Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 10, 1912, Page 12

| a | } | traveling expenses; for postage, telegraph, telephone, or other public messenger service. (2) For rent and necessary furnishing of hall or room during such candidacy, for the delivery of speeches, relative to principles or candidates. (3) For payment of speakers and musicians at public meetings, and their necessary traveling expenses. (4) Printing and distributien of list of candidates, sample ballots, pamphlets, news- papers, circulars, cards, hand bills, posters and announcements relative to candidates, or public issue or principles. (5) For copying and classifying poll lists, for making canvasses of voters and for chal- lengers at the polls, (6) For filing fees to the proper public officer, and if nominated at any primary for contributions to the party committee. (7) For campaign advertising in news- papers, periodicals, or magazines pursuant to the provisions of section two. Sec. 2. No publisher of a newspaper, per- iodical or magazine shall insert either in the advertising columns of such newspaper, mag- azine or periodical, or elsewhere therein any matter paid or to be paid for which is intended or tends to influence directly or indirectly any voting at any primary or gen- eral election unless at the head of said matter is printed in pica capital letters the words “Paid Advertisement,” and unless there is also a statement at the head of said matter of the amount paid or to be paid therefor, the name and address of the candidate in whose behalf the matter is inserted and of any other person, if any, authorizing the pub- lication and the name of the author thereof. No publisher of any newspaper, periodical or magazine published within this state shall insert therein either in the advertising column of such newspaper, magazine, periodical, or elsewhere therein, any matter whatsover of a political nature, or any political editorial relative to a candidate for any public office, unless the publisher thereof shall file in: the office of the secretary of state of this state within six months before the holding of any primary or general election, or within ten days after the calling of and before the holding of any special election, a sworn statement which shall contain the names of the owners of such paper, and if such paper be a corporation, the names and addresses of the owners of the shares of stock of such corporation. Sec. 5. Every candidate and every member of any personal campaign or party commit- tee, who shall either in his own name or in the name of any other person, own any finan- cial interest in any newspaper or periodical, circulating in part or in whole in Minne- sota, shall, before such newspaper or periodi- cal shall print any matter otherwise than as is provided in section 2, which is intended or tends to influence, directly or indirectly, any voting at any election or primary in this state, file in*the office of the auditor of the county in which he resides a verified declara- tion, stating definitely the newspaper or periodical in which or over which he has such financial interest or control, and the exact nature and extent of such interest or control. The editor, manager or other per- son controlling the publication of any such newspaper or article, who shall print or cause to be printed any such matter contrary to the provisions of this act, prior to the filing of such verified declaration from any _ person required by this section to file such declara- tion, shall be deemed guilty of a violation hereof. Sec. 4. No owner, publisher, editor, re- porter, agent or employe of any newspaper or other periodical, shall, directly or in- directly solicit, receive or accept any pay- ment, promise or compensation, nor shall any person pay or promise to pay, in any manner compensate any such owner, pub- lisher, editor. reporter, agent or employe, directly or indirectly, for influencing or at- tempting to influence through any printing matter in such newspaper any voting at any election or primary through any means what- soever, except through the matter inserted in such newspaper or periodical as paid adver- tisement,” and so designated as provided by this act. Sec. 5. No disbursement shall be made and no obligation, express or implied, to make such disbursement, shall be incurred by or on behalf of any candidate for any office under the constitution or laws of this state, or under the ordinance of any town or muni- cipality of this state in his campaign for. ation and election, which shall be in pgs nah in a of the amounts ified, namely: Hesele oe casvennen seven thousand dollars. 2° For other state officers, thirty-five hun- are Lee senator, six hundred dollars. 4. For member of i of Representa- s hundred dollars. er rer, presidential elector-at-large, five hundred dollars, and for presidential elector for any congressional district, one hundred dollars. 6. .For any county, city, village or town officer, for any judge or for any officer not hereinbefore mentioned, who, if nominated and elected, would receive a salary, a sum not exceeding one-third of the salary to which guch person would, if elected, be entitled dur- } Ee Eo ee ae ing the first year of his incumbency of such office. If such person when nominated and elected, would not receive a salary, a sum not exceeding one-third of the compensation which his predecessor received during the _ first year of such predecessor’s incumbency. If such officer, when nominated and elected, would not receive a salary and if such officer had no predecessor, and in all cases not specifically provided for, one hundred dollars, and no more. Sec. 6. No person shall demand, ‘solicit, ask or invite any payment or contribution of any religious, charitable or other causes or organization, supposedly to be primarily for the public good, from any candidate for nomination or election, or to subscribe for the support of any club, or organization, or to buy tickets to any entertainment or ball or to pay for space in any book, program, periodical or publication, nor shall such de- mand or solicitation be made upon any com- mittee. Frees, however, this shall not apply to the“solicitation of any business ad- vertisement in periodicals in which the can- didate was.a regular contributor; prior to his candidacy, nor to ordinary business adver- tisements, nor to regular payments of any organization, religious, charitable or other- wise, of which he was a member, or to which he was a contributor for more than six months before his candidacy, nor to any ordi- nary contributions at church services. Sec. 7. Any person or committee who shall publish, issue or circulate, or cause to be pub- lished, issued or circulated, otherwise than in a newspaper, as provided in section 2 of this act, any literature or any publication tending to influence voting at any primary or election which fails to bear on the face thereof the name and address of the author, the name and address of the candidate in whose behalf the same is published, issued or circulated, and the name and address of any other person or committee causing the same to be published, issued or circulated, and any person, firm, corporation or com- mittee who shall knowingly make or publish or cause to be published, any false statement in relation to any candidate or proposition to be voted upon, which statement is intended to or tends to affect any voting at any pri- mary or election, shall be guilty of a mis- demeanor; provided, nothing herein contained shall be construed as modifying or repealing any of the provisions of section 370, Revised Laws of 19065. Sec. §& (1) No person shall solicit, receive or accept any money, property or other thing of value, or any promise or pledge thereof, constituting a disbursement . prohibited by this act. (2) No person, firm or co-partnership shall disburse, expend or contribute in any manner whatsoever for political purposes during any primary or election, a sum of money in excess of fifty dollars, except through a political committee. Sec. 9. No person shall pay, or promise to reward another in any manner or form for the purpose of inducing him to be or refrain from or cease being a candidate, and no per- son shall solicit any payment, promise or reward from another for such purpose. Sec. 10. No person or candidate shall, either by himself or by any other person, while such person or candidate is seeking a nomination or election, directly or indirectly, give or provide, or pay, wholly or in part, the expenses of giving or providing any meat or drink or other entertainment or provision, clothing, liquors, cigars or tobacco, to or for any person for the purpose of or with intent or hope to influence that person or any other person to give or refrain from giving his vote at such primary or election to or for any candidate or political party ticket, or measure before the people or on acc6unt of such person or other person having voted or refrained from voting for any candidate or the candidates of any political party or or- ganization or measure before the people, or being about to vote, or refrain from voting. at such election. No elector shall accept or take any such meat, drink, entertainment, provision,, clothing, liquor, cigars, or tobacco and such acceptance shall be a ground of challenge to his vote and of rejecting his vote on a contest. Sec. 11. No person shall directly or in- directly by himself or any other person in his behalf, make use of or threaten to make use of any force, coercion, violence, restraint, or undue influence, or inflict or threaten to inflict, by himself or any other person, any temporal or spiritual injury, damage, harm or loss upon or against any person in order to induce or compel such person to vote or refrain from voting for any candidate or the ticket of any political party, or any measure before the people, nor shall by abduction, duress, or any fraudulent con- trivance, impede or prevent the free exercise of the franchise of any voter at any primary “or election, or compel, induce or prevail upon any elector to give or to refrain from giving his vote at any primary or election. Sec. 12. Any candidate who, before or dur- ing any primary or election campaign, makes any bet or wager of anything of pecuniary value, or in any manner becomes a party to any such bet or wager on the result of the primary or election in his electoral dis- trict, in any part thereof, or on any event or contingency relating to any pending primary. or election, or who provides money or other valuable thing torbe used by any person in pecine. or wagering upon the results of any impending primary or election, shall be guilty of a violation wf this act. Any person, who for the purpose of influencing the result of any primary or election, makes any bet or wager of anything of pecuniary value on the result of such primary or election, in his electoral district or any part thereof, or of any pending primary or election, or on any event or contingency relating thereto, shall be guilty of a violation of this act, and in addition thereto, any such act shall be a. ground of challenge against his right to vote. Sec. 13. It shall be unlawful for any per- son to pay another for any loss or damage due to attendance at the polls, or in regis- tering. No person shall pay for personal service to be performed on the day of a caucus, primary, convention, or any election, for any purpose, connected therewith, tending in any way, directly or indirectly, to affect the result thereof, except for the hiring of persons whose sole duty it is to act as chal- lenger and watch the count of official ballots. No person shall buy, sell, give or provide any political badges, buttons or other insignia to be worn at or about the polls on the day of any primary or election and no such po- litical badge, button or other insignias shall be worn at or about’ the polls on any primary or election day. No person or committee, or organization shall convey or furnish any vehicle for conveying or bear any portion of any expense. of conveying any voter to or from the polls, but this provision shall not apply to persons of the same household, nor shall it prohibit two or more voters from providing joint transportation for themselves by mutual agreement at their own expense. Sec. 14. (1) It shall be unlawful for any person within one hundred feet of the build- ing in which any polling place is situated on the day of any primary or election to ask, solicit or in any manner try to induce or persuade any voter on such primary or election day to vote for or refrain from voting for any candidate or the candidates or ticket of any political party or organization, or any measure submitted to the people, and upon conviction thereof he shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for the first offense, and for the second and each subsequent offense occurring on the same or different election days, he shall be punished by a fine as aforesaid, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than five nor more than thirty days or by both such fine and imprison- ment. (2) Any person who shall at any place on the day of any primary or election circulate or distribute, or cause to be circulated or dis- tributed, any campaign cards, candidates’ cards, placard or campaign literature of any kind whatsoever, shall be guilty of a mis- demeanor. Provided, nothing herein = con- tained shall be construed as modifying or repealing the provisions of section 364, Re- vised Laws 1905. Sec. 15. No candidate shall make any dis- bursement for political purposes except under his personal direction which for any purpose shall be considered his act, through a party committee, or through a personal campaign committee, whose authority to act shall be filed, as provided for in this act. Sec. 16. Any candidate may select a single personal campaign committee to consist of one or more persons. Before any personal campaigh committee shall make any disburse- ment in behalf of any candidate, or shall incur any obligation, expressed or implied, to make any disbursement in his behalf, such eandidate shall file with the filing officer of such candidate a written statement signed by such candidate, setting forth that such personal campaign committee has been ap- pointed and giving the name and address ef each member thereof and of the secre- tary thereof. If the campaign committee con- sists of only one person, such person shall be deemed the secretary thereof. Any can- didate may revoke the selection of any mem- ber of such personal campaign committee by a revocation in writing which, with proof of personal service on the member whose selec- tion is so revoked, shall be filed with the filing officer of such candidate. Such candi- date may fill the vacancy thus created in the manner in which an original appointment is made. In civil actions and proceedings brought ander this act, the acts of every member of such personal campaign commit- tee shall be presumed to be with the knowl- edge and approval of the candidate until it has been clearly proved that the candidate did not have knowledge of and approve the same, and that, in the exercise of reasonable eare and diligence, he could not have had knowledge of and opportunity to disapprove the same. Sec. 17. No personal campaign or party committee shall make any disbursement ex- cept: (1) Fof maintenance of headquarters and for hall rentals incident to the holding of publtc meetings. (2) For necessary stationery, postage, tele- graph, telephone, messenger and clerical assistance to be employed at a candidate’s headquarters or at the headquarters of the committee, incident to the writing, addressing