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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
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State Leslglatare.
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