Iptc olnmbiatt. ESTABLISHED ISM. lxr Columbia Jcmorrat, ISTABiJSHED 1CI7. .CONSOLIDATED W. PIBHSILEJ 5vErir Till KfDAT MOKMNO at aiootusburg, the County vat of Columbia county, Pennsylvania. CtO. E. ELWELL EDITOR. W V, ETERLT, Local EniTo. li&O. ('. KOAN, FoitlXAX. Tea; Inside the county, $1.00 a year Id ad. ?any; 11.50 If not paid In advance Outside tie county, tl. a year, strictly In advance. All communications should be addressed to THE COLUMBIAN, Blooinsburg, 1'i THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1S96. Everything indicates that there will be a larger crop of Democratic votes harvested next Autumn, than has be fore been known in the history of the country. Nature, not man, decides what shall be money. She places gold first, and silver, nickel and copper after wards. Artificial laws cannot change this order. Chauncey M. Depew says Mc Kinley will not be nominated at St Louis. He thinks it will be the field against McKinley and the Ohio man will lack a few votes. Wonder if Chauncey knows? THE RING! THE RING! RING? WHAT 13 THE When election time approaches, we hear the ring frequently spoken of ; and the way it is characterized leads plain people to suppose that it must be something dreadful. Now I should like to know just what it is and who are in it. Almost every candidate who solicits our snf. frage claims to be opposed to the ring, or mar ne is out to fight tne nnz After sizinc them all nn a hpet O I - " "W can, we decide which one shall receive our vote, and the one receiving the greatest number of our votes is of course elected. And then to our amazement we are informed that he was the ring candidate. That he is a nngster of the most pronounced type, or mat he is going to be a tool of the ring. That we have been co operating with the ring and against our own interest. Now I think it would be the proper thing for some of you newspaper men, who are wise in such matters, to tell us beforehand who is and who is not in the ring, so that we can vote intel ligently, i his information we should have before election, if it is to serve any useful purpose. I have sometimes been led to sun. pose that it cannot be told until after tne vote is counted, and then the suc cessful man is known to be in the ring If this is the case, the defeated candidates, instead of heaping oppro brium upon their successful rival, should rather congratulate themselves on their escape from getting in the hated ring. This leads to another thought. There is one or more of our candidates who has gained con siderable notoriety (whether enviable or not depends on who you are talk ing to) as an exposer of the rascalities of the ring. The question arises, if such one should be elected, will it place him in the ring, and will that destroy or abridge his usefulness in exposing the corruption of ringsters? These are questions that it seems to me voters would do well to con sider. We frequently hear it remarked that it is a great pity to spoil a good farmer or a good mechanic to make a poor preacher or a poor lawyer. It seems to me equally impolitic to sac rifice a valiant exponent of the rascal ities of ringdom, to secure well say an ordinarily good official, who must of necessity, or at least may become a ringster. It requires a very strong man to entirely overcome the influence of his environment. My own opinion is, that the ring business is being rather overdone. That the so called ring is a mythical monster, a creature of the imagination of some sorehead who failed to get there. Mind, I give it only as my opinion ; but do not urge or advise anyone to accept it as either law or Gospel. If I am in error, I am ready and willing to be convinced of the sai.ie. Please give us light on this subject, and very much oblige. A Voter. Host Fay the Assessors. The Attorney General's Depart ment has given Superintendent Schaeffer an opinion to the effect that County Commissioners must pay As sessors for making an enumeration of school children under the compulsory education law. In some counties the law would have been null, owing to the Commissioners' refusing to pay for enumeration, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction wanted the mat ter settled. The Lehigh Valley Railroad Co., was fifty years old on Tuesday. The Democrat! and Cheap Money, It may be regarded as settled that the Republican national convention will not declare in frvor of the free coinage of silver. It may also be ac cepted that its platform will declare with more or less clearness in favor of sound money, although it may ypeak with some ambiguity on the subject. A square declaration in favor of hon est money on the accepted standard of the civilized world, is possible but not certain. It is improbable that any man will be nominated as the Republican candidate for President whp would not, when elected, main tain a sound financial system, although the platform adopted by McKinley, of Ohio, is not at all assuring on the subject. hat will the Democrats do ? If the conventions of the two great parties of the country were to declare unequivocally in favor of sound money the issue would be settled, and it would not affect the result of the elec tion, but there is less prospect to day of the Democrats maintaining their integrity than there was six months ago. The apparent failure of the sound money men at the recent pri maries to hold Alabama, whose con vention will be the first to give ex pression on the subject in the South, indicates a tidal wave for free silver in the Democratic conventions of that region. The Democratic national convention will be co.nposed of 910 delegates, and the following States are all that can be safely counted upon to day to stand firmly for a sound money platform : Connecticut 12 j New York 72 Delaware 6 Pennsylvania 64 Kentucky 26 , Khwle Island 8 Maine 12 Maryland 16 Massachusetts 30 New Hampshire.... 8 New Jersey 20 Vermont 8 Wisconsin 24 Total., .306 The following States are reasonably certain to be represented by free silver delegations : Alabama 22 Arkansas 16 California t8 Colorado 8 Florida 8 Georgia 26 Idaho 6 Iowa 26 Kansas 20 Michigan 28 Mississ.ppt 18 Missouri 34 Montana 6 Nebraska 16 Nevada 6 North Dakota 6 Oregon 8 South Carolina.... 18 South Dakota... . 8 Tennessee 24 Texas 30 I tan 6 Vahington 8 Wyoming 6 Arizona 2 New Mexico 2 Oklahoma 2 Indian Territory.. 2 Alaska ; 2 ionn Carolina 22 1 otal 404 This leaves the following as doubt ful States, some of whose delegations may be divided : Illinois 48 Yirginia 24 West Virginia 12 Dist. Columbia... 2 Indiana 30 Louisiana 16 Minnesota 18 Ohio 46 Total 106 If the sound money men shall get an equal vote with the cheap money Democrats in the delegations of Illi nois, Indiana and Minnesota they will be fortunate. Louisiana is likely to be for free silver. Virginia and West Virginia are fairly doubtful, and may be solid either way, or have divided del egations. It is quite uncertain as to how the delegates from the District of Columbia shall vote. The chances appear to be in favor of the domination of the free silver element in the Democratic national convention, and if it shall present a candidate and a platform sanctioning the cheap money craze, the Democ racy will not only be defeated by the largest majority ever given against any party in a contested election, but it will have no future. It must now choose the policy of a sound financial system that will command the confi dence of the civilized world, or it must die unlamented. Phila, Times. What a Business Man Thinks of the Business Situation No man is so likelv to be u-Pli in. formed of the shifting courses of the winds and the currents of the sea as the man whose duty it is to hold the wheel and steer the ship. So it is that no man is likely to be better posted as to the shifting movement of trade than the man whose task it is to manage a great railway corpora tion the lines of which reach from the centre to the circumference of the country. He holds his hand upon the pulse of industrial activity, and marks its every throb. the opinion of Mr. Georre R. Roberts, the President of the Pennsvl. vania Railroad Company, as e-iven to the public on the causes of lagging ana unsatisiactory business, is worth cartloads of oratory from the stump and fine disquisitions in the news papers. Mr. Roberts does not look into a guess-book or a work on politi cal economy in order to prime him self with words before he talks. He speaks of facts within his knowledge, figures audited under his eye, results gathered from the inflow and outflow of all the multifarious movements of things that men buy and sell. He says that business splendidly last fall, and that there is no reason under heaven why the country should not be largest prosperity at present except iui iwu iiungs ; (1) The silver craze, (a) Jingoism. Mr. Roberts also points out two THl COLUMBIAN, things as necessary to restore pros perity: (1) Sound money. (2) Rest from tariff agitation. We do not desire to name Mr. Roberts as our candidate fur the Presidency of the United States, but he has made for himself a platform which shows that he is fit to be Presi dent. He has prescribed the proper tonic for the public distresses, and blazed the true path toward restored soundness. Philadelphia Record. Sailing the Cuban Trouble. Spain is virtually bankrupt and without means of continuing much longer her effort to suppress the Cuban insurrection. Being aware of this fact, if she is approached in a conciliatory manner, she may be induced to grace fully yield the point which she is con scious of not being able to carry by force of arms. It vwuld seem to be the President's purpose to effect a settlement of the controversy in that manner. He will not do anything rash in exercising the power with which Congress has in vested him in this matter. By proper approach Spain may be made to admit the hopelessness of her struggle, and the United States, instead of being an arbitrarv intervener in the diffimltv. may be instrumental in bringing about . I 1 a. an amicaoie understanding between the two conflicting parties that are ravaging Cuba with their bloody strife. The United States are not bent upon the acquisition of the island. It would be offensive in this country to charge it with such a mercenary mo tive : but if Sn.lin rntilrl tie inrlnred to concede to the Cubans the right of autono.ii), granting all the reforms that are necessary for the well being and eood government tjf the island. -J o 7 and retaining over it only that kind of sovereignty wnicn England retains in Canada, such a settlement, we think, would satisfy all the interests that Americans can legitmately take in the controversy ; and it looks as if the President, instead of resorting to of fensive measures, will endeavor to bring about such a conciliatory settle ment. Belief ont Watchman. We notice that the wide tire on heavy wagons is coming into pretty general use in this section, and the cause of this change from the narrow to the wide tire is an act of the last legislature which remits 25 per cent, of the road taxes of those who use the wide tire. And this will have con siderable to do with the improvements of our roads, and will probably save in repairs to the public highways nearly as much if not quite the amount of taxes remitted. The act provides that any owner of wagons used upon the roads who shall fit them witn four inch tires shall have a reduction in his road tax of twenty-five per cent. As narrow tires are largely responsi ble for the cutting up and disfiguring of roadbeds made of soft material, while wide tires tend to keep down and solidify them, the general adop tion of the wide tire will bring about considerable improvement without any change in any other direction. 5 Sores In combination, proportion and process Hood's Sarsaparilla is peculiar to itself, and unequalled in true- merit. No other medicine ever possessed so much curative power, or reached such enormous sales, or made such won derful cures, as Hood's Sarsaparilla. It is undoubtedly the best medicine ever made to purify, vitalize and en rich the blood. That is the secret of its success. Read this statement: " When my son was 7 years of age, he bad rheumatic fever and acute rheuma tism, which settled Id his left hip. He was so sick that no one thought there was any help for him. Five Bores broke out on his thigh, which the doctor said were Scrofula sores. We had three different doctors. Pieces of bone came out of the sores. The last doctor said the leg would have to be cut open and the bone scraped, before he could get well. Howard became so low that he would eat nothing, and one doo tor said there was no chance for him. " One day, a newspaper recommending Hood's Sarsaparilla was left at oar door. We decided to try this medicine. Howard commenced taking it the last of February, after having beea sick tor a year and yired half. He hadn't taken It a week before I saw that his appetite began to Improve, and then he gained rapidly. I gave him five bottles, when the sores were all healed and they never broke out again. The crutches he had used for four years were laid aside, as he had no further use for them. I give all the credit to Hood's Bar saparUla.'' Mrs. Ada L. Moody, Fay Street, Lynn, Mass. This and many similar cures prove that IruOOdl'S Sarsaparilla la the One True Blood l'urlner. All druggists, $1. Prepared only by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. , uuro.j.iver nisi easy 10 BLOOMSBURG. & J qWr7tqwksekd. Merchant mm SUITS I FROM S18.00. Bright Signs on the Political Homon. The possibility that the SiUerites might control the Chicago Conven tion has had one excellent result it has stirred up the Sound Money Democrats to a sense of the peril which confronts the party and the country, and from this time forward they will make a most determined fight in every doubtful district for the one cause upon the success of which the present standard of values depends. The signs of these reawakenings are visible in many quarters. Senator Price has reconsidered his former in tention of spending the summer in Europe, and will go to the Chicago Convention ; and he predicts that, while the majority of the delegates may be in favor of silver, there will be no free coinage plank in the plat form. Another hopeful portent re veals itself in Kentucky, where the Democratic fight against the Free Silver fantasy is being urged with every prospect of victory ; and still another promise is evident in Chicago, where the good work recently done by Secretary Carlisle has already begun to tell, a committee of one hundred Democrats having been formed, with ex-Mayor Hopkins at its head, which is already acti cly at work spreading the light of truth. Similar committees should be formed in every city and town in which the silver craze has found lodgment. The battle is on in earn est. It must be fought out in ad vance of the meeting of the National Convention ; and it will surely prove a winning fight if it shall be fought with the courage and persistency which a just cause ever inspires in the breasts of determined men Phila. Record. Affidavits as to personal character may be necessary to allay suspicion or to attract the simple-minded ; but what has the manufac.urer's private chaiacter to do with the efficacy of his so-called " cure ? Ely s Cream Balm depends solely upon its reputa tion of years as a successful cure for catarrh in all its stages. It is abso lutely free from mercury or any other drug injurious to the system. Being applied directly to the diseased mem brane it affords instantaneous relief and will effect a perfect cure of ca tarrh. Rupture Piles CURED. No Knire. No detention iroui business. FISTULA, FIssntE, and all diseases of the Hectum successfully treated. He ar ence to over 500 cases durlnjr the past year. Call or send for testiinon'als of what your neighbors, who have been cured, say. Dp, A. P. O'MALLEY, Specialist, Washington St. WILZES-BAEaE. (20 Tan CotticsRi fttctiM la Wiltes-EirrU P. S. latitat! can ti t:utl ui rttro t:st ttt i ttj. tat t:atmret taci wttk. ( tc 19 wttu uuUy iv:iti: t: rrt ant rtattorscuoi. 11-;: lj It may be a little early to do your spring papering, but not too early to look over our large stock now ready for your inspection. In spite of the fact that the manulacturers charge us from io to 20 per cent, more than last year we will sell at last year's low prices, and in some cases even lower. Window curtains of all kindsi Room and picture moulding always in stock. WILLIAM H. SLATE EZCZANQS HOTEL ELS9. PA. - Illlllll II IW ! II !! mi 111 Hi kw net 1 ici . CORNER MAIN & MARKET Sts. I TROUSERS BLOOMSBURG PA. I FROM S5.QO. NO BACK IUMBE1 Youth and beauty exercise their potent sway over all sen sitive mlmla. Upon the altar of the new, burns ever the in cense of admiration. Mindful of this the inventive genius of the age is ever striving to surpass former efforts, and by the beauty of the new creations to win the guerdon of popular ap plause. Our stock h absolutely fresh the product of "The Now." lis beauty is unruarrcd by anything that tuggests the days of Methuselah. . Wash Dress Goods. The hot days we are now having is certainly a reminder of the fact that we are going to have a very hot sum mer. Why not prepare now and pur chase your thin wash dresses while our stock is new. Not nearly so many to select from now as a week ago, but still the stock is new and lots left. Our patterns are mostly exclusively to be found here, coming as they did, from Arnold, Constable & Co. and Gilbert Mfg. Co., of New York, you will be unable to match them elsewhere. Deep baronne lawns in Dresden and Per sian effects 30 in. wide, ujc. Jaconat Duchess dimities, brown grout1 with green stripe, green dot and white stripe, white ground with yellow stride 30 in. wide, I2$c Organd de Beanvais, white ground, with green figures and pin stripe 30 in. wide, I2$c, Indian dimities, white ground, with blue, pink and green designs, 31 in. wide, 2Sc. Shirt Waists. They are selling so fast that we are almost unable to keep all the sizes, but we have bought more will be here this week prettier and neater than ever. Never saw or had such a line; no one brings them back because they don't fit. They are made to fit in every particular, and they do. When you want any do not buy until you see our line. None equal to it. Any kind size or price you want, 50c, 75c, $ioo. $1.40, $1.75, $2.00. Lace Curtains, and Lace Curtain Stretchers. Have you looked over your stock of them ? If not, when you do and find you want any we have them here in almost endless variety, in quality, price and style. Some odd ones we are selling at cost and below. Ho w about a stretcher? Have you ever BLOOMSBURG, PA. FOR FINE SPRING MILLINARY GO TO Mrs. M. A. NEXT DOOR TO SALTZKR's MUSIC STORE. DECIDED! Watson It has been decided by E. Jacobson, proprietor of the) great Boston Clothing House, to open one of the branches at Eloomsburg, Pa. The Boston Clothing House have the facilities for selling every thing in the line of men's and boy's wear for about half the price charged by other deal ers. People in need of cloth ing will do well to wait for the opening which will take place on Saturday, April 18, opposite the St. Elmo Hotel. E. Jacobson, Prop. seen the Star stretcher ? We are the agents for them and none better on tlie market. Once used you would not take double your money for them. Capes and Tailor Made Gowns. Don't you want a new cape for evening when you sit out on the porch to throw around your shoulders. If you are looking for one, here they are, and any kind you want at any price. Maybe a suit or separate skirt; if so, we have them. They need few if any alterations and made in the latest style. We will alter them for you if they need it. Groceries. When you buy anything, but espec ially that which you eat, you will go where you et the best for the least money. Now some goods are cheap, yes, cheap goods; we do not keep cheap goods, but the best we can buy, and sell them for a small profit. You will always find our groceries the same as they are represented to be. If you want to be satisfied with what you eat all we ask is for you to give us a trial and we will net fear the de cision. Armor's boneless ham, no waste to it, all ready to boil 16c the 1U Richardson & Robbins' potted and Ixjned chicken, turkey, game, ham and tongue. Just what you want for lunches these hot day 25, 35, and 50c, the can. Franco American soups, nothing equal to them on the market. All kinds always on hand in quart cans 40c. the can, 35 by doz. We are still selling those California canned fruits, best of their kinds on the market peaches, pears, apricots and plums 2 cans 25c. Do you like good cofTee? We sell nothin but Chase & Sanborn's. None equal to it on the market Java, Mocha, Perfection Blend, and Rio and Seal brand. We want you to try that Perfection Blend at 35c, or 3 lbs. $1.00 t ELECTION NOTICE. A grteablv to the provision or an act of A r in Wl iJimwd the Villi or April lsT.1, the Annual Mrrtmr) of the KtoekltoltUn-t or the tlluuintlntra Literary Institute ! Slate Svnmtl School oIM Sixth District trill he heia on t.tefim M,,i,du of Hail, being May 4, 1MW, Detueen the hi,ur of tim and our 9clxk in the afternoon or said day at tJie ojHce or the Xormul School In the Donnltoru. tit tlte 1nrn o.r lilomns'xirtj, Fa., nt which timi four persons trill I elected Trustees on , 0 the sloi khoiaers to serwor a period of thrt years; at the same time four wrm trii lie nominated to the Snir.ntenttri,t or I'ulAic in structions from irhict he may u, isj'int tiro Trus tees on the pa.t uf tw Slate Io srrce for a period 0 three years. Aprtt S3, '96-31. JOHX M. CLA RK, Secretary. OHIO FLAO, BEAVER VALLEY FLAQ, CURB, STEP AND CAPS. Artificial stone paving in all its branches, including Mel lick's Patent arfli All work guaranteed. FRANK WETn ft MATT DOYLE, Foremen. O. II, KELUCK, Manager, WihtBcildino, nioonibarr.l. Tit-am. Removed ! SCHUYLER'S HARDWARE, TO Evans' Sloclr, MAIN and IRON STS. liuuu 9 nils tue, easy to operate. 260. Th t COL U MB IAN, Ji.oo a year
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