New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-11-07
ALL MUST FILE STATEMENTS.
CANDIDATES REQUIRED TO TELL Ho"
MUCH THEY SPENT.
THE LAW APPLIES TO PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS

THE LAW APPLIES TO PRESIDENTIAL EiEclo"S'
.xn THEY MIST NOT NEGLECT THE DUTY
Tho .,ec,ion Inv of this state compels all can
a,ao,os n flo suorn statements of their expenses
within ten days after the election M"e'"e'
.ho,. h.,a Iesn elected or rot. and faliure 10
oomn,y with the law Is a mlsdemeaEor for any
candidate and means the forfeiture OF once ioi
an elected candidate The law was uhoers'oou
by all practical politicians last year. out II -
nossible that It's requirements may not DE u'iue'
stood by some OF the men who were ca"u''"..
for the office OF Presidential electors III '"'
State The law was not in existence III 1901 ~
the former Presidential election.
There is no doubt whatever tha' the "a" az
plies to all the men who were name" Oh '"e o'
clal ballots for Presidential electors III 'he ~
h;,;,;o, cocialist-Labor and National Demo-
cra,i, az we'll as in the Republican ana Demo-
cratic columns TIE law includes IN the P'o'i
SION every candidate who Is voted TOT a' ""'
public election" 1t is made clear ny inc Ia"
that candidates for Presidential electors ''u''
file their sworn statements with the See'e'aiE
of State If the Republican 'ahd'"a'e' 'o
Presidential electors. who were all eiec'eu' s"o"'
foil - file the reoujred statements with the Sec
rotary OF state within ten days OF inc e'eo''o"
or before November II, there might be a aues-
ton raised rs ~ tIlrlI IiSH' W. '"''
the Empire State for Mckinley aud Hobart me
law saws that a candidate who either refuses or
neglects to file the sworn statement or expenses
shall also forfeit his Office" The entire section
of the law reads follows:
Section nx Failure to file candidates statement OF
expcnses-Every candidate who l. voted ior a.. ans
public election held within this State shall, wlthh ic',
days after such election file as hereinafter Pl"'
an itemzed statement showing In dctai. ai' ''r
moneys contributed expended by MIN. dir'c - ~
aid of his election Such statement shal, slN' 'nr
names OF the various persons VINO ieceiVru s..'
pose for which II was expended contributed Ihef'
shall he attached such statement an arlhiNli suu
scrbed and 10 by such candidate setins io.i,
in substance that the statomer thus inaur - w
respects true and that inc same - .'' a yncn,J
statement OF all moneys 50 contributed or 'Sprnu,u
by him directly indirectly. by him 'ei o. lnr9Sii
any other person. in all Of his election di"llass
FOR offices he filled by the electors 81 me en,ii,
state or any division district thereon greater t
a county shat. flc ;hclr statements In ne once o, t
Secretary Of Sfate The candidates Tor town NlidE'
ard city offices excepting in the city OF Now oik
shall file Their statements IN me onv. 81 , nv h'r"
village or city clerk. respectively, and III cites "I
in there is r., city clerk with the clerk ~ the COM
mon the city wherein III" election ocsur
in Inc civ and county OF NewNork. shnl file the'i
statements in the office of the clerk 81 INC 'o.u'!
wherein the election occurs Any canllh;t 10Y oI.'
who refuses or neslects to file a sia tn.n' az pre-
scribod in us section sh.i ~ sniS ~ '''
meanor and shall also forfeit his ONE.
The first OF these expense accounts IN this ci'y was
nled Yesterday when Andrew Govan. VINO raH Tor
Assembly on the Democratic ticket IN me NHN,n
nsirct and was defeated. turned in his LIST lie
saesrs that he spent sos 800 O which was Tor pht
ing sis0 for band and 81 for tnc siar's o.
men who worked on the wagons