The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-11-15
7HEIR ELECTION EXPENSES.
Some Uniqn- Returns FILED with Town
Clerks by Caadidate. In Connecticut.

HARTFORD. Nov. l4.-ln accordance with n
new law providing that all candidates for
political offices must file with their town clerks
a bill OF their campaign expenses. thrungs of
Office seekers are DIR fling daily into the presence
OF that official, with motley memoranda of
crows tracks. lead pencil or pen marks. signi.
flying pecrniary mathematical exhibits. Not a
f"w of them nave been Iaborious!y pioughed at
h me with the family pencil stub. on the face
% flap OF an envelope. and others are
roughly drafted on the hyleat of n
diary or mixed with debit and credit
returns f.om IA milk ToGte. Some are master
pieces of "fggerin'," in the art of addition.
selection. suppression. and silence, and about
AL are interesting, especially those in the rural
districts. a5 elementary concoctlons OF bucOIic
political diplomacy and craft. How valuable
they may be as an accurate p|resentment Of
facts is a secret locked in the inner conscious
ness and determined by the conscience OF tho
individual candidate making the disbursement.
II appears from reports submitted to Town
Clerk Freeman of Norwich, In the eastern part
of the state, that ambitious candidates. thirty
or forty of them. layislled all the way from S25
to 500 each in the endeavor' to win the ancient
aud honorable Yankee office Of Justice of the
Peace. an ~eXtraord. nary outlay. for two reasons:
FirS'. hitherto the Office has been Only nom
inally n competitive one. since all the lawyers
IN u Town anu IL WHny OIneF Aspiring CltlLtnS
IA coveted 1t have been regularly and yearly
elected to the place; second, because. as II rule.
the income ard pccuniary prerogatives apper-
tanning 10 it do not average more than ono sill
yer quarter annually. That's usually earned
by swearing sUrneh0dy. In another town in the
snme county It Is said that II candidate for the
nflIce OF town representative who hns not as yet
flied his memorandum OF campaign eY penscs,
expended $1,000 to secure the berth. which Is
worth only $500 in the way Of salary paid by
Mas Nnf Ia. for tln. NlIl., a.. N,,, 80 tl. ..lI
ut the capital, barring, OF course. the ordinary
"rNtraordinary,' Incidental items of comprn-it-
ton from the lhirh House. by means of which
the tail IL enabled to wng the dog. legislatIvrly
and uniformly. There j. always u Titanic crap.
State for the $500 "tii"r II N.srmbiyrnatn'' no
that in several instances in the last two or three
Years cnnnlan,rS i.ye spent from $1,000 to
$4,000 III corIailing'thc berth OF state Senator.
In n numbrro Of Instances candidates submit-
ting Their election expense returns. in the way
OF "A ci'an nm, have affirmed that they spent
not "A ne my In their pursuit. OF The Office. and 1t
l. n"'r'i ~ hring coincihent that in such In
stances, ns u rule, the office is still at large. so
far a. they are concerned. One aspirnnt tor tile
place of Justice Of ITO Peace. j. Frank Corey of
won, while William H.. Jennings. Jr, Of lie
same Town, expended $50 In attaining the
sam" end: On H. other hand. i cost
man. Charles =. Briggs, William II, Shields.
Probate Judge in the Norwich district, paid ont
over $3.50 for nj election expenses. or that
Tlll ~ "a 'Cibi'h St''''b luF pDbtHkB STAMPS anu
stationery, S32. - for road horses, and SaOO.O5
tua political agent"
Inc most fellCitOns set Of returns WAS handsd
to Town Clerk Belden Of Waterbury hy ex-
Postmaster {. G.. tommorford. silver Demo
crallc candidate lot tcrrrsentativ" from that
town. Has memorandum il;
In conformity with, the : atutes Of the State. ma
therrMnt1 r,qH,rins, ! make oath to the following
Representative In the lat ehe ,tlOn as which IL has
been remarked that mad . BEAUTIFUL corpAe and
had a most elegant funeral.
For treating the town committee Demo.
ratio. of pDuFNIl on inc nIUhf al ,nu
nohlnHtoh'.. "a. .''..t ...,,....... 80 oenta
o. Inay be well TO observe that Inc majority of Ihsm
too wniskcy straight; ! took lager, small giasa)
Iaslsrs 1'...iy:.., 49,, ....,,",se .as mill
Pastors not paid for and for which l stand
CHARGED ...''''''.''s .',."'.,...... l.60
'ptai .....-"S2.57 . mills
q. G. CoAMERFoRD.
Submitted and, sworn 10 before me on this 9th day
OF November, a, ID. lNHh.
RoBERT a. LOWE, Justice of the Peace,
MORAL when you run as u lie rocrltlc candidate
take your w4IsSey straight and get u pair OF cowhido
DVOtS ~ ran in.