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THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURQ, PA.
THE COLUMBIAN.
i:stai:usiii:i 1866.
ME COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
ISTABUSIIKD I837. CoNSOIIDATR!) 1 869.
1'UHI.ISIIEI) l-.VKRY Tlll'RSDAY MORNINO,
At llloomslnirg, the County Scat of
Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
C.KO. V.. KI.WKLl, Editor.
1). J. TASKER, Local Editor.
11 EO. C. ROAN, 1 OREMAX.
Terms : Inside the county .ft. oo year
'n advance j 51.5011 not paid in a nance
Outside the county, $1.25 n year, strictly it
advance.
All communication should lie addressed
THE COLUMBIAN,
liloomsliurg, I'a.
TIIUKSDAV, OCTOBER 25, 1900.
Democratic Ticket.
NATIONAL.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM J. BRYAN,
of Nebraska.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
ADLAI E. STEVKNSON,
of Illinois.
STATE.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
T. GRAY MEEK.,
of Centre Co.
FOR CONGRESS.MEN-AT-LARGE,
N. M EDWARDS,
of Lvcoming Co. .
HENRY E. GRIMM,
of Bucks Co.
FOR PRESIDENTIAL EI.ECTORS-AT LARGE
A. H. Coffroth, of Somerset.
Francis Shunk Brown, Philadelphia.
Andres1 Caul, of Elk.
Otto Germer, of Erie.
FOR DISTRICT PR
Hugh Monro,
Henry Fernborger,
Mat hew Oilman,
W. Horace llosklns,
Adam K. Wulcli,
N. M. Ellis
Albra lit Kneulc,
David. I. Pt-uraull,
L. W. Rpirr,
Dr. Mccormick,
Josf-pn o'ltrlfn,
roomas M money,
Michael Mi'llet,
8. P
ISiniNTIAI, ILRCT0H8.
.! allies Hell,
V. 14. Ilmjilnifs,
It. 8cott Ammermnn,
Dr. Dallas iiarnburt,
Harvey w. Haines,
Warren Wortn Bailey,
Wesley K UufTey,
Kamuel W. Ulack,
Joliu F. Pauley,
J. C. Kelly,
John T. Brew,
J. 8. Carmlcliael,'
.1. Kltctiey,
Kimball.
COUNTY.
FOR CONGRESS,
RUFUS K. POLK,
of Danville.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES,
WILLIAM T. CREASY,
(South Side)
of Catawissa Twp.
FRED. IKELER,
(North Side)
of Bloomsburg.
FOR SHERIFF,
DANIEL KNORR,
of Locust Twp.
FOR CORONER,
DR. B. F. SHARPLESS,
of Catawissa.
FOR JURY COMMISSIONER,
DAVID A. SHULTZ,
of Madison Twp.
To The Voters of Columbia County.
It is urged by your County Chair
man that you organize "Bryan and
Stevenson Clubs" in every election
district in Columbia County. Do
this at once. C. A. Small,
County Chairman.
The Paramount Issue
The burning issue of imperial
ism, growing out of the Spanish
war, involves the very existence of
the Republic and the destruction of
our free institutions. We regard it
as the paramount issue of the cam
paign. From the Democratic Plat
form. . . . .
democratic Meetings-
The County Chairman has ar
ranged the following Democratic
meetings :
Oct. 25 Xewlin.
Oct. 26 Espy.
Oct. 27 Eyersgrove.
Oct. 29 Mifflinvillc.
Oct. 30 Orangeville.
Oct. 31 Jamison City.
Oct. 31 Canby.
Nov. 2 Jonestown and Centralia
People the Only Power,
It is easier to lose a reputation
than to establish one, and this na
tion would find it a long and labor
ious task to regain its proud posi
tion among the nations, if, under
the stress of temptation, it shonld
repudiate the self-evident truths
proclaimed by our heroic ancestors
and sacredly treasured during a
career unparalleled in the annals of
time. When the doctrine that the
people are the only source of power
is made secure from further attack
we can safely proceed to the settle
ment of the numerous questions
which involve the domestic and
economic welfare of our citizens.
From Bryan's Letter of Acceptance.
.
William Jennings Bryan is meet
ing ovations wherever he goes.
He is greeted by thousands al every
stop, and the enthusiasm is un
bounded. 25,000 votes, properly
distributed, would have elected him
in 1896, 'and the prospects now are
much brighter than they were then.
A full Democratic vote, all overlhe
country, will surely put Bryan in
the White House.
BON. KUF08 K. POLK,
The Democratic candidate from
the Seventeenth Congressional dis
trict, comes before the voters of the
district this fall a tried and true
friend of the people. It was said
of his illustrious relative, President
Polk, that "he entered office with
a definite purpose in view and ac
complished if" The same may be
said ot Mr. l'olk. His recora as
Congressman has been above criti
cism. He has looked faithfully
alter the interests of the people of
his district. He has given special
attention to the pension claims of
soldiers from his district, and as a
result of his efforts in this line a
number of deserving pensioners
have been placed on the pension
rolls. Through his efforts three
rural delivery mail routes have
been established in the district with
the prospect of additional service in
this line. In all the details of his
official career he has been faithful
to the interests of the common peo
pie. Mr. Polk comes from good
old Democratic stock. lie possesses
all those traits of human character
which constitute the attributes of an
ideal candidate. Born and reared
on a farm he is of the people and
knows their wants. He is a grad
uate of Lehigh University. He
entered the shops of the iron works
at Danville, Pa., a number of years
ago as a laborer at $1.20 jier day
and worked his way up to manager,
which position he resigned several
months ago, and is now part owner
of a smaller plant of the same town.
His experience in life has eminently
fitted him for the position which he
now holds, and for which he received
the unanimous nomination for re
election from every county compos
ing the district. 'When the cries for
help fiom the suffering and down
trodden Cubans were wafted to our
shores, he donned the uniform and
joined the army of liberators. Here
again he showed the kind of stuff
he was made of. And when, through
the inexcusable neglect of the War
Department, his comrades in arms
were stricken with the deadlv
typhus, he pulled off his coat laid
floors in their tents and tenderly
cared for his sick boys.
Here is a brave man, brave as
the bravest, gentle as the gentlest,
and it
is of snrh stuff hprops n'r I
made. Do you wonder then that
the soldier boys worshiped him, and
voted for him regardless of party
affiliations two years ago? The
meu in the mines, shops, lumber
woods and on the farms also voted
for him, and will dosoagaiu. Sul
livan Jlcrald.
Just a Dozen National Tickets
Here are the Presidential tickets
for 1900, that thus far have been
formally placed in nomination :
Republican For President, Will
iam McKinley, of Ohio ; for Vice
President, Theodore Roosevelt, of
New York.
Democratic William J. Bryan,
of Nebraska ; Adlai E. Stevenson,
of Illinois.
Silver Republican William J.
Bryan, of Nebraska ; Adlai E.
Stevenson, of Illinois.
Fusion Populist William T.
Bryan, of Nebraska ; Adlai E.
Stevenson, of Illinois.
Mid-Road Populist Wharton
Barker, of Pennsylvania ; Ignatius
Donuelly, of Minnesota.
Prohibition Tohn T. Woollev.
of Illinois : Henry B. Metcalf. of
Rhode Island.
Social Democrats Eugene V.
Debs, of Indiana ; Job Harriman,
of California.
Social Labor Joseph F. Mallo
ney, of Massachusetts : Valentine
Remmell, of Pennsylvania.
United Christian J. F. R. Leon
ard, of Iowa ; Charles M. Sheldon,
of Kansas.
Anti - Imperialist William J.
Bryan, of Nebraska.
National Donaldson Caffery, of
Louisiana ; Archibald M. Howe, of
Massachusetts.
National Union Reform Seth
Ellis, of Ohio ; Samuel T. Nicho
las, of Pennsylvania.
No Ticket In Luzerne Oounty.
Judge Weiss on Wednesday of last
week handed down an opinion, which
leaves Luzerne County without a
Democratic ticket at the coming Nov
ember election. He says that during
the convention the tumult and dis
order was so great that no body knew
what was taking place. All the certi
ficates of nomination are accordingly
declared null and void. Stanley
Woodward and T. R. Martin were the
candidates for Judge, and Stanley W.
Davenport and A. K. DeWitt for
Congress.
. .
Judge Metzger's will has been
filed in the prothonotary's office at
Williamsport. The paper is simple,
brief and clear. G. B. M. Metzger
has been named as executor. The
deceased's estate will exceed $56,.
000, and is divided among his child
ren and grand children, his son
George receiving the residence on
Fourth street.
44 Honest Labor Bears
a Lovely Face J'
There is nothing more
pleasing to look upon than a
hearty, ruddy face, gained by
honest toil. They are the
saving of the nation, these
toilers of both sexes, strug
gling for daily bread.
'Pure blood makes them Me to keep up
the ddily round of duty At home, shop or
store. If the blood has a Umt or im
purity, or a run down feeling comes on,
the one remedy is Hood' s SrsparilU,
America's Greatest Medicine for the blood.
Poor Blood "SMy blood ivas so
poor that in hottest tvetiher I felt cold.
Hood' s SjrsApArillA made me ivtrm. It is
the right thing in the right place," lUttie
J. Taylor, Woodstcmm, N. J.
TTiw3', HIL rur lWerlll. ; th iionlrrlt.liiig uni
cmiy ethrtlo to tak with H.iod'p Wurtapurlll..
WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, Oct. 22, 1900.
Republicans, from Mr. McKinley
down, have made this a campaign of
misrepresentation from the start. Mr.
McKinley himself started the false
pretense that the war taxes would be
repealed at the coming session of Con
gress, and the promise has been reit
erated and reiterated by republican
speakers and writers in all sections of
the country. The war taxes will not
be repealed by the present Congress,
unlets the election of Mr. Bryan in
cites the republicans to do so with the
hope of embarrassing his administra
tion, lor the very simple reason that
the money they produce is necessary
to meet the expenses of the McKinley
policy of imperialism. This is well
known to every prominent official of
the Treasury Department, although it
would be as much as his place was
worth for any one of them to publicly
say so. But they don't have to say
anything, the figures tell the tale. The
official figures show that the total ex
penditures of the government for the
last fiscal year amounted to $168,
099,828.00, and the total receipts to
$171, 271,451. 71.
Subtract one from
the other anJ you have the "immense
surfpluf a,bou,t which rePubI'cans are
so fond of talking. There will be no
repeal of war taxes.but there will be a
reduction in the tax on beer, the
brewers having bought a promise to
that effect with heavy campaign con
tributions. Still republican speakers
say it will be repealed. They go
on the theory that a vote obtained by
falsepretenses counts for just as much
as one bought for cash, and is cheaper.
Echoes of the big Bryan meeting
held in Madison Square Garden, in
New York City, will reach the remot
est section of the country, and the
enthusiasm there aroused will spread
until it takes on the qualities oi a
democratic tidal wave, which may be
great enough to sweep the trust-ridden
administration out of power, or may
just tall short of that much to be de
sired accomplishment. No man can
say in advance what the result of it
will be, but let it be what it will, it is
admitted, even by the McKinleyitfcs,
that no such outpouring of the masses
as that which honored Mr. Bryan has
ever before turned out in that city to
hear any candidate; and old campaign
ers, who were there, declare that they
were astonished at the intensity and
the amount of enthusiasm aroused by
Mr. Bryan and the other speakers. It
was a revelation to New Yorkers and
it opened the eyes of many who have
heretofore refused to believe that
Bryan and Stevenson had a chance to
carry the State of New York. One
enthusiastic Washington democrat
who attended the big meeting said :
"That meeting was worth a million
democratic votes. It would have
been an absolute impossibility in that
town during the campaign of 1896."
wny Mr. .McMniey keeps an
American minister pt Pekin when he
invariably turns down his advice and
recommendations and acts in accord
ance with what the Chinese Minister
to the U. S. says, is one of those
questions which a whole bunch of I
Americans would like to have satis
factorily answered. It bobbed up
again this week, when Minister Con
ger sent a dispatch warning Secretary
nay tnat the Chinese government
was not "toting fair". After that dis
patch was received the Chinese min
ister, in violation of all diplomatic us
age, was allowed to have a personal
interview with Mr. McKinley, in order
that he might present a dispatch from
the Chinese Emperor to the would-be
American Empeior, thanking him for
all he had done for the Chinese gov
ernment, while members of that gov
eminent were inciting the murder of
Americans and other foreigners in
China, and Mr. McKinley dropped
the political work in which he is now
exclusively engaged for a whole hour
to swallow chunks of taffy presented
by the wily Chinaman.
Inasmuch as it has been well known
WHEN
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can always be found at
Townsend's Star Clothing House,
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in Washington that there has been no
love lost between Mr. McKinley and
ex-Senator Quay, who was kept out of
his seat in the Senate by Boss Hanna,
there was much curiosity aroused
when Quay called at the White House
and had an hour's private talk with
Mr. McKinley. It has leaked out
that Quay sought to make a dicker
whereby the administration's influence
would be used to help him in his fight
to conliol the Pennsylvania legislature
and be returned to the Senate, and
that Mr. McKinley refused to help,
him, on the ground that he had
troubles enough of his own just now
without assuming those of Quay. It
is said that Quay left in a pet, and
made threa'.s of getting even.
The tip has been passed in the Mc
Kinley inner circle that Hanna's
agents have got the thing all fixed and
and that a majority of the electoral
college is to be secured by the same
methods that were successful four
years ago the wholesale use of
money. As a consequence, the re
publicans have exchanged their fright
for confidence. Democratic advices
do not coincide with that tip. Hanna's
agents are plentifully supplied with
cash in all the doubtful states and are
trying hard but they haven't got things
fixed yet, and they won't get them
fixed, if vigilance on the part of demo
cratic leaders can prevent. The demo
crats know the game that the republi
cans are trying to play, and hope to
spring some surprises on the McMin
leyites before it is ended.
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF-
With his head crushed, Swan
Johnson of Waterville, was found
dead along the Reading railroad
tracks in Williamsport Saturday hurt
while attempting to board a freight
train. He died before the hospital
was reached.
About 100 survivors of the Forty
seventh Regiment, Pinnsylvania Vol
unteers, held their twenty-eighth an
nual reunion at Easton Monday.
General J. P. S. Gobin, who com
manded the regiment while it was in
service back in the sixties, made an
address.
The main bar to the happiness
ot Solomon Snyder, a prominent West
Penn farmer, appears to be rats. Re
cently he awakened from his slumbers
to find that one of his fingers was be
ing chewed by a rodent. Sunday
night he was awakened by a sharp
pain and found that a rat had bitten a
piect out of his right eyelid.
Francis Casey, aged 1 1 years, of
Girardville, attempted to board a
south-bound freight train near his
home Friday and had both his legs
and arms cut off. He had hold of
the handle of the car he intended
mounting, but the train was moving
too fast and he was thrown in front of
a tram on the opposite track. He
died while being taken to his home.
Will Managd Somehow.
An exchange says: Do not worry
about the editor. He has a charter
from the State to act as doormat for
the community. He will get the
paper out somehow and stand up for
the town and whoop it up for you
when you run for office, and lie about
your big-footed son when he gets a
$4 a week job, and weep over your
shriveled soul when it is released from
its grasping body, and smile at your
wife's second marriage. Do not worry
about the editor; he will get along.
The Lord only knows how but
somehow.
o A. s ToniA .
Bn tU l ri Kind You Haw Always Bought
Bigutun
of
YOU COME TO TOWN
Be sure and stop at the
Star Clothing; House
FOR YOUR
FALL OVERCOAT-
The latest styles in
Fall and Winter Goods,
For men, boys and children. Hats,
Caps, Sliirts,&c.,of the latest style,
BLOOMSBURG,
The Autumn Sale.
Blankets and Comforts.
This Sale Will Begin
Thursday, October 25th.
Good buying makes good selling. We've been do
ing some famous buying of
VOU
rerreted out the very best values we could hnd.
'.They're all here now, and we want you to come in and
inspect them. Money saving for you, sure, if you take
time by the forelock and replenish from these warm bed
coverings.
CANTON BLANKETS F03
AUTUMN.
Just the kind, just the
weights you want now.
Got them in white or gray,
and you'll find much to
tempt you in the way of
price.
io-4, all cotton, good
weight, at 53c.
10- 4 Heavy Cotton Blank
ets, at 75c.
1 1- 4 Heavy Cotton Blank
ets, at 98c.
WHITE WOOL BLANKETS.
These are all made from
fine selected wool big, fat,
heavy fellows that speak
warmth and comfort on a
cold winter night. Buy
them now, and here, and
you'll buy at a saving.
1 1-4 all wool, Muncy
Blankets, $4.50.
10-4, all wool, heavy and
big, $5.25.
n-4, fine, soft wool, Mun-
New Jackets and
Misses and Children.
We have selected these goods from the three best
makers in this country. They have just come from the
makers, so they are the latest cut, and we are safe in
saying they are as good values as we have ever shown.
They are cut right and made well. We know this, be
cause we get them from the best makers in the country.
F. P.
Lockawanna E. E. Improving Its Service.
"Lackawanna," the most powerful
tug in eastern waters, made her trial
trip from John H. Dialogue & Son's
Shipyard at Camden, N. J., on Tues
day of last week, and fulfilled the re
quirements in every particular. On
board were President W. H. Trues
dale, Traffic Managet B. D. Caldwell,
General Coal Sales Agent E. H. Hold
en, Purchasing Agent W. H. Whalen
and General Auditor O. C. Post, of
the Lackawanna Railroad. The
"Lackawanna" is conceded to be the
best seagoing tug yet constructed.
She is built entirely of steel, is 150
feet over all and of 25 foot beam.
She is fitted with tripple expansion
engines of 800 horse power and is
guaranteed to pull six barges each of
a capacity of 160c tons of coal. She
is equipped with her own electric light
plant, has electric search lights, wreck
ing pumps and every other modern
device for utility ard safety. She is
painted in the Lackawanna colors,
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PA.
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35
3
Blankets and Comforts for
9
cy make, $575.
1 1-4, made of fine Cali
fornia wool, $975.
COLORED BLANKETS,
ALL WOOL.
Many colored blankets
used nowadays. Think we
can prove to you that it
will pay you to select from
these :
104 all wool Colored
Blankets, $2.98.
104 Best Muncy Colored
Blankets, $3.98.
1 1 4 Best Muncy Colored
Blankets, $4.50.
BED CO-IFOETS.
Some covered with bright
Chintz, but most of them
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7.
satteen covered. e buy
Comforts direct from the
mills, giving you the job
ber's profit. Then we share
our own profit in a sale of
this sort, so you come in
for a double saving. Price,
98c. to $2.75.
Capes, for Ladies,
PURSEL. 1
white with yellow funnels. She wil
make easily 15 to 16 miles an hour
"Lackawanna" will be used for towing
coal barges between New York ana
Boston. Another powerful tuB.
"Scranton" has been in this brantn
of the Lackawanna Railroad's service
for some time.
A passenger train on the Penn
sylvania Railroad Saturday evening
struck William Miller's butcher
wagon. The two horses attach
to the wagon were both instajW
killed. T-Jie accident occurred 0
the railroad crossing at Mifflinv lie.
The watfon was completely tk-n
ished but Miller escaped wi in '
little injury. He is a resident
Nescopeck.
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