The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-03-07
NEW WRINKLES THIS YEAR
Fo1iticiars Will Have to Be Decidedly
Careful to Keep Out of the Clutches
Of the District Attorney Heavy Pen
alties Are Placed on the Violators.

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:
(1I Any act shall be deemed to
have been done for "political pur-
poses, when the act is Of nature,
is done with the intent, or is done in
such a way, as to influence or tend to
influence directly or indirectly, yot-
ing at any election or primary, or on
account of any person having voted, or
refrsinsd from voting, or being about
to vtts or refrain from voting, at any
electson or primary.
seetion 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 a party
committee, or through a personal cam
paign. committee, whose authority to
act shall be filed, as provided in sec
tion 94--4 of the statutes.
Section GA. Any candidate may
select single personal campaign COM
mittee to consist of one or more per-
sons. Before any personal campaign
commlEtee shall make any disburse-
ment in 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, a written
statement, signed by such candidate,
setting forth that such personal cam
paign committee has been appointed
each member thereof, and the name.
and address of the secretary thereof.
If such campaign committee consists
of Only one person, such person shall
be deemed the secretary thereof. Amy
candid ate may revoke the selection of
any member of such personal campaign
committee by a revocation in writing
which, with proof, Of personal service
on the member whose selection is so
revoked, shall be filed with the filing
officer of such candidate. Such candi-
date may fill the vacancy thus Great
ed in the manner in which an original
appointments is made. In civil actions
and proceedings brought under sections
94-1 to $40, 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 beer clearly proved that the can
didate did not have knowledge of and
approveN the same, and that, in the
exercise of reasonable care and dill
gence, he could not have had knowl-
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
bursomont for political purposes other
wise than through personal campaign
committee on a party committee, ex-
cept thas expenses incurred for rent Of
hall or other rooms, for hiring speak
ers, for printing, for postage, for adj
vertising for distributing printed mat
ter, for clerical assistance and for ho-
tel and travelling expenses may be con-
tributed and paid by person or
group of persons residing within the
county where such expenses are in
cured.
Section 94-6. i. No candidate
shall make any disbursement for poll
tical purposes except:
(1) For his own personal hotel and
travelling expenses and for postage.
telegraph and telephone expenses.
~ For payments which he may
make to the state pursuant to law.
(3) For contributions to his dulv
registered personal campaign commit
tee.
(D For contributions to his party
committee,
co. For the purposes enumerated
in section 94-7 of the statutes, when
such candidate has no personal cam
paign committee, but not otherwise.
Section 94-9. 1. Every candidate
the secretary of every personal cam
paign committee and the secretary of
every party committee shall on the
second Saturday occurring after such
candidate OF committee has first made
disbursement or first incurred any
: obligation, express or implied, to make
disbursement for political purposes,
and thereafter, on the second SATURDAY
Of each calendar month, until all dis
bursements shall have been accounted
for, and also on the Saturday proceed
ing any election or primary, file a
financial statement verified upon the
oath Of such candidate or upon the
oath Of the secretary of such commit
tee, as the case may be, which state