, we have thought it proper, on
their account, to republish the said law.
! So here it is, and we call the special at
tention of our Democratic friends to its
provisions:
! An act supplementary to act entitled 8 An act
| to preserve the purity of elections
| SECTION /. Be it enacted by the General
| Assembly Of the State Of Ohio, That 1t shS al
| be unlawful for any person who Is can
didate for any office of trust or profit un-
! der the Constitution or laws of this State,
or of the United States, to loan, give,
directly or indirectly, offer or promise to
| give, any money or other thing of value
| to any elecUor within the district in which
he is a candidate, for the purpose of in
fiuencing or retaining the vote of such
electOr, or give or promise to give to any
person or persons, to influence the vote
of any individual electOr or electors gen
orally, or to influence him or them to
vote, or to refrain from voting; provided
that nothing shall be construed to apply
to hospitality at his own residence.
SECTION 2. Any person found guilty of
any of the acts named in section ] shall
| De UG6uCu RlllGy VI DIlDGIH anu upon
conviction thereof shall be fined in any
sum not less than 5000 nor more than
81, 900, or be imprisoned in the peniten-
ti4ry not exceeding three years; and if
such offender shall have been elected to
the Office for which he was a candidate,
his office shall be made vacant by convic-
ti0n, and filled as in other cases OF va
cancy; and such persons shall, moreover,
be forever ineligible to any office of trust
or profit within this State.
SECTION 3. Any person, not a candidate
for office, who shall disburse or give, OF
promise to give, any money or other thing
of value, or gives or treats to any spirit
Gus, malt or other liquors, either directly
or indirectly, to influence any voter il
giving or Withholding his vote, or seeks
by violence or threats of violence, OF
threatens to enforce the payment of
, debt, or to begin criminal prosecution
or to injure the business or trade of any
elector, or if any employer of laborers
OF agent of such employer, threatens tt
withhold or reduce the wages, or to dis
miss from service, or refuses to allow the
necessary time to employees to attend a
the place of election and vote, as an in
ducement to such electOr to vote contrary
to his inclination, or any person sellinE
or offering to sell his influence with Othe
voters, or who, for OF with any considera
ton of any value enumerated in Section /
| shall seek to influence the vote of an
electOr, or to influence him to vote, or t.
refrain from voting, shall be deemed
| guilty of q felony, and, upon conviction
= thereof, shall be fined in any sum not les
than 800 nor more than 50 900, or be i'm
prisOned in the penitentiary not NOR
than three years, at the discretion of tn
court.
SECTION 4. Any candidate for nomina
ton by any political party in the State
!, for any office of trust or profit, who Shal
= | 1TOit nf the named in SnofiO
one of this act, for the purpose of secu1
ing the influence of anv person in hi
behalf, or to influence any delegate VOtin
upon the question of his nomination
shall be deemed guilty of bribery, an
shall be fined not less than 800. and sha
be disqualified from holding the Office
though he be thereafter elected accord
ing to law. The commission of any on
of the acts named in section one, durin
u the candidacy of such person for nom
e. nation for Office as aforesaid, shall
prima tdcie evidence of intent to infiuent
the votes of delegates.
SECTION B. That whoever asks, demand
or receives from a candidate for the nom
IF nation, by any political party or conveI
tion to any office, or from any candida
- for any Office, under any law, any none
or other thing of value, not then due al
owing, or makes application to any sue
candidate to purchase any ticket to, or
give any money or other thing of valu
for any pretended ball, picnic, fair, e
tertainment or charitable enterprise, wi
the expectation or belief that such
mand, request or receipt will influen
any vote, shall be fined not less than S
nor more than $500, or imprisoned six
? days in the county jail, or wOrk-house,
- there be such an institution in the count
or both, and such demand or request
any candidate shall be deemed primo fa
q proof of such expectation or belief. J
- prosecution shall be instituted under al
provisions of this act unless the sar
Shall be commenced within six mont
after the commission of the Offense.
pit SECTION 6. The Prosecuting AttOrn
1t may frame his Indictment with any nu
- Der of counts for different Offeuses agail
this act, that may be committed to eff
. any one election by any one candida
= and may offer evidence tending to su
port any or all of the counts, and t
jury shall take into consideration all t
evidence offered on each of said coun
for the purpose of establishing the gu
of the accused on all or any of 81
counts.
SEcT1oN Z. This act shall take effect a
be in force from and after its passage.
= Passed May l, 1879.
--@So-
: General Ewing is gentleman of
much intelligence not to comprehend
disasters that threaten his party. 1t n
be true, as he is reported to have So
that he has not received the aid he hi
right to expect from the party leadt
Al. But their earnest endeavors could
save him. General Ewing's platform
vited defeat. His own record as a pu1
- man invited it. Nothing could have sw
him into the GubernatOrial chair of @
in the teeth of his platform and his recC
but season of adversely, a period
blasted crops, silent work shops and g
eral bankruptcy The truth is, anC
must realize it now, that his poit
- platform of principles is not adapted
season of prosperity - Commercial.
The largest room for reform in