Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1916 — Campaign Expenses Must Be Filed Within Thirty Days. [ARTICLE]

Campaign Expenses Must Be Filed Within Thirty Days.

All the candidates for office A the past election, regardteas of whether or not they sought the office, whether successful or not, must file a statement with the county celrk within thirty days .after the election. The law provides that the statement “shall be •subscribed and sworn to by such candidates before an officer authorized to administer oaths setting forth in detail all moneys or other valuable things contributed, expended or promised by him to aid or promote his candidacy, * * * or for other political purposes in connection with the election of any other peison at said election, and all existing unfulfilled promises or liabilities in that connection remaining uncancelled and in force at the time such statement is made, whether such expenditures, promises or liabilities were made or incurred before, during or after such election, and showing the dates when, the persons to whom, and the purpose for which each and all of said sums or valuable things were paid, expended or promised or said liabilities were incurred.”

Such statement shall also set forth that the same is full, true and correct. Any person violating or failing to comply with the said act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than S3OO nor more than $2,000, or imprisonment not more than one year, or both fined and imprisoned. Within ten days after the period fixed for the filing of said statement shall have expired, the officer with whom the same is required to be filed shall notify the prosecuting attorney of any and all failures to file, and the prosecuting attorney shall/within fifteen days, proceed to prosecute such candidates failing to file statements. The act also provides that no person shall take office or receive any salary who has failed to file such statements, and any person filing a false or incorrect statement shall be deemed guilty of perjury and prosecuted for such.