4 jflte ||oltmbian. ESTABLISHED 1866. 4Uf Columbia £Jcmorrat, ESTABLISHED 1537. CONSOLIDATED 18tW. FUBLISHED SVEKY THURSDAY MORNING jttoomsburK. tlio County seat of Columbia County, Pennsylvania. GEO. E. EI.WELL EimuK. D. J. TASIiKU, LOCAI. EDITOR. GEO. O. ROAN, Foukman. Tsb*b-.—lnside; tnc county $1 "Paycarln ad vance; s'.so tr not pnld In advance Outside the county, $1.25 a year, strictly In advance. All communications should be addressed to THE COLUMBIAN, Bloomsbuix. Pa. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, IS9S. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. GOVERNOR, HON. GEORGE A. JENKS. of Jefferson county. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, HON. WILLIAM H. SOWDEN, of Lehigh county. SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS, PATRICK DELACEY, of Lackawanna. JUDGES SUPERIOR COURT, WILLIAM TRICKETT, of Cumberland. C. M. BOWER, of Centre. CONGRESSMEN-AT-LARGE, JERRY N. WEILER, of Carbon. F. P. IAMS. of Allegheny. DEMOORATIO COUNTY TICKET FOR CONGRESS, RUFUS K. POLK, Of Montour County. FOR STATE SENATOR, J. HENRY COCHRAN, Of Lycoming County. FO* PRESIDENT JUDGE, 26TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, ROBERT R. LITTLE, Of Bloomsburg. FOR ASSEMBLY, WILLIAM CHRISMAN, Of Bloomsburg. W. T. CREASY, Of Catawissa. COUNTY SURVEYOR, BOYD TRESCOTT, Of Millville. "I have been a Republican since iB6O but our party now stinks in the nostrils of any decent man. If the people are willing to uphold this cor ruption and dishonesty, God save the country ! —Ex-Postmaster General John Wanamaker." The accusation is made that Abner McKinley, the brother of the Presi dent, has made $300,000 out of army contracts obtained at the War De partment, and Mark Hanna $2,000,- 000 on coal contracts with the Gov ernment since the war broke out. It is not stated whether or not transac tions of this kind will be looked into by the President's investigating board. Owensboro (Ky.) Messenger. Oh, these discontented people! How they annoy us plutocrats. The moment we begin to get our great " graft" well started they begin to howl. What if we did sell the Gov ernment paper shoes, wormy hard tack, and rotten meat ? Did we not make millions of piofit therefrom ? If the people and soldiers are not to be plundered, for what reason do we exist ? If a trust hasn't the right to starve and sacrifice an army corps in order to gain " coin," pray what good does our cinch at Washington do us ? —E/sbcrry (Mo.) News. If we had a Democratic President with this war scandal on his hands, every Republican howler in the coun try would cry out for vengeance, im peachment, criminal proceedings and all the rest of it. It makes a vast deal of difference whose ox is gored. Your true Republican believes that the G. O. P. can do no wrong. Like the privilege of kings, he believes that the Republican party rules by divine right. That is the reason that the incorrigible Republican generally lets somebody else do his thinking for him. He generally has to .—National Intelligence. If, as the administration defenders say : " All this talk about the army disgrace is made by Democrats for political effect," we suggest that they read the following editorial taken from the Elmira (N. Y.) Daily Ad vertiser of September 21, 1898. The same day that Griggs made his speech defending the administration war rec ord. The Advertiser is one of the staunchest Republican papers in the State of New York. It says: " Secretary Alger is in the anomal ous situation of cabinet officer scour ing the country to collect evidence for a defense before the investigating committee. His course is humiliat ing on his part and mortifying to the whole country." T HE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG. PA What They Must Defend. "The Republican party itself has nothing to defend or explain. It will only be held accountable for the in iquities of the last legislature when it sees fit to endorse them and accept them as its own acts." Thus says the Philadelphia Press in an article criticising Chairman Elkin because of the Chairman's "apology for and defense of the record of the last legislature." Why should he not defend it? The Republican conven tion was silent as to that record, and "silence gives consent." To all in tents and purposes the Republican party, as a party, is responsible for and stands by that record, and Chair man Elkin is doing no more than his duty as the party's chairman in enter ing upon its defense. It is true that his defense is vain. The culprit is already condemned. All the explana tions he can make will rot alter the facts and the facts convict. Never theless, however feebly he may per form it, his duty, as the official head of the party, is to try to make the people believe that wrong is right— tor that is what the party sought to do by ignoring the state issue in its convention; what Mr. Stone is trying in his speeches; what the Press itself attempts when it assumes that the legislature of 1897 is the sole cause of the public's complaint against its party. The legislature of 1895 was as bad, in some respects worse, than that of 1897. Il was the legislature of 189J that perpetrated the Bank Depart ment swindle, that swelled the Agri cultural Department appropriation from $26,600 to $123,000, that ap propriated $45,000 to the fish com mission (the legislature of 1897 was afraid to vote any money for this pur pose), that run up the cost of legisla tive session from $544,000 (the figures of 1893) to $601,871. The legisla ture of 1895 swelled the number of legislative employes to precisely the same number that trod on one anoth er's heels in 1897. Its extravagance was almost equal to that of 1897. To permit it, they largely cut down the allowance to the insane and peniten tiaries. The total executive expense, under the appropriation act of 1893, was $552,659. In 1895 it was sl,- 369,816. How much worse could the 1897 legislature have done than that ? The fact is it did not, in this particular, do so bad. The Press view that the Republi can party has nothing to defend or explain, other than the 1 897 legisla ture, is not borne out by the records, but briefly quoted from. No legisla ture has sat for at least fifteen years whose record does not need both ex planation and defense and every one of them was Republican. To Workingmen. Workingmen of Pennsylvania, you who cannot clothe your wives and children decently, you who cannot give them sufficient nourishing food, you who cannot earn enough to pay rent or taxes because of the monopoly rule and extravagant legislators and speculating state officials, what think you of this:—The state with money exploited from your hard labor pays for the picture of a skunk to illstrate the report of a State College the sum of $707,00; for the picture of a blue bird, $757i 2 5; for the picture of an old crow, $609,98; for the picture of a sparrow-hawk, $791,92; for the pic ture of a flicker, $741,89. The state also paid $3,500 for pictures advertis ing the private business of a brown stone company. All this useless out lay to publish a book you will never see and whioh would do you no pos sible good were you to read it from cover to cover. Are you so lost to your rights, to your sense of manhood, to the duty you owe to your wives and children that you will not resent this robbery? Remember that this extra vagance was ordered by the minions of Quay in the legislature and that more and worse is promised if you elect Quay's man—William A. Stone, who is pledged to do Quay's bidding. BTBAY PARAGRAPHS- The Stone will he so heavy And the Swallows will not fly When Jenks is chosen Governor At tne election bye and bye. —Oh yes, white sugar often comes done up brown. —lf predictions are to be relied on we will have a cold winter. —There are costumes called "fetch ing" because they bring remarks. —lmported singers exchange fore ign notes for hard American cash. —Life would be more enjoyable if common sense was more common. —The man with the big pumpkin will be very much in evidence next week. —Should nice weather prevail the town will be thronged with visitors next week. —Public discussion shows a consen sus of opinion that Columbia will give an old time Democratic majority this falL —About one thousand people wit nessed the downfall of the Normal boys by Dickinson College Saturday afternoon. Muster out the War Taxes. It rs now manifest that the special taxes leAied by the War-Revenue bill were needlessly burdensome. The people were called upon to furnish at least $100,000,000 more money per year than was really required to prose cute the war to a finish, just as they were called upon to furnish it least 100,000 more men than were needed, or ever likely to be needed, for the same purpose. Not satisfied with raising $200,000,- 000 by a special bond issue, the Ad ministration iorced through Congress a bill putting taxes on nearly every thing in sight, from patent medicines to bank checks and from express packages to telegrams. The American people, with the same marvellous pa tience they have shown in bearing every burden and sacrifice, however mistakenly imposed upon them, un complainingly submitted to this com plicated and annoying system of in ternal taxation. It is now known that the collections under the War-Revenue bill will sure ly yield $140,000,000 by the end of the current fiscal year. That sum, added to the $200,000,000 derived from the bond issue, will bring the ex traordinary revenue of the Treasury for war purposes up to $340,000,000. It is also known now that the total cost of the war up to the end of the current fiscal year will not exceed $325,000,000. Still further, it is known that the increasing volume of imports is likely to increase the ordi nary revenue of the Government, de rived under under the old laws, by about $5,000,000 within the same period. In short, the financial prospect be fore the country is that, unless the su perfluous war taxes are repealed, there will be an enormous Treasury surplus on June 30, 1899, which the country has no use for. These special war taxes should be repealed. They were imposed under conditions that have ceased to exist. They are yielding at least $140,000- 000 a year of unnecessary revenue. They are taking just about $400,000 a day out of the pockets of the people needlessly and for no purpose what ever except to pile up a huge surplus, in the Treasury which will be a men ance to the financial and commercial welfare of the country. These war taxes will continue to be collected month after month,year alter year, until they are modified or repealed altogether. Muster out the unnecessary war taxes as well as the unnecessary warriors!— World. A supposed gang of tramps played havoc at West Milton on Sunday night last when they set fire to a barn belonging to John Leisar. So rapidly did the hungry flames spread that be fore succor reached the scene three other barn buildings were leveled to the ground. The other losers are Henry Ernst, Lincoln Schreck and John Bsnnage. Several knights of the road were noticed in the vicinity of the fire Sunday afternoon. Catarrh Cured Fullness in the Head and Ring ing in the Ears Better In Ivory Way Since Taking Hood's Sffrsaparllla. " For several years I had no cessation ot the suffering caused by catarrh. I had a sense of f nllness (n the head and ringing In my ears. One of my nostrils was tightly oloeed so I could pot breathe through it, and I could not clear my head. 1 tried several catarrh euros, but failed to get relief. Seeing accounts of cures by Hood's Ssrsaparllla I determined to give It a fair trial. After taking a few bottles I was satisfied It had effected a cure, for theoatarrh no longer troubled me a par ticle and I felt better in every way than for years. lam now able to do a hard day's work on the farm." ALFRED E. Yliwr, Hoernerstown, Pennsylvania. HOOd'S S parMl~a Is the best—in fact the One True Blood Purifier. Bold by all druggists. *1; six for SB. Hnnri'st Pills e " Tto buy - eag * lo tok . u " u 0 ■ I " 8 easy to operate. 280. THE DEVELOPMENT of Bloomsburg, notwithstanding the late fi nancial and business depression. HAS BEEN PHENOMINAL. Its permanence and prosperity are now as sured. •The Bloomsburg I.and Improvement Com pany now offers for sale the most desirable lots for residences and business purposes to be had in this town, at moderate prices and upon eaay terms. ASMALLPAYMENT down and small monthly payments thereafter will secure a lot. Those purchasers desiring to build, and own their own homes the company will as sist by advancing the money there on. WHY PAY RENT when you can own your own home ? Factory Sites Given Away. Maps of the town and our plotted prop erty furnished on application. Bloomsburg Land Improvement Company. J. S. WOODS, N. U. FUNK, Sales Agent. Secretary. 10-6-6mos. FALL AND WINTER OPENING The New Fall Suits and Overcoats at this store beat all records for style and price— m ar vels in beauty and style. HEN'S SUITS BOYS' SUITS Children's at from Vestee Suits - AT - FROM FROM $4-75 $2.50 $1.48 That Will Please Will Surprise You. Will Astonish You You. AT THE STAR CLOTHING HOUSE. s ALE OF Black Dress Goods. We will put on sale Wednesday morning, at 9 o'clock, sharp, and will sell until the store closes Satu rday evening, October 15th, the largest and best assorted lot of Black Goods that has ever been shown in Blooms burg. You will find them displayed throughout the center of our store, with the price on each piece, or you can look at them yourself, if there is no clerk idle. Ail-Wool Serges, 36 in. wide, 25c; Imported Serges, 50 in.wide, 49,69 and 98c the yard; Ail-Wool Henrietta, 38 in. wide, at 29c; 45 in. wide, 49, 79, 98c and $1.29 per yard. Poplin, 42 in. wide, 79 and 98c the yard. Bengaline, 89c, worth SI.OO. Seven different styles in Crepon effects at 49c the yard. Goods we can't re place for less than 75c. the yd. Special value in Cre pon. Two pieces at 98c, one piece at $1.29 and one at $1.49 the yard. Cheviot, the newest thing for tailor-made suits. 38 in. wide, at 44c, worth 50c a yard ; 79c worth SI.OO a yard; 98c worth $1.25 a yard. French Cords, 42 in. wide, 79c, worth $1.00; sl, worth $1.25 a yard. Mohair, from 29c to $1.29 a yard. Silk Warp Henrietta, at prices to tempt you. Figured Mohairs, Figured Henrietta, Striped ITohair, Striped Henrietta, Broadcloths, and almost any weave you can think of, we can show you. If you need a Black Dress this season, we can save you money, if you pay us a visit during this sale. Our Cloak Department has never been so crowded with pretty Coats for Ladies. And our Children's and Misses' Coats we can positively say we have never shown such a line of neat, stylish garments, and we have never sold them at as low prices. We buy our Collarettes from the most reliable house in New York, and our customers are surprised at the prices. $1.79 each up to $12.00. Our special offer on Shoes will end October 8. You cannot afford to miss thite. F. P. Pursel. William Grady was run over and killed by a train on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, at Ashland last Thursday morning. He was twenty years of age and was the only support of a widowed mother. He had been in Bloomsburg only a few days before his death. I AUDITOR'S NOTICE. total* or J. M. C. Ranclc, tocriuea. The undersigned auditor api>olntdby the ON pbane' Court or Columbia county to pass upon the Orst and partial account oqcharles W. Dow ' son, executor of the last will and testament of 1, M. C. Han ok, late of Soott township deceased, and report thereupon, will sit at his olHoe, Koora No. 4, Lookard Building, Bloomsburg, Pa. on Friday, October 38tb, at ten o'eldek a. m. to perform the duties of his appointment, when > and where au persons Interested must attend. W. H. HAOILL, live-it. Auditor. yOTE FOR H. A. M'KILLIP —KOR— State Leslglatare. ulrt-MM* 7ry the COL UMBIAN a yemr.
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