The morning call., 1894-11-22
PAID THE PIPER.
The Money 1t Cost the
Candidates.
Bills of Many of Them as Filed.
Some Sadly Smile Over
1t All.

The candidates have been all at sea as
usual over the question as to where and
with whom they were to file their bill of
election expenses as required by the Purity
of Elections law. The law says the state
ment must be filed with the County Clerk,
but the law also says that the election re-
turns must be filed with the County Clerk,
and yet the Supreme Court decided that
the law did not mean what 1t said, and
that as the same law had directed Regis
trar of Elections 10 attend to all matters
pertaining to the election, and had take
from the County Clerk all his other duties
in that respect, therefore this last went
with it notwithstanding the specific state
ment to the contrary.
Some of the candidates have filed their
statements with the County Clerk and 9TH
ers with the Registrar and others with the
Recorder. The law directly requires that
the statements be recorded. There is
some question as to the right Of the County
Clerk to have the statements taken from
his office in order to have them recorded,
as they are given into his sacred keeping
to take care of. So there you are. The
candidates are, therefore, 10 distress about
the matter because in the first place one
of the most objection a Bile things about
being candidate is the necessity of filing
this statement at all. Yesterday was the
last day of grace, and all statements we're
required to be in. Assessor John Siebe,
determined 10 be right in the matter, filed
q properly sworn statement with all three
of the contending officers, the County Clerk,
the Recorder and the Registrar. He spent
S725-his limit is $500.
DR.. O'DOnneIPs expenses we're $295.
jefferson 6. James spent $500, of which
Mr.. James says be paid S2l0 to the Demo-
cratic Purity Committee" In his affi-
! khf 10 sol = h. fhot
have been made under my authority or
sanction, and that l have not in any
manner been cogniZant of or sanctioned
any other or further expenditure, exI ress
or implied, and that AN not liza bic for or
in any manner bound to pay in the present
or future for any expenditures. II any
have been made by other persons In aid Of
my election"
John Il. Creamy, who calls himself the
"one-time" Democratic candidate for Dis
trict Attorney. throws some explanatory
parentheses into his bill. Heremarks that
the only expense he regrets was So 90 to
the Standard Club. He believes be was
fooled on that.
He designates an expense OF 50 % 10
'sundry small donations to deserving {?
or i'm pecunious (O admirers IT,"
Charles A. Murdoch, School Director,
spent just S1S. Pelham w. Ames spent
George D. Gillespie, Peoples party
nominee for the Assembly, Thirteenth
District is out just SAT-
Justice of the Peace j. E. Barry spent
S155 10.
George T. Marye, William F. Gibson.
Philip g. Galpin and other Freeholders
spent nothing.
Grove P Ayers. Supervisor Twelfth
Ward, S116 30.
j. K: c. Hobbs. Supervisor Eleventh
Ward. $1O8.
Charles II. Holcomb. City ana County
Surveyor, 800 %.
Frank Z. SonZa, Assembly, $40.
John ODay, candidate for Assembly,
$46 70
Fred L. Jones, Supervisor, $1o7 %.
Thomas S. Harrison, Supervisor, So.
Elliott NJ. Root, Supervisor, Sill So.
Theodore ii. Collect. School Director,
nothing.
William Dorman. Auditor P.). ST..
Frederick Head, County Clerk, $16 so.
Il. V. Maxwell. School Director, 1913 %.
Pa rick Shea. Assembly, Ihirty-second
District, $57 80.
John +. Twieg, Assembly, Thirty-sec-
ond District. Sos 30.
Charles II. Hawley. School Director,
$50 80.
Daniel Lambert, Superintendent of
Schools, Peoples party, 1898 20.
J. G. Watson, City Attorney, 1884.
]. j. Truman, Freebooter, S25
Joseph l. Dimond, Supervisor Fifth
Ward. $107 30.
W. B. Harrington, School Director, So
Z. q. Hughes, Supervisor Sixth Ward.
Sis.