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THE COLUMBIAN.
F.STAr.I.tSIIT.I) 1S66.
THE COLUVCIA DFMCCR4T.
Establish kd 1837. 0si in.virn tS'ty
I'UIIl.HHEI) EVEKV rill'RliV M ok N I NO,
At Blooms' urq. hr Counlv Scat of
Columliin County, Peunsylvr.ina.
GEO. E. El. WELL, Epitor.
GEO. C. ROAN, Korlman.
Terms: Inside the county $ 1.00 a year
In advance; fl.Joif not paid in advance.
Outside the county, $1.25 a yenr, strictly in
Advance.
All communications should leaddressed
THE COLUMBIAN, Woomsl.urn, Va.
TIILl'SiJAY. OO'OHKK 26, igor
Democratic State Ticket.
KOX STATE TKKARURF.K,
V. II. BKRRY,
of Chester.
FOR JVDGK SITREMR COURT,
JOHN STEWART,
of Franklin County.
FOR JUDGE SUPERIOR COURT,
JOHN B. HEAD,
of Greensburg.
Democratic County Ticket.
FOR PROTHONOTARY AND CLERK
OF THE COURTS.
C. M. TERWILLIGER
, of Dloomsburg.
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER,
FRANK W. MILLER
of Centralia.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
CHAS. L. POHE,
of Catawissa.
TERRY A. HESS
of Bloomsburg.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER,
M. II. RHODES
ot Bloomsburg, Pa.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
CHRISTIAN A. SMALL
ol Bh msburg.
FOR COUNTY AUDITOR,
C. L. HIRLEMAN
HARRY B. CREASY.
FOR MINE INSPECTOR
JAMES A. O'DONNELL.
1'HE GANu IN COLUMBIA. COUNTY.
Communicated.
The opportunity will afford itself
to every voter upon Nov. 7th to
cast bis ballot against tbe gang of
political manipulators who have
controlled the affairs of this state
for more than a generation.
This gang which has controlled
this state and its great cities is now
represented in every county of the
Commonwealth.
It nominated for its candidate for
state treasurer a man who has al
ways been subservient to its dicta
tion and who is today known as
the Messenger Boy for Penrose and
Durham, the leaders of the gang.
He well deserves this name, be
cause his record in the last legisla
ture shows that he stood for all the
vicious legislation championed by
this notorious gang. He gave his
undivided attention and support for
the passage of the famous ripper
bills, vice protecting bills, and
many other bills for the benefit of
the gang.
He was nominated for the high
office ot stale treasurer to continue
the system in vogue in this state of
handling the people's money for
the interest of politicians, so that it
could be invested by them and thus
hold up the hospitals, charitable in
stitutions and public school appro
priations while the gang is using
the money.
He is the man the gang can rely
upon to keep the lid of the state
treasury closed.
An examination of the legislative
record will show that he supported
The Kingston Dam bill which was
a measure to allow a lot ot politi
cians to grab, own and control all
the water powers in the state, eveu
IN THE COUNTY
Surplus and Undivided Profit!
$150,000.
1 . . 1 ,t,...,. ..1, 1 1
of the streams, lie voted for all
the job-crcNitii;g incisures; for the
' judge's increased salary bill, for an
endless lot of useless commissions,
, and lor Hie Qtiiy Statue.
I Another of Plummet's great
blunders was his opposition to the
amendment offered by Mr. Creasy
to increase the allowance for Town
ship High Schools from $100,0011
i to $2 o.roo, Mr. Pltimmer op
posed this amendment in the f; ce
ul the support of Frar.k B. McClaiu
the Republican floor manager ol
Lancaster and the reason for his op
position to this measure was that
he had o' ilei s 10 put the bill through
as it was mude up. These orders ol
course came from Penrose, Durham
and McNichol Think of it, a
measure carrying with it over $17
00c, 000 00 in which the tubers
of the legislature lnd no voice.
Dies this look like a representative
lorr.i 1 1 government ?
He opjvsed the measure author
izing trolley roads to carry freight,
by the order ol the k;ang; he was
against the measure permitting the
counties throughout the state to
use all the license money for local
purposes which in Columbia County
would amount to about $10,000.00
annually.
This, however, is all explained
"That it was necessary to keep" a
large surplus for politicians to spec
ulate with for private purposes,"
as shown by the recent Enterprise
Bank Failure of Pittsburgh, instead
of reducing the local taxes as pro
posed by this measure.
Yet, J. Lee Plumnier is the can
didate of the gang for state treas
urer, and do not lose sight of the
fact that the gang has its agents in
every ccunty throughout the state.
Now who is the agent of the gang
in this county? Mr. Duy, the
Republican county chairman, and
when Mr. Plumnier was to be nom
inated for state treasurer orders
were at once sent by Penrose and
Durham to their agent in Columbia
county, Mr. Duy, who obeyed
orders and had the delegates from
this county in line for the gang.
It is the same motive force that
is trying to elect Mr. Duy district
attorney that is trying to keep down
the lid of the state treasury.
Do not be fooled on this score.
Let us place our rights beyond the
power of this machine by striking
it down with our votes on the 7 th
of November next. Vote the
straight Democratic ticket from top
to bottom and thus show the
machine whose official head in Col
umbia county is Mr. Duy, that
Columbia county has no use for it.
Boil tbe Water
Owing to the prevalence of ty
phoid fever in this section all drink
ing water should be boiled. Dr.
F. C. Johnson, chief medical in
spector of the State Board of
Health, is reported to have made
such a recommendation. It is a
wise precaution and should be
adopted by every family.
Ayers
Do you like your thin, rough,
short hair? Of course you
don't. Do you like thick,
heavy, smooth hair? Of
course you do. Then why
Hair Vigor
not be pleased? Ayer'sHair
Vigor makes beautiful heads
of hair, that's the whole
story. Sold for 60 years.
" I 1it uied Aiir'i Hlr Vigor for a lon
time. It li. Inilneil. wonderful hair tonic,
rtiatnrliiK ht.lih to the hair and icalp. and, at
tilt laiuu tiniH, irovliiK a inlftnliil lriliii."
Lu. J. W. Ta Tl u, Madlll, lnd. T.
I M a hnttle.
AM ilruiv't.
J. e. ATKn ro
Tmii.II. Mutt
for
Weak Hair
W. B- Echrjck as an lnd. pend Lt Candidate
(Comtniinlc cd )
W. B Schuck of Catdwis.'a has
announced his determination to be
an independent C;ind date for
County Commissi jticr. He was a
Candidate at the Primaries last
June and was deflated. He announc
ed his name ' subject to the rules of
the Democratic Party." He knew
that ri d.-r the rules tiie Candidate
rcceivii g the highest number of
votes on the South would be declar
d the nominee from that side, and
he knew that the Candidate receiv
ing the highest number of votes
fiotn the North side would be de
clared the nomine: from the North
side; and he know this to be true
regardless of the fact that to can
didates residing on the same side
of the river might hat-e the most or
highest number of vctvs
This very rule regulating nomi
nations where two Candidates are
to be named for the Assembly
County Commissioner, Associate
Judg. and County Auditor, was
passed by the Democratic party to
protect the rights of the South side
Democracy. Prior to the making
of the ru'e, it was the unwritten
law of the party for fifty years that
the South side should hive one As
sociate Judge, one Commissioner,
one Member of the Legislature and
one County Auditor. This unwrit
ten law was respected by every
Candidate from the North side du
ring all these years, until Kiick
baum was nomin.iUd foi the cihee
of County Commissioner on the
North side, in 1S96. To prevent
arepttitioti of such an outrage eti
the South side Democracy, the rule
now in force was passed, and is now
a written law ol the Party.
When this unbroken custom for
fifty ye: r had been made the writ
ten law, certainly this should have
been the finger board pointing to
every Candidate, the duty he owes
to himself and party. But not so.
Only a few years ago an attempt
was made to wrong the South side
out of its Commissioner. Every
Democrat is familiar with the fact
that Mr. Fisher carried his case in
Court, and that Judge Dunham de
cided: "That a Party rule, not
against the policy of the law, was
binding on the party adopting it,"
and ordered Mr. Fisher's name
printed on the ballots. It will be
seen that it was this very ru'e that
protected the rights of the South
side three years ago; and it will
protect them in the future, if Den -ocrats
will be true to themselves
and to the party. If the South side
want this rule abolished, then it
may be some time before they get a
Commissioner, an Associate Judge,
a Member of the Legislature, etc.
forthere are about two Democratic
voters on the North side to one on
the South side.
Surely the South side has no
grievances at this time. She has
all that the rules of the Party allow
her in the nomination of Mr. Pohe
for County Commissioner, and
when Mr. Schuck makes a fight
against the rules of the puty, and
disregards the rights of Democrats
on the North side, he not only
wrongs his party and himself, but
he jeopardizes the rights of future
Candidates residing on the South
ride guaranteed to them by the rul
es, he is now endeavoring to over
throw. We are glad to know that
Mr. Bogart did not file nomination
papers.
.
"7by tbe Machine Fought Bard.
We may as well be candid in dis
cussing the pending political cam
paign. As a matter of fact it is not
political but the atrocious Republi
can machine having nominated a
candidate and drawn about him the
lines of the "organization," it is
called political. There is no politi
cal question involved however.
The State Treasurer has nothing to
do with the tariff, tin currency, the
expansion of territory, the centrali
zation of power or anything else
that is political. He has much to
do, however, with the honest ad
ministration of the fiscal affairs ot
the State and may have consider
able to say about the equal distri
bution of the burdens of the govern
ment and the honest disbursement
of the revenues of the Sta'e.
In fact these are the only ques
tions to be considered by the voters
in the present contest. The Repub
lican machine has beeu manipula
ting the revenues in various ways.
Everybody knows that the vast
treasury surpluses have been farm
ed out among favored bankers and
used freely to supply funds to
speculative politicians. That is a
criminal use of the public funds
but nobody any louger denies that
it is a common custom. There is
auother way of manipulating the
revenues, moreover, that is not so
commonly understood. That is fav
ored corporations are taxed lightly
cr not at all while the heavier burd
ens are put upon others to make up
Ban tha
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Tha Kind Yw Haw Hlwayi MM
For District Attorney
Vote Tor
CHRISTIAN A. SMALL
ol Bloom: burg.
Your Support is Respectfully
Solicited. v-mti
FOR
County Commissioner
Vote For
CHARLES L. SANDS
of Mt. Pleasant.
Indepf nd :ni Candidate.
INDEPENDENT
For Register and Re order,
W. L. GARRISON,
of Bloomsburg.
Platform: No Bosses. No B2cr.
No Machine.
Subject to the decision of the con
scientious voters irrespective of
party.
Support respectfully solicited. 5I
the difference. The consideration
for the uaj'.tnt discrimination is free
passes on trains for the politicians
and their friends.
It has been said that the Repub
lican machine will exhaust all its
resources rather than relinquish
this agency of graft and that the
corporations interested will support
them to the limit. No doubt that
is true. There is a common inter
est in the matter and "one touch of
nature makes the whole world kin."
But the machine has a graver reas
on for wanting to hold on to the
Treasury. It is whispered that
many millions of dollars which
have beeu loaned to speculative po
liticians can never be recovered and
those concerned in the sinister op
erations don t dare let the public
have a peep into the treasury
books. This is r.ne aud a otent
reason why the machine fights hard
to retain the treasury but it is also
a reason why the people should
strive on the other side of the
Question.
liellefontt li ' atetman.
All Advertising Device Debarred
The Philadelphia & Reading
Railroad has announced that here
after placards, banners, pennants,
or other advertising devices on any
passenger equipment to be moved
over its lines will not be permitted,
nor will the company accept passen
ger equipment from any connecting
line that is so decorated. The rea
son given is that these adveitis.
meuts frequently interfere with
signals and are liable to cause er
rors, besides disfiguring the cars.
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