THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED 1866.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
Established 1837. Consolidated 1869.
Published Every Thursday Morning,
At Uloomsburg, the County Scat of
Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
GEO. K. ELWELl, Editor.
1). J. TASKER, Local Editor.
GEO. C. KOAN, Foreman.
Terms : Inside the county $1.00 a year
ia advance; $1.50 if not paid in advance.
Outside the county, ft. 25 a year, strictly in
advance.
All communications should lie addressed
THE COLUMBIAN,
' Bloomsburg, Ta.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2t, tool.
PARTY REORGANIZATION-
the Democracy Needt Any. it Should
Come From the Inside.
If any change in the present or
gatiization of the Democratic party
is necessary, it can be made by the
voters in the retrular way and at
the proper time. If in the mean
time any member of the organiza
tion dies, resigns, or is replaced,
the new member ought to be in
harmony with the people who se
lect him, for as a member of the or
ganization he acts in a representa
tive capacity.
The only way to insure this liar
niony ;s to insist that the candidate
shall be frank and candid in making
known his views to those to whom
he appeals, and every honest Dem
oct at seeking party prominence with
a sincere desire to aid the party w ill
be willing to make known his views
on every disputed question, lie-
ware of the man who boasts of his
Democracy, but refuses to define it
The so-called Democrats who
voted the Republican ticket showed
by so doing that they were nearer
to the Republican position than
they were to the Democratic posi
tion. In order to regain their con
fidence they must undergo a change
or the Democratic party must move
over toward the Republican posi
tion. As the reorganizes have
manifested no change of heart the
effort to reorganize might more
properly be called an effort to Re
publicanize the Democratic party.
To make the effort a success the
Democrat must either be converted
to Republican ideas or be deceived
into the support of men who wear
the livery of Democracy, but lean
toward Republican doctrines.
Commoner.
Justices' and Constables Fees-
The constables and justices of the
peace throughout the state are some
what wrothy at present, their tem
pers haviDg been aroused by the in
troduction of a bill in the State
Legislature, which, if it passes.will
materially cut down their fees.
The bill now pending in the leg
islature was introduced by Mr.
Haag, of Schuylkill county. It
authorizes grand and petit jurors to
disallow the costs of constables,
justices of the peace, magistrates or
aldermen in cases of misdemeanor,
and in all case of larceny where
the value of the goods alleged to be
stolen is less than $10 authorizing
the district attorney, with the con
sent of the court, to disallow the
cost of constables, justices of the
pea:e, magistrates or aldermen in
cases of misdemeanor and larceny
where the value of the goods alleg
ed to be stolen is less than $10.
As will be readily seen the con
stables will be unable to derive any
revenue from cases of misdemeanor
and larceny unless they were over
$10. Therefore if a man steals
something worth $9 and he is arrest
ed by the constable and tried before
a justice these officers will get noth
ing for their work. This bill seems
to be racher a discriminating one,
and as stated above, the justices
and constables are wrothy.
For Campaign Purposes Only-
Prosperity does not seem to be
quite so widely diffused among the
mill hands as they were led to ex
pect before the election. So many
mills are shutting down just now
as to leave something to be ex
plained. Of course, we shall be
told of "the temporary tiade condi
tions that necessitate that action.
But then we were told last fall
that it was not trade conditions bui
McKinley that made prosperity and
that if we re-elected him we should
all have good wages for at least
four years more. The full dinner
pail, it would seem, was for cam
paign use only. 1'hila. 2'imes.
Traitors to Democracy.
The gang at Harrisburg have
started upon a course of the most
reckless and infamous partisan leg
islation known in the history ot
Pennsylvania. Measures intended
to perpetuate Republican domina
tion in the State under the control
of the gang, to restrict the liberties
of the people, to silence the press,
to disfranchise Democrats, and to
plunder the public Treasury, are to
be put through by fair means or
foul.
In what they have been able to
accomplish thus far, the gang owe
their success to a handful of men
who were elected as Democrats, but
who have chosen to desert their
party and betray the people tliey
represent. No one of the obnoxious
anti-Democratic measures of the
gang could be passed without this
so-called Democratic aid. If these
men were loyal to their party, the
Democrats in the Legislature would
be in a position to defend the Com
monwealth from the cane and to
compel respect for popular rights
The infamy these men have won
makes more conspicuous the fidelity
of the Democratic members in gen
eral and of those independent men
who refuse to bow to the orders of
the gang. From these we can look
for a united and persistent opposi
tion to bandit legislation, and if
those wl.o have basely deserted their
comrades do not return to their al
legiance, a fearful accountability
will be theirs.
The Congressional apportionment
bill is framed deliberately to dis
franchise Democratic constituencies,
No Democrat can vote for it even
though his own personal interests
have been taken care of without
branding himself a traitor. The
Senatorial and Representative ap
portionments are to be framed on
the same plan, as partisan gerry
manders of the most violent sort.
No honest member ought to sus
tain them ; 110 honest Democrat
can.
The outrageous bill taking the
government of the three great cit
ies of the Stata outside of Phila
delphia from the hands of the citi
zens and putting it into the actual
control of the gang is something
plunges into the pool of profligacy
which have been and will be made
by the Legislature indicates that
the Quay machine is in a paroxysm
of rabies. But the people will have
to pay the bills they contract. For
the next dozen years the burdens
will be heavy to bear. The people
brought the burdens upon them
selves, however, and have them
selves to blame if they are heavy.
There was warning enough to ad
monish them, but they wanted
Quayism it appears. Bellefonte
11 ate man.
WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, Feb. 18, 1901.
Senator llanna is the maddest
man in Washington. lie knows
that the Ship Subsidy bill is dead
for this session, but refuses to al.ow
the corpse to be buried, and is in
dulging in all sorts of threats of
what lie is going to do to get even
with those Republican Senators
who declined to help him jam the
bill down the throats of the minor
ity. Senator Spoouer, who has
been classed as one of the Republi
cans who would prefer seeing the
Subsidy bill fail, but would vote for
it if a vote was reached, publicly
put himself on record last week by
saying : "I am against this bill,
but as it is in no danger of becom
ing a law, 1 see no need in work
ing up useless fears," and Senator
Elkins, who has been classed as a
supporter of the bill, said : "The
Subsidy bill is dead. There can be
no question about it now. I might
say that it died homing " Senator
Jones, of Arkansas, to whom no
little of the credit for killing the
vicious bill is due, said of its pres
ent status: "The Republicans know
themselves tnat it would be impos
sible to get the measure through at
this session, and hence their indif
ference. The bill is dead." ' One
of llanna's threats is that the River
and Harbor bill shall fail, but
whether he can make it stick re
mains to be seen.
Representative Bell, of Colorado,
a member of the committee on Ap
propriations, made a telling speech
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worse than a party measure. It is " " k . 7 A " " f
an extension of corrupt despotism 1 . . ZZTl, :
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people to become aiarmea ai me
TOWISTSBITD'S
STAR CLOTHING HOUSE
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SMLE!
WE NOW HAVE
URPROSE
Clearing Out Sale of
WINTER CLOTHING!
To Make Room for Spring Goods. Big Reduc
tions in OVERCOATS, at
Townsend's Star Clothing House,
BLOOMSBURG, PENN'A.
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that defies all right principles
government, and it is simply im
possible for any one to vote for it
and maintain even the pretense of
llegiance to Democracy. All of
these measures are intended to ex
clude the Democratic masses from
any representation in the govern
ment, whether local or general, and
make the Democratic party in Penn
sylvania helpless by anything short
of revolution ; yet if they ate con
summated it can only be by the
votes of some men who pretend
that they are Democrats.
The Democratic party and us
repiesentatives will not be responsi
ble for the work of this session, but
the safety of the party, which is
the safety of the Commonwealth,
requires every possible effort to se
cure fair' representation and an hon
est ballot law and the defeat ot the
revolutionary schemes of the gang.
These things can be secured if the
Democrats all stand united, as most
of them have done, and they cannot
be secured otherwise. The people of
Pennsylvania will understand this,
and they will know how to deal
with those who betray them.
Phila. limes.
THE PEOPLE'S HONE G0E3-
A Proposition to Increase the Salaries
Judges in Large Dissricts.
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A bill has been presented in the
Legislature iucreastng the salaries
of the judges of the court of com
mon pleas of the several districts
composed of counties whose popula
tion is over 150,000 and not less
than 500,000. The proposed new
law includes Berks, Lackawanna
Lancaster, Schuylkill and West
moreland counties and increases the
salaries of the judges in these conn
ties from $4000 to $6000 a year.
Carnival of Profligacy.
No session of the Legislature in
the history of the State has ever
made such raids on the Treasury as
the present one is liKely to do.
Aside from the capital construction
bill, which will carry an appropria
tion of $6,000,000, other bills have
been introduced involving appro
priations of three or four millions,
and the Legislature has only been
in actual session eighteen days.
After the spring elections are over
the looting will begin in real earn
est and the bosses will indulge in a
carnival of spoils. lhe money
will flow from the Treasury in a
golden flood-tide and the late of
taxation wi.l be multiplied in pro
portion. V "VMMMk .
Thus far bills have been intro
duced creating new offices, the sal
aries of which will aggregate nearly
half a million dollars. The new
court bill in Philadelphia provides
for three judges, two clerks, five
tip-staffs and half a dozen criers
and other hangers on. The bill
providing for commissions to issue
licenses creates five or six new of
fices in evtry county of the State,
and lrom ten to two dozen in some
of them. The bill to create a bureau
of building and loan associations in
the Banking Department makes
room for half a dozen new and high
salaried officers, and other bills add
to the number of new places.
How are the people to escape
from the burdens of this omnivor
ous Legislature? It is said that
"Whom the gods would destroy,
they first make mad," and the wild I jn damages for what
rapid increase in public expendi
tures, which had grown in a single
ecade from $4 75 per capita to
more than $10.00 per capita. He
said that Congress had become so
callous to vast increases in appro
priations that it was considered al
most disreputable to call attention
to the extravagance of the govern
ment Representative Cochran, ot
Missouri, made a speech ilong sim
ilar lines.
Doubtless the reason why some
of the Republican Senators are not
actively supporting the Ship bub
sidy bill is that they have heard
from some of their constituents and
that they wrote something like the
editor of a Michigan Republican
paper did to his Washington cor
respondent who had sent him some
favorable comment on the attempt
to pass the bill : "We don't want
any more such gush. We are not
running an administration paper,
but a Republican paper from an
honorable standpoint. There is no
more damnable steal before Con
gress than the Subsidy bill, and we
will bet you a new suit of clothes
that it will never become a law."
Just before the House passed the
Army appropriation bill, carrying a
little less than $118,000,000, Rep
resentative McClellan, of New
.York, in a short speech presented
some figures that are worthy of the
country's most thoughtful consider
ation. He stated that the annual
cost of each soldier to the United
States, excluding pensions, would
be $1,288, and including pensions,
$2,828, while the annual cost of
each German soldier, including
pensions and the expetise of past
wars, was only $227, and that of
each French soldier, including pen
sions and the cost of the Franco
Prussian war, was only $232. He
said the total cost of our army
would soon reach $300,000,000 a
year, to say nothing of the expense
of the navy, which is now more
than $100,000,000.
Perry Heath has not attempted
10 reply to the challenge of Rep
resentative Sulzer, of N. ., in
connection with the anonymous
letter Mr. Sulzer had read as part
of his speech, which charged Heath
with guilty knowledge ot Neely's
stealing and other crookedness.
Mr. Sulzer said on the. floor of the
House: "I am responsible for every
word in that letter. If Mr. Heath
thinks there is anything libelous or
scandalous in that letter I wi!
plead the truth of the statements
But I serve notice that 1 am going
to say everything in that letier.aud
I want Perry S. Heath to answer
If he does truthfully he will be fit
for the penitentiary. I want him
to understand that I am responsible
I say. The
House has no compunctions of con
science when he attacks me, but
when I attack him he squeals like
a pig under a gate. I got that let
ter in the Record. That was what
I was after. I am now content to
have it stricken out." The House
without a division ordered the let
ter expunged from the Record, out
it had already been printed in the
Record as well as in newspapers
throughout the countrv.
When Mr. McKinley saw that
the opposition to the nominations
of Wood, Bell and Grant to be bri
gadier generals in the regular army
was strong enough to be serious,
he made a shrewd move by sending
the nominations of Fitz Lee and J.
II. Wilsou to be brigadiers to the
Senate, thus giving his friends a
chance to dicker for the confirma
tion of the whole bunch a chance
that was at once taken advantage
of. It is expected that Gen. Lee
and Wilsou will both be retired at
once, now that their nominations
have been confirmed, as they have
both passed the age limit for active
duty.
The sugar trust scored another
profitable triumph when Secretary
Gage ordered a retaliatory duty of
nearly one cent a pound placed on
Russian sugar, that, too, in the
face of the rather clearly implied
threat of the Russian government
that it would meet such action on
the part of this government by put
ting the maximum tariff on all
American goods. The short-sight
edness of this policy on the part of
the administration is made plain by
the figures of our trade with Rus
sia. Russia sells us annually about
$300,000 worth of sugar, while
American exports to Russia are near-
y $30,000,000. Protests from great
business interests are pouring into
Washington agains: Secretary
Gage's action.
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Warming to the Work.
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The work of turning winter poods into
money goes merrily on ; we're warmiu up
to it, we don't stop nt profit Ioks ; we don't
shy t cost. What price will move it, that's
the only question. Once answered, down
goes the price Accordingly. Wise loseeo are
as good as prolit just at this season. Another
word to you and then the bargains. Keep
your eye on our "ads." It's as good as found
money, if the goods ottered are what you can
use.
Underwear.
all
We will give 10 per cent, discount on
our Men's, Ladies', Misses', Boy's and
Children's Underwear THIS WEEK.
Outing Flannel Night Shirts.
Legislators Gutting Eich Quick.
Some of the so-called Democrats
who assisted the Quay machine in
organizing the legislature are al
ready wearing diamonds on their
shirts and fingers as big as door
knobs. Likewise some of the
previously pledged insurgents. Sev
eral have bought good properties
since that eventful 15th day of Jan
uary, Clearfield Republican.
Thii (ignatar. ia on every box of the genuine
Laxative Dromo-Uuinine Tablet.
the remedy that core) a cold la on day
U0TI0E-
ORDER OF COURT FIXING THE TIME FOR
THE HOLDING OF THE FALL TERM
OF COURT TO THE FIRST MON
DAY C SEPTEMBER, OF
EACH YEAR.
Now, February 4, 1 001, it is or
dered that the time for the holding o
the regular fall term of the sever a
courts, in and for the County of Col
umbia, be changed, and that hereaf
ter the time for the holding of the
said term of said courts be fixed for
the first Monday of September of
each year. It is further ordered that
a certified copy of this order be pub
lished in the Columbia County Re
publican. The Columbian and the
Democratic Sentinel, three newspa
pers in the county, at least thirty days
trom this date. Ijy the Court.
Certified from the Records,
a 7 st W. II. Henrie, Proth'y.
$1.25 ladies' night robes, reduced to
1 00 " " " " "
.90 " " " "
.50 men's out'g night shirts " "
1 00 " " ' " "
ioOehild'n's"
Ladies' 25c. outing skirts, " "
50c.
98c
79c
f9c
42c
78c
42c
19c
42c
Tailor-Made Suits.
New, right from one of the best factor
ies in this country. We will have them ready
to show you by Saturday, February 23d.
SALS
Ladies' Muslin Underwear.
We will put on sale, next week, the best
values in Ladies' Muslin Underwear ever of
fered in this town. Watch for hand bills.
P. UE
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FIRE I
Sale of
FIRE!
Bis: Fire
GBOCERIE
Commencing: Saturday
February 9th,
and continuing until entire
stock is disposed of.
Tooley & Co. 43 E. flain St
OASTOXLIA.
Be the The Kind You Have Always Bought
Pibles large arid small and the
stock open for comparison at Mer
cer's Drug & Book Store.
OASTOniA,
Bean the he "ln w Hav9 Bought
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
KHTATB OF TIIOMAK W. MUIIINHY, PKCIAHIB.
Nut Ice In licruby tflvi-n I luU lelli'rs (it adiuln
Ihi ration on t lit) estate ot 1'noiiutn W. Mnlltiaiy.
lute of Orernwood towuHlilp, Columbia uounl.
l'Dnnaylvanla, uVceaaed, have been (ranted to
Aiiikh Neyliard, of the liormiifh of Oiunmivlllc,
to whom all piiraotm Indouted to aatd eaiaM am
requested to make payment, and muse uavlntc
claim or dfinaiiUH will wake known the antue
without d lay to AMUcI NKYHAKD,
Clinton lUaaiNO, Atty. Administrator.
Bluuwauui'K, fa., Feb. HUl, 1001, yit)