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THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED 1866.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
EiTAiii.isiiKn 1S37. Consolidated 1869
I'tTBI.ISIIKD EVKRY TllURSPAY MORNINO,
At bloomsburg, the County Scat of
Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
GEO. E. EIAVELL, Editor.
D. J. TASKEK, Local Editor.
GEO. C. ROAN, Eoremas.
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THE COLUMBIAN, nioomsburK, Pa.
''THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 190a.
ANSWER TO B- E. ZAKR'3 COMMUNI
CATION. By W. C. Johnston Esq., Chairman of The
Democratic Convention.
Careful reading of the Zarr-sign-ed
communication in last week's
Columbian discloses that it reflects
upon the integrity and honest pur
pose, not only of the Democrats
constituting the recent Convention,
but upon the whole Democratic
party of the county. It contains
misleading statements and absolute
falsehoods, and smacks much of the
language and sentiment of the poli
tician who was retired by the peo
ple, and who has repeatedly gone
over to the enemy and against
Democratic candidates.
As chairman of the recent con
vention, and as one of the many
Democrats who desire that justice
be done to all, and that the nomi
nations be made by an honest count
of the vote as cast, and not by ma
nipulated returns, I answer the
communication.
Fairly analyzed, the communi
cation contains the following:
1st. The statement that Zarr is
not a sore-head and disappointed
candidate, yet the entire article
goes to prove that he is Ihc sorest
kind of a sore-head, and that he is
bitterly disappointed, that his
friends, including the pretended in
active politician, did not nominate
him "in spite of hell" as one of his
zealous supporters promised to do.
2nd. Zarr claims that because it
appears or did appear, by the re
turns to the County Chairman of
the Convention, and by the ballots
that he had received the greatest
numberof votes, therefore he should
have received the nomination. It
is not the first time that the returns
. as they appeared were not correct.
Zarr neglected to mention two im
portant things: Finn, he says
nothing about what his lrieuds were
-doing on Sunday and Monday over
the mountain, at Numidia and at
Catawissa, and that it was absolute
ly necessary that the late returns
from the mountain should have the
vote appear to be for him in order
to make it appear to the convention
that he had received the largest
vote. Second, he fails to state that
a committee of five qualified return
judges of the conversion, one of
them, Barrett, his warm supporter,
was-appointed under the rules to
investigate alleged frauds, and that
Ihis investigating committee after
.Hearing testimony, examiniug evi
dence and hearing the argument of
Zarr's counsel, recommeuded to the
convention that the vote oi two
districts should be thrown out, and
that the convention by a deliberate
decisive vote, adopted the recom
mendation and threw out the votes
of the two districts.
This action of the convention and
its investigating committee com
posed of Zarr's supporters, as well
as others, forever settles it; that as
a matter of tact Mr. Zarr did not
have the plurality of votes cast for
the candidates for Trothonotary.
The convention was uot tobe fooled
by the returns as they appeared,
3rd. Zarr says that "Johnston,
one of Tervvilliger's lawyers, read
affidavits to the convention which
he had prepared for his client."
This ts not true. I am uot and
never have been Terwilliger's law
yer. I did not procure the said
E. 13. TUSTIN Vice Pres.
E. F. CARPENTER, Cashier.
affidavits, but the men whodid pro
cure them say that they can get
many more showing great frauds in
those districts.
4th. Zarr says that "Johnston
joined the committee as soon as it
assembled in the Grand Jury room.
This is not true. The Investigat
ing Committee twice sent for the
chairman to ask for information and
tor papers. Once, after it had been
out some time, and again after it
had completed its investigation,
written up and signed its report.
Both times there were men pres
ent when I spoke to the committee,
and 1 never said a word to any
member of the committee at any
time in lavor of, or against any
candidate. The last time the com
mittee sent for me Grant Herring
appeared before it as counsel for Mr.
Zarr and made a lengthy argument
tor nis client.
It was attempted to work the
game on the committee that was
successful six years ago, but this
time none of the committee but Bar
rett yielded to the threats, etc.
5m. xne communication con
tains an alleged statement by Mr.
Barrett. It needs but little atten
tion.
Barrett, Zarr's friend, was chair
man of the Investigating Committee
signed the recommendation to throw
out the votes of two districts, and
in a little speech without a dissent
ing report, presented it to the con
vention. The chairman cave Bar
rett all the time he desired to make
his speech and present the report
After he and another member of the
convention had spoken, and many
calls for the question were heard,
ir, uarreu unaertooK to maice a
second speech, and the chairman
properly declared him out ot order,
as the question was called. The
vote was then taken. Barrett him
self says that the committee would
not agree with him, showing that at
least four or five concurred in the
judgment that there was sufficient
evidence of fraud to warrant the
throwing out of the votes.
Barrett, after having helped to
make the recommendation, having
signed it and having reported it to
the convention, makes a "state
ment in writing," which if the
words credited to him are genuine,
stamps him, because of his incon
sisteucies, as a person beneath the
notice of everybody.
The action of the Investigating
Committee, and subsequently the
action of the judges constituting
the convention, was, according to
their best judgment from all the
evidence before them, and I chal
lenge Mr. Zarr and his astute attor
ney, who appeared for him before
tne investigating Committee, to
point tneir nnger at any improper
or corrupc move on the part of Mr
Terwilliger or any of his friends.
including myself, to improperly or
corruptly influence the action of
any member of the Investigating
Committee, or of the judges cousti
tuting the convention..
After a long and patient hearing
which caused the sessions of the
convention to be continued so late
that the lights in the hall had to be
lighted, the judges of the conven
tion, by an open vote and large
majority, voted to adopt the report
01 me investigating Committee.
which threw out the vote of the ;wo
mountain districts, because of the
frauds proved against them before
the committee and the convention.
oin. Aarr says " l nat you can
readily see how and why Terwilli
ger had fourteen votes more than I
bat in the windup, as the Johnston
people made it." At last he con
cedes that it was not the chairman
of the convention, not the Iuvesti
gating Committee, but the John
ston people, who demanded and se
cured the nomination of the person
who had honestly received the
nominating vote of the people. Yet,
wnen tnese people demand and c
cure the nomination of the man for
whom the greatest number of the
voters honestly cast their votes, he
accuses them of defrauding bim of
the nomination. Serious accusation
for a young man, even a Zarr, to
make against the Democratic party.
But who are the people that Zarr
so boldly and so unjustly accuses
of defrauding him? The best an
swer to this question is to refer to
the thirty districts whose return
judges supported Johnston for
chairman, and to the scores ol oth
er good Democrats who demanded
that as Terwilliger had received
the vote he should also receive the
nomination.
These are the men that are de
termined that the votes of the peo
ple shall be counted as cast, regard
less ot the work of bottle-and-boodle-vote-solicitors
and elcction-return-nianipulators.
These are the peo
ple "who hold sacred their political
integrity, their honesty of purpose,
and their fidelity to Democratic
principles, and who demand that
nominations by fraudulent voting
and returns of a few districts must
be stopped.
In justice to all it can truthfully
be said that every fair-minded man
in the convention, or who has im
partially considered its work,
honestly believes that Mr. Zarr did
not recsive the votes he claims and
should not have received the nomi
nation, Barrett, boodle and bluff to
the contrary, notwithstanding.
One thing more. No one knows
better than Mr. Zarr's counsel, who
evidently got up, or assisted in
getting up the Zarr signed com
munication, that I never have been
and am not likely ever to be,
owned, bossed, or used by any
politician or set of politicians. He
knows it by experience as well as
by the fact that I absolutely refused
to promise to appoint the man that
his friends begged and insisted.
should be appointed at one of me
Investigating Committee at the recent
convention.
As to my part in the convention
I have only to say that I honestly
tried to discharge the duties as
chairman impartially and fairly,
and to the best of my ability, for
the best interests of all concerned,
and the party, and am entirely sat
isfied to leave the matter in the
hands of the good Democrats of
the county.
Very respectfully,
Wji, C. Johnston.
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'The Almighty Dollar." He is King.
The proverbial saying, "Money
maiies the mare go," is more in evi
dence to-day than at any other time
in the history of our country.
The money power is represented
by only a few thousands of our
countrymeu, while still a fewer in
number of other nationalities, com
pared to the masses control the
wealth of the world. -The money
power is world-wide and a unit in
its endeavors to expand and multi
ply itself by hook and crook in eat
ing out the substance of the masses
on which alone it can only exist
and thrive.
Corruption and fraud, deception
and ch cauery are an impossibility
among the honest and unsuspecting
masses, hence they are the victims
of the autocratic classes who have
built upon their rights and privi
leges the greatest money oligarchy
that every existed in the history of
the world.
The money power is neither par
ticular nor partial upon what coun
try or people it thrives ; all it cares
is to secure or control all the wealth
wherever it may be found. It is
satisfied with uothing short of this.
It would even mortgage a man's life
to its service and make him a slave
absolute.
The money power rests upon the
presumption that might is right,
and its only policy is to get wealth.
Get it, Get if you can, And if you
can't, get it anyhow. It is blind to
all justice, deaf to all appeals of
cnanty, arrogant, haughty, defian..
It bleeds every necessity of the
masses and only laughs and scorns
when rebuked for its insolence.
Every attempt to curtail its arro
gance and robbery through legisla-
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My hair was falling out very
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then tried Ayer's Hair Vigor and
my liair stopped falling at once."
Mrs. G. A. McVay, Alexandria, O.
The trouble is your hair
does not have life enough.
Act promptly. Save your
hair. Feed it with Ayer's
Hair Vigor. If the gray
hairs arc beginning to
show, Ayer's Hair Vigor
will restore color every
time. $1.00 twills. All dr.tlU.
if your druqrlit cannot mly you,
tcml 11. one dollar and we will vx)ir
you a bottle. Jle sure and site the name
ot your ueareHt "xmc olliie. Address,
J. C. A V til CO., Lowell, Mius.
Rheumatism
V'hiit Is tho use of tcl'.lng tho rlimtnuitld
that he feels ns If his Joints were belns dis
located 1
Ho knows Ihp.t his sufferlnpTB nra very
mttrh like the torlnves of tho rack.
What he want! to know Is whut will per
manently eure his tlis:'nno.
That, areonlln! to thousands of grateful
testimonial, Is
Hood's Sarsaparilla
It promptly neutralizes tho aeld In the
blood on which the dlseaso depends, com
pletely eliminates It, and stremrthens tho
system Kiilnst Its return. Try Hood's.
tion or official recommendation, is
promptly met by its champions and
relegated forthwith to the back
ground.
1 he climax of corruption was on
ly reached when Quay manipulated
the will of the republican party
through corrupt delegates and made
rennypacker the choice of the mon
ey power instead of Elkin. And it
now remains to be seen whether his
skill or ability in ballot box stuffing
will enable him to consummate the
crowing crime of the age.
But the. money oligarchy are net
all republicans. It has just as
trusty servants who call themselves
democrats. And it is immaterial to
the money power in whose hands its
interests may fall. It will suffer no
man to be elected to responsible po
sitions to administer in the interest
of the masses with the classes.
Even at this time again, Cleve
land raises his voice from behind
the democracy he betrayed. He is
another of the trusted money auto
crats. He was just a model presi
dent for them. And no doubt they
would like to have the democrats
make him president again. But he
will be obliged to seek a high offic
ial position through other sources
than through the name of democra
cy. He has forfeited the honored
name, "Democrat," by his treach
ery. He, and the like of bim, are
none of us. The Benedict Arnolds
always serve the money power
They never do anything in the in
terest of the masses. But at every
opportunity they betray the interest
of the people to plutocracy. We
have no more use for Clevelandism
after his treacherv. than Washing
ton had for Benedict Arnold after
his treachery.
Both deserved the contempt of an
outraged trust; but the iormer tries
to creep back and take command of
his lorsaken forces, while the form
er fled to the enemy to save his
neck. J.
Oat Door Events at tbe Normal.
The annua' field day sports at the
Normal'School, on Monday, attracted
a large crowd of people to Athletic
Field. The events were all warmly
contested and a deep interest was
manifested. At the close ot the pro
gram, the Middlers trotted off the
field victors, they having captured 28
points to 26 for the Sudors. The
Juniors had but 18 to their credit.
In the individual standing Riland
was first with 14 points, Hartman,
second 10 points; Jacobs, third, 9
points; Ruloflf, fourth, 8 points;
Kieber, tilth, 6 points.
The first event was the pole vault
and Riland finally won by going over
at 7 ft. and Pickering third, 6 ft. 6 in.
The high jump was easily captured
by Jacobs, who jumped 5 feet; Rut
off, second, 4 ft. 10 in. and Kieber
third, 4 ft. 8 inches.
The hundred vard dash was very
close, Hartman crossing the tape first,
Riland second, and Elder third. The
time was 11 seconds.
Ruloff was an easy winner in the
running broad jump, his mark being
18 feet 5 inches. Riland was second
with 17 ft. 11 ins. and Jacobs third,
16 It. 10 inches.
Only four contestants were entered
in the mile run and Kieber crossed
the tape .first in 5 minutes and 20
seconds. Barker was second and
Landis third.
The 2 20 yard dash was another
closely contested event, Hartman
winning in 24J seconds, Riland finish
ing second and Elder third.
The shot was won by Miller, his dis.
tanca being ft. 3 inches. Donald
was second with 34 feet 2 inches and
Leighow third, 31 feet 3 inches.
The most interesting and exciting
event of the day was the mile relay
between the three classes and for a
time it was difficult to pick the win
ner.
Keiber soon passed his competi
tors, however, in the last heat for the
Seniors, Hartman finished second for
the Juniors and Ruloff, third for the
Middlers.
0- TJ. A- M- Officers.
At a meeting of Bloomsburg Council
No. 146, O. U. A. M., held Tuesday
evening, the following officers were
elected:
Councilor, R. B. Ilartzell; Vice
Councilor, F. H. Eyerly; Recording
Secretary, R. H. Ringler; 'Financial
Secretary, VV. E. Rinker; Assistant
Recording Secretary, Boyd Eyerly;
Treasurer, George L. Mover; Induc
tor, Isaiah Oh); Examiner, Charles
Logan; Inside Frotector, Calvin
Girton; Outside Protector, H. M.
Hosier; Trustee for eiehteen months.
' R. H. Ringler.
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Just Plain Common Sense.
There may not be much literary ability displayed in our ad
vertising. We do not believe in turning verbal "handsprings"
or summersaults to attract the
But we do believe in using common sense in our public announce
ments. There s a vein ot common sense in most io.'ks; to reacn
it by talking clean, straight-from-the-shoulder facts concerning
our methods, merchandise and prices. Sometimes we hit, some
times we miss but we aim to hit every time. When we miss the
loss is as much yours as ours.
Screen Doors.
When vou can buv Screen
doors at the price we sell them,
don t have your nouse mi -a
with flies. Hine-es and ev2.v-
thing complete 85c, 1.10 and
1.25 eac.
Porch Rockers.
We put a low price on what
we have We don't intend
to carry ary over. Pnce 1.25,
1.40, 1.75, 1.98 and 2.49.
Hammocks.
Yes we carry a nice assort
ment of Hammocks, 75c. to
2.98 each.
Mattresses and Springs
You spend about one third of
your time in bed. Why don't
you make yourself comfortable,
it won't cost you much if you
come to this store to buy your
mattresses and springs.
Mattresses 2.25 to 12.00.
Springs 2.00 to 5.9C.
Boys' Knee Pants.
We carry all sizes made of
Linen and Cottonade and sell
them less than you can make
them for, 25c. each.
SUMMER DRESS GOODS.
We open this week a big assortment of new Lawns and Dimi
ties. We bought this lot at a low price and they will be sold at
a low price.
F. P. Pursel.
Notice.
Notice is hereby given that the Di
rectors of the Bloomsburg School
District will meet on Friday evening
June 27 1902 for the appointment of
teachers and janitors for the ensuing
year. Applications Irom experienced
teachers only will be considered and
those selected must attend semi
monthly institutes. Applications will
be received up to 6 o'clock p. m- of
said day by the secretary,
W. E. Rinker,
2t Secretary.
your old-fashioned suit ought to
be taken up.
You won't delay long if you Bet
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
are going to have one.
attention of our buying public.
Ladies' Duck Skirts.
1.49 Blue and Black with
White Dots, 1.49.
Shoes.
This store sells more shoes
each month. Do you know tbe
reason? First we sell reliable
shoes and second we sell them
at a less profit than you buy
them at most stores. "Come to
this store when you need the
next pair of shoes and let us
prove this statement.
Window Shades.
Felts ioc. each, Fringed Win
dow. WTater Colors 25c. each,
shades. Oil Colors 56c. each,
29c, 35c, 50c, 56c. to 1.00.
Refrigerators.
We sell the White Mountain
Refrigerate, there is no better,
don't take much ice to keep
things cool in them. Price 8.00
12.98 and 17.50 each.
Window Screens.
Yon can fit any window if you
come to this store to get screens
and one that is no trouble to
put in and take out. Price 23
27 and 30 cents a piece.
For Rent. Cheap house 7
rooms, heated with steam, on res
ervoir hill. Wm. Chrisman.
TAILOR-MADE SOITfl-
N. S. Tingley has accepted the
agency for Reinach, 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 select Irom. His
place of business is the third floor of
the Columbian building. 4L