THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
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THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED 1S60.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
Established 1837. Consolidated 1S69
ri'Bi.isiiEi) Eveky Thursday Moknino,
At Hloomsliurg. the County Scat of
Columliia County, Pennsylvania.
CEO. E. EI. WE EL, Editor.
V. J. TASKEU, Local Editor.
GEO. C. KUAN', I orumax.
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THE COLUMBIAN, Iiloomsl.urij.Ya.
THURSDAY, OCTODF.R 9, 1902.
FOR OOVKRXOR,
ROBERT E. PATTISON.
of Philadelphia.
FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR,
GEORGE W. GUTHRIE,
of A'legheny.
FOR SECRETARY OF INTERNAL
AFFAIRS.
JAMES NOLAN,
of Berks. .
DISTRICT TICKET.
FOR CONGRESS,
(Long Term.)
CHARLES H. DICKERMAN.
(Short Term.)
ALEXANDER BILLMF.YF.R.
FOR STATE SENATOR,
J. HENRY COCHRAN,
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET,
FOR REPRKSENTATIVES,
HON. FRED. IKELER,
HON. WILLIAM T. CREASY,
FOR MINE INSPECTOR,
MARTIN KELLEY.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
C. A. SMALL,
FOR PROTIIONOTARY AND CLERK
OF THE COURTS,
C. M. TERWILLIGER,
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER,
J. C. RUTTER, JR.,
FOR ASSOCIATE JUDGE,
WILLIAM KRICKBAUM,
FOR COUNTY TREASURER,
A. 15. CROOP,
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS,
GEO. W. STERNER,
WILLIAM P.OGERT,
FOR COUNTY AUDITOR,
CHARLES F. DERR,
GEO. II. SHARPLESS,
Let there be a big outpouring of
Democracy Thursday evening to
hear the candidates, Pattison,
Guthrie and Nolan. The meeting
will be held in the Court House at
7:30. Every Democrat go and hear
the issues discussed.
When, the Republicans tell you
that we had such hard times in 1893
as' them if they are really so igno
rant of the political history of our
country as not to know that the
panic of that year came while the
McKinley tariff law was still in
force, and before the Wilson tariff
bill had been passed. And ask
them if they are aware of the fact
that the great panic of 1873 came
under a Republican administration
ud under the highest protective
tariff the couutry has ever known.
Statement of Condition September 15, '02.
KESOKIVKS.
loin .... $2?4, t44 47
' . . Ilolnls . . . fo.OOOOO
I'.mkniR II. tin- . . . 27,560 4.
Sloi ks and Securities' . . I S j, 7"C 75
Cnsh & due fioin Banks & U.S.Tr. 109.21;. 53
Total
& 664,629.18
MAMUTIES.
Capital .
Surplus .
t'nitivMcd Trofils
Circulation .
Deposits . ,
Total
!? 50,OOO.rO
125,000 OO
I 1,067.24
1 50,000.00
428,561.94
664, 629. l8
THE NAIL TEOST-
Now that President Roosevelt
has come before the people and in
tones that ate resounding around
the world called attention to the
Trust evils, it behooves the voters of
the Sixteenth district to carefully
consider the positions of the various
candidates on this question.
In response to an inquiry, th
Hon. Charles H. Dickerman has
publicly and frankly stated that lie
is not or never has been a stock
holder in the Car Trust or any of
tlio otner so-called I rusts, and that
he has 110 official connection with
any of them. Iu coutrait, the si
lence of Hon. I red A. Godcharles
on this subject has been marked.
He has talked and talked and
talked on every matter under the
sun except this. He and his friends
have always taken to the woods
when the Trust topic was under
discussion. The people are asking
WHY? And the answer is at hand.
A few vans ago there was orga
nized what is known as the "Cut
Nail Association." This is an as
soci.ition of the cut nail manufact
urers east of Pittsburg, to fix and
maintain prices. Representatives
meet monthly and determine what
prices shall be charged durum the
ensuing month. The members are
bound by the most stringent oaths
not to violate the established figure.
So complete and thorough is the
organization that not a pound of
nans can oe uouglit under the
Trust price. The merchants of
this district have swept the country
with their inquiries hoping to se
cure a just quotation ou nails only
to find the Trust dominant every
where. So absolute is its control
that cut uails could be marked to
day to $50.00 a keg and that price
obtained. The only ljnitt to the
extortion practiced by the Cut Nail
Trust is the price of wire nails. It
is conceded that the wire nail
tears the timber less and lasts long
er, consequently, if the price of
cut nans is placed above the price
of wire nails the latter will be given
the preference. The wire nail busi
ness of this country is controlled
absolutely by the American Steel
and Wire Company, which is one
of the constituent companies of the
LTnited States Steel Corporation.
J. P. Morgan dictates the policy
of the Steel Corporation, so that in
directly he names the price on
every pound of nails sold in the
Sixteenth congressional district.
The F. A. Godcharles Company
has always been an active and ag.
gressive member of the Cut Nail
Trust, and is an unswerving advo
cate of higher prices. Every farm
er, every laborer, every miner, in
tact every inhabitant of this district
has been compelled to pay them
tribute. With this blood-money
they have built themselves man
sions, bought automobiles, and are
now attempting to debauch the con
gressional district.
We propose to show what prices
2Vo Hair?
"My hair was falling out very
fast and I was greatly alarmed. I
thea tried Ayer's Hair Vifjor and
my l.'air 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 are beginning to
show, Ayer's Hair Vigor
will restore color every
tiniC. 11.00 t botllc. All drugcltU.
If your dm;;"!: tiuumt (mpply you,
nud u dim dollar unit we will uxpreM
you a bottle. lie bure uml give the uuiue
bt your nenrnst exiiro&ri oflii-e. Adilresa,
j. u.Ait.H iu., Loweii, nasi.
would rule in this district providing
the Trusts did not exist. In ac
cordance with Trust rules the F. A.
Godcharles Company quoted on
September 8, 1902, on twenty-pen-nv
nails for points in this district a
delivered price of $2.22 per hun
dred pounds. It is necessary here
to explain that the Trust price does
not eovorn export business, it be i tie
agreed that members shall quote
for foreign business on a strictly
competitive basis without regard to
card prices, consequently we shall
find in the foreign quotations the
price that would prevail here if
honest competition had not been
stifled. On September 3, 1902,
Fuller Bros. & Co., the New York
selling agents of the F. A. God
charles Company, quoted on 2od
cut nails for South Africa a price
of $1.90 per hundred pounds de
livered New York City. The
freight rate frni Milton, Pa., to
New York City, is 9 cents per hun
dred pounds, which deducted from
the delivered price of $1.90 makes
the price of naiis, under normal
conditions, $1.81 per hundred founds
delivered on ears at Milton J a. No
one has ever accused the F. A.
Godcharles Company of a failure to
line their own pockets, consequently
their willingness to sell nails to for
eigners at $t.8i a keg indicates a
fair profit even at that price.
The F. A. Godcharles Company
backed by the Nail Trust is today
wringing forty-one cents a keg
from the people of this district.
When it is remembered that their
mill has an estimated capacity of
700 kegs a day, the tremendous
profit made out of their Trust con
nection is evident.
The lion. F. A. Godcharles has
the audacity to ask the support of
the voters of this district, because
he will "protect their interests."
Iu view of the facts given in this
article a more atrocious piece of hy
pocrisy could not be cousummnted.
He is "protecting" the foreigner
and plundering his neighbors.
One of the most important issues
in the present campaign is the de
mand for ballot reform. Both the
Republicans and the Democrats in
their State conventions, adopted
planks declaring for a reform in the
existing election laws. This declara
tion by the two parties m favor of
such reform will not in itself bring
about the desired changes in the
methods of conducting elections in
Pennsylvania. It would remain for
the Legislature to pass the neces
sary laws before actual reform can
be accomplished.
The Joint Committee for the Pro
motion of Election Reforms in
Pennsylvania has endorsed the draft
of the Ballot, Reform Bill prepared
by the Pennsylvania Ballot Reform
Association. The bill is intended
to meet the three fundamental
requisites of honest elections:
Absolute secrecy of the ballot in
every case.
A ballot which voters can use
without risk of mistake.
A ballot by which candidates of
all parties have an equal chance to
receive the votes of their supporters.
It is precisely in these particulars
that thepresent Ballot Law of Penn
sylvania falls short of what the
people have demanded of the Legis
lature lor the past ten years.
The proposed Ballot Reform Bill.
which amends the present Pennsyl
vania ballot law, is intended to
meet these objections. The bill
provides, as the most essential
change in the existing law, that all
candidates shall be grouped under
the title of the office for which they
have been nominated. It provides
also that every voter shall mark his
ballot absolutely alone, unless clear
ly prevented by physical disability
or inability to read; and that in all
such cases the man that helps a
voter to mark his ballot shall him
self be sworn to secrecy.
It is the intention of the Toint
Committee to have this Fallot Re
form Bill introduced at the next
session of the Legislature. The bill
is in no sense a partisan measure,
and it is the hope of the committee
that it will receive the support of
both Republicans and Democrats.
As prepared hy the Joint Com
mittee the bill will not work to the
political advantage of any party or
faction, but will, it is believed, go
far towards remedying the abuses
which now obtain in the State in
connection with the elections.
The committee also has endorsed
a Personal Registration Bill, which
will be presented at the next ses
sion of the Legislature. The bill
was drafted to meet the amend
ments to the Constitution adopted
by the people at the November
election of last year. It applies
only to cities of thev State and does
not affect the country districts or
boroughs.
It provides for personal registra
tion instead of the present system
of assessing voters. The cities are
divided into registry districts, and
three registrars are allotted to each
district. All claimants for registra
tion are required to appear in per
son. After having been once reeis-
Ml Staffed Up
That's lh.? condition of many tmfferers
from ct.Umh, especially in tho morning.
Groat dtfTiMiHy in cxpcrienco.l in clear-'
hip; lb a lu r.J. x.A throat.
No wonder catarrh causes hoadachc,
imr.'drs t'io i:u (rnc'.l and hearing,
pn.iiitos t'.-.rt lirtwth, (ITiU'cr the Ptota
ui'li and nlfecte l',u appetite.
To cure c.-.tarrii, ti-patinrrit must be
Con.-titntionnl alterative find tonic.
"I vf3 n'il'c'M M.tr'h. I took
!ni'i:ii'.'it s of tlil'it.r.'iu l.l:iu., i.'lvlnir rm u
n fair trial; hi-.t f!rudu:J!y irew worse until
I could hardly li'jar, t:ite or mnr-11. I tlicn
conclf)d'd to try Hood's S.irsiporilln, and
lifter taking live bottles I wm cured una
have not hart any return of tlic dljcase
since. Euctsu tonnea, Lebanon, Kan.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Cim-s catarrh it soothes and Ftreneth-
ens the mucous membrane and builda
up the whola eystetn.
tered the name of the voter remains
on the list for twelve months with
out repetition of the application.
This system of registration is ex
tiemely simple, but, if in use,
would prevent much of the fraudu
lent padding of assessors' lists, said
to exist in the larger cities of the
Commonwealth.
Fattison Oan Be Elected.
It is manifest now that the Re
publican party is depending on the
fraudulent votes of Philadelphia to
eiect the Quay ticket and if they are
disappointed in that expectation
they are gone. The registry lists
have been fixed to poll anywhere
from eighty to one hundred and
twenty-five thousand fraudulent
votes for Penny packer and the two
Browns. That is that number of
non-residents, persons who have
moved away or died and fictitious
names have been put on tlie registry
lists with the view of putting ballots
in to represent them in bulk before
the polls are opened or by the ser
vice of repeaters afterward.
Chairman Donnelly of the Demo
cratic City committee of Philadel
phia assures the public, however,
that there will be a fair vote in the
city this year. lie bases that prom
ise on the fact that there will be
honest, intelligent and courageous
minority representation 011 every
board and vigilant and brave watch
ers outside and in during the voting
and count. If Mr. Donnelly's ex
pectations ar.' nut disappointed lib
statement may be set down as a.fact.
It will be impossible to poll any
considerable number of fraudulent
votes, even with the Philadelphia
machinery if the minority repres
entation on the boards is honest and
courageous and the watchers active
and brave.
Taking these claims together, we
believe that what Mr. Donnelly says
will be fulfilled. The Democrats in
Philadelphia have not gone into a
fightjbr a dozen years with the zeal
and earnestnesss which character
izes them this year. They feel that
there is hope, that encourages them
to effort and it may safely be said
that the Republican majority in the
city will be less than 30,000 instead
of about four times that figure. In
this out look there is a guarantee
to the Democrats of the State that
their efforts will not be wasted this
year. If they do their full duty.
Pattison will go to Philadelphia with
a majority that even the ordinary
frauds of that city will not over
come. Bellefonte Watchman.
Godcharles Uontrola Labor. .
The dominating feature of the
connection of the F. A. Godcharles
Company with the Nail Trust is'
perhaps the discrimination against
our owu people in favor of the for
eigner. In addition, however, to
forcing forty-one cents a keg abnor
mal profit from the buyers iu this
district the Nail Trust enables them
to control absolutely the labor em
ployed in their mill. The various'
members of the Trust are so closely
in accord that a Black List can be
made and enforced so strictly that a
workingman under the ban can be
deprived of his right to earn a liv
ing. North, south, east and west
the arms of the Nail Trust reach
and a man may travel from Portland
to Pittsburg hunting work without
success if the F. A. Godcharles
Company so wills it.
Candidate Godcharles shakes
hands with himself and laughs
quietly when he thinks how com
plete his control is. On one side he
lorces up prices while on the other
he grinds down the wages of his
workingmen, threatening to deprive
them of their livelihood if they
object.
It has always been a basic princi
ple of American Institutions that a
man shall have the right to sell his
labor to the best advantage to him
self. The Nail Trust when it brings
forward its Black List consequently
strikes a blow at every hearthstone,
an attack which will be indignantly
repelled by every true friend of
labor.
An exchange says coal is now in
the same class with happiness
money can't buy it.
pmiwSEriMiBrrgr.T".gaaj
ALL
if STYLISH
MP'
For Young Men, Boys, and
Children.
Call and See Them.
THAT ONE
m 1 irli I
It tells the whole story of a new season's preparation
in this shop. It tells you of markets visited, represent
ative lines of the world's best merchandise carefully in
spected and carefully bought. It tells you that this same
merchandise is here noyv awaiting your verdict of ap
proval Warm autumn colorings have supplanted the
light airy tints of summer in every section of the store
The needed things, the looked for things, the things
you ve been figuring on for your autumn and winter out
fitting are all here and ready.
The New Wool
Weaves.
Dress Goods interest you
more just now perhaps than
any other class of merchandise.
This store's dress goods show
ing is all that you could ask.
This week we will sell
56 in. all wool cloth worth
oocat 59c.
Some 34 in. cloth mixed at
23c.
38 in. Venetian cloth, at 50c.
3S in. Camels effects, new fall
shades 50c.
Rich New Silks.
Silk selling is always a fea
ture at the season's start.
We've bought to make the sell
ing most satisfactory to you in
every way.
Plain Taffeta, all colors at 50c.
" " " " " 7Sc
Moire silk will be the big sell
ing silk this fall, price 85c,
$i.oq and $1.25.
New Furniture For Fall.
. This is a department this
ESf.8 "y,,nrew fnend?Tf
- fu4 num uur nome factory. We have no freight
to pay, no packing or unpacking that costs. It is fresh from the
maker, bright and new. and at a less price than you can get it
WvlV V2, lf y-U ,WU c.omPare qity. We don't claim to
have the lowest priced furniture, it won', pav us to sell the cheap
JS? tT-V,? 1 Pa' yU t0 buy U- If 5'ou in ed of furni-
jsTwhS dnr c you to come; this store d let '
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STYLES
CLOTHING
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WORD
A Fine Showing of
Winter Jackets.
Just a few of the choice new
things. Those exclusive styles
that we have. They are the
best values we have ever
shown.
That Ladies' and Misses'
Jacket at $6.00.
Misses Jacket made of all
wool Kersey, lined with silk at
$7.98.
Three different styles of
Ladies' and Misses' Jackets at
S 10.00.
A Fine Showing of
Walking Skirts.
Prices, 3.98, 5.00, 5.50, 5.98 to
7-50.
Ladies' Dress Skirts.
We have never shown so
large assortment. Prices 2.98,
4 50, S-oo, 5.50, 5.98, most any
price to $10.
store is very proud of because it
the store. We get most of the
Pursel.
TAILOE-MADE SUITS.
N. S. Tingley has accepted the
agency for Reinach, Ullman & Co.
of Chicago, merchant tailors, and is
reedy to supply made-to measure
clothing at prices lower than can be
obtained elsewhere. He has a large
line of samples to select from. His
place of business is the third, floor of
the Columbian building. 4t.
' iiiliMftl
Try Tub Columbian a year.