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THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
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E. W. M. LOW, President, E. B. TUSTIN Viae Pres.
J. M. STAVER, Vice Pres.
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED 1866.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
established 1837. consolidated 1869
Published Every Thursday Morning,
At Bloomsburg, the County Scat of
Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
GEO. E. ETAVELL, Editor.
1). J. TASKKR, Local Editor.
GEO. C. ROAN, Foreman.
Terms: Inside the county $1.00 a year
ia advance; $1.50 if not paid in advance.
Outside the county, 1.25 a yenr, strictly in
Advance.
All communications should be addressed
THE COLUMBIAN, BloomsburR, Ia.
THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1902.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
FOR CONGRESS,
ANDREW L. FRITZ,
of Bloomsburg.
Subject to the decision of the
Congressional Conferrees of , the
17th District.
FOR STATE SENATOR,
J. HENRY COCHRAN,
of Lycoming Co.
Subject to the decision of the
Senatorial Conferrees of the 24th
Distiict.
FOR PROTHONOTARY AND CLERK
OF THE COURTS,
C. M. TERWILLIGER,
of B'oomsbvrs'.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
HON. FRED. IKELER,
of Blcomsburg.
HON. WILLIAM T. CREASY,
of Catawissa Township.
FOR ASSOCIATE JUDGE,
WILLIAM KRICKBAUM,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER,
A. B. CROOP,
of Briarcreek Twp.
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER,
J. C. RUTTER, JR.,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
C. A. SMALL,
of Catawissa.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
GEO. W. STERNER,
of Bloomsburg.
WILLIAM BOGERT,
of Scott Twp.
TOR COUNTY AUDITOR,
GEO. H. SHARPLESS,
of Catawissa.
C. F. DERR,
COUNTY CHAIRMAN-
The Democratic Standing Com
mittee met just after the close of
the Convention on Tuesday, and
W. B. Allen was elected County
Chairman over George Clemens of
Berwick by a vote of 24 to 15. Mr.
Allen's experience in business and
politics fits him well for the posi
tion, and bis services in the past
entitle him to the honor. He is
affable, popular and able, and a
fighter when occasion demands it.
We believe Mr. Allen will make
an excellent Chairman.
The recent campaign was an un
usually clean one. None of the
candidates sought to advance his
own interests by besmirching the
character of his opponents. Now
and then a rumor was started that
this or that cansidate had with
drawn but that is too old a trick to
accomplish much.
.
Alexander Billmeyer, of Wash
ingtonville, who has been endorsed
for the short term in congress by
the Democrats ot tnis county, was
in town yesterday shaking hands
and extending thanks to his friends
for the support given him.
Rev. Silas C. Swallow has again
been nominated by tire Prohibition
ists as their candidate for Governor.
E. F. CARPENTER, Cashier
0L0SE CONGRESSIONAL CONTEST IN
MONTOUR COUNTY.
With the greatest contest and the
most money ever spent in Montour
County in any campaign against
any candidate and with an army of
men in different parts of Montour
from Northumberland County, in
eluding the Judge of the Courts,
Mr. Dickerman won against Mr,
Fritz by the smallest margin ever
known in the County. A few more
votes propeny aistributea 111
several of the election districts
would have given Mr. Fritz twenty
delegates to eight for Mr. Dicker
man. One more vote from Mr.
Dickerman to Mr. Fritz in one elec
tion district would have given each
the same number of delegates.
Two votes in Washingtonville
borough, one vote in Limestone
township, three votes in the first
ward of Danville, and a few more
in Liberty township from Mr.
Dickerman to Mr. Fritz, would
have given Mr. Fritz eight more
delegates, or about two-thirds of the
whole number of delegates in the
County. The popular vote in the
County was almost even between
the two candidates.
With the Primaries in Columbia
county at the same time as in Mon
tour county, Mr. Fritz's friends
were all tied up at home and he
was left m Montour county on
Saturday entirely alone, with men
from Northumberland county at
almost every election district work
ing for Mr. Dickerman, otherwise
with all the money spent against
him the contest would have re
suited in favor of Mr. Fritz.
DICKERMAN WINS IN MONTOUR-
Northumberland County's Candidate for Con
grest Secures 16 ot tho 28 Delegates.
Monlour county's Democratic
primaries were held on Saturday.
The campaign has been a particu
larly interesting one. The two
candidates for congress, Hon.
Charles II. Dickerman of Milton
and Hon. Andrew L. Fritz ot
Bloomsburg, put forth their best
eflorts to secure the endorsement of
the county. The contest was a
pretty one, both candidates having
made a thorough and complete can
vas ot the county. So close wes
the vote that the result was in
doubt until the convention 011 Mon
day when the official returns showed
Dickerman to be the victor. He
carried the four wards of Danville,
Washingtonville, Anthony, Liberty
and Limestone township, which
gave him sixteen delegates. Mr.
Pritz won in Mahoning, Valley,
Mayberry, Cooper, Derry and West
Hemlock townships, a total of
twelve delegates. Mr. Dickerman
has the endorsement of Northum
berland county and Mr. Fritz was
endorsed Saturday by Columbia
county.
The primaries in Sullivan county
have not yet been held but from
the present state it is quite likely
that the conferees will vote for Mr.
Fritz.
At the convention on Monday
Alexander Billmeyer was endorsed
for the unexpired terra of Hon.
Rulus K. Polk. State Seuator J.
Henry Cochran of Williamsport
was nnanimously endorsed for re
noniiuation. R. S. Animermau
was nominated for assembly. For
District Attorney Charles V. Am
merman was chosen by acclamation.
There were six candidates in the
field for commissioner. The suc
cessful ones are Henry Cooper and
Geo. M. Leighow. Messrs Dicker
man, Billmeyer and Cochran were
empowered to select their own con
ferees. J. T. Rothrock, state commis
sioner of forestry, in a letter to
county commissioners stated that
the act of March 3, 1807. making
constables of townships ex-officio
fire wardens is constitutional and a
decision of Lycoming county court
is cited in support of the assertion.
CALL A HALT.
There is danger ahead for th
Democracy of Columbia County
unless a halt is called on all dishon
est and fraudulent practices at our
primary elections. Already our old
time regular majority of from two
thousand 16 twenty five hundred
has been much reduced, and we can
no longer count surely on more
than a thousand or so. This is
paitly owing to the factional fights
of the party wreckers who want to
rule or ruin, aud partly to the dis
gust engendered in the minds of
many men who either do not vote at
all, or vote for the opposition, be
cause of the boodle practices that
seem to have become an important
factor in our political system. It
has become almost impossible for a
poor man to run for office with any
hope of success, because of the de
mauds for money that are made up
on him.
Year after year we hear of the
alleged immense sums of money
that are plaoed in the Centralia and
Conyngham districts, each candi
date accusing all the others of be
ing the guilty parties. Every suc
csssful candidate is charged with
having secured his nomination by
the purchase of the returns from
that slection. Is this true, or isn't
it ? If not true, the honor of the
Democracy demands that the false
hood should be proven, and these
base charges should be denounced.
But if true, the perpetrators of these
outrages should be hunted down
aud punished to the full extent of
the law. And not only the receivers
of bribes but the givers. The
Bloomsburg boodlers who pay the
money are ten times worse than the
Centralia miners who accept it.
There are many good honest people
in the lower end of this county, and
these are rejoicing because the
thugs who run the politics of that
end have been rebuked by the con
vention. They say that many re
spectable people there never go near
the polls because they know their
votes will not be counted as cast.
We do not know what evidence
was presented to the committee on
fraudulent voting, but there was
sufficient in the affidavits to show
that some very crooked work had
been done by the election boards.
If the evidence was sufficient to
warrant the convention in throwine
out the votes of two districts, it
ought to be sufficient to warrant
the prosecution of the boards that
committed the frauds. These cor
rupt practices will never be stopped
by simply throwing out the vote
once in five or six years. It can
be stopped only by the conviction
of the perpetrators, and punish
ment to the law's limit. There is
something mnore to be considered
than the temporary victory of any
candidate. The life and the per
petuity of the Democratic party in
the county demand that some hero
ic measures be adopted to preserve
its good name, and to drive from its
ranks the boodlers and ballot
thieves. If pushed to the wall the
men down there, the bribed less
guilty than the bribers, may tell
what induced them to make fraud
ulent returns. If a trick has beeli
played and "thev have been falsely
accused, no one should demand a
trial and vindication sooner than
they.
Postmaster General Payne has
announced that the portrait of
Martha Washington has been de
cided upon as the first of American
women to adorn a United States
postage stamp. It will be placed on
the new 8 cent stamps.
A movement has been becrun in
Buffalo for the erection of n monu
ment to mark the spot where Presi
dent McKinley fell on the site of
the Temple of Music.
There are a lot of kids running
loose in Bloomsburg that are like
some men's promissory notes. They
need settling.
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You can rely upon it
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DEMOCRATIC) COUNTY CONVENTION.
IContinuod from 1st page
members this day nominated, to the
continuation of the fight for honest
and just ballot laws, personal regis
tration in cities of the first, second
and third class, and reform in the
primary election law.
III. That we endorse the course
and deeply lament the death of our
late Congressman, Rufus K. Polkas
removing from our par.y one of the
noblest, brightest, gtandest and
truest men that ever represented
the people of this district.
IV. That we endorse the course
of our senator J. Henry Cochran
and our members Ikeler and Creasy
in their stand against the wrongs
perpetrated upon the Common
wealth in the last session of the
Legislature.
Whereas: Hon. Andrew L.
Fritz, of Bloomsburg, Columbia
county, having received the nomi
nation for Congress in this county
for the long term, and Alexander
Billmyer, Esq., of Montour county,
having received the nomination in
this county for the short term there
fore be it:
Resolved: That the proper num
ber of conferees from this county be
selected by Hon. Andrew L. Fritz,
to meet similar conferees of this
Congressional district with instruc
tion to use all honorable means to
secure the nomination of the said
Andrew L. Fritz for the long term.
Resolved: That the proper num
ber of conferees from this county be
selected by Alexander Billmyer,
Esq., to meet similar conferees of
this Congressional district, with
instructions to use all honorable
means to secure the nomination of
the said Alexander Billmyer for the
short term.
The convention then adjourned.
COUNCIL GRANTS RIGHT OF WAY
To Tho Bloomsburg and Millville Electrio
Railway.
The Bloomsburg Town Council at
a meeting held Thursday evening, re
moved the obstacle which has retard
ed the progress of the Bloomsburg &
Millville Electric Railway Company,
by granting them the right of way
through the streets, and they will now
have e'ear sailing so far as this town
is concerned. The matter has been
held over for some time, because the
council on account of the volume of
other business, was unable to give it
the time that was required to pass up
on it. The vote Thursday evening
was unanimous, and the only condi
tion in the right of way is that the
Electric Railway Company maintain
and keep in good repair all culverts
with which they come in contact in
the construction of their road.
Another ordinance which met with
general favor and which was passed
was that of the Irondale Electric Light
Heat and Power Company. Grant
Herring was present on behalt of the
Company and speaking in regard to
the clause m the ordinance which re
quires that work on the proposed
enterprise should be completed in one
year, said that it was the purpose and
intention of the promoters to have the
plant finished and ready for operation
by the coining fall.
Council made provision that in case
the new company secures the contract
for lighting the streets of the town,
that light for the Town Hall, the
Market Square fountain and the sev
eral fire company buildings are to be
furnished gratis.
The Centennial Committee was
granted the power to control the
streets during the Centennial celebra
tion. An extension of thirty days time was
granted to the property owners on
Seventh street in which to la.y pave
ments, after which time it the matter
is not attended to the work will be
done by Street Commissioner Neyhard
subject to the usual penalty.
The Statu at a Glance-
L. G. Thomas has received notice
of his appointment as postmaster of
Danton, Pa. He is but 26 years of
age, probably the youngest third-class
postmaster in the country.
The Milton car works have been
closed down owing to differences with
striking employes.
The people of Delta are excited
over the discovery of a rich vein of
lead which assays gold to the amount
of $So to the ton. The ore was found
on a 150 acre tract, the mineral right
of which was purchased for a trilling
sum of Geo. V. Bear, who is employed
as bar clerk at the Hotel Delta.
The Pottsville postmaster sdlves
the problem of expectorating at the
door of the postoffice by having cuspi
dors placed at convenient intervals
throughout the building and as a sani
tary precaution they are flooded out
every morning.
Edward A. Niven, one o' the
best known journalists of Northwest
ern Pennsylvania, died at his home in
Wilkes Barre on Saturday of pneumo
nia, aged 61. He was one of the
founders of the Wilkes Barre Daily
Leader, and in early life was employed
on newspapers in New York, Chicago
and San Francisco.
TOWNSEND'S
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For Sale Only at
TCWISTSElsTD'S
TIig FopvLleix Clotliiex.
F. P. Pursel Store.
Going to tell you about some very tempting lota of lace
curtains, new and stylish gown goods, fresh wash goods
airivals, lour items of white goods, pure linen table
damasks, women's tailored suits.
LACE CURTAINS
These special lots of curtains
are bargains. We'll just make
this cold, statement and let good
buying judgment do the rest.
These four prices, $1.00, $1.50,
$2 25 and $2.98.
THE NEW GOWN GOODS.
If that new Gown hasn't been
bought, make a careful inspec
tion of the following offerings.
Perhaps they will help you to a
satisfactory decision. Those
Etamines that are steam shrunk,
4S in. wide all colors. Price 85c.
Those crepe Melrose 45in.wide
the newest weave this season,
all colors. Price 85c.
Carefully compare the quality
of those 45in. Prunellas. Price
$1.00.
GREAT VALUE IN WASH G'OLS
The cause for the life and ac
tivity in our Wash Goods sec
tion is. the values. Values is
what everybody hunts for in
buying.
io9c per yard. The greatest
value we have ever offered in
wash goods. Dimities, dotted
Swisses and Lawns. New Ging.
hams to make the line complete
ai oc, ioc, 12c up to 50c.
Go-Carts, 30 New Ones Come in Monday.
$0.75 to
Wanted: A tirl to do general
house work. Good waees. Call
at 222 West Third street."
The C-irton Fnmilv will inA
their annual reunion in Sylvan
park, Iola Pa., on June 18 1902.
All Girtons and their friends are
requested to be present. A very
interesting program has been got
ten up for the occasion. If it
should be stormy on that date then
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J. J. Kreamrr, Sec.
CLOTHING
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to Change
your old-fashioned suit ought to
be taken up.
You won't delay long if you set
the style we show in our
New Bell
Sack Suits.
from the factory of Crouse &
Brandegee, Manufacturing
Tailors, Utica, New York.
We put them in stock becausa
they represent ideal fashion for
stylish young men.
They have the jaunty military
cut, the individuality in design and
the fit that the discriminating man
insists upon having.
You won't want one unless you
are a stylish dresser. If you are,
you are going to have one.
FOUR ITEMS OP WHITE GOODS
These four items of White
Goods are put here because they
belong here, and we want you
to know about them.
Fine White Persian Lawns 28
in. wide. Price 25 cents.
French lawns, something new
this season, as thin as Organdie
and will laundrv as nice as new,
42in. wide. Price 39 cents.
ChifTonette 4Sin. wide. Price
79 cents.
PURE LINEN TABLE DAMaSES
When we say linen, we mean
flax, not a cotton mixture, Com
pare these Damasks with what
is said about them.
Extra heavy unbleached Dam
ask 56m. wide, all linen 50c.
72m. wide, bleached Damask.
Price 60 cents.
WOMEN'S TAILORED SUITS
They are the proper Suits for
this season. Here are two lots
of newest styles to choose from
as follows:
Suits that we sold at $12.00
and $12.75, reduced to $8.00.
$11.00 and $t 2.00 Suits, reduced
to $9.98.
$25.00.
F. P. PURSEL.
For Rent. Cheap " housed
rooms, heated with steam, on res
ervoir hill. WmjChismak.
TAILOR-MADE SUITS-
N. S. Tingley has accepted the
agency for Remach, Ullman & Co.
of Chicago, merchant tailors, and is
ready to supply made-to measure
clothing at prices lower than can be
obtained elsewhere. He has a large
line of samples to belect from. His
place of business is the third floor of
the Columbian building. 4t.