The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-02

other person on his behalf make use
Of or threaten to make use OF any
force, violence or restraint, or infict,
or threaten any damage, harm or loss,
upon or against any person, or by any
other means attempt to intimidate or
exert any undue influence in order to
induce such person to vote or refrain
from voting, or on account Of such
person having voted or refrained from
voting at any election or who shall by
abduction, duress or any fraudulent
device or contrivance, impede or pre-
vent the free exercise OF the suffrage
Of any elector, or shall thereby COM
pei, induce or prevail upon any cleo
tor either to vote or refrain from yot-
ing for or against any particular can
didate or measure.
(d) Any person, who, being an en-
ployer, or acting for or on behalf OF
any employer, shall give notice or
information to his employees, contain
ing any threat or implied, intended or
calculated to influence the political
view or actions Of his workmen or en-
ployes.
(e) Any person who shall, know
ingly, make or publish any false
statement in regard to any candidate
which statement is intended or tends
to affect any voting at any election
whatever.
81 Any person who shall pay any
owner, publisher, editor or employe
or any newspaper or other periodical,
to advocate or oppose editorially, any
candidate for nomination or election,
or any political party or any measure
to be submitted to the vote Of the
people; any owner or publisher, edi-
tor or employee who shall solicit or ac-
cept such payment.
Forbidden Practices.
Section 13-No person shall publish
issue or circulate or cause to be pub
lished, issued or circulated, any anon
ymous letter, circular. placard, or
other publication tending to influence
voting at any election.
% No owner. publisher editor or
cmploye Of a newspaper or other per-
iodical shall insert, either in It's ad-
vertising or reading columns any mat
ter, paid for or to be paid for, which
tends to influence directly or indi-
rectly the voting at any election what
ever, unless it is distinctly designated
as paid advertisement, and state the
name Of the person authorizing its
publication and the candidate in
whose behalf 1t is published.
(c) No person shall, in any room
or building occupied for the discharge
Of official duties by any officer or en-
ploye Of the state or political sub
division thereof. solicit orally or by
written communication delivered
therein, or in any other manner, any
contribution of money or other thing
of value for any party or political
purposes, whatever from any post
master or other officer or employee OF
the federal government, or officer or
employee of the state or political sub
division thereof. No officer, agent
clerk or employe Of the federal gov
eminent, or of this state, or any po-
litical subdivision thereof, who ma,
have charge or control of any build
ing, office or room, occupied for any
official purpose, shall permit any per-
son to enter the same for the purpose
of therein soliciting or delivering
written solicitation or delivering writ
ten solicitations for, or receiving from
or giving notice of any political as
sessments to any officer or employee Of
the state, or political subdivision
thereof.
Penalties.
For violations, the following penal
ties are attached:
For failure by candidate to file ex-
pense account, $50 fine and six months
in Jail, and erasure of name from bal
lot.
For expressly defined corrupt prac-
tees, first offense disfranchisement
and disbarment from office for five
years; second offense, same penalty
but forever.
For any other violation for which
no other specific punishment Is pro-
vided, three years disfranchisement
and disbarment from office; second
offense, same for twenty-one years.
For corporation rellnbursing agent
for violating act, fine from $1,000 to
$4,000; second offense, forfeiture OF
charter.
For corporation official or agent vio-
lating act, $500 and one year in pris-
on, and Acknowledgement and disbar-
ment from office for three years.
For selling vote, five years disfran-
chisement, but immunity for turning
states evidence.
For buying vote, $25 to $50 fine,
ninety days in Jail and five years dis
franchisement and disbarment.
For bribery, five years dlsfranchise-
ment.
For asking pledge on measure from
candidate, $500; for giving pledge,
disbarment from Office.
Judicial Inquiry.
The act provides for a judicial in
CURRY into any alleged corrupt prac-
tices within sixty days after an cleo
ton. The circuit Judge sits as a court
of inquiry without jury ana may COM
pei attendance Of witnesses and pro-
duction Of books and records. II suf-
tlcient corrupt practices to material
ly influence an election are shown
it may be declared void. The right Of
annnal To higher courts Is pivan and