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failure to do so, and any citizen may employ counsel to assist 
in the prosecution. A penalty of one to seven year’s imprisonment 
is provided for all payments or promises intended to corrupt 
electors or nominating conventions. 
A committeeman making a false return is guilty of perjury, 
and the penalty is one to seven years imprisonment. 
All furnishings of meat or drink, refreshment or entertain¬ 
ment to corruptly influence voters are made misdemeanors, and 
all threats or intimidation of voters to affect their votes and 
all intimations from employers to employes by pay envelopes 
or hand bills or placards threatening to cease work or lower 
wages in case of the success of any party or measure, are made 
misdemeanors and any corporation guilty of the same forfeits 
its charter, and a violation by a candidate of the provisions of 
the act forfeits his office and the forfeiture can be enforced at 
the suit of any elector. 
This law covers seventeen printed pages and is divided into 
forty-two sections. It is somewhat novel in its features, but is 
well thought out, thorough and comprehensive, and gives promise 
of great efficiency. All persons interested in electoral reforms 
will watch its workings with lively and hopeful interest. 
The golden state seems to have given us a golden law. 
Chapter 77, Session Laws of Kansas, 1893, approved March 
11,1893, “An act to prohibit the corrupt use of money and corrupt 
practices at elections” seems modeled on the Massachusetts law 
mainly, and requires full verified statements from candidates 
and treasurers of all political committees alike. It prohibits 
candidates from giving away, directly or indirectly, cigars or 
intoxicating liquors on election day, and from giving away in¬ 
toxicating liquors at any time to influence voters. 
Daring the year of 1892 and prior to the autumn campaign 
the Civil Service Reform association of Missouri began a inos > 
judicious and effective agitation for the amendment of the laws 
of that state with reference to the use of money in elections. 
I venture to call attention to its methods and their results as 
safe models for us all in a work which I hope many of us will 
not refuse. 
In September a printed circular signed by the officers of the 
