Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1901 — Candidates to Pay. [ARTICLE]

Candidates to Pay.

One of the novel provisions of primary election bill provides the plan of assessment for the cost of primary elections. Every candidate, whether for oity or county office, must pay $5, and in addition an assessment based on population ranging from 25 cents per 1,000 in the case of the county clerk, to 5 cents per 1,000 in the case of justices of the peace. The candidate for mayor is assessed 25 cents per 1,000 population of the city where he is a oandidate and the candidates for police, judge and city clerk 15 cents per thousandThose assessments cover one-third of the oost of primaries. The city of county will pay the balance. The bill imposes a heavy penalty, including penitentiary imprison* ment for voting outside of the precinct in which the voter resides.