THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. First National Bank, Bloomsburg, Pa. K. W. M. LOW, J. M. STAVKR. K. B. TUSTIX, K. F. CARPENTER, CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, - - $190,000. o 3afe IDoposit Bosses IFor Kent 1ST E"S53-LA.JS, DIRECTORS : Myron I. Low, Gko. S. Robmxs, J. M. Stavf.k. o )r. 12. V. M. Low, Dr. J. II. Vastine, tf Accounts of banks, corporations, firms and individuals, solic ited upon the most liberal terms, consistent with good banking. THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED 1S66. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, EsTABi.isiiKD i Consolidated 1S69 Pl'BMSIiEh EVKRf Tlll RSDAY MOKNINO, At liloonisluirg. the County Scat of Columbia Countv, Pennsylvania. CEO. E. Kt.WLLL, Editor Li. I. TASKEK, Local Editor. GEO. C. KOAN, Forlmas. Terms : Inside the county $1.00 a year in advance; $1.50 if not paid in advance. Outside the county, ft. 25 a year, strictly in dvance. All commumc.v.ion should le addressed THE COLUMBIAN. Bloomslmrg, Fa. THURSDAY. AUGUST 29 1901; Holds the Htxord for Depravity- For besotted depravity, the Penn sylvania Republicans in their con vention, as in their State and munic ipal administration, hold the record. Of course, they express grati tude to Quay, their leader in cor ruption, and to his man Stone. They even "heartily indorse and commend" Quay's infamous gang of thieves, the late Legislature. All this was to be expected of a party owned outright by Quay. Louis ville ( Ky.) Courierjoarnal. . Invitation of the Democracy to Honest Men. Waiving all questions and propo sitions upon which the people of the nation divide into political par ties, we call upon all honest citi zens to unite with us for the re demption of our Commonwealth from the political freebooters who now coutrol it. We make this fight not as a po litical organization seeking a parti san advantage, but in the -interest of all Pennsylvanians, and will welcome a closer union with all political orgauizatious honestly pledged to the same purpose. Democratic Platform. Excites Eidicule and Contempt- The protest of the machine poli ticians, in the recent platform adopted, against the newspapers which tell the truth about machine defiances ol law and abuses of the public, excites only two feelings or comments ; ridicule and contempt. The cowardice of those who C3nuot endure the telling of the truth is only matched by the un-American-ism of those who desire to throttle free speech. If the newspapers have beeti slandering the politicians let the latter seek redress through the courts ; if the publishers have merely told the facts about public men and affairs, which they ought to do, and their readers have a riht to know, the protestatious of th spoilsmen only tend to conhrm the publications. Doyleiown In telligencer (Rep.) THE MACHINE'S PLATPG3M. The Republicans in State Con vention at Harrisburg last Wednes day adopted the following platform: The Republican party of Penn sylvania, in convention assembled, makes the following declaration of purposes and principles upon which it invites the support of the people of our Commonwealth: In 1S96, near the close of the last Democratic Administration, the business interests of the. country were prostrated, capital remained uninvested and labor was idle and unproductive. The election of McKinley revived our languishing industries and started the nation on an era of prosperity such as it never knew before. We congratulate the American people on the good sense shown in the re-electiou of Presi dent McKinley. His administra tion has met every question with which it has been confronted in a wise, patriotic and statesmanlike manner. In all the vexed questions growing out of the war with Spain our national Administration has shown itself entirely capable and worthy of the greatest public con fideuce. Under this Administra tion great armies and navies were - President Vick Prks't Cashier Asst. Cashikr V1BE - P3ar VAVLI3. E. B. Ti-stin, Lous Gross, raised, our flag was carried in honor and triumph to distant parts of the world, and our supremacy on land and sea sustained until now we are recognized as one of the greatest world powers. We congratulate the people of Pennsylvania on the splendid pros perity which they now enjoy. The farmer, the mechanic, th: laborer and the professional man, all either have or may have remunerative employment. We regret that under such prosperous conditions contests . should arise between capital and labor, but we hope and believe that these disputes will be finally settled on an equitable basis that will do full justice to the cou tending parties. The right of capital to make proper and legal combinations has been recognized by legislative ena:tments in many of the States, and this carries with it the right of labor to organize in proper and legal ways for its pro tection and advantage; but neither capital nor labor has the right to resort to violence or illegal methods to redress wrongs or obtain rights. The spirit of mediation and con cession should prevail in all dis putes between capital and labor. We congratulate the Republicans of Pennsylvania that there is no longer any division in the Republi can party; that harmony has been restored; that respect for the will of the majority prevails, and that we present a united front arrayed only against the common enemy, the Democratic party. Our past trou bles and dissensions are forgotten in the determination to stand firmly together in the future. Factional disputes only benefit the Democratic party, and our purposes and actions should be to avoid all cause of dis sension. We are amused, rather than con cerued, by the declarations of the late Democratic State convention, for we readily recognize, as all the people must, the co-operation of certain newspapers in their prepara tion, which papers, failing in their attempt to disrupt the Republican party, have crawled under the tents of the Democracy with their stale and false charges and succeeded in having them adopted as a Demo cratic platform. The platform of the late Democratic State conven tion will dc found in the files of the so-called yellow journals during the past few months. We believe in surrounding- the press with every constitutional guarautee vouchsafed to it since the foundation of our government, but it is a public menace that these con stitutional guarantees should be so misused as to have permitted many of our newspapers to have degener ated into a yellow journalism such as is detrimental to any State or country. We charge the so-called yellow journals with being subsidized by the full-page advertisements which they carry. The advertiser is per mitted to dictate tkeir policy and at his behest these newspapers have perverted the news columns and the editorial page from being an honest record of daily events to a labored attempt to misrepresent facts. We arraign the Democratic party as incompetent, incapable, insincere and untrustworthy. The citizens of our State, within a very few clays, have witnessed a spectacle seldom seen in the history of a political party asking the suffrages of the people. The Democratic party, ashamed of ics record in the past and afraid to name a single issue of a uational character on which to appeal for support, asks the people to forget that in the past, when entrusted with the adminis tration 01 public affairs, it has ruin ed our business enterprises, shut down our mills, closed our factories, put in idleness our great laboring classes, ruined credit of the State and nation, and now appeals to the public on what it chooses to call local issues. We condemn it in administration of our State aftairs as much as in the incompetency shown in its administration of our 1 uational affairs. When the Democracy went out of power in our State it left to the Republican party a legacy of almost $40,000,000 of debt. This debt, by wise administration under Republi can rule, has been almost entirely paid. We have increased the ap propriations to the common schools until we stand at the head of the Americau States in support of pupu lar education. Under Republican administration there has been paid each year for educational purposes more than was appropriated by the Democratic party in their quarter ot a century of misrule. We have increased our .appropri ations to charitable and eleemosy nary institutions until we can make the boast that no State between the two oceans supports these institu tions as well as does our own. Our 7,000,000 of people are in dustrious, honest, law-abiding and happy, yet, surrounded as we are 011 every side with prosperous busi ness conditions, with people happy, employed and contented, with every avenue of business and trade fully occupied, and with the prospect of the tuture brightening and growing more hopeful, the old historic party of obstruction and negation sets up a hysterical cry of false pretense, hypocrisy and insincerity for the purpose of misleading the people and regaining lost power. We commend the wise, patriotic, courageous and statesmanlike ad ministration of Governor William A. Stone. He iuherited from the preceding administration a deficit of more than $3,000,000 in the State treasury, but by his courage in reducing extravagant appropria tions, by compelling the collection of delinquent taxes and by admin istering every department of the State government on an economic basis, this deficit has been wiped out, the floating debt of the State has all been paid, the public institu tions receive their money as soon as it is due and payable, and the special appropriations are paid more promptly than ever before, and the credit of the Common wealth is fully restored. We heartily commend and en dorse the wise and beneficent laws enacted by the late Legislature and firmly believe that as the people of the state investigate and consider the many important acts passed by that body they will cordially ap prove of its labors. We are deeply sensible ot the great debt which the Common wealth of Pennsylvania owes to its representatives in the United States Senate, Hon. M. S. Quay and Hon. Boies Penrose, for the watchful care which they have ever given to the interests of the State, its material enterprises and the welfare of its citizens. GOOD GfiOWLNtt WEATHER- Corn, Buckwheat and Late Potatoes Greatly Benefited by the Recent Rains. The weather bureau gave out the follow report on Saturday : The tem perature was quite uniform and slight ly above the normal throughout the greater portion of the state. Rains were frequent and general ; over the eastern part of the stat; the fall was heavy (except in a few scattered sec tions), while in the western half the showers were lighter but usually suffic ient ior crop needs. Corn, buckwheat and late nnf.-itne appear to have been especially favored Dy me prevailing conditions and made very good progress : the com AnH buckwheat crops bid fair to be unusu ally good ; the return from the late potato crop is still, to a ereat extent. a matter of speculation, but the pro giess and improvement during the last week, if continued for a short while longer, will insure a fair yield in most, counties. The wet weather prevented farmr housing tire small portion ot the nat crop still out. Late threshing con tinues, but shows no chanse in the results previously obtained a good return from rye, wheat below the av erage, and oats poor. Good progress has been made with the preparation of ground for fall seeding. J. he tobacco crop continued to make a highly encourazinn advanre and its prospects are now very prom ising. 1 ne outiooic tor the apple crop is still unfavorable, in fact.-the deferr. iye quality of the apples in most sec tions and the lone continue.! dmn ping render a poor return inevitnhle. I umer tru:ts are fair to good, although 111 various localities some small fruits are rotting. Late peaches to be better than the early ones. Veg etables are generally good. Lycoming Oo. Pair On armnnt n( th T c: - ..v twilling rair the Philadelphia & Reading Railway will sell excursion tickets at the low rate of single fare for the round trip, with a lamsport and return, from Mt. Car mel, Shamokin, Catawissa, Blooms burg and intermediate ticket stations. Tickets Will lie tr.ln.l rr,rw C...,. . t . - - 6u"'e --tiiciuLier 3 to 6, inclusive, and good for return until Q 1 - "vjjiciuuci 7, inclusive. Rheumatism What Is the use of tolling the rhriiiiir.lla thiit ho fetls as if his Joints were being dis locate! ? IIo knows tiiBt Ills suffering? or" very much like the. tortures of tlia rnck. What he wnntt to knnro Is What will per manently cure his diariup. That, nrrnnllng to tliounanris cf frVf':l testimonials, is Hood's Sarsaparilia Tt promptly neutralizes iho acid in tho blood on which the (Unease dermis, com pletely eliminates If, and utrensihens tbo system against its return. Try Hood s. WASHINGTON. From cur Kecular Correspondent. Washington, Aug. 26, igoi. "Make way for the new Caesar!' That is the sort of a shout some rub ber-lunged understrapper will be putt ing up in front of Acting Secretary Hackett, if he is left in sole charge of the Navy Department much longer. His head gets bigger everyday and he conies nearer thinking himself the whole thing. He has made it quite plain that he 's anti-Schlcy. Io this he has only followed the example of Secretary Long, the difference be ing that Long has more tact and courtesy than to assume autocratic airs. It is understood that so many complaints about Hackett have been made to President McKinley that he has given Secretary Long a hint by wire that it would be advisable for him to cut his vacation short and re turn to Washington sometime before the assembling of the Schley Court of Inquiry, and that Mr. Long will re sume charge of the Navy Department this week. The most important heppenings of the week in the preparations for the Schley inquiry are all connected with Rear Admiral Howison, whose sitting as a member of the court is now any thing but certain. Rear Admiral Schley, through his counsel, requested the Navy Department to forward a copy of an alleged interview with Howison in which Schley was sneered at and Sampson lauJed to that officer and request him to say whether he was correctly reported or not. Caesar Hackett has made public his letter to Schley denying the request and de fending Howison and giving reasons why he should not be asked about that interview, which is anything but convincing. That is tomfoolery, cf course. Schley has the right to abso lutely challenge Howison, if he wishes to exercise it. Capt. Parker, who is assisting Schley's counsel in preparing the case, has an affidavit from the re porter who interviewed Rear Admiral Howison, declaring that the interview was absolutely correct as published and expressing his willingness to testify before the Court of Inquiry if his evi dence was considered necessary. Should Howison acknowledge the accuracy of the interview he would thereby disqualify himself for sitting on the court, no matter how anxious Caesar Hackett and the anti-Schley naval clique might be to keep him on the court. Should he deny the correct ness of the published interview, he will be confronted by the reporter. Admiral Schley will not believe that Howison used the language in tint interview until he either acknowledges it or refuses to deny it. Being open and above board in his own likes and dislikes, he cannot understand how a brother officer can be otherwise. Schley spends a good portion ef every day working and consulting with his lawyers in the preparation of his case. He smilingly declines all invitations to talk about it for publication, and says, "Wait for the Court". The joint Committee representing the American Anti-Trust League and the Knights of Labor came out ahead in its first round with Attorney Gen eral Knox. The committee asked Mr. Knox to furnish any information in his possession concerning the forma tion of the steel trust. He replied denying that he had any information about the trustor that he had anything to do with its formation; admitting that he was legal counsel for the Car negie Steel Co. for some time previous to the formation ot the trust, and as serting that the duty and object of the Department of justice was to enforce the Federal statutes. The committee replied to his le'terwitha public state ment in which it pointed out the evasive nature of his denial, and issued the following challenge to him: "Will Attorney Genei il Knox offer a reward for the production of the incriminating evidence against the trusts for which we asked, and whicn he says he does not possess ? Will he announce that the Department cf Justice will pay a substantial reward to any person or persons who will produce evidence that will lead to the arrest and con viction of any person or corporation guilty ot violating the Federal statute against trusts ? Let him do this, and institute vigorous proceedings against trust law-breakers, and the people will no longer have doubts as to his faith fulness of his oath of office, and he will no longer be the target for criti cism, innuendo, and invective on the part of the press beeause of the fact that while the trusts ride roughshod over the people, ths Attorney Geoeral, Townsend's CLOTHING HOUSE. The last drawing was held on Thursday, August 1st. THE LUCKY NUMBER, 1222. The customer holding this num ber will please call and get a FREE TRIP To Buffalo Exposition. WE AREOFFERING ISKillEllilCTl'SIXSIJIEIlMING Must be sold to make room for Fall Goods. Call and see for yourself that the right place to buy your clothing is at Townsend's Clothing; House. Too I Getting: Our New I Store arranged to write I ads. See this space next week. F. p. who is the sole officer under the Fed eral law who is vested with authority to prosecute them, refuses to take any action." A well known Texan, Mr. John T. Camni'.ns, of Austin, has been telling tales in Washington about the ambiti ous young legislators of his State. He said: "The legislature is seeking to re district the State for members of Con gress. The ambitious young men in the legislature, who think they are qualified to come to Congress, are seeking to fix up the reapportionment Busy ! pursel. so that as many as possible of tht present Representatives shall not be able to receive reelection. Half the delegation in Congress are hovering around the State Capitol to protect their personal interests, but u looks as though the legislature would be unable to do anything." The State Association of County Commissioners will hold its auuual convention at IJellcfonte September 24, 25 and 26 next. Kach board is expected to be preseut with its chief clerk and attorney.
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