The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-04-01
PETITIONS MUST Be FILED SOON
Attorney General Declares That Candi-
dates Do Not Have to File Expenses
in Five Days After the Primary and
None Are in Danger Now.

Dark horses. Look out for them
There is going to be something doing
in Kenosha in the next few DAYS.
Some one is going to be an indepen-
dent candidate for city Office and pos
sibly there will be several of them.
In the past few hours City Clerk Har-
rington has been bombarded with mys-
terious telephone calls as to just how
independent candidates may get on the
ticket for the city election on Tuesday.
1t is declared that independent can
| didates are in training in several of
the wards and that they are to be put
on the ticket at the last minute. Fri
day night is the limit for any one to
get on the ticket under any designation
and the independent candidate who
wants his name printed on the ballot
has easy sailing. All that he has to do
is TO get out with a petition and have
it signed by voters to the number Of
three per cent of the votes cast for gov
ernor at the last general election. He
must have at least fifteen votes and he
can have as many more as he sees fit
1t is said that the real training place
for dark horses is in the ninth ward
and it is possible that one of the can
didates defeated at the primary will be
brought into the field as an indepen-
dent candidate. It is said that indie
pendent candidates are also being
groomed in the first, fifth and eighth
ward. None of the candidates regular
ly nominated are worried greatly over
the coming of the dark horses. Tt is
just probable that the coming of two or
three of this sort of candidates might
bring real interest into the election.
If the city attorney of Racine knows
anything about the corrupt practice act
Kenosha came pretty nearly being
without any candidates for the election.
The city attorney Of the city of Racine
on Monday notified the city clerk that
the names of all candidates who had
not fled election expense accounts with
in five days after the primary should
be eliminated from the ballot and the
clerk acting on his opinion prepared the
ballot, cutting off the names of nine
teen candidates. Not single one of
the candidates nominated at the pri-
mary in Kenosha have fled either
statement of expenses or an affidavit
of no expense. The city clerk here
held that in his reading of the law
such an account was unnecessary.
City Clerk Ryba of Racine, after
getting the decision from Attorney
Burgess, called up the attorney general.
The attorney general has shown HIM
self to be handy with decisions and he
advised Ryba that he was jus5 prepar-
ing a ruling on the same subject for an
other city. He held that unless it was
shown by evidence that candidates
were refusing to file accounts with
view Of evading the penalties Of the
law that all names should go ON the
ballot. An investigation here showed
that all names were on the official bal
lot and Clerk Harrington announced
that he advised candidates that they
need not file any statement of ex-
penses until next Tuesday.
There is not going to be any techi-
calities pulled on candidates in the Ke-
nosha election and every man who was
nominated at the primary is going to
get on the ballot.