THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURO, PA. STRONGEST BANK Capital 8100,000. Undivided Profits S30.000. First National Bank, OF KLOQMHHUUg, lA. MAKE NO MISTAKE BUT DEPOSIT YOUR SAV INGS IN THE STRONGEST BANK. OFFIUERH: J .. V. M. Low, President. J. M. Staver, Vice President. K. B. Tustin, Vice President. E. F. Carpenter, Cnshier. DIRECTORS: 3 W. M. Low, F. G. York, Frank Ikeler, Joseph Ratti, A. B, Tustin, Fred Ikeler, Oeo. H. Robbins, H. O. Creasy, J. M 8taver, M. I. Low, Louis Gross, H. V. Hower. THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED 1866. TH E COL U M BJA DEMOCRAT. Established 1837. Consolidated 1869 Published Every Thursday Morning, At Blojmsburg, the County Seat of Columbia County, Pennsylvania. GEO. E. EI.WKLL, Editor. GEO. C. ROAN, Foreman. Terms: Inside the county $1.00 a year la advance; S 1 . 5 0 i f not paid in advance. Outside the county, $1.25 a year, strictly in Advance. All communications should be Addressed TJlE COLVMBIAN, BloomsburR, Ta. THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1907 FOR ASSOCIATE JUDGE, W. W. BLACK, of Bloomsburg. Subject to tbc decision of the Democratic voters. FOR ASSOCIATE JUDGE CHARLES A. SHAFFER, of Berwick. Subject to the decision of the Democratic voters. NOTICE PRIMARY ELECTION For the Spring Primary Election to Be Held Saturday June 1st, Between the Hours of 2 P. M. and 8 P. M.. 1907. !'ie Voters of Columbia County: u accordance with Section i iiREE paragraph Four of the Uni form Primary Election Law notice is hereby given that the sev eral political parties in the said county will vote at the various polling places in the said county on Saturday June 1st, 1907, between the hours of 2 p. m. and 8 p m. to nominate candidates at the Spring Primary election as follows, to wit,- One person for Associate Judge. One person for County Surveyor. Two persons for delegates to the Republican State Convention. Four persons for delegates to the Democratic State Convention. Six persons for delegates to the Prohibition State Convention. One person for Republican Com mitteeman in each election district. One person for member of the Democratic Standing Committee in each election district. One person for Chairman of the Prohibition party. One person for Secretary of the Prohibition party. One person for Treasurer of the Prohibition party. One person tor committeeman from each election district for the Prohibition party. Jerry A. Hess" County C. L. Pohe. Commis E. Ringrose ) sioners. Attest A. B. Black, Commissioner's Clerk TO THE PUBLIC. In this issue I announce mysett as a candidate for the office of As sociate Jud e of Columbia county. i have always been a Democrat, and I assure you if nominated and elected to the office which I now aspire to fill, I will be guided whol ly by my best judgment, and en deavor to do my duty as I see it, and as I have done it in the past. I promise, if elected, so iar as with In my power, a fair, hpnest and impartial administration, with equal and exact justic to all men and special privileges to none. I will endeavor to see all the Democratic voters in thecoun'y be fore the Primaries in June next, and I will be content to abide their decision at that time. Based upon my pledges as herein stated I wil ask the voters to stand by me. Sincerely yours, tf. , W. W. BLACK We are prepared to furnish the Woman's llome Companion for 50 cents a year when taken with The Columbian. The two for only $1.50. Send in your name while the offer lasts. tf. IN THE COUNTY Surplus 8150,000. HARRISBURG LETTER. Special Correspondence, Harrisburg, Pa., April 1, 1907. In the disclosures of graft made by the capitol investigating coin mittee the source of the "press muzzier"' is easily traced. That Pennypack'r wanted to silence the press in order to shield himself can hardly be doubted, for his respon sibility for, if not his culpability iu, the crimes of the conspirators has been clearly revealed. The influen cing reason for the prodigious and long continued venality in the offi cial life of Russia is the absolute im portance of the press. Courageous, capable and independent journalism is a perfect security against cor ruption in public life. When the conspiracy which looted the trea sury of Pennsylvania was iu the process of formation the greatest fear of those concerned was the newspapers. Pennypacker under took to remove this danger by muz zling the press The failure of his purpose has resulted in the expos ure of the crimes. If the press could have been silenced William II. Berry would not have been elected State Treasurer and in the absence of that result the grafting operations wou'd still be in progress and the machine, entrenched in power, in uninterrupted control of the official life of the common wealth. A good many of our esteemed newspapers delude themselves or deceive their patrons by declaring that Pennypacker was honest but an innocent victim of the bad men about him. In the greatest of his novels the late Charles Dickens created a character, and the helpless victim of vicious and designing as sociates, who, these journals would incarnate iu the person 01 Penny- packer. But Peunypacker is no more like Dr. Strong than Archi tect Huston resembles Uriah Heap. He is weak because of an extraor dinary vanity but not on account of a confiding nature. On the con trary there is no more cunning or resourceful figure in the public life of the commonwealth at present as there has been none in the past. Whei the exposure of graft was first made the other conspirators. overwhelmed with consternation, stampeded." But not so with Pennypacker. He faced the accu sation with a positive denial and made the railroads accessories to the crime by organizing the penny-a-mile excursions to fool the public by the splendor of the "Palace of Graft." The thousands who avail ed themselves of that opportunity to deceive their own eyes couldn't tell whether the glass in the dome was made in France or Beaver county. Not one in a thousand of the most intelligent people can tell by cursory inspection the difference between veneered white pine and polished mahogany. Pennypacker knew this and worked bis under We Trust Doctors If you are suffering from Impure blood, thin blood, de bility, nervousness, exhaus tion, you should begin at once with Ayer's Sarsaparilla, the Sarsaparllla you have known all your life. Your doctor knows it, too. Ask him about It. TTnt.. there I. dailr action of the bowel, noiaoiinni urndueta are absorbed. eau.lnK head' anha. btiiouane.a. nau.ea. dvsnenala. and thus preventing tha ftar.aparilla from doing It. beat worn. Aver a rine am liver uiu.. o turi all vegatuble. Mad b J. O. Avar Co., Lowell, Meea jkiao manufacturer 01 9 hub vinno 1IPYQ AUiacuKE. IfVI O CHERRY PECTORAL. W. bav no aaoreta I Wo publl.lt the formulae of all our medloinoa. standing overtime If the fraud could have been revealed the out raged public conscience would have scourged the conspirators and ob literated their party. But it wasn't and couldn't be and Pennjpacker's genius for deception carried the Re publican party to victory iu the fact of the most colossal frauds of modern history. amazing evidence of graft. As the investigation of the caDi tol graft proceeds the evidence be comes more amazing. Last week several new s?u-ations were brought out. The brother-in-law of the favored contractor, Sander son, testified that Architect Huston knew that Beaver county glass had be.'n substituted for bacarat glass. The specifications requ'red bacarat glass and the bills rendered were for bacarat glass. But the ma terial furnished was Beaver county glass and the fraud was perpetrated with the knowle Ige and assent of Huston. The State was robbed of a vast sum by the transaction and the contractor proportionately en riched. Yet Peunypacker protests that there was no fraud and Huston declared that there was no collusion. They must imagine that the people are all fouls. That there was collusion between the contractors and the architect is made clear, moreover, by the rela tions shown between Sanderson antl Payne. Payne didn't get as large a percentage of profits as Sander son, but his rakeolt was verv ereat. For example he got fifteen cents a foot for the cement floors while the evidence shows that he paid only five cents a foot for them. In his case, however, the culpability is not so much in the overcharges. It s in the fact that he was cosrnizant of and a participant in the vast overcharges of Sanderson. As a matter ot fact in some particulars at least, Payne was the agent for Sanderson and in all cases he exer cised a supervisory power over the employes of Sanderson. That re lationship could hardly have been iu the absence of a partnership. graft in small matters. The testimony taken at the last session of the commission was more amusing than serious. That it is treated of the trifles about the build- ng. But it proved that the spirit f graft run through the operation from beginning to end. The boot black's stand in the Senate cloak room, for instance, cost Sanderson $125 00 aud the State was charged $1,619.20, the profit being at the rate of 1 195 per cent. On the bar ber's case the poor fellow was only able to make 902 per cent., which indicates a hard-hearted sub-contractor. The clothes trees and um brella stands yielded profits of a fraction less than 500 per cent., which could be regarded in no oth er light than down-right cruelty if it were not for the fact that Sander son had no money invested at all and the profit was on air. The same is true of the vast profits on the chandeliers.' Brother-in law Salom testified that not a cent of money had been paid by anybody for the stock ot the Pennsylvania Bronze Co., which supplied the chandeliers by the pound and the share holders got dividends amoun ting in the aggregate to 130 per cent, on an investment of abso- utely nothing. But the startling feature of all this is that if William H. Berry had not been elected State Treasurer in 905 the public would never have known-, of this colossal fraud. It was the intention of the conspira tors to claim that the capitol build- ng had been completed for less than the amount appropriated by law. In fact literature had beeu prepared for distribution asserting this claim and extolline the Re publican party in general and the Pennypacker administration in par ticular for this splendid achieve ment. In this matter the culpabil ity of Mr. Pennypacker is emoha- sized for he was the active leader in that scheme to deceive the oeo pie. He knew that the appropria tion ol $4,000,000 had been ex ceeded more than twice over and yet he was preparing to assert the contrary. Such a man is not an injured innocent and if he ends his evil life in prison, as Quay ought to nave done, it will be only a fit vindication of justice. the quay monument bill Last week was a busy period in the Legislature, net that much was achieved, but that in one lespect it was like the closing week ot a ses sion which is always run at high pressure speed, weanesaay was the last day for introducing legis lation and nearly all the members wanted to get something in with me resuu mat more bins were read in place on that day than on any other except the first day of the session for that order. Most of the bills introduced on that day wil de in the committees to which they were referred and a good many of them deserve such a fate. But there are some among the number of the highest merit. In this group is one introduced by Representa tive Minehart, of Franklin county, to repeal the act of May it, 1905. "providing for the erection of statue of the Honorable M. S. Quay, on the capitol grounds at Harrrislmrg, and making an appropriation there for." The presence of that measure in the statute books of the State is an outrage upon the conscience of the people of Pennsylvania. It has bet n said by the apologists for Quay's iniquities that Mine hart's bill would put a hardship on the Commissioners appointed under that act to put its provisions into execution But that is not true. There never was a legally organiz ed commission to execute that law. In the first place there is no provi sion in the title of the bill for the appointment ol commissioners and even if there were aud the law it self measured up to the legal re quirements, the commissi jners were never legally authorized to act and whatever they have done is upon their own responsibility and neces sarily at their own expense. Sec tion S, Article 4 of the constitution of Pennsylvania, empowers the Governor to "nominate, and by. aud with the advice aud consent of two-thirds of all the members of the Senate," appoint such officers of the commonwealth "as he is or may be authorized by the constitu tion or by law to appoint. The Senate has never advised or con sented to the appointment of com missioners to erect the Quay statue. On; complete session has been held since the law providing for the Quay monument was enacted and three months of another are passed, yet the- nominations of the Quay monument commissioners have not been confirmed. Therefore if they have purchased a monument or gone to any other expense iu order to disgrace the State by the erection ol an effigy of the most notorious corruptionist of his day and genera tion, let them pay for it themselves. the two-cent-a-mile rate. The two-cent-a-mile passenger rate bill passed the Senate on Tues day and is now on the hands of the Governor. There were only three votes against it, those of Grim of Bucks, Roberts of Moutgomerv, and Sproul of Delaware, who were frightened at the shadow of a threat to cut out the commutation tickets for suburban residents. Of course there was no danger of such a thing, as future events will show, aud State Senators ought to be less credulous. But in justice to the gentlemen it should be said that their constituents were overwhelm ing against the bill so far as ex pression to tueir sentiments was given. I saw Senator Grim's mail for a day or two before the vote, for example. He had advertised in the local pap.rs for an expression of public opinion on the subject and out of a bushel basketful of letters, more or less, there was but one asking him to vote for the bill. Of course such situations are perplex ing. The platform of his party pledged him to vote for the meas ure and I believe his own inclina- ions were in that direction. But he reasoned that he is the repre sentative of the people of the dis trict rather than of his own views and the information he had after diligent effort to get the truth, compelled him to vote against the bill. It is practically settled that the Legislature will adjourn finally on Thursday, May 16. At least Speak er McClain announced, after . con ference with some of the Republi can leaders, on Thursday evening, that such would be the case. A joint resolution will be passed, the Speaker slates, that the Investiga ting Committee shall report to the Governor, on the completion of its work, and that he shall be author ized to take any steps in the direc tion of criminal proceedings he deems advisable- Meanwile the reform legislation is moving lorward though it must be confessed that "celerity is con- tempered with cunctation." In other words the Creasy trust buster which passed the House finally is now in the Senate committee where it will probably die and the Rail road commission bill only passed the second reading stage in the House on Thursday. It will not likely get much further and for that matter it is hardly worth worrying about. G. D. II. Get TOWHS WE DON'T MOVE For Two Weeks Yet. You can see a nice line of PHtINK HMDS at our old store. 14 OFF CLOTHING. A beautiful line of Spring Overcoats. Are You Ready for Easter? Do you realize that Easter is only a few days away that every hour and minute counts now ? FOR THE WOMEN We have added many new things in Fabrics, Suits, Wraps and Gloves and the "little things" that make the Easter Costume to our splendid stock of Spring things. We have assorted them so that choosing will be easy and pleasant. We have priced them so that you may bloom like the Spring flower at Easter timefor little cost. Suppose you come and see all the new and modish fashions- spend an hour or two with us to your pleasure and profit. The following descriptions and prices will give a hint a slight one of what you'll find. EASTER GLOVES. Misses' Kid Gloves in tan and brown $1.00. Ladies' Kid Gloves in Grey, Tan, Pearl, Modes, Navy Blue, Green and Black at $1.00. White Kid Gloves 75c and $1.00 and others. . EASTER FOOTWEAR. New Spring style Shoes and Oxfords. The greatest variety we have ever shown All of the newest lasts and toe shapes in Gun Metal, Vici Kid and the various shiny leathers for all the family. See the snappy new styles in the Walk Over oxfords for men, .Splendid variety of 'ox fords for women from $1.25 to $3.5o-Patrician a strong favorite. For children, thd cele brated Lenox, Educator and Moloney are here in profusion. F . P. BLOOMSBURG, Cut off that cough avne'3 Expectorant and prevent ronchitii and The world's Standard Throat and Lune Medicine for 7 c year, It of your diiics? nd kttp it EHD SEND'S WOMEN'S HOSIERY. Some Specials. All de pendable every grade from the modestly plain to the elaborate lace stock ings. Mercerized Gauze, the new hose for Spring 25c a pair. Special. Black Lisle Hose, 39c a pair, 3 pair for $1.00. Black Gauze Lisle Hose, garter knee 50c. Many patterns of lace and em broidered hose, 50c, 75c, $1.00 and $1.25 the pair. Silk Plaited Hose, $1.00.. All Silk 1.50. Special. ' Children's fine ribbed Cotton Hose, last black, sizes 5 to 9 J, 18:,.,. a. 25c value. PURSEL. PENN'A. with pneumonH consumption. thrtjt ready u. tl hona. I
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