Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1912 — Let All Political Crooks Beware of This Indiana Law. [ARTICLE]

Let All Political Crooks Beware of This Indiana Law.

Whoever, being a candidate for an office, loans or gives, directly or indirectly, or offers or promises to loan or give any moni*y or other thing of value to any elector for the purpose of influencing or retaining the vote of such elector, or to induce such elector to work or labor for the election of such candidate, or to refrain from working or laboring for the election of any other candidate, or to any person, to secure or retain the influence or vote of such elector in his behalf as such candidate, or x> Ih* used by such i»erson in any way to influence the vote of any elector, or of electors, generally, for himself or any candidate or ticket; and whoever, hires or otherwise employes for consideration any person to work at the polls on election day for the election of any candidate to In* voted for at such election, shall be lined in any sum not more than SI,OOO nor less than S3OO, and shall be disfranchised and rendered incapable of holding any office of profit or trust within this state for any determinate jieriod and a violation of any provision of this section by any person elected to such office shall render his election void, and if he has taken the office,' upon conviction, shall operate as a vacation of the same.—lndiana Statute.

The Republican party has practical ly fostered the trusts. The Democratic party proposes to prevent monopoly, and the third party pro]»oses to take monopoly into partnership with the government l»y accepting it as an inevitable necessity and bringing it untier the regulation of law. making It a legalized institution; .