Candidate
A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
One who seeks or aspires to some office or privilege, or who offers himself for the same. In a constitutional provision that any person who, while a candidate for office, shall be guilty of bribery, etc., is used in that popular sense; any one who seeks an office, whether nominated or not.^ See Bribery; Legal, Illegal; Libel, 8; Lxbeety, 1, Of the press. '