Page 4 or election, or who provides money or other traveling- expenses for postage, telegraph, ing the first year of his incumbency of such valuable thing to be used by any person in telephone, or other public messenger service. office. If such person when nominated and betting or wagering upon the results of any (2) For rent and necessary furnishing of elected, would not receive a salary, a sum impending primary or election, shall be guilty not exceeding one-third of the compensation hall or room during such candidacy, for the of a violation of this act. Any person, who delivery of speeches, relative to principles or which his predecessor received during the for the purpose of influencing the result of candidates. first year of such predecessor's incumbency. any primary or election, makes any bet or (3) For payment of speakers and musicians If such officer, when nominated and elected, wager of anything of pecuniary value on the at public meetings, and their necessary would not receive a salary and if such officer result of such primary or election, in his had no predecessor, and in all cases not traveling: expenses. electoral district or any part thereof, or of (4) Printing and distribution of list of specifically provided for, one hundred dollars, any pending primary or election, or on any candidates, sample ballots, pamphlets, newspapers, and no more. event or contingency relating thereto, shall circulars, cards, hand bills, posters Sec. 6. No person shall demand, solicit, be guilty of a violation of this act, and in and announcements relative to candidates, or ask or invite any payment or contribution addition thereto, any such act shall be a public issue or principles. of any religious, charitable or other causes (5) For copying and classifying poll lists, or organization, supposedly to be primarily ground of challenge against his right to vote. for making canvasses of voters and for challengers for the public good, from any candidate for Sec. 13. It shall be unlawful for any person at the polls. nomination or election, or to subscribe for to pay another for any loss or damage the support of any club, or organization, or due to attendance at the polls, or in registering. (6) For filing fees to the proper public to buy tickets to any entertainment or ball No person shall pay for personal officer, and if nominated at any primary for or to pay for space in any book, program, service to be performed on the day of a contributions to the party committee. periodical or publication, nor shall such demand caucus, primary, convention, or any election, (7) For campaign advertising in newspapers, or solicitation be made upon any committee. for any purpose, connected therewith, tending periodicals, or magazines pursuant to Provided, however, this shall not in any way, directly or indirectly, to affect the provisions of section two. apply to the solicitation of any business advertisement Sec. 2. No publisher of a newspaper, periodical the result thereof, except for the hiring of in periodicals in which the candidate persons whose sole duty it is to act as challenger or magazine shall insert either in the was a regular contributor, prior to his and watch the count of official ballots. advertising columns of such newspaper, magazine candidacy, nor to ordinary business advertisements, No person shall buy, sell, give or provide any or periodical, or elsewhere therein any nor to regular payments of any matter paid or to be paid for which is political badges, buttons or other insignia organization, religious, charitable or otherwise, to be worn at or about the polls on the day intended or tends to influence directly or of which he was a member, or to which of any primary or election and no such political indirectly any voting at any primary or general he was a contributor for more than six badge, button or other insignias shall election unless at the head of said matter months before his candidacy, nor to any ordinary is printed in pica capital letters the words be worn at or about the polls on any primary contributions at church services. "Paid Advertisement," and unless there is or election day. No person or committee, or Sec. 7. Any person or committee who shall organization shall convey or furnish any also a statement at the head of said matter publish, issue or circulate, or cause to be published, vehicle for conveying or bear any portion of of the amount paid or to be paid therefor, issued or circulated, otherwise than any expense of conveying any voter to or the name and address of the candidate in in a newspaper, as provided in section 2 of whose behalf the matter is inserted and of from the polls, but this provision shall not this act, any literature or any publication apply to persons of the same household, nor any other person, if any. authorizing the publication tending to influence voting at any primary and the name of the author thereof. shall it prohibit two or more voters from or election which fails to bear on the face No publisher of any newspaper, periodical providing joint transportation for themselves thereof the name and address of the author, by mutual agreement at their own expense. or magazine published within this state shall the name and address of the candidate in insert therein either in the advertising column Sec. 14. (1) It shall be unlawful for any whose behalf the same is published, issued of such newspaper, magazine, periodical, or person within one hundred feet of the building or circulated, and the name and address elsewhere therein, any matter whatsover of in which any polling place is situated of any other person or committee causing a political nature, or any political editorial on the day of any primary or election to the same to be published, issued or circulated, relative to a candidate for any public office, ask, solicit or in any manner try to induce and any person, firm, corporation or committee unless the publisher thereof shall tile in the or persuade any voter on such primary or who shall knowingly make or publish office of the secretary of state of this state election day to vote for or refrain from voting or cause to be published, any false statement within six months before the holding of any for any candidate or the candidates or ticket in relation to any candidate or proposition to primary or general election, or within ten of any political party or organization, or any be voted upon, which statement is intended days after the calling of and before the measure submitted to the people, and upon to or tends to affect any voting at any primary holding of any special election, a sworn conviction thereof lie shall be punished by a or election, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor statement which shall contain the names of fine of not less than five dollars nor more provided, nothing herein contained the owners of such paper, and if such paper than one hundred dollars for the first offense, shall be construed as modifying or repealing be a corporation, the names and addresses of and for the second and each subsequent any of the provisions of section 370, Revised the owners of the shares of stock of such offense occurring on the same or different Laws of 1905. corporation. election days, lie shall be punished by a fine as Sec. 8. (1) No person shall solicit, receive Sec. 3. Every candidate and every member aforesaid, or by imprisonment in the county or accept any money, property or other thing of any personal campaign or party committee, jail for not less than five nor more than of value, or any promise or pledge thereof, who shall either in his own name or in thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment. constituting a disbursement prohibited by the name of any other person, own any financial this act. interest in any newspaper or periodical, (2) Any person who shall at any place on (2) No person, firm or co-partnership shall circulating in part or in whole in Minnesota, the day of any primary or election circulate disburse, expend or contribute in any manner shall, before such newspaper or periodical or distribute, or cause to be circulated or distributed, whatsoever for political purposes during any shall print any matter otherwise than any campaign cards, candidates" primary or election, a sum of money in excess as is provided in section 2. which is intended cards, placard or campaign literature of any of fifty dollars, except through a political or tends to influence, directly pr indirectly, kind whatsoever, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. committee. any voting at any election or primary in this Provided, nothing herein contained Sec. 9. No person shall pay, or promise state, file in the office of the auditor of the shall be construed as modifying or county in which he resides a verified declaration, to reward another in any manner or form for repealing the provisions of section 364, Revised stating definitely the newspaper the purpose of inducing him to be or refrain or Laws 1905. periodical in which or over which he has from or cease being a candidate, and no person Sec. 15. No candidate shall make any disbursement shall solicit any payment, promise or such financial interest or control, and the for political purposes except under reward from another for such purpose. exact nature and extent of such interest or his personal direction which for any purpose Sec. 10. No person or candidate shall, control. The editor, manager or other person either by himself or by any other person, shall be considered his act, through a party controlling the publication of any such while such person or candidate is seeking a committee, or through a personal campaign newspaper or article, who shall print or cause committee, whose authority to act shall be nomination or election, directly or indirectly, to be printed any such matter contrary to the filed, as provided for in this act. give or provide, or pay, wholly or in part, provisions of this act. prior to the filing of the expenses of giving or providing any meat such verified declaration from any person Sec. 16. Any candidate may select a single or drink or other entertainment or provision, required by this section to file such declaration, personal campaign committee to consist of clothing, liquors, cigars or tobacco, to or for shall be deemed guilty of a violation one or more persons. Before any personal any person for the purpose of or with intent hereof. campaign committee shall make any disbursement or hope to influence that person or any other in behalf of any candidate, or shall Sec. 4. No owner, publisher, editor, reporter person to give or refrain from giving his incur any obligation, expressed or implied, agent or employe of any newspaper vote at such primary or election to or for to make any disbursement in his behalf, such or other periodical, shall, directly or indirectly any candidate or political party ticket, or candidate shall file with the filing officer of solicit, receive or accept any payment, measure before the people or on account of such candidate a written statement signed promise or compensation, nor shall such person or other person having voted or by such candidate, setting forth that such any person pay or promise to pay, in H}y refrained from voting for any candidate or personal campaign committee has been appointed manner compensate any such owner, publisher, the candidates of any political party or organization and giving the name and address editor, reporter, agent or employe, or measure before the people, or of each member thereof and of the secretary directly or indirectly, for influencing or attempting being about to vote, or refrain from voting, thereof. If the campaign committee consists to influence through any printing at such election. No elector shall accept of only one person, such person shall matter in such newspaper any voting at any or take any such meat, drink, entertainment, be deemed the secretary thereof. Any candidate election or primary through any means whatsoever, provision,, clothing, liquor, cigars, or tobacco may revoke the selection of any member except through the matter inserted in and such acceptance shall be a ground of of such personal campaign committee by such newspaper or periodical as paid advertisement," challenge to his vote and of rejecting his a revocation in writing which, with proof of and so designated as provided by vote on a contest. personal service on the member whose selection this act. is so revoked, shall be filed with the Sec. 11. No person shall directly or indirectly Sec. 5. No disbursement shall be made filing officer of such candidate. Such candidate by himself or any other person in and no obligation, express or implied, to may fill the vacancy thus created in the his behalf, make use of or threaten to make make such disbursement, shall be incurred by manner in which an original appointment is use of any force, coercion, violence, restraint, ox on behalf of any candidate for any office made. In civil actions and proceedings or undue influence, or inflict or threaten to under the constitution or laws of this state, brought under this act, the acts of every inflict, by himself or any other person, any or under the ordinance of any town or municipality member of such personal campaign committee temporal or spiritual injury, damage, harm or of this state in his campaign for shall be presumed to be with the knowledge loss upon or against any person in order to nomination and election, which shall be in and approval of the candidate until it induce or compel such person to vote or the aggregate in excess of the amounts has been clearly proved that the candidate refrain from voting for any candidate or herein specified, namely: did not have knowledge of and approve the the ticket of any political party, or any 1 For governor, seven thousand dollars. same, and that, in the exercise of reasonable measure before the people, nor shall by For other state officers, thirty-five hundred 2. care and diligence, lie could not have had abduction, duress, or any fraudulent contrivance, dollars. knowledge of and opportunity to disapprove impede or prevent the free exercise 3. For state senator, six hundred dollars. the same. of the franchise of any voter at any primary 4. For member of House of Representatives, Sec. 17. No personal campaign or party or election, or compel, induce or prevail upon four hundred dollars. committee shall make any disbursement except: any elector to give or to refrain from giving 5 For presidential elector-at-large, five his vote at any primary or election. hundred dollars, and for presidential elector (1) For maintenance of headquarters and for any congressional district, one hundred Sec. 12. Any candidate who, before or during for hall rentals incident to the holding of any primary or election campaign, makes dollars. public meetings. any bet or wager of anything of pecuniary 6. For any county, city, village or town (2) For necessary stationery, postage, telegraph, value, or in any manner becomes a party officer, for any judge or for any officer not telephone, messenger and clerical hereinbefore mentioned, „who, if nominated to any such, bet or wager on the result of to candidate's assistance be employed at a and elected, would receive a salary, a sum the primary or election in his electoral district, or of headquarters at the headquarters the not to in any part thereof, or on any event or exceeding one-third of the salary which committee, incident to t&e writing, addressing such would, elected, be entitled dur­ person if contingency relating to any pending primary