Show CORRUPT PRACTICES A law on the new now york statute books known as the corrupt practices act provides in one ol 01 ita its sec tiona that every candidate who Is voted tor for at t a ny y p public bublic election held within tills this tite state shall within ten days tiler after ouch acu election file as hereinafter provided an itemized tato state inen ment t showing in detail all the moneys contributed tri buted or expended by him directly or in directly by or through any ny oth obber er leroa person in a 1 id 11 1 of 0 his lection election such bitto state meat ibell give the names of the various persons who received buch such money moneys the epe cifre n nitaro atu roof of cot ech h item and nd the purpose lor which it w expended or contributed there hall be at ta ched to euca such statement an affidavit etc eto ete etc mr air flower the successful candidate d a to for governor waited only four days before complying with thia this pro v aion and to the amazement and amusement ama ot of those who ere are at all familiar with the cgee be he solemnly swears that all the moneys contributed or expended by him bira were covered by one check for d drawn rawn to the order I 1 ol 01 the chairman of the state committee the whole proceeds proceeding edl ug of filing these expense statement statements including t the be instance ault ja cited mint matt have presented a it farce abat b hl 1 I I 1 the candidates cand idilea d that thoy they did not ad a cent in the fat therance 0 their cancila can vila vAis and beyond their rate character ia unimpeachable tharo there are extraneous f la in the number ot of votes hey they polled which can leave leavo no dou doubt bt aa as to the correct neal of their statement f some accounts that bavo been filba are interesting as combating the popular theory that it takis tak is money to ran an election in new now york they would seem to point thit it il it COA cimas 5 doth nothing to run ran and that it is to only getting elected that requires a liberal nse use ot of 1 t money one ono candidate depont two I 1 1 1 41 1716 I 1 WA I 1 1 7 1 I cents for or a postage ecamp and twenty cents for the notarial authentication of bis big statement total twenty two cents another paid for nothing more another had experience coating costing n the e nd balk bulk of it spent for stationery on and postage and he bad stationery left another knows he spent only 3 70 for he started out with flo 10 in one pocket of hie his trousers expecting to blow in the whole eum but hewa he was not elected and when he be got through he found be bad had left in his big pocket the weight of the evidence seems to point to the fact that on the whole the candidates escaped easier than the rank and file for it cost a good many hundred thousand dollars to run ran the election and somebody had to put up the money the tendency of the corrupt practices act appears to lobe be that in checking chec kine one evil it promotes another the corrupt practice of lying y |