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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4. 1S97.
ELECTION
RESULTS.
PENNSYLVANIA Republican.
Beacom for S'ate Treasurer has
probably 146.000 plurality.
NEW YORK (City) Van Wyck,
elected Mayor by 73,000 plural
ity over Low.
NEW YORK (State) Democratic.
Parker for Justice has about 60,
000 plurality.
OHIO Republican. Bushnell re
elected Governor by 10,000 plur
ality. Legislature qjaimed by
Republicans.
MARYLAND Legislature in doubt;
will choose Gorman's successor.
Malster (Rep.) Mayor of Balti
more. NEW JERSEY New Assembly
seems Republican.
MASSACHUSETTS Republican.
Gov. Wolcott re-elected by pro
bably 85,000 plurality.
IOWA Republican. Shaw for Gov
ernor has about 20,000 plurality.
VIRGINIA Democratic. Tyler
chosen Governor.
KLNTUCKY Democratic. Shack
elford elected Clerk of Courts.
TAMMANY WINS.
The great fight in New York that
haf attracted attention all over the
titry, resulted in a victory for
')' nmany. Van Wyck is elected by
a plurality of 75,000 or-more. Low
was second highest in votes and Tracy
thud.
HERRING DEFEATED-
The official returns from the several
districts in the county give J. U. Kurtz,
Republican candidate for Associate
Judge, a majority of 55 over A. B.
Herring, the Democratic candidate,
Th's, we believe, is the first time in
the histoiy of Columbia county that a
republican has been elected to a
county office, over the regular Demo
cratic nominee.
In 1870 Isaac S. Monroe ran as an
independent candidate for Associate
Judge, against John R. Yohe, the
nominee of the Democratic conven
tion, and defeated him. There were
causes for this, and the result was not
wondered at, at that time.
It is hard to assign causes for the
present situation. In Berwick, Kurtz's
home, his majority is 437, while Her
ring's majority in Orange township,
his home, is only 9. Bloomsburg gives
Kurtz 241 majority, Centralia gives
him 58 majority, Conyngham town
ship 116 majority. The other dis
tricts giving Kurtz majorities are Briar
creek, Hemlock, Millville, Mt. Pleasant
and ScDtt.
New York and New Jersey fighting
their way back among the sisterhood
of Democratic States ; Ohio stagger
ing and uncertain which flag to follow;
Massachusetts faltering in its Republi
can allegiance ; Democratic gains in
all the McKinley strongholds these
are not the sequences that were to
follow fast upon the heels of renewed
Protection and returning Prosperity,
The people of the United States ap
pear to be sadly dubious in the face
of triumphant Dingleyism. Record.
"Estimated Democratic plurality is
300, a Democratic gain of 477
Swallow's vote in the county is about
500. Tne Prohibition vote in 1895
was 269. The entire Democratic
ticket is elected. Herring for Asso
ciate Judge leads Kurtz by about 700
Both are Democrats.
The above appeared in the Phila,
Record yesterday, dated Bloomsburg,
Nov. 2. The local correspondent of
that paper is evidently not very well
acquainted with Judge Kurtz politics,
The 8tate'i Strong Box-
Treasurer Haywood Reports a Falling Oft
in ine uenerai runo.
State Treasurer Haywood's report
tor Uctober, made public Saturday,
shows that at the close of business
for the month there was $4,023,
' 730.89 in the General Fund, a de
crease of $500,000 during the month
Philadelphia banks hold the follow
ing accounts : Farmers' and Me
chanics' National, $402,729.38
Chestnut btreet National, $230,000
People's Bank, $560,000 j Quaker
City National, $250,000 Sixth Na
tional, $5000.
President McKinlty for Tree Trade.
In his address before the Cincin
nati Chamber of Commerce on Satur
day, President McKinley paid a tri-
ute to the principles of Commercial
freedom that would have well become
the mouth of a champion of Free
Trade. Among other things the
President said :
Domestic conditions are sure to be
improved by large exchanges with the
ations of the world. e are already
reaching out with good results. Our
surplus products of agriculture and
manufactures are finding a foreign
market, and in the latter case to a
degree which would not have been
believed possible a quarter of a cen
tury ago. We have made wonderful
progress in this direction, and have
only just begun. Our manufactured
products go to every nation of the
world, and I hope the time may not
be far distant when our ships under
the Stars and Stripes will be on every
ea where commerce is carried and
the wants of mankind are to be sup
plied.
These are liberal patriotic senti
ments in the strongest possible con
trast with the principles and policy of
the Ding'ey Tariff with its restrictive
duties upon imports, especially upon
raw materials, and with its Peter
Funk pretense of reciprocity. If the
entire reciprocity section of the tariff
could be carried out in accordance
with the professed design of its au
thors it would hardly make a ripple in
the great ocean of international com
merce. What is lo be gained by a
"trinkgeld"' policy from which the
nations having the largest trade with
the United States are totally exclud
ed ? How is commerce to be sub
stantially promoted when from the
multitudinous articles of exchange
with foreign countries argol, brandy,
champagne, still wines, vermouth and
paintings and statuary alone are se
lected for this reciprocity deal ? These
mports with one exception are ar
ticles of voluntary use or luxuries and
should be subject to the highest
duties consistent with revenue, or in
the case of paintings and statuary
should be made entirely free. But by
a proffer of reduction of duties on this
comparatively insignificant list of im
ports it is hoped to win reciprocal
concessions from France and Germany
and to accomplish the results upon
which President McKinley so elo
quently expatiated in his Saturday
speech to the merchants of Cincinnati.
The free trader might well be pardon
ed for skepticism when "argols"' and
"vermouth with brandy and cham
pagnes are the chief basis of this won
derful schtme of reciprocity.
Tbe November Election,
It is an almost invariable rule of
political action in the United States
that when the tide shall have swept
strongly in one direction at an im
portant election it will move strongly
in the opposite direction immediately
afterward. Victory brings laxity and
overconfidence to the successful party.
It also breeds disaffection, ror every
man who gets a share of the spoils
there are ten men who are sent away
empty. There were never offices
enough to go around, even before the
days of civil service reform, and there
are still fewer now. And so it is that
the Republican flag, carried full high
a year ago an J planted in the light of
the sun, was Tuesday trailed in the
mud. The disorganized, disrupted
and silver-mad Democracy has risen
from its place prone upon the ground
and given its old-time enemy an
Anta:an dig in the ribs which has
fairly taken its breath away. Ex.
Although the contents of neither
the note from this Government to
Spain nor the Spanish reply are defini
tely known, the newsmongers in their
hunt tor sensation have decided that
the first is "practically an ultimatum"
and the second a "defiance." In
newsmongery, as in other spheres of
human activity, only the first step in
the path of evil-doing is hard. Having
evolved an ultimatum and a defiance
out of their inner consciousness, the
sensationalists have unblushingly pro
phesied a "sharp rejoinder from
Washington to the Spanish reply and
a rupture between the two Govern
ments. Thus business is disorganized,
the people are thrown into a fever of
apprehension and a belheerent spirit
is nourished by the work which the
devil inspires an idle correspondent to
do. Ninety-nine per cent, of the sen
sational stories of Americo-Soanish re-
lations are rubbish, and should be ut
terly disregarded. Ex.
This Benefit! the Tax Collectors,
The legislature at its last session
passed an act for the benefit of the tax
collectors of the state who have been
unable to collect all such indebted
ness within the two years allowed
tnem to do so. In all cases where
the power or authority of county, city,
township, ward, school and borough
collectors have expired, or shall expire
during the year 1897, by virtue of the
expiration of their term of office, the
same shall be revived and extended
for another year from the passage of
the act which was May 11, 1897.
Profperity.
With all the boasted prosperity that
the city papers flourish, the larmers
can realize no more for their products
than previous to the McKinley ad
vent, with the single exception of
wheat. Foreign starvation raised the
price of wheat in this Country. But
what do the farmers realize for their
wheat in this extremity ? The boast
ed dollar wheat has not reached our
locality. When Benjamin Harrison
was President, the great Russian
famine raged in that country to an
alarming extent, the president allud
ing to the starving conditions of that
people, informed the farmers that
every bushel of their surplus grain
was needed by reason of foreign crop
failures, and that the larmers of this
country would realize a handsome ad
vance profit on their products. But
the fact proved that as soon as tem
porary relief reached the famine strick
en countiy, the prices of farm pro
ducts relapsed to a lower standard
than before the famine. This experi
ence taught me never to again listen
to a chief magistrate of the nation as
regards the prices of farm prodncts
when there is a shortage in foreign
countries. By holding on my surplus
wheat and other crops, taking the
inspiration from the president, I lost
on all my products. So much for
promised prosperity from headquar
ters of the government.
The New York World, to which I
have for many years, been a subscri
ber, also boomed wheat and farm pro
ducts, asserting that wheat was now
on a parity with gold, thus proving
the fallacy of the free coinage of sil
ver, which the silverites always claim
ed that an ounce of silver bought as
much wheat as ever, not conceding
the fact that the wheat conditions
were abnormal throughout the world,
which would necessarily establish ab
normal prices. Later however, the
World asserted "that dollar wheat in
the market meant sixty-cent wheat on
the farm." The prosperity that we
see on paper is a very different pros
perity that we realize on the farm.
For the fallacious and contradictory
teaching of the World, I wrote that
paper as follows :
To the World x
I have no further use for the World.
A paper that bolts a regular nomina
tion and advocates the single gold
standard and monometalism must part
company with me.
There might as well be only one
code of laws, one nation and one gov
ernment for the world, as only one
standard of value the unit value of
the gold dollar. The simple gold
standard, once firmly established for
the world, will produce an equality of
conditions of each class of business,
as it shall stand in the scale of busi
ness of the world. I am a farmer, and
if the single gold standard shall become
a fixed business principle, it will be
more profitable to operate a farm in
any other country of the world than
in the United States. The same is
true with the laboring classes. The
United States then can offer no better
inducements to farmers and laborers,
than China or India. In the event of
the single gold standard, farmers of
all importing countries will get the
highest prices for agricultural pro
ducts, while farmers of exporting
countries will get the lowest. Then
as the cost of production, costs a
great deal more in the United States
than in any other country, by reason
of higher wages, the farmers of the
United States are left in the race of
profits. Necessarily labor must be
better paid m importing countries
than it is in exporting countries, other
wise, how could the laborer live in
importing countries, when he can
barely live in the United States which
is an exporting country. Then the
farmers of the United States are put
to disadvantage by reason of the tariff,
which compel them to buy in the
protected home market, but are
obliged to sell their products in the
open markets ot the world. I see
nothing in the World that is to the
interest of American farmers and
American laborers, but it is a splendid
sheet for Wall Street and Lombarb
Street. That the Thrice-A-Week
World is cheap, is not saying that it
is advantageous to the interest of
farmers and laboring men.
John C. Wenner,
Cambra, Pa.
P. S. Well the consequence is the
New York World no longer visits me
J. C. W.
Handwriting on the Wall
State Chairman Garman Felicitates Demo
cratt on Their Gains.
Democratic State Chairman Gar-
man, after voting at Nanticoke, came
to Harrisburg and received the news
at headquarters. At 11 o'clock he
made this statement :
"The country is to be congratulate
on the fact that the returns seem to
show that the people have returned to
the Democratic party, New York city
nas certainly gone Democratic and
the returns from Ohio indicate that
the greatest trafficker in votes of the
ninteenth century has been repudiated
by his people.
"Notwithstanding a small vote in
READY FOR THE FALL OF 1897.
which means a saving of .5 to 20 per cent, to the buyer. We are now cflcr.ng lall Suits at the old puree
Our line of Over Coatings, Suitings and Trousering are more m,.ncrou5 than ever. We are pu ting up al
Suits in City Style and at the lowest prices, consistent with good material and skilled wotkmansh.p.
Four Points Wk Tav Sieciai. Attention To:
Correct Styl, Reliable Goods, Perfect Fit and Lowest Prices.
Oar long experience in the business enable us to give our customers full value for their money. Our Garments are
made by skilled workmen, our work we guarantee in every respect. A fine display now on exhibition in the window of
JOHN 11.
Merchant Tailor.
Pennsylvania, the returns show that
the R epublican party and its manage
ment have been severely rebuked by
the voters. Dr. Swallow has received
in many sections a highly compliment
ary vote, and though many Democrats
voiced their protest by voting for Dr.
Swallow instead of their own candi
dates, still the gain shown by Messrs.
Brown and Ritter indicate that the
people are not averse to sustaining'tre
Democratic party when the candi
dates are clean and honest men.
CHAIRMAN CARMAN'S FORECAST.
"I think this election is a sort of
handwriting on the wall which indi
cates that next year the Congressional
and Gubernatorial elections will pro
bably be favorable to the Democrats.
I named yesterday a number of
counties which I thought would go
Democratic. At this time I have
heard from Luzerne and Schuylkill,
and both have voted as I predicted.
Counting the large vote given to Dr.
Swal.ow and tne decreased vote given
to Mr. Beacom, I am satisfied that the
majority against Mr. Brown, if any,
will be surprisingly small."
THANKSGIVING DAT.
President McKinley Issues the Annual Pro
clamation.
President McKinley on Friday, is
sued his first Thanksgiving Day pro
clamation as follows:
"In remembrance of God's good
ness to us during the past year, which
has been so abundant, 'let us ofl;r un
to Hitn our thanksgiving and pay our
vows to the Most High.' Under his
watchful providence industry has pros
pered, the conditions of labor have
been improved, the rewards of the
husbandman has been increased and
the comforts of our homes multiplied.
His mighty hand has preserved peace
and protected the nation. Respect
for law and order has been strength
ened, love of free mstitutiens cherish
ed and all sections of our beloved
country brought into closer bonds of
fraternal regard and generous co
operation. For these great benefits it
is our duty to praise the Lord in a
spirit of humility and gratitude and to
oner up to Him our most earnest sup
plications. I hat we may acknowledge
our obligation as a people to Him
who has so graciously granted to us
the blessings of free government and
material prosperity, I, William Mc
Kinley, president of the United States,
do hereby designate and set apart
Thursday, the twenty-fifth day of Nov.
ember, for national thanksgiving and
prayer, which all of the people are in
vited to observe with appropriate re
ligious services in their respective
places ot worship. On this day of re
joicing and domestic reunion let our
prayers ascend to the giver of every
good ana perfect gift for the continu
ance of His love and favor to us, that
our hearts may be filled with charity
and good will, and that we may be
ever worthy of His beneficent con
cern." TEADE KEV1EWS.
Dun and
Bradslrect's on
Situation.
the Business
Dun's Review of trade says :
The testing of retail trade is in
progress, but results are remarkably
retarded by long continued mild
weather, and also by the fever in
southern districts. Even from that
quarter some large orders lately re
ceived show better distribution than
was yet expected.
In spite of unseasonably warm
weather, which greatly hinders retail
dealings in winter goods at all points
east of the plains, the large number of
supplementary orders, with urgent
pressure for quick delivery, make it
clear thac the sales in many branches
have exceeded the expectation of
dealers, so that replenishment of
stocks is not yet finished.
The buying of iron and steel pro
ducts, though smaller than of late,
continues to keep works well engaged
ahead, and induces others to resume
operations. Both buyers and manu
facturers find it prudent to limit en
gagements ahead, and the period of
adjustment will make the industry
safer for some time to come. There
is great pressure for speedy deliveries,
but in bars and wiresome abatement
of demand, with slightly lower prices
tor wire nails.
BUSINESS DISAPPOINTING.
Collections Slower and Orders
Hatter, and
Here They Come !
For weeks our etore has been in that condition so happily
described by Cha3. Lamb when
. . . . .
thrust his lace in and inquired, " Are you an lull inside."
Lamb anpwered. " I don't know about the other fellows, but
that last piece of pie did the business for me." Our now crowd
ed shelves pewn to fairly hold out beseeching hands and the
goods beg to go hence.
Dress Goods.
Here they are in all their
radiant loveliness. Nothing
that is new is missed. They are
all the newest designs and ef
fects and the result of months
of working on our part. Price,
well the new taritt' has not af
fected these as they were bought
before it took effect. So come
and secure the benefit.
Furs.
They are to be used largely
this year for trimming, aud so
here they are in every kind and
description, at all prices
Fur Collarettes at all prices.
Shawls.
You will pay more for them
when these are gone. Don't
wait and then blame us for it.
We tell you now. As long as
they last we sell them thus :
Full size, all wool, Blanket
Shawl at $3.0S.
Best, all wool, Blanket Shawl
full size J, $G.00.
Underwear.
We have the Best and Bic-
geet stock of Underwear to be
found in the County; any price
you want ; any kind you want.
Cotton, Cotton and Wool, All
Wool, All wool fleeced lined,
and cotton fleeced lined for
Ladies, Children, Mioses, Boys
and Men. Children's Kibbed
Underwear from 12c up.
Ladies' Vests and Pants, best
ever offered, at 25c.
Can't replace for less than 40c.
Ladies' and Children's union
suits, 00c to $2.40.
Men's Underwear, Co per
cent, wool, 50c.
Men's Fleeced lined, 50c,
Wrappers.
We have them made of out
ing flannel at $1.25.
Were $1.50 last year.
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
Smaller and More Infrequent.
Bradstreet sums up the outlook
busly :
General trade retains most of the
features ot a week ago with a continu
ed check to the movement of staple
merchandise. At larger eastern and
central western cities sales of season
able goods have not equaled expecta
tions, and at none of those points has
the volume of business increased.
Mercantile collections are slower,
filling in orders are smaller and more
infrequent, and business in staple
lines for the latter half of October,
aside from that in wool and metals,
has been somewhat disappointing.
Consumption of iron and steel con
tinues heavy, but mills refuse orders
for 1898 delivery, in the belief that
the cost of making iron and steel will
be higher. Woolen goods continue
firm and in fair demand, with an up
ward tendency, but cotton fabrics are
weak and the market is heavily
stocked. Wheat is again above a
dollar on continued heavy exports.
The total number of business fail
ures reported throughout the United
States this week is 318 compared with
205 last week and 346 in the week a
year ago.
Gents Furnisher.
riding in the stage. A fellow
, it 11
Hosiery.
Our Hosiery Department is
the most complete to be found
anywhere, and comprises the
best we can find in the market
for the money.
Boys' extra heavy hose, loc.
Always 25c elsewhere.
Ladies' wool hose, fine qual
ity, ribbed or plain, 25c.
Ladies' cashmere hose, 50c.
Never offered for less than 75c.
Coats & Capes.
Why delay in buying your
winter Coat or Cape? It sure
ly won't pay you. When we
buy again we pay more. We
can't replace them for near the
money. Must pay what we are
selling: them for in most cases.
Won't you take advantage of
them while they last.
Dishes.
You know we are headquarters
for dishes. Can't match our
price anywhere for the quality
of the dish. They will be high
er also, 331 per cent., so buy
when you can save money.
Want a fancy china dish for a
present? Well, here you can
get the best assortment in town.
Lamps.
We have them in a great va
riety, any style you may desire,
extremely cheap and pretty, all
the newest effects and patterns.
Why not give us a call before
you buy ?
Groceries.
We sell Groceries as we do
everything else; the best we can
buy for the money. Our gro
cery department is always full
of bargains. Canned goods
bought before the rise in price,
consequently Best Goods for
Least Money.
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ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
Eitate of Samuel Johnston, late of Maaiton towtf
tlitp, oYueiurd.
Sottee In herein given that letter or aOmini
lrattonontlmetiitrofScmwlJi)hiiiiiun. lair of
iladlmtit (uif-iuiifp, anra.-vil, have tiren granted Ut
tlte uuaemlytiea wlminietrator, to vhmn ail j
ton indebted to main eMate are rwwn'rd tovnik
payment, ana I hone liavlng claim or demand
will make knutrn the tanw inithwa delay to
W. C. JDIIXSTON,
AdminMrntor,
11-4. Jerseytown, Fa.
ANNUAL ELECTION.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the illoomsburg Land Improvement. Company
for the electlou of orllcers for the ensulnj.' year,
will be held on Monday, November i, 1BW, be
tween the hours of aud 4 o'clock p Ui., at the
onice ot the company.
N. V. FUNK.
St. Secretary.
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