Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
NEW ELECTION Law.
What Candidates Can and Cannot Do

The following summary of the new
election laws and which will be OF
interest to the voters of the county,
as to what candidates for Office can
and cannot do:
l. Not more than one-third of the
salary Of the person for the first year
in office, shall be spent by or on be-
half of any person running for any
county, city, village or town office.
2. Candidates can only spend money
for halls, postage, and stationery,
badges, bills and posters, newspaper
advertising, wages of public speakers,
and necessary travelling expenses, and
it is now illegal to spend any money
for cigars, drinks or refreshments of
any kind.
3. No person, other than the can
didate himself, can spend any money
for political Purposes, except for the
purposes stated in paragraph 2, hereof,
and such money must be spent by per-
sons residing in the county where
spent.
4. No candidate shall make any do
nation, gift, or present to any religious,
charitable or fraternal cause or organ
ization, except when such candidate is
already a member of church or or
ganization, he may continue to contri-
butte the same as he did before he
made his announcement.
5. No candidate shall hire or pay
for the services of any workers on any
primary or election day. nor for the
loss of services OF, any person SO work
ing for the candidate. No candidate
shall incur any expense for the trans
portation of voters TO or from the polls.
6. No person or newspaper shall
publish any advertising matter unless
there appears at the head of the same
in plea capital letters the words paid
advertisement, together with the
amount paid or to be paid, the name
and address of the candidate or other
authorizing same.
7. No person shall knowingly make
or publish or cause to be so done, any
false statement in relation to any can
didate.
s. No person shall, in order to help
his election, promise to appoint or aid
in securing the employment of any
person to any position of honor, trust
or emolument.
9. No person shall publish, issue or
circulate, except in a regular news
paper, any literature which tends to
influence voting, unless it bears on its
face, the name and address of the
author, the name and address of the
candidate, in whose behalfit is issued,
and the name and address of every
other person causing it to be circulat-
ed.
10. All bills against candidates
shall be presented to the candidate
for payment, within ten days after
the primary or election, at which such
bills were incurred, and it shall be lille
gal to pay any bill not so presented
within said ten days.
IL. 1t is illegal for any employer to
distribute or cause to be distributed
any written matter containing any
threat, notice or information unless a
certain party or candidate is electe.,
that the work in his mill will stop, or
that salaries will be reduced or any
other threat calculated to influence
political opinions of his employees.
II. All candidates shall on the sec
ond Saturday after which the first
campaign expense is incurred, or paid,
file statement of such election ex-
penses so incurred or spent, and shall
also on the second Saturday of each
month, file an additional expense ac-
count and another such account on the
last Saturday preceding any election
or primary, and in case of neglect the
parties named will not be placed on
the ballot.