CAMPAIGN ISSUES-
THE PLATFORM AS ADOPTED KY THE
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.
The following is the platform adopt
ed by the Democratic State Conven
tion last week Thursday :
1. We, the representatives of the
Democracy of Pennsylvania, in con
vention assemb'ed, renew our pledges
of devotion to the principles of our
party in the country at large, as de
clared in the platform of the national
convention of 1884 and 1888, and ap
proved in the election of those years
by a majority of the American people.
We are, as we have always been, in
favor of honest and enconomical ad
ministration of public affairs ; of limit
ing expenses and reducing taxation to
meet the actual necessities of govern
ment ; of a sound and stable currency
based on gold and silver, coined and
circulated in such proportions as will
keep them on a parity ; of a reform
and revision of the tariff; of liberal,
but just, pension laws, and of all well
considered legislation tending to in
crease the rewards and lighten the bur
dens of labor.
2. We realize and affirm that the
state election of 1891 in Pennsylvania
involves no issue of federal politics ;
we appeal to honest patriotic citizens,
regardless of past party affiliations, to
unite in vindicating the honor of this
commonwealth and redeeming the fis
cal and auditing departments of its
government from official abuses and
. corrupt practices.
3. We arraign and condemn the
. Republican legislature for having re
fused to enforce the constitution, by
. appropriate legislation, for having fail,
ed to pass honest and equitable appor
tionment bills as required by the con
stitution, for having ignored the de
mands of labor for relief by law, for
having denied the righteous, popular
demand for such laws as would distri
bute the burdens of public taxation
equally upon all classes of property,
and for having refused to reform long
existing abuses in mercantile appraise
ment laws, as recommended by the
Democratic executive in 18S5.
.CONDEMNS THE REPUBLICAN LEGISLA
TURE. 4. We arraign and condemn the
republican legislature for the enact
ment of vexatious, oppressive and vic
ious legislation, against which the exe
cutive veto was interposed for the pro
tection of the people.
5. We arraign and condemn the re
publican party of Pennsylvania for
electing men to state and municipal
offices, by whose neglect of duty,
complicity, fraud and plunder of the
public treasury a million and a half
dollars of the people's money have
been stolen and squandered.
6. We arraign and condemn the re
publican auditor general for having
permitted John Bardsley, the republi
can treasurer of Philadelphia city and
county, to embezzle a half million
dollars of state tax collected by him,
which he was permitted to retain for a
long period after the same was due
and payable.
7. We arraign and condemn the
Republican auditor general for having
permitted John Bardsley, the Republi
can treasurer of Philadelphia city and
county, to embezzle more than $360,
000 of state license moneys collected
by him, which he was permitted to re
tain for a long period after the same
was due and payable.
8. We airaign and condemn the
Republican auditor general for having
conspired with John Bardsley, the Re
publican treasurer of Philadelphia
city and couny, to appoint and retain
corrupt mercantile appraisers, who
abused their office for their own private
pecuniary advantage, robbed the state
of its just revenues and imposed upon
the commonwealth hundreds of thous
ands of dollars of needless costs, and
we demand the dismissal of the mer-
cantile appraisers of Philadelphia.
9. We arraign and condemn the
Republican auditor general for having
conspired with Johr. Bardsley, the Re
publican treasurer of Philadelphia city
and country, to speculate in public ad
vertising, and for having received from
the publishers of the same bribes to
influence their official conduct in plac
ing such advertisements.
STATE OFFICIALS ARRAIGNED.
10. Ye arraign and condemn the
Republican auditor general for having
failed to promptly collect the taxes and
claims of the commonwealth against
delinquent and defaulting public and
private corporations.
11. We arraign and condemn the
Republican state treasurer for wilfully
and knowingly permitting John Bards
ley to retain in his possession over a
million dollars of monev collected for
and owing to the commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, by reason of which de
reliction a large portion of the money
has been lost to the p.eople.
12 We arraign and condemn the
Republican state treasurer for having
conspired with John Bardsley, the Re
publican treasurer of Philadelphia, to
secure to him the payment of $425,
000 of the public school funds, long in
advance of the usual time, and when
Bardsley was already known to the
state treasurer to be a defaulter for
over half a million dollars, which sum
thus improvidently paid to Bardsley,
was by him embezzled, to the loss of
Philadelphia city and the shame and
scandal of the state.
13. We arraign and condemn the
Republican state treasurer and the
Republican auditor general for having
conspircu to pay John Uardsley, the
Republican treasurer of Philadelphia
tity and county, on December 30,
1S90, $150,000 out of the state treas
ury, ostensibly on account of Philadel
phia country s share of the personal
property tax ; but actually before that
tax had been paid into the state treas
ury, and when John Bardsley was al
ready a defaulter and embezzler on ac
count to the amount of $622,013,11.
A PARTY OF OFFICIAL CORRUPTION.
14. We arraign and condemn the
Republican party of Pennsylvania for
having fosteied, encouraged, protected
and continued a reckless system of
official speculation with public moneys
whereby state and city treasurers have
enriched themselves, corrupted the
public morals and robbed the taxpay
ers. The practice of using public
funds for private gain or political ad
vantage is to be condemned and should
be completely and thoroughly eradicat
ed.
15. We arraign and condemn the
Republican state convention, recently
assembled, for its condonation and de
fense of faihless Republican state offi
cials guilty of these derelictions, some of
whom sat in its councils, influenced its
action and dictated and controlled its
utterances.
16. We pledge the candidates this
day nominated to make such investi
gations and give such informati&n to
the law department of the common
wealth as will enable it to bring to
punishment those guilty of malfeasance
in office.
17. We denounce the corrupt and
shameless domination of Senator Mat
thew IJuay in the politics of the state,
and arraign and condemn the Republi
can party for its servile acquiesence in
the leadership of a man who has utter
ly failed to defend himself from grave
charges against his official conduct and
political record
18. We heartily endorse the wise,
statesmanlike and patriotic administra
tion of Governor Pattison ; we applaud
and approve his fearless vetoes of
partisan vicious and ill considered leg
islation ; his recommendation of salu
tary laws ; his rigorous investigation
and wholesome correction of public
abuses, and his determination to en- J
force the constitution, punish offend
ers and secure public reform.
SYMPATHY FOR THE WORK1NGMEN.
19. We sympathise with the just de
mands of workingmen for all such
legislation as will protect their inter- J
ests, and for such speedy amendment
to the constitution as will secure to
them a free and secret ballot.
20. We oppose the repeal of the
mercantile taxes, and insist that they
shall be fairly and equitably laid, hon
estly collected, and that the money
arising from them shall be paid into
the sute treasury, and not stolen by
its agents We favor the repeal of
such provisions of law as requ'ie advei
tisement of these taxes, and the in
curring of cost of collection where
there can bt no recovery. We favor
the abolition of the office of mercantile
appraiser and the substitution of some
certain, economical and expeditious
method of assessing and collecting
these taxes.
21. We approve all legislation look
ing to an honest registry of voters to
the end that every qualified voter may
be secured the exercise of his franchise
and that the list may be purged of all
names not rightly thereon.
22. We believe that the right of free,
honest and secret ballot is the right
preservative of all political rights. We
rpprove the largest measure of ballot
reform and believe the whole advan
tages of tne Australian ballot system
should be secured to the electors of
Pennsylvania. The ballot bill enact
ed at the last general assembly was a
step in the right direction, but it needs
to be supplemented by measures, to
secure reform in registration. To this
end and for these purposes only we
favor the assembling of a constitutional
convention.
Worth Pive Dollars.
a bottle, but sold for only one dollar,
and guaranteed to benefit or cure, or
money refunded the genuine Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discivery.
Fraudelent imitations of this medicine
are sometimes offered and sold at 60
to 70 cents.
To protect the public from such im
position, the genuine is now sold only
through druggists, regularly authorized
as agents, and at the uniform and long
established price of $1.00 per bottle,
or six bottles for $5.10.
But each bottle of the genuine
Golden Medical Discovery carries
with it something that makes it the
cheapest bloodpurifier and liver-invig-orator
that you can buy. It's the print
ed guarantee of its makers that, if it
fails to benefit or cure you, they'll re
turn the money. You pay only for
the good you get, with this and with
all of Dr. Pierce's medicines. You
pay the one fixed price but if there's
no help, there's no pay. It's ''value
received, or your money back." That's
the way its makers prove their faith in
it. With an ordinary medicine, it can't
oe done.
Dealers not authorized to sell . the
genuine medicine, are likely to offer
spurious imitations, dilutions, and sub
stitutes, at lower prices. Beware of
them.
Children Oryfoi
Pitches Oast-r'a
BRIEF MENTION OF NEWS
Happenings of the World from
Pole to Pole.
TOLD U A IEW SEC0SD3 OF TIME,
Tka Development! of Itaclt lmj During
the Week Caught Kreali from the lluay
Wlree and Carefully Ktllted and C'oa.
dented for Unr Header.
At New York Mymlert Stnrln was hp
reteil for contempt of court, mid vpoa hit
promise to pay KoMer & Dial' wing bill
wa paroled in the cmtoily of hU law jet.
Socialist Al:ier broke Daniel O'Con
tior' arm during n rljjht nt (Jnttenb-nrg.
N. J., and abot and vriouljr Injur! Con
atabla Kern atnl a citizen named Jia
Oentrom when they trial to arret him.
Terrorite tu totted in buried nhelli at
Fort Hamilton, N. Y., the three charge
blowing holes, of from thirteen to fifteen
feet In tha earth.
It baa been decided by the United Statoi
government to abandou the cane against
tha steamer Itata, which curried arms t
Chill during the recent trtwMe.
Judita Lorenzo Srtwyer ilid midden ly of
bronchitia la San FrDrNT, Cal. Judg
Sawyer wan born in Je9jrmi county,
X. Y., In ISai. In iwa he wan elected ius
ticeof the supreme court ii California,
and In tha la.it two re.tra inr vn chief
Justice.
The hearing on the vr 111 nt Mr. Hrmktns-
Searlea was postponed. Thrri talk of a
compromise. It U claimed that M r. Senrle
was a spiritualist and that Searies fw-caiiK
medium und acquired mental jaceo3anci
oer Mrs. Searles.
The Association of InternatrmnlTceket
Agents met la convention at St.. Irani,
jrexterday.
George II. Loring. cx-mlnUterta Portu
gal, Is rapidly recovering from his- recant
aevera illness.
A Cbicagoan suggests to Secrefarv Rttsk
that his rain producing npparatsK be used
to create fogs, which will prevent in jus?
fraia froat.
At Grace (Eaish LutheranV clnirck.
Chicago. Colonel KUiott 1'. Slirpuri
prophesied the financial ruin of Vila Chi
cago fair if opeatxi Sundays.
BeiUy Dean ami Hill Dulton were an
runted near Tnevcm. Cal., .Sunday night,
en suspicion of having taken part in. tht
train roblry at Ceres, Friday night..
Two convicts in the penitentiacs at
Frankfort, Ky. foiacht, and both ol them.
with a third convict who tried to sepnr&u
them, were fatally Injured.
The people of Ctawfordsville, Inl arc
moch exercised over a winged mouxtei
which has been hovering over the town foi
several night It ia believed to beanew
airship.
At Xew York Henry Prince, burglns;. as
taped from Jvtfsraun Market prisuee in
brovl daylight through the unrepaired
window outoX which, Eugene U'liara jra
iously made his exit.
Emperor WUhelut baa pardoned Afc-s.
O'Neill, wUa of General O'Neill, wbc
elaimed to nave been an officer 1b tht
United Stale army. She shot and danger
ously wounded her husband ou M i
last, and ha since then been iu prison.
The Bask of Frauca has offered. It hv
auid, to take the Kassian loau of liajac
000 at 4 per cent.
A bill to prevent boodllng, lntrotCueed
into the Canadian senate Thursday,, poa
videa taat civil official or uietiibeua. 04
their families accepting bribes shalC bt
fined $100 to tl.QUO or imprisonmens foi
six months.
Between TOO and SOU miners are o stirik
at Braceville. Ilia., to secure the beneOu
of the weekly pay law.
Three men who were caught bj cattle
men In Custer county, Mod., cbangins
brands on cattle, were all hanged to tht
same tree.
Frank Dunforth, who cnt bJ wile'i
throat and throw her dead body into th
river on Juue 28 last, was banged at
Augusta, Go.
Attorney General Tabor wl)l apply tc
the United States court on Oct. 4 for a dis
missal of the stay of proceedings and tht
appeals in the cases of Murderers McEl
wain and Treaa, both of whom are In
Sing Ring.
Rev. Dr. Ward, the aged father of Fer
dinand Ward, the "Napoleon of finance,'
died Aug. 11 at Claret) a, Switaerland.
The tobacco crop of Lancaster county,
Pa., which 1 nearly all harvested, is th
largest ever grown, the average reaching
13,500 acres and tha yield fully 30,000 cases.
Two train robbyri held np the Lot
Angeles express a few miles south of Mo
desto, Cal., shot Detective Karris, blew
open the express car with dyuumlte and
then fled.
By the sinking of his father's yacht, Dr.
J. B. Eggleston, lute of Albany, wai
drowned.
Sixteen men were blown to atoms by
dynamite explosion near White Pigeon,
jiicn.
Mile. Vacaresco has consented to leave,
the Queen of Roumanla and the king ha
started to join the qqeen. The withdrawal
of the young woman probably ends tht
romance of Prince Ferdinand.
A. R. Patton, of Sau Antonio, Tx., wai
killed by a burglar who entered his house.
Superintendent Kimball, of tha life sav
ing service, has put on 100 extra tirewt
along the Atlantic and gulf coasts.
Eleven members out of fourtceu of In
diana's atate Democratic committee favot
Cleveland. The others want Gray foi
president.
Five thousand acres near Grand Forks,
X. D., were swept clean by a prairie fire.
Tbebedyof Mrs. Richardson, of Long
Prairie, Minu., was luid out for burial
Tuesday, but she revived and recognized
neriricuas.
While train was running at full speed
.near Denison station, A. T., Tuesday
night, a car of powder blew up, killing
Brakeman IU W. White and .Stockman
August Beckman.
Miss Mary Lincoln, daughter of the
American minister to itogland, Mr. Robert
T. Lincoln, wna married In London, Sept.
to Mr. Charles Ishaua, a wealthy young
lawyer or -Ne-.v lork.
Secretary XobW baa directed the pay
ment of (370,000 to the Sisseton and Wan
peton Indians in South Dakota under tha
treaty mulled by the last congress.
M. Zola declares that France is bow
ready to revenge Sedan aod sweep tha
German empire out of existence, and Ger
man newspapers admit that Germany
must soon light again to bold what she
won in 1870-1.
It is reported that England will send a
Oaet to the Dardanelles to watch Russia.
The agtut at the Canadian Paciflo rail
road station at Nelson, B. C. was bound
by au raed robber, who secured 1,014
and the money of man who entered tb,
Ill XT
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J. SALTZER'S
SAL
With many years experience in buying and selling musical instrument
and sewing machines I can guarantee to my customers the best in the markets
1 lanos and urgans purchased or me, can be relied upon. If anything get.
out of order, it can easily be corrected, and a great deal of annoyance saved.
Instructions given to all purchasers of Sewing Machines, how to ojeratc them
successfully.
The STKCK PIANO is the best made. Its tone is surpassed
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We bave also the
ESTEY and the STARR
PIANOS,
And The-r
ESTEY, MILLER and
UNITED STATES
ORGANS.
We sell Piaaos from $250 to
$600, and Organs from $75 to $175.
In Sewing Machines we can
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We sell the best Sewing Mach
ine made for $19.50.
JV Salter, BlQQmsMrgfJ Fa.
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5iist got in a.
Silverware
GWATCHES FROM S5.00 UP.D
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THAT CAN BB RSLIBD OH
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Spring days are at hand and
premonitions of Marm weather
bring with them a desire for
cooling dishes. We shall keep
Ice Cream of many flavors
from now on, and will serve it
in our parlors day or night.
Families and parties sup
plied. Get our prices.
The Cafe is open, and the
kitchen is in charge of an ex
perienced cook. Catering for
parties, lodges, weddings, etc..
a specialty.
rresh bread and cakes daily
in the bakery.
M. M PHILLIPS & SON.
Proprietors of
"PHILLIPS' CAFE."
Bloomsburg, Pa.
KESTY & HOFFMAN,
TVe repair Engines, Boilers, Sjw Mills,
Threshers, Harvesters. Mowers and
all kinds of machinery.
WE HASDLK
TEAM PIPE FITTMOS,
VALVES, STEAM 6A8GES.
And ill kinds of Repairs.
PIPE CUT TO OllDEK.
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All wk done bjr us is guaranteed
K give satisfaction, and all work ia
cur line mil be promptly attended to
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may he acijatroJ t cveiiieni-a. TlioroiiKli
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Photographers.
Only the best
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est effects in
light, and shade;
negatives re
touched and
modeled for sup
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Copying, view
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crayons.
Over II. J. Clark &
Son's store.
BLOOMSBURG.
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