THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. 5 - THE COLUMBIAN. F.STAliUSHED 1866. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, Established tS.17. Consolidated 1S60. rimLISIIKD KVERY Tlll'RinAY MoRMN4; At Hloonisliurjj, the County Scat uf Columhiif Countv, Pennsylvania. C.KO. K. KI.WKi.L, KriroR V. J. TASKKK, Local Euitor. GKO. C. ROAN, Foreman. Terms :tnsiilc the county $ l.oo a year n1 advance 1 $1.50 if not paid in a.lvance. Outside the county, 151.25 a year, strictly in advance. All communications should 1 e addressed THE COLUMBIAN, llloomstnirg, l'a. THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1900. The Columbian is for the Dem ocratic ticket national, state and county. The names of all candi dates will be hoisted in due time. They are omitted tor the present, because they occupy space without serving any good purpose so long before the election. PABTY PRINCIPLES CONTRASTED. The menace to their (the people's) prosperity has always resided in Democratic principles. Republican National Platform. That is substantially the disap proving criticism of the Federalists of a hundred years ago, and is the meat of the adverse comment of their various successors down to and including the Republican party of to-day. Moreover, it will be re peated by other fleeting political or ganizations alter the Republican party shall have gone to destruc tion. The basic principle of Democracy the equalitv of all meu has been antagonized by every anti-Democratic party since the adoption of the Constitution. In the early days ot the Republic that principle was strenuously opposed by the Feder alists, who favored an aristocratic republican instead of a democratic republican form of government for the new nation. The Federalists advocated a loose construction of the Constitution, and the centraliz ation of the governmental power. The Democrats have always insist ed upon a strict construction of the Constitution, and the exercise by the Federal Government of only suoh powers as were delegated by the Constitution. The Federalists asserted that the people were not fit to govern themselves, while the Democrats (or Republicans as they then called themselves) contended that all the functions of government should be exercised by the people themselves. The anti-democratic attitude of the Federalists revealed the necessity for fortifying the new Republic against the insidious at tacks of a political aristocracy, with the result that the first ten amend ments to the Constitution were pro posed to the several States in 17S9. This was a signal assertion and vin dication of Democratic principles. Wlieu the Federalist party was wiped out of existence it was suc ceeded in turn by the National Re publicans, the V;higs and the pres ent Republican party. All favor ed a loose construction of the Con stitution and an extension of the powers of the Federal Government. But these schemes failed of con- summation until William McKinley was made President. Party ex pediency has now taken the place of Democratic construction of the Constitution, and the power of the Federal Government is being ex tended by neglect of the perform ance of obvious duties and by the commission of offenses against the Constitution. Democratic principles are what they have always been, and are the antithesis of modern Republican principles. Briefly they are as fol lows: All men are created equal; all men have an equal right to par ticipate in their own government; religious belief shall not be a bar to political preferment; exceptional commercial privileges shall not be granted to any man or set of men; no protective tariff or any other tax shall be levied upon the whole people for the benefit of the few; the Constitution admits of only one construction, and it applies with equal force in all sections of Ameri can territory. In a word, the Demo cratic party has stood, now stands and always will stand for equality, while the Republican party stands for favoritism and all political evils. Philadelphia KtcorJ. . . Even in the smaller hamlets, as well as in the large towns and cit ies, politics cuts a big figure in the distribution of public offices. We clip the following from the New Columbus correspondence to the Shickshiuny Echo: "In high party times things doubtful are very un certain, accordingly neither C. F. Bowman nor I. J. Jamison gets the postoffice ; but Francis E. Doty is the "dark horse" that wins. Whether this is a Quay or anti Quay victory depends upon where the emoluments of the office go, and whether previous arrangements shall continue to prevail under the new administration. ' WASHINGTON. From lurUejcuUiCorrespondent. Washington, July 13, 1900. The issue of imperialism thrust forward by the democratic national platform is already worrying the republicans. The making public of a circular note sen: to the great powers by this government, defin ing its policy toward China, was intended by the administration to counteract the charge of imperial ism. While nominally prepared to inform other governments of the policy of this government toward China, that circular note was really prepared to try to convince the people of this country that the Mc Kinley administration has no im perial designs against China, and more of the same sort of stuff may be looked for. Mr. McKinley knows that the Chinese question can wait, but that the Presidential question has got to be settled in November. The administration has been wobbling again. One day it offi cially announced that in deference to the advice of Gen. MacArthur, no more troops would be sent from the Philippines to China, and the next it ordered a regiment of infan try and a battery of artillery to be sent from Manila. Praise for the manner in which the democratic platform is written is very frequently heard, some times even from republicans. Ex Senator Faulkner, of W. Va., said of it : "I have never read a better national platform than that adopted at Kansas City. It is written in plain language, says exactly what it means and without indirection." Although he has been as harshly criticized as any officer in our army for various short-comings, from the time that he was in charge of the construction of the big tunnel for the increase of the water supply of the city of Washington, which al though constructed years ago is still being tinkered with and has never been put to any practical use, to his more recent service as mili tary governor of the City of Hava na, Bragadier General Ludlow has had pull enough to get promoted right along and to get the most de sirable assignments. His latest is one that any officer in the army would like to have. He has been ordered to Europe for the purpose of visiting the great military schools to obtain information to be used in the establishment of a war college for our army officers. He was made president of the war college board as soon as he was relieved as mili tary governor of Havana. One of the signs that the Repub licans are not so cocksure ot Ohio as they pretended to be is t.ie announcement that Hanna's man Dick has been made chairman of the. State Republican Executive Committee. That means that Dick will retire from the secretaryship of the Republican National Committee which he has held since the last campaign and which carries a salary of $5,000 a year, while the position he has accepted in Ohio has no salary. Who will succeed Dick as Secretary of the National Committee has not been announced, but, of course, it will be some man thor oughly trained in Hanna methods of securing political ends. It wouldn't cause any surprise in ashiugton if Perry Heath resigns as First Assistant Postmaster Gen eral and succeeds Dick. Mr. Henry Ault, of Boston, now in Washington, said of politics in his State : "If Massachusetts was not so overwhelmingly Republi can it would go Democratic this year. The press and Republican party leaders are inclined to sneer at the anti-expansionists of the Bay State and to iutiniate that they are of no consequence politically, but when the election returns are in it will be seen that anti-expansion has more adherents than it has been given credit for having. The quest ion is not looked upon as purely government policy, as is the tariff or coinage of silver, but as one in which deep principle of right and justice are involved, and the people of Massachusetts are not to be laugh ed or sneered out of their profound convictions." That the Democratic expectation of electing a majority of the next House is not a case of rainbow chasing must become plain to any one who will carefully study the election returns of two years ago. With three vacancies, two in Re publican districts and one in a Dem ocratic district the Republicans only have a majority of 16 in the present House and three of them were seated as the result of tontests from districts, which elected Democrats and will do so again. There are twelve Republicans in the present House who were elected by plural ities.of less than i,ooc one from 1 California with 113 plurality, one from Illinois with 242, and another J from the same state with 503; one 1 from Indiana with 252; one from ' Kentucky with 10: one from Mary j land with 122, and another from the same state with 470; one from Miu jnesota with 403; one from New Jersey with 836, one from Ohio j with 406, and two from West Vir ' ginia with resjectively 624 and I S73. If Democrats are elected from all these districts and loose none of the seats they now hold they will control the next House. Bryan to Do Notlflril Ann. 8. 'WASHINGTON. July 13.-Snatoi Jones, ckuirinan of the Democratic na tioiml committee, has notltied the Demo emtio eoiiKt-essioiinl committee here that the notiliontiou of Messrs. Hi. van and Stevenson of their noininntlnu for tht presidenej and vice presidency respect ively will take place In Indianapolis 011 Aug. & WRITERS IN THE COUNTRY. The lift Literary Work I Done by Men Whose llonien Are Outside the Cities. "See for a moment how the matter of residence affects literary people, with whose work, naturally, 1 am familiar," writes Edward Itok. in Ladies' Home Journal, of "The American Man and the Country." 'Tick out the success ful writers of the day and see where their homes are. Scarcely In a ninffle instance will you find pne of them living- in the city. On the other hand, look at the work done by your literary denizen of the city and see how It suf fers in comparison with that of the man or woman whose miud rests on God's own handiwork. Such writers are like pygmies compaved to the men. who with fresh minds look over God's landscape and reflect the deepest and truest thoughts of real men nnd wom en. See how an author and this is a constant occurrence living- in some remote country placedoes a great piece cf work, and then, allured by false prophets, removes to the city and con tinues his work there. Is his work the same? Verily, it is not. IVireneration takes place as soon as he removes him self from man's truest surroundings. And what, is true to-day of men In lit erary work is equally true of men in the kindred arts. The frent work of the world is being done to-day by men whose lives are spent away from the j-reat cities." A Southern Woman's tlnnd. Opelousas. I.n.. boasts the unique distinction of possessing one of the very few. if not the only woman's brass band in the south. The organ ization is known as the Opelousas Academy Ladies brass (band, nnd was organized one year ago, with an ac complished male musician as leader. There are 13 members and they are leading society girls of the town. After n year's training the band, it is stated, has attained great profi ciency. F.lectrlc Motor at Tartu. Prudent persons contemplating vis its to Taris this summer would per haps do well to leave their watches at home not because of thieves there, but because of the electric motors. The dynamos which supply lient nnd power to the exposition have created a w ide "field of magnet ism," cnusing violent derangement of watches com ins within its influence. FALUII6 e n c e t And arc you wor- hair fear you are soon to be bald? Then cease worry ing, for help is at hand. You need something that will put new life into the hair bulbs. You It brings health to the hair, and the fall ing ceases. It always restores color to gray hair. You need not look at thirty as if you were fifty, for your gray hair may have again all the dark, rich color of youth. (1 .00 bottl.. All aYiif gist. " I am a barber by tradn and hT hnd a treat deal to do with your Hair Vifnr. 1 hav found that it ill do everything? that you vlutm for It. It lu Riven m tl tuont complete aattafuctlon in my buai bk." He.nhv j. OeoKue, March 22, lcio. Kauaa CUT, Mo. Viritm thm Doolor, If yn do not obtain all tb. tone" u you npcibj from tha utm ot Yia-or, write the lKwtor about it , AJJrM., 1H.J. CATER. ' J-uwa.i, Uaaa. Does! this illus- It trate your fcl experi- 6, Mi ShrAWiJ mi CL0TM1 BOISE! READY Hade to Your Measure, All the latest novelties for spring wear, in hats, caps, shirts, underwear and neckwear, can always g be tound at Townsend's Star Clothing House. STATE SEWS IS ESIEF- While playing with matches on Tuesday, Esther Marks, 3 years old, was burned to death at Altoona. Although 90 years of age, Mrs. Baltzer Garman, of Englesville, Berks County, works in the harvest field. The body of a man supposed to be Robert Stout, of Emporium, was found in the river at Ridgeway Tues day. While carelessly handling a re volver, near Shamokin, Frank Chain berlin fatally shot his brother, Calvin, Monday. Raymond, the 9-year old son of Oliver Loucks, died at Shenandoah on Tuesday in great agony after suffering for a week from lockjaw. While cele brating the Fourth ot July he acci dentally shot himself in the left hand with a blank cartridge. Mrs.Thomas Swain,aged 65 years, died at her home in St. Clair Wednes day from starvation. Several months ago her stomach began to contract, and early last month it was found im possible to even force food into it. She had not eaten a morsel for 23 days. Made despondent by heat, Jacob Mantz, of Hickory St., Scranton, late Tuesday night attempted to plunge a butcher knife into his heart. The knife was blunt and though the frenzi ed man succeeded in inflicting deep and ugly wounds, he did not accom plish his purpose. As Benjamin Fish was sleeping in his bed room at Shawnee, near Stroudsburg, he was badly bitten by rats. During the night he was awak ened by a sharp pain in one of his legs, and found the mom full of rod ents which had entered tlie kitchen by way of the old stone fire p'ace. Died for Another's Crime Many ol our readers, no noubt, can recall San Francisco's murder case of 1898, for which Theodore Durrant was arrested, tried, con victed, and finally executed, 'though protesting his innocence to the verv last. The victims of the most foul and atrocious crime were two pretty young ladies Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams. Both disanneared about the same time. A diligent search wasconducted for several days, which resulted in the discovery of the bodies one in trie church belfrv and the other in the library of the church. Ana now, after two years, when the people had concluded that the verdict of the jury was a correct one, 'though loathe to accept it as such at the time, the whole state is threwn into excitement by the statement of the preacher in charge of the church at that time. Rev. Gibson, who. on his death bed, confer scs that it was he, ana not Durrant, who criminally as saulted his beautiful parishioners It will be remembered that Rev. Gibson was one of the leading witnesses in the case, and gave what was consid ered weighty evidence anainst the ac cused. The confession, it is said, re leases Durrant from any comnlieitv in the crime whatsoever. This is an example of how very easily a jury can go wrong when cir cumstantial evidence is ail it has to rely on. The following letters are held at the Bloomsburg, Pa., postoffice, and will be sent to the dead letter office July 31, 1900. Persons calling for these letters will please say "that they were advertised July 19, 1900'' : Mrs. F. Evan, Mr. William Morton, Mr. William Hoaglani. Miss Violat Smith. Miss l.ula Waginer. Cards. Miss McAIpin. One cent will be charged on each letter advertised. O. B. Meluck, r. M. -FOR- TO WEAR, -O R- GO TO reus. 22S mO rifts. The Big Sale And Its Meaning. The Summer Clearance Bale is the one event of '. the season, when every department is thoroughly gone through; when complete lines of wanted merchandise are shorn of profit. It ia an event that must needs ap peal to your economy. We prepare for it in opeu eyed, business-like manner. Mark the good3 with a full knowledge of the loss to be sustained, fully believ ing, and in fact, knowing from experience, that a lib eral price reduction at this time means the turning into money much that might otherwise e carried to another season. These goods you want now. You can buy them now at lower prices, much lower prices than at the beginning of the season. Big Reduction in Lawns, Pique, Pique Skirts and Silks. The best chance of the season to get a nice Summer Dress cheap. All our 25c. Dimities and Lawns we will sell at i2hc. a yard this week. Pique. :2f 15 and 1 Sc. Pique, in stripes and polka dot, in all e different colors, reduced to 9c. a yard. i White Pique Skirts. Skirts ready to wear. 5 plain and some trimmed this week at half price. 3 1 Silks. 2 The Silks we offered last week are about gone, but $c we have found some others; we think, better values than the ones we offered last week. They are Crepon Silks, in light colors. 1st lot we will sell at 25c, 2d lot at 35c. If you are in need of a Summer Waist, you can get it, and it won't take much money. P. An Important Bank Decision. A recent decision by the Supreme Court is of interest to persons who have money in saving banks. A de positor lost her book, which was found by another woman who took it to the bank, andjbeing able to answer all the questions put to her succeeded in drawing the money. The rightful owner brought suit against the bank and the court now decides that the bank had acted in good faith and that thi depositors have received abundant warning in a by-law which states that the bank must not be held responsible for any money paid in good faith to the wrong person presenting a bank book. For RtfUt. Two of the best rooms for offices in the town, second floor front Co lumbian Luilding. Wiil be rei ted together or separately. Water, steam heat, electric light, and all modern conveniences. Terms low. Inquire of Geo. E. Llwell. tf r f A xxy- - i- ; v ; aUaiJIuZk Made of. White Pique, some with insertion. We will sell 54 - 3 s fi i P. PURSEL. Tub New five-Dollar Till. The first of the new five-dollar sil ver certificates have been printed and are in the tteasury for circulation. From an artistic point of view tliey are said to be among the pretest ever printed. The face of the bill bears the portrait of the typical In dian of other days. On one side of this portrait is the blue seal of the treasury and on the other a big U-uer V and the word "Five." Thes-e are printed in blue. The figure 5 is re peated over the bill. On the front ol the obligation it is found in each cor ner. The back of the bill contains consideiable scroll wo:k, two large open spaces and the usual lettering. CASTOR I A For Infant! and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Boars the Signature of 1 six . fZ
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