THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURA, PA-
STRONGEST BANK
Capital
8100,000
Undivided Profits
S30.000
First National Bank,
I Per Cent. Interest Allowed on Savings Deposits
O F FICK11S!
;v V. M. Low, President. J. M. Staver, Vice President.
K. 15. Ttistln, Vice l'lesiuVnt. K. F. Carpenter, Cashier.
DIRECTO IIS :
: W. M. Low. 1 U. Yorks, Frank IkeliT, Jowi.h llattl,
il. li. TiiHtin, Froil IkfliT, Geo. S. Hobblns, H. C Creasy,
J. M StuviT, M. I. Low, Louis Gross, U. V. 1 lower.
THE COLUMBIAN.
THJ COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
THUK-DAY, OCTOBER 17, 1W7
'iM AHi.isny li C"N.s(U Ida i f.ii 18(19
i'.m.is iKi) KvKnv Thursday Mornino,
At )!! "iislniry, tlie Coiuiiy Scat of
C imili in County, Pennsylvania.
, 1; " mniicntions should l culdrcssed
TM :'. ' ;i i.'JMHI.N, l'!.-.im..'-tir, 1'a
Political.
Democratic State Ticket.
For: 5'tativ Tkrski.i,
JOHN G. HARMAN,
nf Bloomsburg.
Democratic County Ticket.
IOK ASSOCIATK Jl'DClK,
WILUAM KRICKBAUM,
c f Bloomsburg.
Fok County Surveyor,
BOYD TRESCOTT,
of Millville.
GIVE HARMAN A E1G VOTE.
Our distinguished fellow citizen,
Hon. John G. Harniau, has been
".nored by the Democratic pirty
. Pennsylvania by being selected
the candidate for the office of
tte Treasurer. Ha did not seek
; position, but it came to him
1. janimously from the convention,
and he has accepted, feeling that
he could not decline a call to public
duty coming to him in such a way.
lie was selected as the standard
bearer because of his recognized
ability, and because of his integrity
and high character. His choice is
an honor to him, and also to Col
umbia county.
Nbw that we have been thus
honored it is our duty to stand by
the candidate and to use every ef
fort to give him a large vote in his
home county. He is entitled to it,
and he will get it if the Democratic
voters will show interest enough in
the election to go to the polls, and
help to get others there. This is
not purely a partisan fight. It is
a contest between the .old gang
that has been shown up in its polit
ical corruption and mismanagement
of the state funds, now eager to
again gain control of the treasury,
on the one side, and of good citi
zens who want to put a stop to the
unlawful use of public funds, re
gardless of political affiliation, on
the other side.
John G. Ilarman is one of the
favorite sous of Columbia county,
and the people ought to show their
appreciation by giving him a rous
ing vote on November 5th.
BRYAN MAY TRY AGAIN.
At Charlotte. N. C, recently
William J. Bryan was asked wheth
er he would be a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Presi
dent in 1908, to which he replied:
"Whilst I have not announced
that I would be a candidate, I have
not said I would not be and the
statements reporting that I would
not be have come from those who
were interested in other candidates.
I do not care at this time to make
any announcement further than
this: That I take it for granted
the nomination will be made by the
voters of the party and not by a
few men who seem to assume that
the selection is in the Hands ot a
few party leaders. The leaders
propose, but the masses dispose."
"What do you think of the pros
pects of success for the Democracy
in 1908?" was asked. "Good
and improving all the time, due to
two causes first, to the growth of
Democratic principles; these are be
cominir more popular all the time
second, the Democratic party is
united and the Republican party is
divided, as we were divided in 1896,
while we are much more united as
a party than the Republican party
in 1896."
IN THE COUNTY
Surplus
8100,000
HARMAN AND BERRY START OUT
Long jumps are being made by
Democratic State Treasurer Candi
date John G. Ilarman, State Trea
urer Berry and some of their col
leagues, this week, in covering s
signments for campaign speaking
at places hundreds of nines apart
In the meantime th. RepuMieru
Candidate, JohnO. Sheatz, is book
ca to acdress some audiences in
western counties The week will
pre-ent two divisions of the Demo
cratic campaigners, but Ilarman
an 1 Berry are to be together every
night except Thursday, when the
State treasurer will be heard in
Quakertown, while Westmoreland
ers wi'.l be assembled in Greens-
burg to hear Ilarman. Thence liar
man will hasten to Philadelphia
and appear with Berry at a miss
meeting mere on tne toiiowing
evening.
Tuesday evenir.g a Lancaster city
rally heard Ilarman, Berry and
Representative R. Scott Ammer
mau, capitol prober. Those three
speakers addressed a West Chester
meeting Wednesday afternoon, and
a Delaware county gathering at
Media in the evening. Twenty-four
hours later, Ilarman, near the other
end ot the State, will have with him
on the Greensburg hustings Sena
tor Arthur G. Dewalt, capitol pro
ber, while the Quakertown audi
ence will listen to Ammerman in
addition to Berry. At the Phila
delphia meeting on Friday night in
St. James hall the speakers will be
Harman, Berry, and Dewalt.
The week's work will be closed
by Harman, Berry and Dewalt at a
proposed great rally for the spec
ial benefit of the upper-region an
thracite coal mine workers, iu
Scranton, on Saturday night. From
that time until the eve of election
day, the Democratic State com
mittee announces, Mr. Harman will
be on the stump on every working
day, and, in most cases, will be ac
companied by Mr. Berry.
PREACHERS QUIT.
Reports received by the Chicago
Tribune from ten of the Methodist
Episcopal conferences in Illinois
and neighboring States show that
the question of higher salary for
the average minister of that church
has reached a crisis.
The generally expressed opinion
is that religious work soon will
suffer for lack of preachers unless
salaries are raised. In many of the
conferences just held there was an
exodus of preachers from the pul
pit to enter business life.
The higher salaries movement
was discussed and advocated at
practically all the conferences.
Salaries have been advanced
about $100 each during the last
four years, but this increase, which
has not kept pace with the in
crease, in cost of living, has failed
to stem the ministerial stampede
into business life.
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
Sarsaparilla you have known
all your life. Your doctor
knows it, too. Ask him about it.
Unleaa ttisre It dally action of tha bowole,
pniRonoul uroducta km ahanrhed. taualliK huad-
ache, tnllouaiie.il, naua. dy.pepala, mid ttiua
preventing the Karaapartlla from rtoltiK Its beat
work. a vara run are iivur puu. acv gemiv
all vtwHtttlile.
Made bT J. O. Ajer Oo.. I.owoll, Maaa,
Also mauufaoturara of
7 HAIR VIUOB.
yers
AOUB CUKE.
CHI DRY PECTORAL.
W hftvs bo oreti I W pufclUh
th formulae of all our med.o.nee.
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SOME EMBARRASSING PARTY
SLOGANS.
The last campaign in this State
rang with agonized Republican par
ty cries to stand by Roosevelt. This
year the faithful are told instead to
stand by the sacred tariff. Sheatz,
the gang's candidate for Treasurer,
slapped the President in the face
when in obedience to Penrose's or
ders as a member of the Legisla
ture of 1905 he vottd to reconsider
and expunge resolutions indorsing
the President's course in working
for rate regulation and other popu
lar reforms. This is why the party
keynote must be changed this year.
Roosevelt is as popular as ever, but
Sheatz didn't stand by him when
he could and .should. He obeyed
Penrose instead. So the old relia
ble tariff bogey is dusted off and set
up for il:e faithful.
:f.
Another Republican cry wc won't
boar much of this campaign is one
that naturally accompanies the tar
iff vamp. "Let well enough alone"
won't do H this Slate this voir for
those who are : training and striv
ing to got the State IrcaMtry hick
into their clutches again. Not a
breath of complaint can be uttered
against William H. Berry's work
while in office. He has faithfully
discharged his responsibilities and
duties of t-ea.Mirer in a contrast
most marked when compared ith
what hi- immediate predecessors.
Republicans, permitted to be done.
Berry in letter and spirit has ben
a servant of the people, a faithful,
efficient guardian of the;r interests.
He has ,'crved them only too well
and hence became a stuuiblinor
block of renroseism and craft. If
well cnounh is ever to be let alone.
tne gooil work ot tins worthy son
d exno'.Kr.t of Demoeraov would
demand that he and it, rather than
the interests ihev have detected
and exposed, should have the say
a'.out Ins successor.
The more the record and tactics
of Sheatz and the party of Penrose
behind him are considered the more
preposterous their claim to recogni
tion is. ine tarilt issue is bemtr
raised because Mr. Sheat? is not in
sympathy with Roosevelt as against
111s own doss. Mr. bheatz's record
as the chairman of the committee
on appropriations in the last Leeis
lature snows mm to be unht for the
a. " ' O
Treasurer's responsibilities. To let
well euousrh alone is hist what the
gang can't stand tor when they are
on the outside. Pittsburg Sun.
SHEATZ AND HARMAN CONTRAST-
ED.
The friends of the mncht n ran.
didate for State Treasurei, John O.
Sheatz ask the people to support
him 011 the ground, as stated by an
esteemed contemporary, that "he
would prove a most vigilant and in
flexible guardian of the public fi
nances." It would be difficult to
imagine anything more absurd than
that. Even if he hadn't supported
every profligate enterprise of the
machine during his three terms in
the House of Representatives, his
record as chairman of the House
committee on Appropriations dur
ing the last session would comnlere.
ly refute that claim.
During the session of 1007 ap
propriations were made to the ag
gregate of $92,000,000 in round
figures while it is known to every
intelligent citizen who has given
thought to the subiect that the rev
enues for the period will amount to
very mtie more than halt that to
tal. It is not uniust to sno tlia
Mr. Sheatz was responsible for
these excessive appropriations As
chairman of the Appropriations
committee of the House he could
have put an instant ston tn that
form ot legalized looting. But he
indulged every interest of the boss
es as against the State and proved
mat ne is not only not vigilant but
that he is either careless orindiffpr-
ent to the interests of the people.
Mr. aneatz s record in the Leg
islature stands in marked contrast
with that of John G. Ilarman. his
opponent in the fight, who is the
nominee of the people. Mr. Ilar
man not only voted against all the
iniquities which were passed during
the session of 1905 but he was as
vigilant and capable in debate as he
was inflexible in purpose. He was
always the champion of the right
in debate and on roll-call, and nev
er faltered in grasping the vicious
measures and squelching them in
so far as that was possible. On the
contrary Mr. Sheatz was always
with the machine when he was
needed and he has nearly always
voted to strengthen the position of
the machine. If the people an not
desire the methods of the machine
continued they will elect Mr. Har
ra&n.Iieleonte Watchman.
Four people were killed and one
hurt when their automobile was
smashed by a Philadelphia & Read
ing train at Pottstown on Monday
A QUESTION OF MORALS.
Ordinarily if two equally good
men were opposing candidates for
the State Treasimrship in an off
year it would not so much matter
which one should succeed. Thu
great desideratum is to place men
of unquestioned integrity in posi
tions of gteat responsibility.
But in Pennsylvania "things are
different" this year.
For many years past (until the
accidental election of William M.
Berry) the affairs of the State
Treasury have been administered
as far as possible in th interest of
a corrupt political organization.
Gi eat treasury surpluses have been
maintained for the purpose of spec
ulative political profit and propa
gaudism There have been result
ing scandals of the gravest nature,
involving the highest officials of the
State, and finally culminating iu
the terrible disclosures of the past
two or three years now the subject
t.f inquirj in the Ciiuiiual Com Is.
The parly wholly responsible for
this misdoing, through the crimi
nal nets or negligence of its accred
ited agents, pending the liialof the
culprits, now asks to lie put again
in the control of the Treasury by
the election of John Oscar Sheatz.
If -Mr. Sheatz were an entirely safe
man, it is still to be considered that
lie stands as the candidate of an
unsafe and unrepentant Organiza
tion. He is not his own master.
He has had sn.isr.is o! indenendenoo:
but lii s servi ity to the Machine has
been attested through the support
of some of its most infamous pro
jects, and is again attested by the
fact of his candidacy.
Is it not better to keep the Treas
ury independent of the Machine ?
Why should that olfice be again
made a factor in the choice of a
United States Senator i Why, as
a m-ttcr of financinl prudence and
as a matter of political propriety,
should not the Treasury be kept
ovt of the hands of the Penro.-e-McNichol
Organization until its
skirts are cleared of the Capitol
looting ? Not a word can be urged
against the legislative record of
Mr. Sheatz's opponent, Mr. John
G. Ilarman. He has been tried
and found faithful. He has stood
true where .Sheatz failed. Why not
give State Treasurer Berry a vindi
cation by putting a man iu his place
who will continue to enforce the
Berry policies ?
It is not altogether a cuestion of
politics the voters are asked to set
tle this year. There is a question
of morals involved. Mr. Sheatz is
not ashamed to ask for an election
on the ground that he is better
than the Organization that backs
him: but men are best known by
the company they keep.
J'hila. Record.
BERRY JOLTS BOSSES.
Appolntod a Republican Who Would Not
Take Orders.
A dispatch from Harrisbure says:
Turned out of office by Secretary
of Internal Affairs Henry Houck,
because he refused to take political
orders from Prowler Mathues, for
mer state treasurer and indicted
machine boss of Delaware county,
William E. Lewis, of Radnor, has
been appointed to a $1,400 clerk-
snip in tne state treasury.
Lewis is a Republican, and was
originally appointed a clerk in the
internal ail airs department twenty
years ago, and was retained by
every succeeding secretary until
Houck took office last May. Math
ues is alleged to have asked Houck
to turn Lewis out because the latter
voted for Berry for state treasurer
two years ago.
Lewis is said to have admitted
that he voted for Berry, because he
was not in sympathy with Senator
Penrose and the remainder of the
Renuhlican state hosses and prmld
x
see no harm in cutting a discredit
able ticket, ue served under Gen
eral Gregg in the Civil War, and
his soldier friends over the state
have been trying to find a place for
him since he was dropped from the
pay roll by Houck.
As a last resort, l,ewis tneuds
appealed to Berry, who has ap-
nntntfd T.pivis to thp vnrnnrv in
his office created by the removal of
George h. Young, who was with
Mathues on his midnight nrowl in
the treasury a few days before he
was to testily before tne Lapitol
Investigation Commission last June.
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BUYING TIME FOR
Thrifty Housewives
Right at this time when good housewives are buying
Furniture and Kitchen Ware, our extra values will make
this store the mecca for nearly all of them.
Now just a word as to this Furniture. We only ask
that you look all around compare ours with other stock
and we feel confident of your verdict "I CAN DO BET
TER AT PURSEL'S."
And the Kitchen Helps we can only mention a few
in the space of course, but if you have a need in that line
come here. We will save you money every time.
Furniture.
Rocking Chairs 1.50 to
15.00.'
Parlor and Library Ta
bles 1.50 to 22.50.
Buffets 20.00 to 39.50.
Side Boards 10.00 to 35.00
China Closets 20.00 to 40
Extension Tables 5.00 to
350
Dining Chairs 4.50 to
25.00 a Set.
Couches 6.75 to 39.00,
Chiffoniers 6.00 to 22.50.
Bed Room Suits 16.50 to
$100.
White Enameled and
Brass Beds 5.00 to 35.00.
Kitchen Helps
A full and complete line
of the justly celebrated Et
dleweiss cooking ware 10c
to 1.50.
Rochester Nickle ware in
Chafing dishes, tea and cof
fee pots, syrup jugs and
what not all guaranteed.
Scrub Brushes 10c to 25c
White Wash Brushes 25
to 50c.
Wisp Brooms 10 to 25c.
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Kitchen Helps
Floor Brushes 1.00 to 1.50
Wall Brushes 60c.
Stove Brushes 15 to 25c.
Washing Machines 7.50
to 9 50.
Clothes Wringers 1.75 to
3.5o.
Carpet Sweepers 1.75 to
2.75.
Cedar Wash Tubs, (three
sizes) 90c., 1.35 and 1.75.
Painted Pine wash tubs
75 to 90c.
Galvanized wash tubs 80,
90 and 1. 00.
Wash Boards 1 5 to 40c.
Wood Scrub Buckets 20c
Galvanized Buckets, 10
qt. size 20c, 12 qt. size 25c
Fibre water buckets 35c.
Heavy Tin water buck
ets, 12 qt. size 40c, 14 qt.
50c.
Enameled water buckets
38 to 90c
Heavy Tin Wash Boilers
(with lid) No. 8 for 1.25 and
No. 9 for 1.35.
Heavy Tin Wash Boilers,
copper bottom, No. 8 for
1.35 and No. 9 for 1.50.
All copper Wash Boilers $3
FURSEL.
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