THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. First National Bank, Bloomsburg, Pa E. W. M. LOW, -J. M. STAVISR, E. B. TUSTIN, -E. F. CARPENTER, CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, - - S190.000. o r Safe IDsposit IBozres Pox ZE3.t DIRECTORS : Myron I. Low, Geo. S. Robbins, J. M. Staves. o Dr. E. W. M. Low, Dr. J. II. Vastine, Way Accounts of banks, corporations, firms and individuals, solic ited upon the most liberal terms, consistent with good banking. THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED 1866. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, EsTAM.isiiEn 1837. Consolidated 1869 Published Evkky Thursday Morning, At Uloomslmrg, the County Seat of Columbia County, Pennsylvania. GEO. E. El. WELL, Editor. V. I. TASKKK, Local Editor. GEO. C. ROAN, 1'oruman. Terms: Inside the county fi.oo a year in advance ; $l,;oif not paid in advance. Outside the county, $1.25 a year, strictly in advance. All communication)! should be addressed THE COLUMBIAN, Uloomslmrg, Pa, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1901. PRE8IDNT MOKINLEY. The bullet of the assassin has done its work. President McKinley died at the home of John G. Milburn in Buffalo, 011 Saturday morning last at 2:15 o'clock. The remains were taken to Washington on Mon day, on a special train over the Pennsylvania toad. The remains lay in the rear end of an observation car, and the casket could be seen through the windows. It was cov ered with a silk flag, and guarded by soldiers and marines. All along the route thousands of people were gathered at the stations to pay a last tribute of respect to the dead Presi dent. At Sunbury nearly 10,000 people were assembled. The train stopped five minutes. Washington was reached at 9 o'clock Monday evening, and on Tuesday the re mains lay in state in the Capitol. On Wednesday they were taken to Canton, Ohio, the home of the President, and the final ceremonies will take place today, the remains being placed in a receiving vault for the present. Fuller details will be found elsewhere in this paper. The shooting of President Mc Kiuley, happening at a time of po litical calm, and so clearly tracea ble to the anarchistic infatuation of a shiftless, unknown creature, has created but one sentiment. The great underlying loyalty and hon esty of the American heart came uppermost at once, and from every quarter and every shade of true citizenship have come like meas ures of sorrow, affection aud indig nation, as the incidents of the das tardly deed evoked them. This assault upon the Chief Mag istrate has brought forth a concen sus among people aud publicists that stern and active legislation must be enacted to suppress and prevent anarchism of the destruct ive school in the United States. It is all well enough that men op pressed wrongfully in other lands should make America their asylum, but they must not make it a slaughter-house. We enthrone in our White House no tyrants that need the swift aud bloody medicine of derringer, dagger, or dynamite. Our atmosphere is that of liberty and law and must not be made poisonous by the breaths of those whose tongues and hands are against God, and government, and the public good. It hardly seems possible that any man can be so devoid of all feeling as to approve of the act of the as sassin who shot down President Mc Kinley, and yet it has been reported that expressions of approval have been uttered at many places. In a number of instances these sympa thizers with anarchists have been roughly handled. The American people are in no humor at present to tolerate Bitch inhumanity, and the man who is rash enough to make use of such language is liable to re gret it. The sympathy of the whole world goes out to Mrs. McKinley, the widow of the murdered President, and if the prayers of the nation are answered she will be given strength to bear up under the terrible blow that has fallen upon her. - Fkksiden f Vicr Pres't Cashier Asst. Cashier E. B. Tcstin, Louis Gross, BAERISBUR6 LETTER. General Gobin't Charges Against the Machine Legislature. IIarrisbvrg, Pa., Sept. 17, 1901 Of course the tragic death of the President has been the topic upper most in the minds of men in official aud political life of the state capital since that sad event last Friday night and it may be added that no less important an affair would have served the purpose of diverting pop ular attention from the recent as sertion of Lieutenant Governor J. P. S. Gobiu that the legislature which adjourned less than two months ago was the most corrupt in the hislory of the state. Com ing from such a man under such circumstances the statement not only shook the state from centre to circumference, but left capitol hill in a tremble for considerable time. General Gobin has especial op portunity to be familiar with the subject to which he refers. As pre siding officer of one of the branches of the legislature he was necessar ily in touch with affairs and an ob server, though probably unwilling, of the methods and processes of leg islation. In denouncing in emphat ic language the venality, which came within his knowledge during the session it cannot be said that he was influenced by political preju dices. General Gobin is a republi can of the most stahyart type. For many years he has been in the fore front of political contention and it may be added, something of a fa vorite among the leaders of his party. For fourteen years he filled the office of senator in the legisla ture and always occupied a place among the leaders of the body. He has been an officer in the National Guard for many years and stands high in the G. A. R. and other fra ternal societies. In fact he is the last man in the state who would be likely to make careless accusations against his party associates aud fel low public officials. But as a matter of fact General Gobin has made, accusations that cannot go unnoticed. He declares that venality permeated every branch of the legislature during the session recently ended.- Senators and representatives, he added, were on the auction block and bribery became so common that there was no pretence at concealment finally. Every measure of legislation in which the machine was concerned was obtained through bribery and corruption. The "ripper" bills both for first and second class cities were passed by purchased votes. The franchise grab bill . passed through a saturnalia of bribery. The at tempt to steal valuable coal depos its uudcr the streams of the com monwealth was attended by open and undisguised venality and was defeated qjily because the corrup tion became too obvious, if General Gobin is to be believed, and though nearly a week was elapsed since he made.the charge it is still unchal lenged. No member of the legisla ture and no leader of the party re sponsible for the legislature has un dertaken to deny the charges. Yet the republican party in state convention assembled put the seal of its approbation on the legislature and the work it performed. The platform of that party adopted by that convention is said to have been written by the attorney general of the state, Hon. John P. Elkin. It is also said and with good reason that Mr. Elkin was not only famil iar with the methods of legislation, but that he was a part of the ma chine that profited by the measures the character of which" is thus chal lenged. Moreover he is confiden tly believed to be the choice of the machine for the republican nomi nation for governor next year. Un der the circumstances the endorse ment of the legislature is an appro val of corruption. It is, unless the charges of General Gobin are dis proved, a notice to the public that venality is a virtue in a legislator and bribery a merit among men. It is equivalent to a declaration that a commission to public service in this state is a license to plunder the people in every possible way aud loot the treasury for the bene fit of a corrupt machine. Nor can General Gobin's state ments be disproved. As he states there was no concealment of the bribery during the session. It is a matter of common understanding that money was paid on every one of trie machine bills. Votes for United States senator were purchas ed at a price as high as $20,000. It is known that as much as $10,000 was paid for a single vote for speak er of the house and while Senator Washburn is generally rated as a cheap man, it is believed that he drew in all something like $20,000 in bribe money duriug the session. While the oleomargarine bill was pending in tha house a represent ative anorTi prime favorite of the machine in the presence of witness es asked the senator who was most concerned in the defeat of the bill for a price for his own vote and those of two others. On the same measure a certain amount was paid in cash to one of the members of a delegation consisting of five mem bers for the votes of all of them. When they all voted on the opposite side subsequently the man who paid the money followed the man who received it into a public place and demanded that it be repaid under pain of a personal chastisement. It is needless to add that the money was repaid. The writer was one of a group of five or six newspaper meu who were discussing the character of the legis lature one afternoou last winter. Or to speak more exactly, the writer joined the group and was told that out of 204 representatives in the leg islature they could pick out only twenty-four who were absolutely irreproachable, and of the fifty sen ators they could only find eight who were not susceptible to the influence of bribes. The list had been care fully gone over by the .intelligent and observant gentlemen. The statement was appalling as I had never previously given the subject a thought and I suggested this man and that of whom I had never enter tained a doubt, but in most cases my Jnends were able to cite one or two cases in which they had gone wrong under circumstauces which left no doubt of the influences that were used to produce the result. I was able to increase the number of representatives above suspicion to thirty and the senators to ten. That was a beggarly showing. But the republican state conven tion which was dominated by the present governor and the gentleman who has the friendship of the ma chine as his successor not only en dorsed that legislature by platform declaration, but in a more substan tial way. That is to say, it nomin ated tor state treasurer a man who was foremost among the machine managers on the floor. No machine measure ever failed to receive his cordial support. Frank G. Harris, of Clearfhld, was invariably con spicuous among the supporters of legislation that was vicious and mischievous. The "rippers" had his constant approval. The fran chise grabs and the coal grab got his earnest support. In fact he balk ed at nothing, but took orders from the beginning of the session to the eud and obeyed them. His nomina tion was the machine's reward for perfidy to the people which is im plied in that record. The funeral train conveying the remains of the deceased president from Buffalo to Washington passed through this city at a few minutes before 5 o'clock last evening and it was a most impressive spectacle. From an eligible point in one of the hotels near the station I saw the vast crowd assemble and disperse and it occurred to me that such a thing could hardly be possible in any other country than this. There were at least 30,000 people gathered within the range of eyesight of the train and there was neither an acci dent nor an unpleasant incident of any kind. The people came with heads bowed down in grief, paid the tribute of their love and respect to the memory of the martyred chief magistrate and weut their way silent ly. There was no loud voice to dis turb the solemnity of the occasion. A vast chorus sang "Nearer, My God, to Thee." as the train stopped and "My Country 'Tis of Thee" when it moved off. It was indeed a splendid spectacle and one that will long endure in memory. Folk oq Anarcbiem. "I believe each state should make it a penal offense to teach anarchistic doctrines. Tha.t the spreading of their literature should be promptly suppressed and that all persons found attending their meetings, or aiding them in disseminating their teachings, should be punished. It should be made impossible for them to find a place to live in this coun try. I believe that any attempt against the life of the President should be made a capital offense." DraggedDown Feeling In the loins. ' , Nervousness, nnrefrcfUlng tdwp, (Jospon dency. It Is time you were doing something. The kidneys were anciently called the reins In your enso thry are holding the reins and driving you Into serious trouble. Hood's Sarsa par ilia Acts with tho most direct, beneficial fffect on the kidneys. It contains the best and snfrst substances for correcting and toning thoe orrram. A Woman on the Police Force. The law officers of Washington have lately been busy with the question whether a woman may become a member of the police force, and have rendered the opinion that a woman may be appointed as an additional private on the police force for duty H a designated place. The question grew out of the request of the Hu mane Society for the employment of a woman as an additional private for the purpose of preventing cruelty to ani mals. Fortunately the candidate for the place was already at hand, and un questionably fitted for the work. She is Miss Woods, who Borne time ago proved herself plucky and quickwitted enough to stop a horse which was be ing cruelly driven by one of the lead ing sporting men of Capitol society. She held the horse until a policeman arrived on the scene, and the animal was found to Le bleeding at the mouth. In addition to the natural qualifica tions of quick observation and de termination, she has the advantage of having studied law. There are some decided advantages about having a woman as specnl police agent for work of this kind. Of course, it goes without saying that she . must be well fitted, by character and edu cation, for the work. Otherwise she would be worse than useless. . But in cases of cruelty to animals the culprit 3 apt td be a burly, illmannered fel low who could give a man a very pretty tussle if disposed to resist the law; and he would hardly do that with a woman. Moreover, the woman agent would in nine cases out of ten have the sympathy of the bystanders, and that amounts to something as a moral support. Women who are genuinely interested in this sort of work usually go into it with an enthusiasm which is contagious and effective, and are, per haps, more zealous than the average man would be in hunting down and punishing abuses. There would also be the consideration, not unimportant that the women selected for such posi tions would be picked for superior qualifications, and would be in a measure in trial, and therefore stimu lated to do the work better, if possible, than the ordinary policemen would do it. The idea of women as police is certainly a novel one, but in this par ticular case it does not seem bad at all. The Great Reading Fair. Berks County has always been noted for us large and highly success ful agricultural exhibitions. The com ing exhibition, to be held in the city of Reading, on the 1st, 2d, 3d and 4th ot October, judging bv the prep arations in progress, will eclipse all previous eflorts in that direction. Many special attractions have been provided, and the display in every de partment promises to be very fine. In fruit the county is rarely excelled, and a fine assortment ot varieties may be expected. The races will be exciting and diversified by a special program of amusements. Ten large shows have been booked. The railroad companies have granted liberal con cessions and will run excursions dur ing the Fair, and will also sell excur sion tickets good for the week. Read ing is one of the most attractive cities to visit, and is seen at its best during the week of the County Fair. .Republican Oluba Convention. INDEFINITELY POSTPONED ON ACCOUNT OF PRESIDENT'S DEATH, AND RE DUCED FARE ARRANGEMENTS CANCELED. On account of the death of Presi- dent McKinley, the Convention of the Pennsylvania State League of Re publican Clubs, which was to have been held at Scranton, Pa., on Sep tember 17 and iSjhas been indefi nitely postponed. Arrangements for reduced rates to Scranton via the Pennsylvania Railroad on this ac count are therefore canceled. OuUlrte and Inside. Sandy Thamson had a wife whose tongue was quite equal to the task of "denying a miller." One very wet, windy nifjht, as the minister was pass ing1 the joiner's house he was surprised to see Sandy standing in the mld.it oi the rain. "Dear me," said the minister, "what are you doing outside on a night like this?" "Oh, I'm shelterln' frae tha atorm," said Sandy, somewhut sadly. "Man, it's nnethlug outside tae what it's in aide." Dundee (Scotland) Newg. Townsend's CLOTHING HOUSE Will Tell You All About Fall Styles NEXT Look FROM Townsend's Clothing: House. FALL OPENING OF DRESS G00DS. . To-day our Dress Goods Department, next to Mar- uui, ia nwcu wiui &ui;u o-ress ijoous as rarely are seen in Bloomsburg. Of many styles there are but six yards, just enough for one diess pattern, and all that will be found in Bloomsburg. How can we paint the picture so that the charm of color and beauty of design will go from our minds into yours ? There are Dress Goods here so beautiful in weave, so exquisite in tex ture, so varied in colorings, as to incite wonder. There are plain Black Dress Goods of so many weaves, so many weights, that you would be unable to find such a display short of a large city. Here is almost every idea that might inspire beau tiful gowns. Just to look fills you with the pure and exquisite joy of creation. We invite you to come and take a look at them. New Tailor Made Suits. The $11 00 Suit is perfectly plain, one of the best we have ever had for the money. Double breasted new sleeves, as well tailored and finished as our most expensive suits. The difference in price, of course comes in the quality of mateiial and the lining. New Furniture. A great variety, and we deliver it right from our Home ractorv. po it is hrio-hr m,i ,..1, and at a less price than you Sg Combination Desks, $i i "Bed Room Suits. $16 00 to $50 00. Sideboards, $10 00 to $35 to. Rockers, $1 49 to $11 00. Some Special Offers. , J! 21 ?TXQ.1 ?8.c;' 3 So Counterpane at It tt Vi J , , icacneu Aiusiin at 52c.: 10 vards wnrJi JnaC?ed Mttslin 4SC : a lot of liress Goods! worth 50c. to 7sc., at 36c. A big lot of Tin ware and enamel ware at a -nriffi LACE CURTAIN SALE NEXT VEEK. F. P. He Spoke KaBhly aud Now He is Sony. "It is a cood thine McKinlev is shnt and I, for one, am glad of it. He 1 1 1 1 . snouiu nave been snot long ago," is the remark alleged to have ln?en innl by William J. Myles, a job printer of rvingsion. ine people of the town held an indignation meeting and con demned Myles. He now regrets his utterance, and went before Tusticp nf the Peace C. W. Iioone where he made affidavit "that he is heartily and thoroughly sorry that in a careless and thoughtless moment he gave express ion to a sentiment which reflected im- WEEK. Out For HEW! can buy at other stores oo to $20 00. PURSEL miwwwmm j properly o the life and conduct of uu """uent, and reassen his loyalty and intr.otism as a faithful citizen of the Unued States, ready at any call to serve tl,e country, defend the Presi dent and honor the law. C ASTOR I A ror Infants and Children, Ths Kind You Have Always Bought
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