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THL'RSDAV, JULY 16, 1896.
BRYAN AND SEWELL.
Democratic Candidates for President and
Vice-President.
"'?c National Oonvpn.
The Democrat-.-reipted ; -i,nro,'
tion at Chicago compi?u" '.Vo
by the nomination of William J. Uryan
of Nebraska for Fresident, and Arthur
Sewell of Maine for Vice-President,
after a session of five days. Senator
Jones of Nevada was elected Chair
man of the National Committee.
SKETCHES OF THE CANDIDATES.
Bryan is 36 and if elected in No
vember next he will be the youngest
President that the While House has
ever known. He is essentially a self
made man and a man of the people.
His principal education was gained
in the public schools of Salem, 111.,
where his parent resided. During
succeeding six years he received an
academic training. The bent of his
mind Was toward the law, and it was
in the office of Lyman Trumbull,
himself a conspicuous figure during
the war and the reconstruction period
which followed, that he laid the foun
dation of his legal career. It was in
Congress, however, that Mr. Bryan
made the reputation which has swept
him into his present prominence. In
1890, when only 30 years of age, he
was elected member of the House
from the first district of Nebraska,
where he located immediately after
his admission to the bar. During the
consideration of the single tariff bills,
which were brought to the House
during the first session of that Con
gress, Mr. Bryan electrified his col
leagues by the force and vigor of his
utterances, his intimate knowledge of
economic matters, the gracefulness of
his oratory and his ability to sustain
himself with credit against the ablest
debaters upon the Republican side of
the chamber. His time on that occa
sion was repeatedly extended, and he
spoke in all several hours. He awoke
the next morning to find himself fam-
- ous. Nor was it an ephemeral name.
He became from that day a conspicu
ous figure in the House which includ
ed such giants of debate as Breckin
ridge, of Kentucky ; Bourke Cochran
and John R. Fellows, of New York ;
Dingley and Reed, of Maine; Springer
of Illinois i Lodge, of Massachusetts j
Oates, of Alabama, and William L.
Wilson, of West Virginia, who now
holds the office of postmaster general.
While Mr. Bryan was not a free
trader, he favored the lowest tariff
consistent with the necessities of the
government, and was placed by Speak
er Crisp upon the ways and means
committee, an unusual honor for a
new man. When the Fifty-third Con
gress met, Mr. Bryan had also achieved
a reputation as a staunch supporter of
free silver, and when President Cleve
land convened that Congress in extra
ordinary session in the autumn of
1893, Mr. Bryan was Mr. Bland's effi
cient lieutenant in leading the opposi-
' tion to the repeal of the purchasing
clause of the Sherman Act. He con
tinued fh that Congress as a member
of the ways and means committee.
He was one of the sub-committee
which had charge of the internal rev
euue schedule of what was subse
quently known as the Wilson tariff
bill, and he shares with Mr. McMillcn
of Tenn. in being the first to suggest
the incorporation in that measure of
an income tax. Mr. Bryan added to
his laurels as a brilliant and ready de
bater during the discussion of that
measure in the House, and his influ
ence was also exerted in favor of the
income tax which he regarded as one
of its most essential features. With
this Congress Mr. Bryan's congress
ional career ended, and he returned
to Omaha to accept the editorship of
the World-Herald of that city, al
though his home for many years has
been at Lincoln, the state capital.
Mr. Bryan is abont the medium
height. His face is cleanly shaven
and in appearance he resembles the
great Pennsylvania commoner, Sam
uel J, Randall, who, at Mr. Bryan's
age, might readily have passed for the
latter's twin brother. lie is a strict
churchman, 'and on several occasions
addressed the Young Men's Christian
Association and other religious bodies.
He is earnest and enthusiastic in
whatever cause he sympathizes, and
it is not doubted that his personality
will largely influence the approaching
campaign.
Arthur Sewell was born in Bath,
Maine, on Nov. aS, 1835. He was
educated in the public schools of
Bath, and after an apprenticeship
under his father he formed in 1854
with his brother Edward the firm of
E & A Sewell, shipbuilders and com
mission agents. The Bath Sewclls
havy been closely identified with
Bath's chief industry, shipbuilding,
since 1823, when William D. Sewell
opened a small shipyard on the banks
of the Kennebec. He was succeeded
in business by Clark & Sewell. These
two earlier firms built twenty nine
wooden vessels between 1823 and
1854. The E. & A. Sewell firm dis
solved in 1879 by the death of Edward
Sewell. In 1879 Arthur Sewell, his
son, Wm. D. Sewell, and his nephew,
Samuel S. Sewell, formed the firm of
Arthur Sewall & Co., which is still in
existence. To meet the conditions
of the present time, the firm began
some years ago to equip their shipyard
with a plant for making steel vessels.
Thty built the first .?, : mcrira
clipper, Diricp- Ad if.o-.-a
many ? Mr- Sewell was for
iv t- Srs prominent as a railroad
ian. lie became a director of the
Maine Central Railroad Company in
1875, and in 1S84 was elected its
president, serving in in that capacity
until the election of Mr. Wilson sev
eral years ago. During this time Mr.
Sewall was also president of the Port
land, Mount Desert and Machias
Steamboat company. Mr. Sewell
has been a director of some of the
branch lines of the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe railroad, and a director of
the Mexican Central railway in 1884,
1885 and 1886. He is also president
of the Bath National bank.
Mr. Sewall came out for free coin
age of silver in June, 1895. He was
the democratic candidate for United
States Senator at the session of the
Maine Legislature in 1893. Mr.
Sewell has always made his home at
Bath.
The Sewells are of an old and illus
trious family on both sides of the
water. The firs; American Sewell
came here in 1634, and was born in
Coventry, England, in 16 14, so that
he was a young man to come into the
wilderness. His sons were Samuel,
John, Stephen and Nicholas. Samuel
was the judge of witchcraft fame.
John was the direct ancestor of the
Sewells in Maine. Dummer Sewell,
the grandfather of the first shipbuilder,
came to Bath lrom York, which was
also in the district of Maine, in 1762,
and purchased the tract of land on
which to this day stands the Sewell
yard and the houses of the Sewell
family.
THE PLATFORM.
We, the Democrats of the United States,
in national convention assembled, do re
affirm our allegiance to those great essential
principles of justice and liberty upon which
our institutions are founded and which the
Democratic party has advocated from Jeffer
son's lime to our own freedom of speech,
freedom of the press, freedom of conscience,
the preservation of personal rights, the
equality of all citizens before the law and the
faithful observance of constitutional limita
tions. During all these years the Democratic
party has resisted the tendency of selfish
interests to the contralization of government
al power, and steadfastly maintained the
integrity of the dual scheme of government
established by the founders of this republic
of republics. Under its guidance and teach
ings the g.eat principle of local self govern
ment has found its best expression in the
maintenance of the rights of the states and
in its assertion of the necessity of confining
the general government to the exercise of the
powers granted by the constitution of the
United States.
Recognizing that the money system is
paramount to all others at this time, we
invite attention to the fact that the federal
constitution names silver and gold together
as the money metals of the United States,
and that the first coinage law passed by
congress under the constitution made the
silver dollar the monetary unit, and admitt
ed gold to free coinage at a ratio based upon
the silver unit.
We are opposed to the policy and practice
of surrendering to the holders of the obliga
tions of the United States the option reserv
ed by law to the government of redeeming
such obligations in either silver coin or gold
coin.
We are opposed to the issuinc of interest
bearing bonds of the United States in times
of peace, and condemn the trafficing with
uona syndicates winch, n exchange for
bonds at an enormous profit to themselves,
supply the federal treasury with gold to
maintain the policy of gold monometallism.
Congress alone has the power to coin and
issue money, and President Jackson declar
ed that this power could not be delegated to
corporations or individuals. We, therefore,
demand that the power to issue notes be
taken from the banks, and that all paper
money shall be issued directly by the treas
ury department, be redeemable in coin and
receivable for all debts, public and private.
We hold that tariff duties should be levied
solely for purposes of revenue, such duties to
be so adjusted as to operate equally through
out the country, and not discriminate be
tween class or section, and that taxation
should be limited by the needs of the govern
ment, honestly and economically administer
ed. We denounce as disturbing business the
Republican threat to restore the McKinley
law, which has twice been condemned by the
people in national elections, and which,
enacted under the false plea of protection to
home industry, proved a prolific breeder of
trusts and monopolies, enriched the few at
the expense of the many, restricted trade
and deprived the producers of the great
American staples of access to their natural
markets. Until' the money question is
settled we are opposed to any agitation for
further changes in our tariff laws, except
such as are necessary to make up the deficit
ill revenue caused bv the adverse decision t.t
the supreme court on the income tax.
Hut for this decision by the supreme court
there would be no deficit in the revenues
under the law passed by a Democratic con
gress in strict pursuance of the uniform
decisions of the court for nearly one hundred
years, thnt court having in that decision sus
tained constitutional objections to its enact
ment which had previously been overruled
by the ablest judges who have ever sat on
that bench.
We declare that It is the duty of congress
to use all the constitutional power which
remains after that decision, or which may
come from its reversal by the court fis it may
hereafter be constituted, so that the burdens
of taxation may be equally and impartially
laid, to the end that wealth may bear its
proportion of the expenses of the govern
ment. We hold that the most efiident way of
protecting American labor is to prevent the
importation of foreign pauper labor to con
pete with It in the home market, and that
Ihe value of the home market to our Ameri
can farmers and artisans is greatly reduced
by a vicious monetary system which de
presses the prices of their products below
the cost of production, nnd thus deprives
them of the means of purchasing the pro
ducts of our home manufactures.
The absorption of wealth by the few, the
consolidation of our leading railroad systems
and the formation of trusts and pools require
a stricter control by the federal government
of those arteries of commerce. We demand
the enlargement of the powers of the inter
state commerce commission, and such res-
trictions and guarantees in the control of
railroads as will protect the DecmlpvAirf
robber am'. cCCW "JCgtTJJj v"- "om
1 "Ve denounce the profligate waste of the
money wrung from the people by oppressive
taxation, nnd the lavish appropriations of
recent Republican congresses, which have
kept taxes high, while the labor thnt pays
them is unemployed, and the products or
the people's toil are depressed in prices till
they no longer repay the cost of production.
We demand a return to that simplicity and
economy which befits a democratic govern
ment, and a reduction in the number of
useless offices, the salaries of which drain
the substance of the people.
We denounce arbitrary Interference by
federal authorities in local affairs as n viola
tion of the constitution of the United States
and a crime against free institutions, and we
especially objeet to government by injunc
tion as a new and highly dangerous form of
oppression by which federal judges, in con
tempt of the laws of the states and the
rights of citizens, become at once legislators,
judges and executioners.
Recognizing the just claims of deserving
Union soldiers, we heartily indorse the rule
of the present pension commissioner that no
names shall be arbitrarily dropped from the
pension roll, and the fact of enlistment nnd
service should be deemed conclusive evi
dence against disease and disability before
enlistment.
We favor the admission of the territories
of New Mexico and Arizona into the Union
as states, and we favor the early admission
of all the territories having the necessary
population and resources to entitle them to
statehood, and while they remain territories
we hold that the officials appointed to ad
minister the government of any territory,
together with the District of Columbia and
Alaska, should be bonalide residents of the
territory or district in which their duties are
to bo performed. The Democratic party
believes in home rule, and that all pulmc
lands of the United States should be appro
prated to the establishment of free homes
or American citizens.
We recommend that the Territory of
Alaska be granted a delegate in congress,
and that the general land and timber laws of
the United States be extended to said
territory.
We extend our sympathy to the people of
Cuba in their heroic struggle for liberty and
independence.
We are opposed to life tenure in the
public service. We favor appointments
based upon merit, fixed terms of office, nnd
such an administration of the civil service
laws as will afford equal opportunities to all
citizens of ascertained fitness.
We declare it to be the unwritten law of
this republic, established by custom and
usage of a hundred years, and sanctioned by
the examples of the greatest and wisest of
those who founded and have maintained our
government, that no man should be eligible
for a third term of the presidential office.
The federal government should care for
and improve the Mississippi river and other
great waterways of the republic, so as to
secure for the interior states easy nnd cheap
transportation to tide water. When any
waterway of the republic is of sufficient im
portance to demand aid of the government
such aid should be extended upon a definite
plan of continuous work until permanent
IKIelp.
If needed by poor, tired mothers, over
worked and. burdened with care, debili
tated and run down because of poor, thin
and impoverished blood. Belp is needed
by the nervous sufferer, the men and
women tortured with rheumatism, neu
ralgia, dyspepsia, scrofula, catarrh. . Help
Comes Quickly
When Hood's Sarsaparllla begin to en
rich, purify and vitalize the blood, and
ends it in a healing, nourishing, invig
orating stream to the nerves, muscles and
organs of the body. Hood's Barsaparilla
builds up the weak and broken down sys
tem, ana cures all blood diseases, because
Sarsaparilla
Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. II.
Prepared only by C. I. Hood St Co., Lowell, Mass.
'-lv rtlll are the only pills to take
'OICl 5 I'lIlS with Hood's Sarsaparllla.
HUMPHREYS'
VETERIHARY SPECIFICS
Tor Eorsos, Cattle, Sheep, Son. Eogs,
AND POCLTEY.
SOOPage Book on Troatipniit of Animal
and Chart Mem free,
crura FeTers.ronBestlona.Iiiflnmmiitloa
A. A.I Hplual ftleuWltU, Milk Frer.
B. ll.FMrulna, J. uineut.ua, Ulienuiaclam.
C. tI.IHateMiaer, Nasal Discharge.
I. l).-Boia or J rutin, Worms.
K. F..'ouvba, Heaves, 1'nramonla.
f.F.('ollo or 4rlpea, Bellyache.
Mlacarrlase. Hemorrhages,
rluurjr nud Hillary IMaeaaea,
i. I. Eruptive Diseases, !tuna.
.it. Diseasea of lleltuu, I'aralyslsv
Single Bottle (over SO doees), - .00
ttlable Case, with ftpeclrlm, Manual,.
Veterinary Cure Oil and Uedlutttur, $T.0O
Jar Veterinary Cure Oil, 1.00
MA sTDrsrshUl sr MBt anptM tmfwfnta la
svaallij sa iwcll of prlca.
UVarUUKTS' BHD. CO., 1 ll 111 WIUU St., IvsTark.
nuirpnnETS
HOMEOPATHIC f)f
SPECIFIC No.i
tin
lu oaa M jeri. Tne obit raceaaaful rsmaoj tor
Nervous Debility, vital Weakness,
and Proitrttton, from onr-work or otbar oftuied.
1 pr vial, or S nU ftiui Urn yUI powdtr, for $&.
(tola hj lruitlMl, or mil puatl.i on roit pric.
Hi BruHKir aim co.t iu at wmiw lm., iwit
cm IQHH EL TQWHS
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SUITS
FROM S18.
improvement is secured.
We declnre that ihe act of 1S73, demone
tinnc silver without tlw-:- or Cn.
i 01 the American people, has resulted
in the appreciation ol gold and a correspond
ing fall in the p. ices of commodities produc
ed by the people ; a heavy increase in the
burden ol taxation and ot all debts, public
and private ; the enrichment of the money
lending class, at home and abroad j paraly
sis of industry and impoverishment of the
people.
We are unalterably opposed to monome
tallism, which has locked fast the prosperity
of an industrious people in the paralysis of
hard times, tiold monometallism is n
British policy, nnd its adoption has brought
other nations into financial servitude to
London. It is not only un-American but
nnti-Americnn, and it can be fastened on the
United States only by the stilling of that
spirit and love of liberty which proclaimed
our political independence in 1776 nnd won
it in the war of the revolution.
We demand the free and unlimited Coin
age of both cold and silver at the present
legal ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for
the aid or consent of any other nation. We
demand that the standard silver dollar shall
be a full legal tender, equally with gold, for
all debts, public ami private, and we favor
such legislation as will prevent for the future
the demonetization of any kind of legal
tender money by private contract,
GENERAL HEWS.
A Williamspoit policeman chased a nude
bather through the streets for a mile, the
latter having been surprised on the river
bank.
An Allentown man will shortly start on a
I.Mir arAIInd the wnrl.l in a nnn II utl
go to San Francisco, from there to China,
thence through other Asiatic countries and
expect to reach Paris by 1900 to wi'i" : the
r.xpusuiun luuiaitiiy.
Oave-ln.
Last Friday afternoon at a quarter to four
o'clock the hoisting slope at the Bast
colliery caved in for a distance of about one
hundred feet. The accident was a great
surprise both to officials and miners as well,
as there were no indications that the top
was working. About an hour ru.u a half
before the fall occurred Division supt.
Schreffler and District Supt. Campbell, who
had been making a tour of the mines were
hoisted up the slope, and although t. wedge
had fallen from the top and struck Mr.
Schreffler, nothing was thought of the inci
dent. The accident is indeed unwelcome
news to the employees of the collie-y who
willjprobably be thrown out of work for a
long while. It was most fortunate that no
lives were lost. The colliery is the largest
in this district." Ashland Local."'
Located a Gold Mine.
Considerable excitement has been caused
by an alleged find of gold near a village
about 20 miles west of Bradford, Pa. W,
W. Kemington, Lester Bull and Henry Earl,
three residents of Red House, discovered the
gold quartz some time ago, and immediately
located claims near the find. Mr Reming
ton claims that a specimen of the quartz
which was sent to an assayer yields $92 per
ton.
Counterfeit Money Floating.
The circulation of counterfeit money in
Hazleton has reached alarming proportions.
aud is now attracting general attention.
Nearly all business men of the above named
town have been victimized, and it now seems
that to protect themselves concerted action
will have to be taken. - The coins resemble
the genuine article so closely that even ex
perls are deceived by them.
Personal.
If any one who has been benefited
by the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
will write to The Columbian, Blooms
burg, Pa., they will receive informa
tion that will be of much value and
interest to them. 6-18-4L
ORDINANCE NO. 91.
AS OHDrXASCE TO PROHIBIT TIIK COS
STHUCTIOS Of WOODSS PA VSMBSTH.
Be It ordained and enacted by the Town Cours
ell of the Town or Mlooinsburj,', and It Is hereby
enacted by authority ot the eiime:
Section 1. That It shall not. be lawful here
after to construct auy wooden pavement or
wooden slde-walk, or to repair hereafter auy
wooden pavement or wooden side-walk hereto
fore constructed, within the built up poitlous
of t he Town of Hlo imuburg.
Section i Tli Jt for the purposes of this or
dinance the built up portion aforesaid shall bo
held and construed to be the same as dunuitlly
defined by the Town Council for the purnosos
of taxation
Section .1. That all ordinances, or parts of
ordinances, Inconsistent herewith, be aud the
same are hereby repealed.
W. O. HOLMES,
Passed July 9, 18(W. l'rcslduut
Atttst: U. 11. ltiNdi.KK, Uecretaiy,
VIEWERS' NOTICE.
SulUv is hereby gluten that the unaeralgixea
viewer, apptilnird f.; Ihe Court of Common
plena i( Vuluinbm lunula, to asueiut the Utimuges
tiKft bene.ntt In the mutter of changing nf grade
of MVol etreet, In the Town uf Uhxnnetiura, tie
tween tth and, bin ttreetn, having viewed the
wwlw mid estimated the damnum, ha-ex jh-.
tired a svtiedule thereol ' ehoxciny tlm amount of
uamages or oenejiis aesessea ana to irium pttti
a'lle, and thai the eulit vietreis will meet on
Thursday, Julu lrrt. IhiW. at IU o'cloek. A. tl. at
the ojllve of II. A. M'Kllli)) in tlm said Town of
jiimitiihtiury, irnere meg win nnion saia sched
ule and hear all exceptions thereto ami evidence.
o. w. ciiKitHisaros,
11 h HICKS,
r-n-a. klijoshs.
Viewers.
GET YOUR
JOB PRINTING
DONE AT THE
COLUMBIAN OFFICE
CORNER MAIN. & MARKET Sts,
BLOOMSBURG- PA.
It8 the Spirit Behind the Guns
That does the business. The old fashioued droning way o
keeping shop will not do for this end of the nineteenth century.
No time of the year when the trading public can secure
such bargain benefits ns right now.
Makers and agents are selling at most auy reasonable sacri
fice. The wide-awake merchant takes advantage of this for the
benefit of his patrons.
Strong Summer Dress
Goods Argument.
Special lot of these; the wind up of
our summer dress goods offer some at
about half early season's prices. If
you want a nice cool wash dress, now
is the time to get it. Dimities reduc
ed from 1 a J to 6c. Dimities, Lawns
and Linens from 15 to isjc Calicos,
very best to be hau from 6 to 4c.
More Laundried Waists
Never tired ol talking about them.
Sharps the name on these, owned
cheap, you get them cheap. That's
our mode of doing business.
Ladies' waists laundried, reduced frcm
75c. to 50c.
Ladies' waists, unlaundried, reduced
from 50c. to 35c
Men's Shirts.
We put on sale to-day a lot of Men's
shirts. They are alright in every re
spect, and yet we make a price on
them that is hard to beat. Come in
and examine them. Men's laundried
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
WANAMAKER CLOTHINC
Somewhere between $100,000 and
$125,000 Summer Clothing selling at a
clear loss of one-fourth all round
just as if we'd never have another
summer to sell clothes.
We shan't be believed until you see the goods.
Not a half-dozen times in all our years that w
sold without getting even somehow. Can't this
time; aren't trying: we're losing on black suits,
gray suits, thin clothes every sort except Thibet
and serge.
We sell Thibet at $5 and they cost it
We sell Serges at $7.50 to $18 : if we asked
$10 to $25, we'd please the stores and waste our
advertising.
The rest of the stock like this :
Black worsted and crepe, $30 suits for $13.50.
Black worsted fine diagonal, $20 suits for $10. '
Coat and vest (fine as in $30 suits) for $10.
Homespuns have been $12 for $7.50.
Boys' clothes same way,$3 suits for $2.25: $10
for $6.75.
Same sort of clothes we always sell : better made
this year, perhaps no, certainly ; everything the
same except this plunge in prices.
Explanations don't explain : the times are bad ;
the clothes are good; the prices are broken broken
on all our summer clothes : doesn't happen in ten
years.
Harris cassimcres included. The best and the
worst of them from our great clearing-out-Harris-mill-buy
go down like all the rest $15 suit meant
to sell for $12 now $8.50.
Nobody else in the business doing anything like
we are. We think we're sharp to lose the money
while we can sell the goods. What summer
clothes do you want ?
Pay your carfare, too on a reasonable purchase.
WANAMAKER & BROWN,
Sixth and Market Streets, Philadelphia.
JkW
Hate.
TROUSERS
FROM 55. OO.
shirts from $1.00 to 85c.
Men's unlaundried shirts from 75c.
to 50c.
This is the best offer we ever made
to you in this line.
Ladies' Muslin
Underwear.
Did you ever see the kind of under
wear we are selling ? None of your
slip shod, half put together stuff, but
real well made articles out of good
material.
Groceries.
Hot weather people don't want to
eat. Have no appetite. We don't
ask you to cook, but here is a chance
to eat without cooking.
Franco-American Food Co's. truffled
game, 35c.
R. &. R. Boned chicken and turkey.
R. & R. potted chicken and turkey.
Underwood's deviled ham.
Pickled lambs' tongue, pickled clams,
and pickles of all kinds.