Page 5 and mailing of letters and campaign literature. secretary of state and copies thereof, together of the court or judge before whom such conviction with a copy of this act, shall be furnished is had. through the county auditor or otherwise, as (3) For necessary expenses, incident to the Sec. 28. The violation of this act by any the secretary of state may deem expedient, to furnishing' and printing of badges, banners officer, of such corporation, shall be prima and other insignia, to the printing and posting the secretary of every committee, and to facie evidence of said violation by such corporation. of handbills, posters, lithographs and every candidate upon the filing of nomination All fines or forfeitures recovered papers, and to all other persons required other campaign literature, and the distribution under the provisions of this act shall when by law to file such statements who may apply thereof through the mails or otherwise. collected be paid into the treasury of the therefor. (4) For campaign advertising in newspapers, county for the use of the road and bridge periodicals or magazines, as provided fund, and it is hereby made the duty of the Sec. 21. The name of a candidate chosen in this act. county attorney of each county to conduct at a primary election or otherwise shall not prosecutions under this act on proper complaint. (5) For wages, and actual necessary personal be printed on the official ballot for the ensuing expenses of public speakers, organizers election, unless there has been filed by and musicians. Sec. 29. Any person or persons who shall or on behalf of said candidate and by his (6) For traveling expenses of members of aid, abet, or advise a violation of this act, personal campaign committee, if any, the shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor and the committee. statements of accounts and expenses relating upon conviction thereof shall be punished as (7) For preparing poll lists and for challengersr to nominations required by this act. provided in this act. at the polls. Sec. 22. No person shall, in order to aid Sec. lijt Every person who shall have any Sec. 30. Violations of this act may be or promote his nomination or election, directly prosecuted in the county where such payment bill, charge or claim upon or against any personal or indirectly, himself, or through any other or contribution is made er services campaign or party committee or any person, appoint or promise to appoint any rendered or in any county wherein such candidate, for any disbursement made, services person, or secure or promise to secure or money has been paid or distributed. rendered, or thing of value furnished, aid in securing the appointment, nomination Sec. 31. The officer with whom the expense for political purposes, or incurred in any or election of any person to any public or account of any candidate for public office or manner in relation to any primary or election, private position or employment, or to any committee is required to be filed by this shall render in writing to such committee or position of honor, trust or emolument. act, shall notify such candidate or committee candidate such bill, charge .or claim within Nothing therein contained, however, shall prevent of the failure to comply with such law, immediately ten days after the day of the primary or a candidate from stating publicly his upon the expiration of the time fixed election in connection with which such bill, preference for or support of any other candidate by any law of this state for the filing of the charge or claim was incurred. No candidate for any office to be voted for at the same, and shall notify the county attorney and no personal campaign or party committee same primary or election nor prevent a candidate, of the county where such candidate resides shall pay any bill, charge or claim so for any office in which the person or in which the headquarters of the committee incurred prior to any primary or election, elected will be charged with the duty of participating is located, of the fact of the failure which is not so presented within ten days in the election or the nomination to file such expense account and said county after such primary or election. of any person as a candidate for any office, attorney shall thereupon notify such candidate Sec. li). (1) Every candidate, and the secretary from publicly stating or pledging his preference or the secretary of said committee of of every personal campaign and party for or support of any person for such such delinquency and if the provisions of committee shall, on the second Saturday occurring office or nomination. this act shall not be complied with within after such candidate or committee ten days after the mailing of such notice, the Sec. 23. No person being an employer or has lirst made a disbursement or first incurred county attorney shall thereupon prosecute acting for or in behalf of any employer shall any obligation, expressed or implied, such candidate or the officer of the committee give, distribute or cause to be given or to make a disbursement for political purposes, required by law to file such statement. distributed to any of his employes, any and thereafter, on the second Saturday Sec. 32. If the county attorney of the printed or written matter containing any of each calendar month, until all disbursements county shall be notified by any officer or other threat, notice or information, or make any shall have been accounted for person of any violation of any of the provisions and also on the Saturday preceding any election threat, verbal or otherwise, that in case any of this act. it shall be his duty forthwith particular ticket or a political party or organization or primary, file a financial statement to diligently inquire into the facts of or candidate shall be elected or verified upon the oath of such candidate or such violation, and if there is reasonable any measure referred to a vote of the people upon the oath of the secretary of such committee. ground for instituting a prosecution, it shall shall be adopted, work in his place or establishment as the case may be, which statement be the duty of such county attorney to present will cease, in whole or in part, or shall cover all transactions not accounted for the said change, with all the evidence his place of establishment will be closed up, and reported upon in statements theretofore which he can procure, to the grand jury of or the salaries or wages of the workmen or filed. Each statement after the first shall such county. If any county attorney shall employes be reduced or other threats, expressed contain a summary of all preceding statements, fail or refuse to faithfully perform any duty and summarize all items theretofore or implied, intended or calculated to imposed upon him by this act, he shall be influence the political opinion or actions of reported, under the provisions of this act. deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on his workmen or employes. (2) The statement of any candidate and conviction thereof shall forfeit his office. It the statement of his personal campaign committee Sec. 24. Any candidate may delegate to his shall be the duty of the county attorney, shall be tiled with the filing officer personal campaign committee or to any party under the penalty of forfeiture of his office, of such candidate. The statement of every committee of his party in writing duly subscribed to prosecute any and all persons guilty of state committee, and of every congressional by him, the expenditure of any portion any violation of the provisions of this act, committee shall be filed with the secretary of the total disbursements which are the penalty of which is line or imprisonment, of state. The statement of every party committee authorized to be incurred by him or on his or both, or removal from office. Any citizen for a state senatorial district, or for behalf, by the provisions of this act but the may employ an attorney to assist the county state representative district, shall be filed total of all disbursements by himself and by attorney to perform his duties under this with the filing officer of the candidate for his personal campaign committee in his behalf act, and such attorney shall be recognized by state senator or state representative in such shall not exceed in'the aggregate the amounts the county attorney and the court as associate district. The statement of every other party in this act specified, except as provided herein. counsel in the proceeding and no prosecution, committee shall be filed in the office of the Sec. 25. (1) No disbursement shall be made action or proceeding shall be dismissed countv auditor of the county within which, and no obligation, expressed or implied, to without notice to, or against the or for a subdivision within which such disbursements make such disbursements, shall be incurred objection of, such associate counsel until the w« re made. by or on behalf of any 'personal campaign reasons of the county attorney for such dismissal, (3) Each statement shall give in full detail: committee, exceeding in the aggregate the together with the objections thereto (a) Every sum of money and all property, total amounts theretofore delegated to such of said associate counsel, shall have been and every other thing of value, received by filed in writing, argued by counsel, and fully committee in writing, duly subscribed as such candidate or committee during such provided herein. considered by the court, with such limitation period from any source whatsoever which as to the time of filing such reasons and (2) The state central committee of any he or it uses or has used, or is at liberty objections as the court may impose. political party entitled by law to have the to use for political purposes, together with Sec. 33. Any twenty-five voters of the names of its candidates placed upon the the name of every person or source from state, or of any political division thereof, official ballot in a general election may. however, which each was received, and the date when may contest the right of any person to nomination, in addition to the disbursements and each was received, together with the total position or office for which said voters obligations to make disbursements provided amount received from all sources in any had the right to vote, on the ground of deliberate, for in sub-section one hereof, make further amount or manner whatsoever. serious and material violation of the disbursements in connection with any general (b) Every promise or pledge of money, provisions of this act or of any other provisions election, not exceeding in the aggregate property or other thing of value, received of law relating to nominations and the sum of ten thousand dollars. by such candidate or committee during such elections. Any defeated candidate for said (3) Nothing contained in this act shall be period, the proceeds of which he uses or has nomination, position or office may make said construed to authorize the state central committee used, or is at liberty to use for political contest. Said procedure shall be commenced of any political party, to make disbursements purposes, together with the names of the by petition filed in the district court of the in connection with any election, persons by whom each was promised or county in which the candidate whose election in excess in the aggregate of ten thousand pledged, the special purposes for which each is contested resides, and the contest shall dollars and every disbursement by any such be carried on according to law. was promised or pledged and the date when committee in excess of such amount is forbidden. In case of contests over nominations, the each was so promised or pledged, together with the total amount promised or pledged court shall pronounce whether the incumbent Sec. 26. No corporation doing business in from all sources in any amounts or manner or contestant was duly nominated, and the this state shall pay or contribute, or offer, person so declared nominated shall have his whatsoever. consent, or agree to pay or contribute, directly name printed on the official ballots. (c) Every disbursement by such candidate or indirectly, any money, property, free Sec. 34. When upon the trial of any action or committee for political purposes during service of its officers or employes or thing such period together with the name of every or proceedings under this act it shall appear person to whom the disbursement is made, of value to any political party, organization, from the evidence that the offense complained committee or individual for any political purpose of was not committed by the candidate, or the specific purpose for which each was made, whatsoever, or to promote or defeat the with his knowledge or consent, or was committed and the date when each was made, together candidacy of any person for nomination, election without his sanction or connivance, with the total amount of disbursements made or appointment to any political office. and that all reasonable means were taken by in any amounts or manner whatsoever. (d) Every obligation, expressed or implied, If any corporation shall be convicted of violating such candidate at such election, or were to make any disbursement incurred by such any of the provisions of this act, it taken by or on behalf of the candidate, or shall be subject to a penalty in thfe amount of that the offenses complained of were trivial, candidate or committee for political purposes not exceeding ten thousand (10,000) dollars unimportant or limited in character, and that during such period, together with the names to be collected as other claims or demands in all respects his candidacy and election of the person or persons to or with whom were free from all offensive or illegal acts, each such obligation has been incurred, the for money are collected and if a domestic or that any act or omission of any candidate corporation, in addition to said penalty, it specific purposes for which each was made, complained of arose from accidental miscalculation may be dissolved and if a foreign or nonresident and the date when each was incurred, together corporation, in addition to said penalty, or from some other reasonable cause with the total amount of such obligations its right to do business in this state of like nature, and in any case did not arise made in any amounts or manner whatsoever. may be declared forfeited. from any want of good faith, and under the circumstances it seems to the court to be (e) Statements shall also be made by any Sec. 27. Any officer, employe, agent or unjust that the candidate shall forfeit his other political committee showing the total attorney or other representative of any corporation, nomination, position or office, then the nomination amount of receipts and disbursements, and acting for or in behalf of such or election of such candidate shall not for what purpose such disbursements were corporation who shall violate this act, shall by reason of such offense complained of to made. Such statement shall be filed with the be punished upon conviction by a fine of not be void, nor shall the candidate be removed auditor of the county in which such committee less than one hundred nor more than five from nor deprived of his nomination, position has its headquarters within thirty thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the or office. days after any primary or election. state prison for a period of not less than Sec. 35. Any proceeding under this act Sec. 20. Blankfe for all statements reQuired one nor more than five years, or by both contesting any nomination or election must by this act shall be prepared by the such fine and imprisonment in the discretion