The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-02-22
Candidates for City Election
Must Walk Straight to
Keep Offices.
new WRINKLES THIS YEAR
Politicians wiz Have to Be Decidedly
Careful to Keep Out of the Clutches
of the District Attorney Heavy Pen
alties Are Placed on the violators.

The new Wisconsin law relating to
corrupt practices in election is one of
the most stringent passed in any state
in the union and already candidates for
office in Kenosha have violated the
law and with view of preventing
further violations the most important
provisions of the law are given as
follows;
(1) Any act shall be deemed to-
have been DOR for "political pur-
poses, when he act is of nature,
is done witA the intent, or is done in
such way, asste influence or tend to
influence directly or indirectly, yot-
ing at any election or primary or on
account Of any person having voted, or
Tefrained from voting, OF being about
to vote or refrain from voting, at any
election OF primary.
Section 94--3. No candidate shall
make any disbursement for political
purposes except under his personal di-
rection which for every purpose shall
be considered his act, through party
committee, or through personal cam
paign committee, whose authority to
act shall be fled, as provided in sec
tion 9f--4 of the statutes.
Section 3D.. Any candidate may
select single personal campaign COM
mittee to consist of one or more per-
sons. Before any personal campaign
committee shall make any disburse-.
ment II behalf OF any candidate, Or
shall incur any obligation, express or.
implied, to make any disbursement in
his behalf, it shall file with the fling
officer of such candidate, written
statement, signed by such candidate,
setting forth that such personal cam.
paign committee has been appointed
and giving the name and address of
each member thereof, and the name
and address of the secretary thereof.
LII such campaign committee consists
be deemed the secretary thereof Any
candidate may revoke the selection Of
any member of such personal campaign
committee by revocation in writing
which, with proof, OF personal service
ON the member whose selection is so
revoked, shall be filed with the fling
officer of such candidate. Such candi-
date may fill the vacancy thus Great
ed in the manner in which en- original
appointment is made. In civil actions
and proceedings brought under sections
Dbl to 94-39, inclusive, of the stat
utes, the acts of every member of such
personal campaign committee shall be
presumed to be with the knowledge
and approval of the candidate until it
has been clearly proved that the can
didate aid not have knowledge of and
approve the same, and that, in the
exercise OF reasonable care and dill
gcnce, he could not have had lnowl-
edge Of and opportunity to disapprove
The same.
Section 94--5. No person or group
Of persons, other than the candidate
Or his personal campaign committee or
party committee, shall make any dis
bursement for political purposes other
wise than through personal campaign
committee on party committee. ex-
cept that expenses incurred FOR rent of
hall or other rooms, for hiring speak
ers, for printing, for postage, for adj
vcrtising for distributing printed mat
ter, for clerical assistance and for no.
tel and travelling expenses may be con.
trlputed and paid by person or
group of persons residing within the
county where such expenses are in
CURED.
Section 94-6. 1. No candidate
shall make any disbursement for poll
teal purposes except:
Cd For his own personal hotel. and
travelling expenses and for postage.
telegraph and telephone expenses.
~ For payments which he may
make ~ the state pursuant to law.
90 For contributions to his duly
registered personal campaign commit
tee
a For contributions to his party
committee.
60 For the purposes enumerated
in section 94-7 of the statutes, when
such candidate has no personal cam
paign committee, but not otherwise.
Section 94-S |. Every candidate
che secretary Of every personal cam
paign committee and the secretary Of
every party committee shall on the