4 jut i|oluntUim. a?JAiiLISIIEI) 1866. dUc (Columbia Jicmocrat, ESTABLISHED 1837. CONSOLIDATED 1869. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING Hloomstiui'v, the County seat ol Columbia Couuty, Pennsylvania. ,EO. K. I.LWELL EDITOR. D. J. TASKKH, LOCAL EDITOR. GEO. C. ROAN, FORKMAN. TRRllS;—Tnslflc the county SI.OO a year In ad vance; $1.50 it not paid In advance outside he county, $1.25 a year, strictly In advance. All communications should bo addressed to THE COLUMBIAN, Bloomsburg, Pa. THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1898. The Democratic State Conven tion will meet in Altoona on the 29th inst. Among the persons named as possible nominees for Governor are Geo. A. Jenks, Judge Gordon, Senator Wolverton, R. E- Pattison, J. A. Guffey, J. H. Coch ran, and Judge Yerkes. The Philadelphia Press of Tuesday in commenting on our article of last week on the Judgeship, seems to think it quite strange that the Democrats of this district do not want a Republican Judge, and suggests that the judiciary ought to be non-partisan. Just so, but the Press ' idea of non-partisan ship seems to be always that Demo crats should elect Republican Judges. Whoever heard of its wanting to elect a Democratic Judge in a Republican district ? With singular inconsistency, in the same issue of the paper the Press figures out that two Republi cans ought to be elected to the Super ior Court this fall, though the Demo crats have but one Judge out of seven on that bench. We agree that the Judiciary should be non-partisan, bnt we don't agree that we ought to give the Republicans the earth. KRIOKBAUM'S RETIREMENT. The Sentinel Announces that old age and ill health Compel Him to give up Party Leadership. "The party must have leaders. Some one must blaze the way for the party and but few men are equal to the task. Mr. Krickbaum has for years stood at the helm, watching carefully the party's interests, but age and physical weakness compel him to retire and his retirement calls for some one to take his place. Among all the men in out party, Senator Herring and Mr. Rhawn are by nature and endowments qualified to lead." Sentinel, June 17. The Democratic Outlook- One thing appears to have been pretty well accomplished by the dis cussions which have preceded deter minate action by the coming Demo cratic State Convention at Altoona. The list of weaklings among the candidates for the Governorship and for the other State offices has been very much reduced in number. There is a disposition to consider the names of strong men only. It is a generally entertained opinion among candid observers of all parties that the Democrats have a chance to elect an entirely fit man as the next Governor of the State, and that they have no chance to impose an unfit man upon the electors. On account of the unmitigated badness of the late Legislature and of the complete failure of the Repu blican party to redeem its specific platform pledges of reform thou sands of Republicans in the State are not willing to make their par tisanship the shield for undisguised and persistent corruption and mis government. The rebellion in the Republican ranks has taken the shape of open and obstinate out break. It is no longer a matter of doubt that a clean and capable Democratic ticket, pledged to re formed State government, would command the suffrages of thousands of voters, who would only cast their ballots for such a ticket as the single hopeful means within reach of put ting an end to an odious and intol erable leadership. It would be a consuming shame if the representative Democrats in convention at Altoona should not meet the revolting Republicans and independents halfway, and put in nomination candidates whose fitness would command general consent. There is no lack of such men. "The Record" has carefully ab stained from naming any preference of its own ; but it is exceedingly desirous that the people of Pennsyl vania shall have at the hands of the Democratic party an opportunity of regeneration and reform in the management of their State affairs. The doorway is wide open tor Dem ocratic success. Nothing is needed but the nomination of a strong, clean man on a straight platform upon which all the friends of honest government could stand with good conscience and without the surrend er of honest convictions.— Record. WASHINGTON. From our Wojjular Correspondent. WASHINGTON, June 20, 1898. Last week, relying upon his advices from Washington that the army had started for Cuba, Admiral Sampson captured Guantanamo Bay, where he will establish a navy supply station, and landed 600 marines to hold a position from which his shells had driven Spanish troops and where he hopes to put a cable station. For three days they successfully maintain ed an almost continuous night and day fight with a force of Spaniards outnumbering them five to one, but there is little doubt that these marines would have been to a man killed had they not been reinforced by a consid erable body of insurgents. Thanks to the Cuhan insurgents, the marines, with the exception of a tew who were killed—some of the corpses being bar barously mutilated by the Spaniards— still hold the position they were sent to hold, and Sampson says can do so until the army arrives. Some of his colleagues are disposed to poke a little fun at Senator "Billy" Mason, of 111., because of the marked discrepancy between that portion of his speech to the Illinois republican state Convention, in which he said of the conduct of the war : "We went out to the world as a good Samaritan, and while performing the act of a good Samaritan I want no larceny on behalf of my country," and the follow ing sentence in the platform adopted by the convention : "Resolved, that the U. S. should hold ail of the pos sessions it has conquered and may conquer from Spain." So many members of the party favored the annexation of Hawaii that it was deemed inadvisable to have the democratic House caucus take any more positive action against annexa tion than the adoption of a resolution declaring annexation dangerous and unwise and that it reverses our tradi tional policy and may lead to colonial aggrandizement and ultimately to the destruction of republican institutions. The vote upon the resolution was 50 to 17, but more than fifty of the democratic members of the House were absent from the caucus. Upon the vote by which the House adopted the resolution for the annexation of Hawaii 18 democrats voted aye and 78 no, while a number were purpose ly absent. The total vote was 210 to 92. Representative Vincent, of Kansas, is so much like Senator Sullivan, who succeeded the late Senator George, of Miss., that the two men are con stantly being taken for each other. The Senate this week adopted without a division the resolution offer ed by Senator Lodge, instructing the committee on Claims to investigate the statement that a lobbyist had re ceived 35 per cent ot the amount recently appropriated by Congress to pay a war claim of the book publish ing house of the Southern Methodist Church, but while the matter was un der discussion there was some plain talk. Senator Morgan charged that the resolution was intended for politi cal effect, and asked why it did not include an investigation of the pay ment to lobbyists of 50 per cent, of the $388,000 recently appropriated by Congress to pay claims of the heirs of John Roach, the shipbuilder. It was not claimed by anybody that the claim of the Southern Methodists was not a perfectly just one, but the objection was to their having employ ed a lobbyist to push their bill. Sena tor Pasco, who was instrumental in getting the bill through, stated in the course of a speech that "there is an obligation upon high church authori ties to conduct an investigation of the action of some of its officials." The whole thing is a sort of tempest in a teapot. Although Senators must know as well as anybody else that there are hundreds of attorneys in Wash ington whose principal employment is prompting legislation—in common parlance, lobbying—yet they invariab ly become excited whenever any par ticular case of lobbying happens to be mentioned in public. This claim al though admitted to be just had been before Congress for more than twenty years, and in hiring an attorney to help them push it through those inter ested only followed the common prac~ tice, except that they agreed to pay too much. "AND THE C&T CAME BAOK" The Spanish fleet, at Cadiz,which has made so many starts so many times to reinforce Cervera; to bring supplies to Blanco, at Havana; to bombard Boston, New York, Charleston, and other American cities; to go to the Philippines to fight Dewey, and has tried several other bluffs, always turns up at Cadiz again after a few hours ab sence, without frightening anybody. If they will just stay quietly at home a little longer, perhaps Com modore Schley may call on them in Spanish waters. General Shaffer and 16,000 troops, with a fleet of sixty vessels, arrived off Santiago on Tuesday, and have probably landed by this time. tue COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURC. PA OPPOSED TO GOUQUEsT- William J. Bryan's First Public Utterance On the War. UPHOLDS THE ADMINISTRATION. The Nebraska building at the Omaha exposition was dedicated with appropriate ceremony amid the plau dits of thousands of the state's citi zens. Governor Holcomb and his staff took part in the exercises, along with many of the state's most distin guished residents. The principal speaker of the day was Hon. William J. Bryan, and the oration was notable as being his first public declaration on the war issue. He said in part : "War is harsh ; it is attended by hardship and suffering ; it means a vast expendituie of men and money. We may well pray for the coming of the time, promised in Holy Writ, when the spears shall be beaten into pruning hooks and the swords into plowshares ; but universal peace can not come until justice is enthroned throughout the world. Jehovah deals with nations as he deals with men, and for both decrees that the wages of sin is death. Until the right has triumphed in every land and love reigns in every heart governments must as a last resort appeal to force. "Our nation exhausted diplomacy in its efforts to secure a peaceful solu tion of the Cuban question, and only took up arms when it was compelled to choose between war and servile acquiescence in cruelties which would have been a disgrace to barbarism. "History will vindicate the position taken by the United States in the war with Spain. In saying this I assume that the principles which were invok ed in the inauguration of the war will be observed in its prosecution and conclusion. If a contest unlertaken for the sake of humanity degenerates into a war of conquest we shall find it difficult to meet the charge of having added hypocrisy to greed. Is our na tional character so weak that we can not withstand the temptation to ap propriate the first piece of land that comes within our reach ? "To inflict upon the enemy all possible harm is legitimate warfare, but shall we contemplate a scheme for the colonization of the Orient merely because our fleet won a re markable victory in the harbor of Manila ? Our guns destroyed a Spanish fleet, but can they destroy that self evident truth, that govern ments derive the just powers—not from superior force—but from the consent of the governed ?"' The spirit of patriotism is strik ing all with equal force, and the American millionaires are showing their willingness to battle for their country's honor. After the Fever Little Cirl Was Week and Could Not Eat —Hood's Sarsaparllla Gave Her Appetite and Strength- Eczema Disappearing. "My little girl was sick for several months with typhoid fever, and after she got over it she was weak and did not eat. My husband got her a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparllla, saying It would make her eat and give her strength —and It did. She had taken It only a short time when she was well and strong. Everyone who sees her is surprised at her improvement because Bhe was so weak and thin, but now is fat and healthy. I am giving her Hood's Sarsaparllla now for eczema and the trouble Is fast disappearing. My hus band has taken it for rheumatism and it has done him good." MRS. CLINTON B. COPE, Buckingham Vslley, Pennsylvania. Hood's parilla I. the best— ln fact the Ono True Blood Purifier. Sold by all druggists. Price, {1; six for 13. Hnnd'c Dili a ftre 1116 best after-dinner 1 LUUU A ■ 1119 AID DIGESTION. 260. Note What People Say. RAVKN CREEK, PA., May 19, 1808. This Is to certify that we have used the Homo Comfort Range ror ave years, and will say that It Is perfect In every respect. It lias no equal as a baker. We consider It by far the cheapest range any one can buy, aa It has already saved Its price in fuel. Will say to my neighbors buy one and be convinced. Respectfully, MR. A MRS. C. E. ALBRHTSON, MILES W. Moss, ELIZA PHILLIPS. Tills Is to corllfy that having used the Uome Comfort Range for ave years we can cheerfully recommend It to uny ODB as being the best cooking apparatus we ever had. We llnd It a perfect baker and cooker, a great fuel saver, and would not part with It. MR. M. Moss, Mossvllle, Pa. MRS. ELIJAH URSS, Elk Grove, Pa. FAIRMOONT SPRINGS, PA., May, 19, 1898. We purchased ono of the Ilomo comfort Ranges live years ago and are pleased to say It f;lves entire satisfaction; for heating and bak ng It Is superior to al' other ranges, It taking one-half the fuel of our cast Iron stove; also for cleanliness It can not be surpassed: there Is an ample supply of hot water at all times. MRS. MARTHA SDTLIFF, MR. O. W. HESS, MR. & MRS. J. N. PENNINGTON, MB. G. W. SUTLIFF. BRNTON, PA., May, 20. 1898. We have been using a Home Comfort Range for live vears and are pleased to say II gives en tire satisfaction. We would not do without ours; would recommend it to any ono wishing a n rat-class range. MR. & M RS. D. M. VRRDINR. MR. & MRS. MARTIN AI.BERTSON. Wrought Iron Range Co., St. Louis, Mo. B-2-lt. • GET YOUR JOB PRINTING DONE AT THE COLUMBIAN OFFICE -4^~—'• Will offer ibis week some 4- EXTRA GOOD BARGAINS. We are closing out some odd sizes at cost. Our line of Summer Serges is now complete. e £SUi2i