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The importance of this section was demonstrated by the settle- 
ment by the g-overnor and council of the contested gubernato- 
rial nominations in the Republican primary of 1924. 
Candidates nominated at the primary election were re- 
quired to file with the secretary of state “a return of expendi- 
tures”. The return showed the amounts spent for: {a) 
printing, (h) clerk hire, (c) newspaper advertising, (d) hall 
rent, (e) soliciting agents, and (/) miscellaneous. No return 
was required of amounts spent personally for postage, tele- 
grams, telephones, stationery, express, and traveling.'^® 
Expenditures for all other purposes were prohibited. The 
law also set a limit to the total expenditures for the several 
classes of offices as follows: state officers, $1,500; United 
States senators, $1,500; representatives to Congress, $500; 
state senators and county officers, $150 “for each 10,000 votes 
cast for governor or fraction thereof” ; representatives to the 
state legislature from districts having three or more represen- 
tatives, $100; representatives from districts having two or 
fewer representatives, $50. 
The law also attempted to prevent persons other than the 
candidate or his agent from giving unreported financial aid 
to a candidate. The candidate was required to make oath 
“that no person, firm, or corporation has with my knowledge 
and consent paid any sum or incurred any liability other than 
to myself or my political agent to procure or aid in procuring 
my nomination . . The law further made it illegal 
for a third person to give financial aid to a candidate without 
his knowledge and consent."’^ 
Provision was made for a state convention of each party 
to be held not less than sixty nor more than ninety days be- 
fore the date of the primary. The basis of representation in 
the convention and the time and place and method of calling 
the convention were left to be determined by the respec- 
tive state committees. The law required the party in conven- 
tion assembled to formulate and adopt a platform of principles 
for the ensuing state election, and elect a state committee, a 
district committee for each congressional district, and a county 
committee for each county. The number of members compris- 
™ Maine, Revised Statutes, 1916, chap, vi, sec. 16. 
51 Ibid., sec. 21. 
^~lhid., sec. 18. 
53 Ibid., sec. 19, . 
