THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURO, PA. STRONGEST BANK IN THE COUNTY Capital 8100,000. Undivided Profits $30,000. Surplus $150,000 First National Bank, (IF BmOMHBURG, PA, 5 Per Cent. Interest Allowed on Savings Deposits OFFICERS: ).. W. M. Low, President. J. M. Staver, Vice President. E. B. Tustiu, Vice President. E. F. Carpenter, Cashier. DIRECTORS: Z W.M.Low, . B. Tustin, J.M Staver, F. G. Yorks, Fred Ikekr, M. I. Low, Frank Ikeler, Geo. S. Bobbins, Louis Gross, Joseph Ratti, 8. C. Creasy, H. V. Hower. THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED 1866. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, Established 1837. Consolidated 1869 Published Every Thursday Mornino, At Bloomsburg, the County Seat of Columbia County, Pennsylvania. Tbrmsi fnside the county $1.00 a year In advance; $1.5011 not paid in advance. Outside thecounty, $1.25 year, strictly in Advance. All communications should be addressed THE COLUMBIAN, BloomslurK, Ta. THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1907 BARMAN SAVED BERRY FROM GANG Present Nominee for State Treasurer Scotched Snake in Extra Session Bill. KNOCKED MATHUHS OUT. Defeated Scheme to Distribute Twelve Millions Before Lid-Lifter Took Hold. ,'ust one speech made by the ': ..r.ocratic nominee for State Treas ;T, John G. Harman or, rather, . . eries of speeches to which he was aroused iu the course of a memora ble debate is regarded by the Democratic leaders as sufficient to prove his eminent worthiness to be the successor of State Treasurer Berry. Although the Democratic nominee is less than 35 years of age, his achievements have made him an influential leader of his par ty. He was the most eloquent Democrat in the State House of Representatives during his service therein, which was in the regular session of 1905 and the extraordi nary session of 1906. He was in variably called upon by his fellow Democrats whenever strong argu ment, from a legal standpoint or otherwise, was wanted for their side. Mr. Harman made many notable speeches in the House, but his most effective one defeated the Machine purpose to divide the State's sur plus funds, under the new law's plan, among banks and trust com panies favored by the Organization, before Mr. Berry could be installed as State Treasurer. The speech or speeches of Mr. Harman on that occasion are to serve a good pur pose in the approaching campaign. As a result of the conference of Democratic State leaders in Harris burg on Friday,- it is announced that there will be a good deal to tell the people in addition to the comment which the Democratic speakers will make upon the prose cutions of the Capitol plunderers. Although the Democratic State platform has made the Capitol rev elations the one great issue, it is to be shown that the candidate for Berry's place is an issue in himsell. Mr. Berry, who is to accompany Mr. Harman on the speaking tour of the State, will find in Harman's record a prolific source of facts to prove that the right sort of man to maintain the good work begun by the present Treasurer is the party's standard-bearer in this campaign. WOULD-BB STRANGLERS OP BERRY. In a gathering Saturday of Dem ocrats in Philadelphia who talked of the anticipated coming of State Chairman Dimeling to establish campaign headquarters in the city, the Harman speech which has been specially referred to was discussed in detail, and was pronounced a very valuable portion of the cam paign ammunition. They argued that his speech not only showed the desperation with which the gang legislators, even in the "reform" extra session, strove to bunco the taxpayers of the State, but proved also that Mr. Harman combined in himself the qualifications of 1 successful party leader and of a cit izen fit to be trusted with the cus tody of the public funds. Upon the occasion in question, when the extra session of 1906 was well advanced, Mr. Harman was aroused by the gang's doctoring of the ' Jackson bill ' for the regula tion of the deposits of the State's money. Mr. Harman declared that the bill, as it came back from the Senate, "ought to be called a bill to strangle the incoming State Treasurer." It was only the mid die of February when the hill was thus going through the Legislature and Mr. Berry was not to become Treasurer until May. Hat man de nounced the bill as being aimed "to rebuke the people who elected an honest man to office, and arrest the judgment of the electors' of the Commonwealth." He pointed out that the Senate had so amended the bill as to make it take effect imme' diately upon its approval by the Governor. SAVED THE DAY FOR BERRY. It is believed by the Democratic leaders that the bill would have passed the House in that shape if wr. iiarman naa not appealed so powerfully to the respectable ele ment of the Republican side. The bill provided for the manner of dis tribution of the funds by a board composed of the three Revenue Commissioners and the Banking Commissioner. Berry ' was to be one of the Revenue Commissioners in May, but "Midnight" Mathues was a Commissioner at the time of Harman's speech. Mathues' col leagues in that Commission were Auditor General Snyder and the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and the Banking Commissioner was Berkey, the Somerset boss. The gang wanted the funds disposed of by these four men in advance of Berry's taking the oath of office. Harman called attention to the fact that two of the members of this board were not elected by the people, who had chosen Berry to have a band in the apportioning of the deposits. "If you pass this bill." said Mr. Harman. "the State Treasurer-elect, when he takes of fice on the first Monday of May, will have no part in the placing of these funds, and I say to you as Americans, as lovers of decency in public life, as admirers of some de gree of honesty in public affairs, this 'amendment' ought not to pass." Continuing, he said: The people demanded in the last election that the gentlemen who had control of the situation for years and years upon this hill-top must come down and out to give way to a man in whom they have shown confidence. I care not whether he is a Prohibitionist. Greenbacker. Mugwump or Democrat, they had confidence in him, and desired that he should have some control and some say in the handling of the State's money. When that vote was cast the people never dreamed that there would be an extra ses- MyHairis Scraggly Do you like It? Then why be contented with it? Have to be? Oh, no! Just put on Ayer's Hair Vigor and have long, thick hair; soft, even hair. But first of all, stop your hair from coming out. Save what you have. Ayer's Hair Vigor will not disappoint you. It feeds the hair-bulbs; makes weak hair strong. Th bast kind of a teatlmonlal "Bold lor ovt alxty yaara." sioii 01 mis Legislature to undo the reapportionment cut Columbia ana mwart ana gag and bind fast county's representation to one the man they elected to look after member, niul he, like everybody this money. This was no par' of else, believed that "Farmer" Crea- that campaign. This was no issue sv wnnbl 1w tlif r..,r ot.,r.wi before the people. The simple proposition was the election ot a man iu whom they had confidence. Mr. Speaker. I ask you and this House, regardless of politics, I nsk you as citizens of this Common The new response to the Machine boasters who point to what the G O. P. did in Harrisburg after it was toreed to "be good" is the simple query ns to what would have hap pened to Rprrv in the A wealth, is there a shadow of a square, upon the Jackson bill if Harman, deal in this proposition ? By the '. or a man of his type and ability Md by J. O. Ija, Co., Low.ll, Kara. SARSAPARILU. PILLS. CHEUY PECTORAL. yers terms of this bill you deprive the incoming State Treasurer of the last shred and vestige of power in depositing many millions. You would transfer from him to this Board of Commissioners the power that is given him by virtue of his office to have control over these funds. You would place the dispo sition of ten or twelve million dol lars of the people's money in this Board of four men, two of whom are simply Gubernatorial creatures, and none of whom was ever asked or expected by the people to have anything to do with this business. You would place the money in the hands of men who are not under bond for it. Do you think the peo ple of this Commonwealth ever con templated anything of this kind? If there was one thine made clear in that election, it is that you are free men now. No longer need you fear any whip plied over your head in this House. No longer do you see the gentleman from Philadel pnia, in aenance ot tne rules, pass up and down the passageways of this House, giving orders about certain bills and threatening that if you disobeyed, your appropriation would be cut. My friends, they are all down and out, and past and gone, and this btate today enjoys a new birth 01 freedom. - I ask you, my friends, to be free men. Will you tell tne that you will ko back home and confess to your coustitu ents that you voted to tie the hands of the man they elected to office as State Treasurer ? Will you vote to thwart the will of the people who elected a man who will give us an honest deal and a square adminis tration of the office of State Treas urer? I appeal to you, not as Re publicans, not as Democrats, but as men elected to rcptesent the people of this State, who placed this man in office, that we should and must rise above the consideration of par iisan pontics, ana not concur in this "amendment. Yet several of the Machine 'whips" continued for nours in venting argumeuis against Harman. Even Mr. Jackson, sponsor for the bill, argued that it would be a great convenience to the incoming Treas urer to have the distribution of the funds done before his installation. Harman, returning again and again to the conflict, felt obliged to be come more "persona"' than he had been. He said that "the very is sue upon which Mr. Berry was elec ted was that the Treasurers, tor years, had manipulated the funds of the office to the shame and dis grace of this Commonwealth, and the people rose in their might aud smote that shame and demanded that it be wholly abolished." Harman expressed the belief, if his appeal should fail, "that bv the first Monday of May, 1006. every dollar of the State's money will be snugly stowed away in the favorite banks. 1 here are twelve millions now, and every dollar of it will go. Mr. Berry was elected to handle those twelve millions. He was not elected to be a member of a Board in which he would have no power." Mr. Harman added that, of course, Mr. Berry could not be prevented by this or any other legislation from "lifting the lid." He was sure to do that, all right; but it would be a pity if he should be bar red from putting out the existing funds. Harman was victorious in that fight. The bill was changed in ac cordance with his demands, and al though the Democrats still con demned certain features of the measure, they had the satisfaction pf seeing the operation of the hew law deferred until Tune 1. 1906, a month after the famous ld-hfter took hold of the treas ury. Concerning the frequent boast 01 tne eminent respecta- bles" of the Republican Oreaniz. ation that their party gave the people the extra session and its reform" laws, the Democratic campaign speakers can add at least one new argument to their old con tention that every reform of that extra session, and very much more. had been peisistently demanded by the Democratic legislators term after term. When Harman eloquently advo cated and voted for the representa tive apportionment which the Re publicans, in defiance of theCou stitution, had refused to enact at the proper time, he deliberately legislated himself out of office, as had not been there. Pfdla. Record. PROPER BUSINESS PRECAUTION. No newspaper in this broad Com monwealth which is supporting the Republican candidate for State Treasurer will seriously claim that his reputation for ability and integ rity is any better than that of Judge Pennypacker when he was taken out of the quiet life of the judiciary and catapulted into the office of Governor. He was claimed as a model of official excellence. He was said to have no faults at all, perceptible or even conjectural, yet he became the worst Governor we have ever had, the most iniquitous of all our Chief Magistrates. His administration will stink in the nos trils of the people for scores of years. If the people hadn't elected Wil liam H. Berry to the office of State Treasurer in 1905 Judge Penny packer would still be enjoying the enviable reputation for probity and honor which he acquired while on the bench. For nearly three years he had been allowing his personal and political friends to loot the State and encouraging the nefari ous processes. But almost the mo ment that a representative of the minority party got into the fiscal boards the iniquities were stopped and the atrocious character of Pen nypacker was exposed. Mr. Berry could neither be deceived, cajoled nor coerced into acquiescence iu the vices. If the Republican candidate for State Treasurer is elected this year the old conditions will be restored. Granting that he is as honest as Pennypacker was, he will neverthe less yield to the same influences which corrupted that man of sim ple life and lofty impulses. For these reasons it is the palpable duty of the people to continue the mi nority representation in the admin istration of the state government by electing that sterling and coura geous Democrat, John G. Harman. of Columbia county. There is no political significance iu such a le sult of the election. It is simply a proper business precaution. 7 Watchman. Pure Food and the Cost of Living. From Uslla's Wtekly. Some food industries will suffer under the new laws. Certain kinds of fish that have been widely sold have been cured in the past with borax, a preservative prohibited by the new regulations. It will be necessary for the manufacturers of this fish either to find some other way of curing it or to withdraw it from the market. The same is true with some color ed goods, where their brilliant ap pearance has been the chief factor iu their sale. When dyes are not allowed, the lack of attractiveness of some dessert preparations will essen their use. This will not raise prices : at first it will tend to lower them. The laborer with a arge family and small purse, who Is compelled to patronize the cheap grocery, has been getting cheap food in the past cheap in price but dear in real value. Now he may continue to go to the low-priced store, but while a few months ago he knew very little of the qual ity of the groceries in his basket, at present, if be is so fortunate as to live in a State where food laws are in power, he can depend upon it that his dollar has bought a dol lar's worth of nourishment, not a lot of adulterated spices, artificial vinegars, misnamed coflees, and bleached and preserved canned goods. A "Sovereign" That Costs Only a Dol lar. Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, of Rondout, N. Y., is a "Sovereign" medicine for nervous ness, Rheumatism, Kidney and Liv er complaints, and all the ills pecu liar to women. It drives the pois on from the blood, and restores the patient to the bloom of health. You will never regret the exchange of one dollar for a bottle. Uu'.Vi,'.:rv n inKipi'Ta;: OASTOniA. Bain tat 8 m Havt lwm BoUftlt There's A Chance to find something here in the suit line that you are badly in need of. 54 OFF REGULAR SELL ING PRICE. $25.00 22.00 20.00 18.00 16.00 15.00 12.00 Suits it (1 (i Now $ 1 8.-7? 1 j IS-SO I5.00 I2.50 I2.00 11.25 9.00 11 ii 11 11 TOWM SEWS NEW STORE, July Clearance Sale AT PURSEL'S We have on sale thousands of yards of bright, new Summer Dress Goods at bargain prices. Right in the very Wash iabn? seas,on' when the demand is at its height, we haye slaughtered prices in a way that makes your buying elsewhere an extravagance. But bless you we have a regular feast of bargains all over the store. Read every item here quoted-they are all interesting We have divided this vast quantity into five different lots for your quick choos ing. We do advise you to come early. Lot 1 Including Lawns in dots and stripes splen did colorings. 5c the yard. Lot 2 Thin dress mate rials in Lawns, Voiles, etc. Regularly 15 to 25c the yd. Good variety won't last long 9c a yd. f Lot 3 Cotton Foulards, highly mercerized and silky all new Foulard styles. Some stripes and dots. Reg ulary 25c. On sale for 16c the yard. Lot 4 Printed Mulls the prettiest and sheerest Mulls on the market. Flor al and stripe designs in all the beautiful colorings. Regularly 25c. Now 19c yd Lot 5 These exquisite Cotton and Silk Novelties A- - m mai were 39 ana 50c now 3z$c me yard. are Lot cl Ladies' Dress Skirts We have gone through the entire stock and placed on sale one hundred Skirts in Panamas, Mohairs, Chev. iots, all styles, just half price. $6.50 Skirts 5,50 3.88 " $3-25 2-7S 1.99 LOT OF SPECIAL EMBROIDERY Suitable for Lawn, Mus lin and Cambric. From the narrowest edgings to the 9 inch flouncings, in sertion to match. Divided in three lots. Lot 1, 5 cents a yard Lot 2, 10 cents a yard Lot 3, 19 cents a yard F. P. PURSEL. BLOOMSBURG, - PENN'A. Cut off that cough with Jaynca Lxpcct cvggy ana prevent pneumonia: l l.f a ' iirai:i umnrnini a wa.. Wandafd Throat end Lung Get it of your dragi md keep tt tfojt ready fa d harm.
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