ESTABLISH KD 1808, Zt (ToUnnM;t Jifmorrat, STABUSHED 18.C. CONSOLIDATED 1869. PfBLlKllKD DV ELWELL & BITTENBENDIR EVKKY FKIDAY MOHMSU At Bloomsburg, tlie County scat of Columbia County, lYiinsj lvaiila. Tkrmh: Inside the county, fl.00 a year In ml vancej fl.M) If not paid In itdwuu'O oulslde tlie county, $1.83 a year, strictly in advance. All communications slumld be addressed to THE COLUMBIAN, Bloomsbui'tf, l'a. FRIDAY, OCTOHKK 23, iSy2. DEMOCRATIC TICKET- For Prksiuknt G RO V F. R CI. V. V F.LAN I ), of New York. FOR VICK-l'KI SIliFNT ADLAI I'.. STF.VF.NSO.V, of Illinois, STATE. FOR rONOKRSSMAV AT l.AHOK. OBOKUK A. A 1. 1. EN, Erie. TfloMAS V. MEUKITT, ik-rks. FOBKfl'BKMK JUDOE. ClIKlSTOl'llK.li HKYDl.'lCK, Venango. KOR KtKCTOKS AT I.A110K. MOKTIMKK K. ELLIOTT, Tlotfn. ,TNO. C. BULLITT, lMillndolplilii. THOMAS B. KENNEDY. Franklin. DAVID T. WATSON, Allegheny. FOH tllSTHH' Samuel O. Thompson, Adam s. Conway, W. Redwood Wright, John O. James, James Dutley, 8. W. Trimmer, Azur Lathrop, Thomas Chulfant, r. II. Strublnifpr, Joseph D. Orr, Andrew A. Payton, Michael Lelbel, Cornelius W. Bull, J. K. P. Hall, T F.I.KCTOKS. Clcm't H. WalnwrlKht, Charles II. LafTerty, ueortre H. Ouss William Mnlan, Charles D. Breck, Samuel S. Lelhy, T. C. Hippie, W. P. lllminelrelch II. B. riper, Charles A. Fnsrun. John D. Brailen, Thomas McDowell, Win. O. YuenttllUK, John Conway. COUNTY. For Congress, S. P. WOLVERTON, For Representatives, E. M. TEWKSBURY, ANDREW L. FRITZ, JBS. HAEKiSON DEAD- Mrs. Harrison wife of the President, died in the White House on Tues day last. The sympathy of the entire nation goes out to Mr. Harrison and his family in this hour of their great affliction. The remains will be taken to Indianapolis for interment. BENTON MASS MEETING- AN OLD FASHIONED DEMOCRATIC GATHERING. Last Saturday was a bi day at Benton. Democrats were there by hundreds, aud the eloquent speeches were listened to attentively for more than tWO hours bv the large rrnwrl nn the Fair grounds. The meeting was caueu to order by John G. McHenry, President of the Benton Democratic Club. T. K. Grotz of Klnnmshiiro- was elected President of the meeting wiw tne louowing Vice Presidents : John Swartwout, JohnZaner, Dr. B. F. Gardner, Wm. B. I'eterman. T. P. Hill, Daniel McHenry, Augustus r.vernart, j. j. vvenner, A, J. Derr, Amos Nevhard and Wm. fact.iw N. S. Walker and T. F. Harkins took J ii . uown ine speecn in short hand. The speakers of the day were Hon. C. R. Buckalew. Col. T. fl Col. Martin and J. M. Carman Esq! oi vviiKcsDarre. iielow is MR. BUCKALEW's SPEECH. Mr. B. after stating that he had just puDiisnea in the newspapers, an address to the people of the County, vpon the Force Bill and tho lUrk'inUo t3iiff act which were the main issues ot the campaign, and that he should not repeat his views contained in that address, proceeded to commend the nomination ot M-. Cleveland, in view of his established character as a statesman of experience; coura" and patriotism. He had exhibited0 cour a3'e and patriotism in a marked de gree by his message to congress con cerning the surplus in the treasury, recommending the reduction of taxa tion upon tlie people, which message resulted in the preparation and pas snce of the Mills bill by the House of Representatives. That bill was a moderate and reasonable measure and wonld have relieved many industries from unnecessary burdens, while it was lilK-ra! to the point of indulgence up on manufacturers who had been Hrsely protected by priror laws. He declared that Mr. Cleveland's renomin ation this year at Chicago was not by intrigue or management, nor the work of ambitious politicians, but was dictated and demanded by the demo cratic people of the United States. For they had confidence in him, ad mired his independence and courage upon many occasions in his public career and agreed with him heartily in his views of public policy, to be pursued by the president and by congress. He then spoke upon the subject of silver coinage and Mr., Cleveland's letter thereon, and upon other topics of the campaign, as follows. THE SILVER QUESTION, There are quite a number of our states and territories in the mountain regions of the west that produce gold and silver. States having goldmines and silver mines, but I speak now more particu larly of silver. This silver-mining is mainly done by great corporatious and by wealthy men : and by the way, these are the men that control legisla tures in those states, and many of them come into Congress, aud partic ularly in'o tlie Senate, the millionaires. Now, gentlemen, the mining inter ests of the West represented by these men, many years ago concluded that it would be a good thing for them to have the United States as their sole and onlv customer. Without any laws in their favor more than for otner men, lelt to the ordinary competition in trade, they would have to mine their gold and sil ver and sell it as they best could sell to the United States what it need ed fur the purpose of coining: sell a portion of it to the manufacturers of gold and silver vessels and utensils of various kinds; and send the residue abroad in convenient quantity when there is a demand for it there : in other words, they would have to dis pose of the gold and silver product of their mines, just as a farmer would dispose of the wheat which he grows on his farm. lie sells what he can in his own neighborhood and the adjoin ing parts of the country where it can be cheaply taken, and if there is anything left over he sends it across the ocean. Just so it should be witli these silver-mineis. I talk upon this subject because it is not often spoken about or discussed in a popular man ner, so that common people can un derstand it, and because it isintroduc tojy to what I intend to say as to Cleveland's action with reference to the pretensions of the silvermen. They saw that it would be better for them if they could get the United States to be their sole customer, buying from them on demand all their silver. Coining it into money was equivalent to doing this. They could thus keep up the price of the article, bacause they could sell to the govern ment at a fixed valuation the product of their mines, which product was otherwise liable to go up and down, or to fluctuate in value, just as other produce whether of farms or of mines. They began to pass laws at Washing ton through their representatives in the senate and in the house all their representatives banded together in their interest. The object was to keep up the price of silver. I speak of silver particularly because it is that one of the two metals about which we are more nearly concerned. They passed a law, finally that the government should coin two million dollars a month in silver alone, that the government should buy two mil lions a month and coin it,so that when ever more than fifty or sixty millions of silver aie coined which is the amount that will circulate in the Uni ted States, for all purposes of exchange, the surplus must be put up in the banks and held in reserve or deposited in a government depository or dis posed cf in some other way stored up some where and watched for safety when the country did not need it as currency. They commenced bv enacting a law for having the government coin two minion dollars a month. In the last congress the Republicans passed a law mat tne coinage or silver should 1 .' , r . ... uc iui.reasea irom two minions a month to two millions and a half: and they also provided that the govern ment snouid purchase over fifty mil lions every year in the shape of bullion. or in the rough state, and should pay for it according to the market price, that is, at the price which such govern ment purchase would keep up. What has been the result? Hundreds of millions of silver piled up in eovern meat buildings, unused, drawing no interest, out ot circulation the silver bullion of the millionaires purchased by the government at a high price and turned into coin under these laws, and stored in government buildings and guarded there, all at public expense. What do the silver men want besides ? They wanted the government to take the whole of their product and pay good money for it made legal tender by law and that they got from Con gress under the administration of Har rison. The silver miners and silver men carry their silver to the govern ment, deliver it, and get for it money or certificates what are called silver certificates; and the next thing is by act of congress to make those certifi cates legal tender equal with gold, so that everybody shall be forced to take them. When this legislation shall have gone to the whole extent of mak ing the government the sole and ex clusive purchaser of all the silver they offer, their object will have been at tained : and that end I have no doubt they will reach in case of the re elec tion of Harrison. Senator Teller of Colorado, who is one of the men mighty in this silver crusade against the public treasury, informs his people at home, in public speeches, that an unlimited silver coinage bill will be signed by Harri son if he is re-elected : and they are apparently satsified : and it is possible, therefore, that Colorado and two or three more of these silver states may be, though reluctant, held by the Re publican party, because that party promises the silver men everything that they want. They seem to want the earth, and they are promised that they shall have it. Now, what could the government sell this silver for to-day, that it has been buying and been issuing paper money for, made legal tender ? What could it be sold for to day, supposing we were to throw our silver hoards all into the market ? Sixty-five or seven ty rents on the dollar ; that is probab ly all. We have been buying silver at a fictitious price, at a valuation beyond the general market price in the mark ets ot the world ; nccause the silver producers are the Republican senators trom these mining states, and stand by one anotlior. And yet, gentlemen, while all this is now a fact, and while the people of the United Slates are now being plundered in this shameful manner by this silver legislation which Harrison and his party have passed, Republican speakers of all rank: have beet) pressed and coerced into its lau dation as a j,rcat measure for the benefit of the laboiitiLrman. Was there ever anything more absurd anil preposterous ? We arc to be told thai when you have enabled the silver men to make moncv by operation of law, tlie country will be better oil. limes easier, tlie people more prosperous. Can anything be more absurd than to claim that the buying of silver in bul lion, melting it and casting it into coin, and hoarding that coin in govern ment storehouses, would produce those results. There has been a check, however, upon the demand of the silver men, their demand being exactly what I have described it. 'They wish to mine their silver, take it to a government assay office or mint to be coined into money or stored as bullion for the treasury, and then get legal tender money for it not for its act ual value, but fjr a fictitious value, the Government paving a hundred cents for what is worth sixty five or seventy. Now, they demand that Congress shall pass a law for taking the whole silver product and all that can be brought here from abroad without limitation of amount; all that is offered year by year. That is what is called unlimited Silver Coinage and that measure was gravely proposed to Con gress, and occupied the attention of both houses. I remember well Mc Kinley, the author of the present tariff-law, coming across the chamber and asking n.e to say a few words against it, to assist in its postponement or defeat. It was put off tor the time by a lean vote in the Republican house. How will it be in the future ? At that time came a letter from Grover Cleveland, that was read in Congress and read all over the country, in which he called a halt. He openly and roundly denounced un limited silver coinage, and opposed to it his whole influence ; reaching think ing men of all parties, and causing the silver men to pause in their purpose ; and nothing else under heivyn but that action of Grover Cleveland could have prevented the unlimited coinage bill from passing the house, and the silver men from gaining absolute con trol over the treasury of the United States. This act of courage endeared him still more to the hearts of the people. BLAIXIC'S SPEECH AT OPHIR FARM. Mr. Elaine made a little speech the other day, after strong solicitation, at Ophir farm. That is a very good name. Ophir is w!:ere King Solomon got the gold for his great temple in Jerusalem. We do not know exactly whether it was in Asia or in Africa, or where it was; although a writer of modern fiction, H. Rider Haggard, has located it somewhere in south Af rica, and has built up a very interest ing story upon that assumption that somebody found King Solomon's mines down there. At Ophir farm resides Whitelaw Reid, the Republican candidate for vice-president; and Mr. Blaine was induced to go from Maine to Mr. Reid's farm to pass a few days socially there along with other persons of dis tinction j. and then it happened, strangely enough, that a few farmers came to visit Mr, Reid about the same time; and the farmers naturally want ed to see Mr. Blaine, and Blaine ap peared before them and by request made some remarks only about eight or ten minutes long j within that limit of time, his speech was the best devel opment of Republican weakness in this campaign that we have yet had presented to us from any quarter. Mr. Blaine said : The country is prosperous ; therefore the administra tion of President Harrison should be sustained, and he ought to be re-elected. He said that there were in England a great number of persons that were free-traders, who had supported that policy in their own country and looked to its success over here; thereto iu observe the logic therefore every American Irishmen ought to go and vote against the Democratic party of the United States. Absolutely, besides mere common place remarks repeating what has been said a thousand times before about protection, these were the two points of his speech and the only points. How much did we export last year and how much did we import and what was the difference between the the two amounts ? Mr. Harrison tells you in his letter of acceptance that we sent abroad mainly of agriculjural products more in value than we imported(by over two hundred millions et dollars last year.thc last fiscal year, which you know ends with the thirtieth of June, What were those articles of export ? Cotton from the south, petroleum from Pennsylvania -wheat and corn and the flour of wheat from the West, and pork from Ohio. All these arc agricultural, with one excep tion; and every one of them belongs to the unprotected induMricsof the United States ; there is not one of them that has an atom of protection from the McKinley bill, or has any pretense of it. These two hundred millions of dollars in our favor in our trade with Europe have entered into trade-circulation and commerce between ciiy and country, have kept the wheels of ni.in ufactuie ill motion ; and if they have for a while made times, apparently easy and prosperous, what has Harri son's administration to do with it? Did his administration produce short crops in Europe and cause our corn and Hour to be sent there? Did Har rison's adminisii.ation cause the prair ies of the West to yield their burden of golden grain for shipment ? Of course it had nothing to do with it. Take another view. During the same time there were a hundred and fifty millions paid for pensions, and that money was scattered into every coin munity in the North and the West; none of it to the South, the South happened to be on the wrong side to get pensions. The hundred and fifty millions were distributed to the North and the West out of the public treas ury. That money went into every neighborhood and from the individu als that received it entered into gener al circulation, quickening the pulses of trade throughout the North and the West, and there has been less distress and suffering because of the distribu tion of this vast amount of money among us of the North and the West, Of this sum we contributed by taxation but two thirds, the remaining one- third or $5 0,000,000, being contributed by the South and afterwaads distribu ted to us. Is not that fifty millions a pretty handsome sum of money, hav ing a tendency to make times a little easier here than they would otherwise be! llu present condition of things in the money market and in business circles has nothing whatever to do with Harrison's administration ; it is owing to other causes, which would have ex isted, possibly if his administration had never been. It is Blaine's argu ment that Irishmen should vote against the Democratic party in this country because there are free traders in London who sympathize with our party on the subject of the tariff. That is the argument. Mr. Blaine forgets that Gladstone and his liberal party in London are the friends of home rule, and that Gladstone is about fighting a desperate battle in parlia ment in order to get home-rule for Ir ishmen, and that this Gladstone and his followers are the free-traders in England, whereas, on the contrary, it is the tory party that is opposed to absolute free trade in their country, it is the tory party that is in favor of what they call fair trade, which is re ally something like Blaine's reciproci ty ; it is not exactly like it ; is not so badly jointed, has not so many weak places; they are in favor of govern ment interference to some extent ; and, therefore, according to Blaine's logic, all the Irishmen ought to vote for protection in this country and ought to vote for the tory party in Great Britain or, in other words, against Ireland and home lule. When I finished this speech of Mr. Blaine, with those two points as the whole of it, I concluded that the Republicans in this campaign were ex ceedingly weak, were standing upon ground so weak that they thought that it would not bear to be stated even by the ablest leider among them. PENSIONS This is a subject too long for me to speak upon fully. The pension-system as it now exists is not a matter for present argument. The pension laws, as you know them or as you have heard of them, are upon the statute book, and they will remain upon the statute-book uutil they shall expire from natural limitation, because the subjects of their bounty no longer exist. The pension-system is like a screw; which has one direction; it will move upward, but it will never move downwards so far as legislation is concerned. Therefore you may take it for granted that the pensions will be paid as lonu as the beneficiaries exist; when they die, the pensions will die also. The charge on the government having taken this specific torm, cannot now be altered; it is tor.) late to go back and substitute any other plan. Therefore the nensinn. system is not a subject for political cieoaie. ine pension laws, most of them, were passed in Congress by the votes of both political parties. you will hear Republicans sayiug ; -icvcianu veioeci pension-bills." If you will make investigation you will find that in almost everv case it was of a private bill, when "these bills were being rushed through in batches by the dozen or bv the h were brought to the president for wgnaiure, ne nice the honest man that he is, referred to the pension. office for the facts usually an application having been first made there. If from the report of the office he was satisfied that the claim was unjust one in a hundred, say was false, had already been passed upon and rejected for cause, he re fused to sign the bill. But no honest claim was ever vetoed by him, and when he did veto a dishonest claim no honest soldier would blame him for doing so. STATE BANKS. It has been represented by some Republican newspapers thaf there is a resolution in the Democratic plat form in favor ot stale banks of issue created by the state to issue paper money: rnd they point out that in foamcr times when such money was issued it was often at a discount below par, not worth its face value. In the first place, the resolution in. the Democratic platform is one of denunciation of an act of congress which under calor of the tax power lavs a tax of ten per cent, upon the issue of state banks. That was done during the war; it was done for the purpose of clearing the road for tlie national banks, in order Ihat their money should circulate; it was a war measure. Congress, of course, had no power to pass such a law under the constitution of the United States; and the only meaning of that resolut ion is, that act should now be repealed. Its purpose having been completed a generation ago, it ought to be repeal ed because it violates constitutional rights. The United State has no right to pass a law abolishing a state institution that the state has lawfully created! it might just as well pass a tax-law to destroy any other institut ion. '1 he state properly fixes the de cree of taxation upon its own proper- But the Democratic party is not in favor of state banks of issue after tlie old fashion corporations to have a capital-stock, a reserve of one-third coin and to issue notes. Our party is dead against it, and it is one of the absurdest things in the world to charge the Democratic party of the United States with being a dangerous party on the subject ot banks and banking. We have been fighting the abuses of banking every since' 1 can remember, ever since the beginning of Jackson's administration down to this time opposed to a bank having paper floating around at a discount, and people being thereby oppressed or injured. Against bank abuses we have been fighting for two or three genera tions. This is a most absurd charge to make against us; we have bt. en opposed to speculative banking and shall alwaysr emain so. the Baker ballot law. There is now a law for voters and for voting in this state, called the Baker ballot-law. Baker, a represent tative from Delaware county, got the legislature to pass the ballot-law. I believe some of his lriends amended it in certain ways that he did not approve. However that may be, we have from the Republican legislature a sort of elephant on our hands a law full of inconveniences, a law with a great many imperfections, and so complicated that it would take a Philadelphia lawyer to explain it and a very smart man afterwards to follow the explanation. Without saving any thing further about the 'law, the character of which )ou will under stand a little more of when you get into the caboose and have to hunt your ticket on the day of election ever since I can remember there has been complaint in this state and in this country that voters aae coerced, intimidated, to some extent, at elec tions; that some employer of laboring men will go to the polls and stand there and see ho. they aje going to vote. For many years of my life, election after election, I saw a very able man of respectable character, the manager of great buginess-estab-lishsment, go and place himself near the election-window, where votes were received, and remain there all day, and see how every man employ ed by him -thirty or forty in number voted each as he came up. Ha attended, every year to that business just as strictly and just as carefully as he attended to the carrying on of his business as a manager of his own works. For a dozen or fifteen years Mra. Ktlllam J.ohv Ot Frerport, 11.. l-ennii t f:,ll rapidly, lost nil ai-petite anil fc-"t luu a MnUm i comliti.ju from DvsDeosin f'110 C3uia not e;it vi,w- Hood's Sarsapanila BliB tolta little bolter. fouW keep moro food on her stomach ami urow Ktronevr m. i, bourn,, I,,, , SptK,1. 5iS, '.ft HOOD'8 P-LL8 nr. Mia bun ftrdluM Nit. Xh.y auui uis.Uon .ad a.,. b.auU.. I saw that Rpcctaclph,-.. election time bossed and i,! and controlled; and yct S,,'" voting makes our laws, that y0u J have to obev. 'ina tireat complaint was this thine was all wron.r o... V ''c that still going on' ami hence it u j " that we must have a law t0 st0, to prevent it in some way: ",, 3 idea of how to do that came a" !' way from Australia round ,y way of England to us, and j IS other states than ours tR.v V adopted the idea. And it i ;,n enough in this, that the voter at tl time lie prepares his ballot iT posit shall be shut off from supavisi. n" by others, that he shall be so sit,,, Cli that nobody shall see how he Vot That is all well enou-'h. if ,,, ... carry it out in some elticient lira.tij way. it may cost some money, and we won't beurudue it if u-.. , . coniphsu the end sought; hut 1 a alia-.d that this Baker ballot law WlH not produce satisfactory ltniu .... .!... . i . i.... . 11(i in. n uu.- nc.M legislature vi; t.ike ad. vantage of the general ,iisrontent arising from the bunglesoiiHtic-s the la to repeal it altogether and tt the whole plan fall to the grwimd. Let me state to you what my i,tea is and I obtained it fronr.a man with a remarkable amcunt of " 1 rain l)ut not cxact'y a snnt, 1'en' im n v Butler. In 1 1 is recent Look he iufoms us that in 1851 the Coalitionists m Massachusetts made up ot Pcrno ci ats and Freesoiler;: passed a U,llt. law, going into effect in that year and remaining unaltered in 1852 and 1S5J three years a plain success, cum. mending itself to the judgment of all reasonable men. But In 1S54 the old whig party, gone to seed down m Massachusetts, again got control of the legislature. They dared not re peat the ballot-hw, but they proceed ed to pass a supplement a little innocent supplement -which was, that every voter might vote secretly or openly as he pleased. Of course it took the life out of the law, thai broke it down; that would be the end of secret voting, because whenever a laboringman went to election, ami with his employer standing by, aid vote secretly, that was telling his em p!oer and everybody else that he was about to vote on the other si !e, :.nd you preceive, therefore, that un der this supplement the law became a dead letter. That law was that the state shall provide an envelope of a particular de sign and with an official stamp whicht could be counterfeited only on jam of the usual pjiushinent follow con viction for such an offense. The sia'e -provided there envelopes and nothing else; then the voter fixed up his ticket at home, at the polling place, or ekewhere. put it into the envelope, and voted it. This in vol ves litrlee xpense to the state; there is no troublesome or c millions machinery, no foolishness about it. Anybody could print tickets and have them ready in good season, and even body that wanted an additioii.il sup ply of envelopes could have them ly paying for them. But now, as we have these cabooses or booths all made and paid for, I would allow the voter to use the booth in voting. If his em ployer did manage to put ii.to his hand a sealed envelope, the voter when he got into the caboose could quietly put that envelope into the waste basket and put his own choice into the ballot-box. That is my idea of a proper ballot-hw for this state. Mr. Edward Slyer. Torturing Erysipelas. ONE OF THE WORST CASES EVEt REPORTED. Mrs. Myers Hand Amputated. He' Life SaveU. Thfl caw of 5tr. Kdwor.l Myers, rt Ath" K V ..-..I,!...., ... ant lllll.1l rHlH'll " womnn potwr or toilmani'". lireii trmtrd for inoulhs III the usuiJ r I r)i.i In of tlio liuml, without l"-"': Not 111,1 II l,.-r lmil hail become o mJ an utrl(itl and Iht I"" I I . Hi rod of, ('.id elieturn to Vr. '." 11r.lv, proprietor of IAVI"" lfHl oiiceliifnriiied her tunt he co ! " lu-rliiV, but tlmt It wu impossible to w iiirt imi-.fl !t niut he rmpuinn-n. ...rrlbto SAVED bhe reut'iveu - ... 1 11 tel I lKuce am rliiiHil to lake etui- uleti.v.d latlnu H'K tl njf merely to hold her hiili"' '"""'il ful tin. operation, and umlcrwriil the l - rniiHM 111 ion'' , .- proce-t. without uioviug a a pmiin. Dr. Kcuiiftdv then earn HER Hmntid), which dro tbe poinoiioiu uiseaau km. .-leanard !h blood, Z 1 ...... avfr Tented the. return of the d,rv"""no. now llve nnd rejoice in her Krcut '""".. n,..i 1. ...... ...i. i,a..n en rd at prevlom stage 1 f I h disease he would l'"1" . one pr, ,,, rllx il I Hvorllo l',,?;,.fca I irT " ' would not n" I RE to undergo thta terrible oideni. "Tliill ,.iil.l lmva V hand. i,.,.iai Are you reader, troubled with I n 1" ' w or anv t-ruuiiun of the kin. It '' , i:rv.iM,u in il Incipient ",""7" nr. Irltlo with It a iiioin iit, ' "ill Kennedy's l arurlle ltiud' ' n uro you, for it In y DEATH TO ERYSIPELAS, f