The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-05-09
L~EGISLATIvE ACT
AS TO PRIMARIES.
State Chairman Jones Calls attention to
Recent Act Legislature as to Certain
Offenses In Primary Elections.

Recent Act Legislature as to Certain
0ffenses Ia Primary Elections.
Headquarters of the State Democratic
Executive Committee.
To G. P. Smith, County Chairman, Lau-
rens, S. C.
Dear Sir: You will please call to the
attention of all candidates in the Demo
cratic primary in your County the fol-
lowing act of the Legislature, approved
March 6, 1905, and make it your per-
sonal business to see that every candi-
date files a pledge with the clerk of
court of your county as required by said
act:
An Act Making Certain Offences in
Primary Elections Misdemeanors, and
Prescribing Penalties Therefor.
Section |. Be it enacted by the Cen
eral Assembly of South Carolina: AT or
before every political primary election
held by any political party, organiza-
ton or association, for the purpose of
choosing candidates for office, or the
election of delegates to conventions, in
this State, any person who shall, by
threats or any other form of intimida-
ton, OF by the payment, delivery or
promise of money, or other article or
value, procure or offer, promise or en-
deavor to procure, another to vote for
or against any particular candidate in
such election, or who shall, for such
consideration, offer to so vote, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor.
Sec. 2. Every candidate Offering for
election under the provisions of Section
l, shall make the following pledge and
file the same with the Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas for the County
in which he is a candidate, unless he
should be a candidate in more than one
County, in which case he shall file same
with the Secretary of State, before he
shall enter upon his campaign, to wit:
/, the undersigned,
of the County of and
State of South Carolina, candidate for
the office of hereby
pledge that l will not give o spend
money, or use Intoxicating liquors for
the purpose of obtaining or influencing
votes, and that l shall, at the conclu-
sion of the campaign and before the
primary election, render to the Clerk of
Court or (Secretary of State as herein
before provided) under oath an ite-
mized statement of all moneys spent or
provided by me during the campaign
for campaign purposes up to
that time, and further pledge, that 1
will, Immediately after the primary
elections that l am a candidate in, rem,
der an itemized statement, under oath,
showing all further moneys spent or
provided by me in said election: Pro-
vided, That a failure to comply with
this provision shall render such election
null and void, so far as the candidate
who fails to sign the statement herein
required, but shall not effect the validity
of the election of any candidate com
plying with this Section: And, provided
further, That such itemized statement
and pledge shall be open to public in
spection at all times.
Sec. 3. That any violation of the pro-
visions of this Act shall be a INSIDE
meanor and any person upon conviction
thereof, shall be fined not less than
$100 nor more than $500, or be impri-
soned at hard labor for not less than
one month nor more than six months,
or both fine and imprisonment, in the
discretion of the Court.
Approved the 9th day of March, A.
d. 1905.
Very respectfully,
WILLIE JONES,
Ghnirrnnn