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Show LETTERS SENT TO CANDIDATES Statements Showing Political Expenditures to Be Required Letters to candidates for office, ' whether defeated 01 victorious In nomination, nom-ination, have been Kent bv Harden Reunion flecretary of stnt, asking that statements he filed by them Hiiowing iheir expendlturea for political politi-cal purposes Mr. P' nnlnn has lute--preted the word "crndldste" as rie-f.n rie-f.n d in the ctah corrupt practices at t as inrludlng persons who eithrr tacitly or BXprSBSly wero in the field for nomination CiindldnleK In Cgden vvho will re-1 celve such letters were ennounced jfei-terday jfei-terday In Suit Lake Thej ore: William Wil-liam H, Wattls candidate for governor. gover-nor. Joseph E Wright. and Guv Johnson for presidential ehttorn- and James a. Hotreil, for district judge. As Mr Bonnlon Interprets the law. 'supported by the attorney general Dnn T?. Shields, persons vvho W( r 'candidates before a poiificnl cobven- I Hon. whether the are nominated for the office Or no., are within thr meaniPg of the corrupt practices acl I The law Is eonsrued to mean that It la not nerosar- In eae a eandi- ; date has not sp.nt nnv money, for him to flip arty ptntement as to receipts and disbursements, in ?ueh a case tne I absence of a Statement Is taken nn 1 tantamount to a declaration on the I part of the candidate that h has r-- 1 l reived and disbursed no moec. or other oth-er thing of value for political pur-I pur-I noses during the present oamrvilorn. I Thp law. however, does not forbid t n-1 n-1 filing of a Statement to th-it fffrct i hy candidates whose receipts or dis-I dis-I hiirsementS are nil. Some of the ciii-v dldatCS who spent no moncv In behalf, I of thlr own OSndldSCy filed stnto-ments stnto-ments and some did not. I n n B Shields, nresent atfiOfhej general and a candidal" licfnro the ronvenMon for a second term, has filed, no sta :"iicnt-i having Kpnt no money 1 In FUPPOrt of his candidacy It s thought Quito probable tha most of the other cnndldates who met defeat In the party conventions and have j not filed s'ltements are In slml'ai J ! position, although It Is known that tlm-e are one Or two exceptions to 1 this rule. However, to comply with the a as he reads lt. and to give no c.i -dldatS the excuse that he was not notified that It was necessary for him ' to file a statement. Mr. Bennion ia' directed that a letter he sent o e-., h I known candidate, calling his attention I to the provisions of the law. |