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OFFICERS:
W. M . Low, President. J M. Staver, Vice President.
I-;, H. Tustiu, Vice President. K. F. Carpenter, Cashier.
I) I KKCTO US:
W.M.t.nw, F. H. Yorkf, Frank IUcUt, Jowph Rattl,
li. Tutln. KroI Ikeli-r, Oeo. S. Robblno, S. C. Creaky,
J.M Stiver,
M.I. Low,
THE COLUMBIAN.
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t li'e.irrn ''urjj, the County S?at of
Co uml)i n County , Pennsylvania.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBF.R 114, 1907
Political.
Democratic State Ticket.
1-Vk State Tki.asi ki:k,
JOHN G. HARMAN,
of Rloomsburg.
Democratic County Ticket.
For Associate Ji'dgk,
WILLIAM KRICKBAUM,
of Bloomsburg.
For County Surveyor,
LOYD TRESCOTT,
of Millville.
Sheatz Lacked Moral Courage.
According to the testimony of
2 Philadelphia North American
epresentative Sheatz left Phila
delphia on March 16th, 1903, fully
determined to vote against the Sus
quehanna canal bill, which passed
the House finally on March 17th.
The esteemed North American says:
"It should be stated further that
Mr. Sheatz took special pains to
vote right on the Susquehanna
'snake.' While in Philadelphia the
day before the bill came up he in
quired of the North American when
it was to be called. Upon learning
that the vote would be taken on
the following day, he canceled an
important business engagement,
and went to Harrisburg specially to
do his duty and vote against the
measure."
But wheu he reached Harrisburg
he came under the influence of In
surance Commissioner Durham and
the other machine managers and
VOTED FOR THE BILL. No
doubt when he left Philadelphia he
intended to vote against it. On
March nth when it was defeated
he did vote against it which would
indicate that he was aware of its
vicious character. But the power
of the machine was too great for
him to resist. He hadn't the moral
courage to say "get thee behind me
Satan. ' ' He lacked that quality of
probity which opposes wrong under
all circumstances. The force of the
machine overwhelmed him. He
yielded and then by acquiescence in
an error made the false pretense of
a courage that he didn't possess.
Yet some of the bogus reformers
in the State say now that if Sheatz
is elected State Treasurer he will
be able to resist the machine in
matters of infinitely greater con
sequence to the managers of that
"criminal conspiracy" than the
Susquehanna canal bill. They pre
tend to think that he would stand
as Mr. Berry has stood against graft
notwithstanding the vast inteicsts
of the machine in manipulating the
treasury and public contracts.
Nothing could be more absurd. He
would do precisely as he did in
March, 1903. That is he would
serve the machine in the treasury
as he did iu the Legislature and his
election will restore the system as
certain as day follows night. Belle
fontc Watchman,
The office of Associate Judge is
of great importance to the people
of the county. Judge Krickbaum
ha9 the qualifications to fill it and
he has done this with entire satis
faction. Go to the polls on No
vember 5th and give him your support.
IN THE COUNTY
Surplus
8150,000.
IjouIm Gross,
II. V. Howcr.
The Two John Oscar Sheatzes.
In the past The Record has not
hesitated to approve every patriotic
and proper act of indeiK-ndence on
the part of Candidate John Oscar
Sheatz in his capacity as a legisla
tor and as a man. It takes nothing
back. 15 nt when Mr. Sheatz ap
pears before the people as a candi
date for an important State office it
becomes the duty of an independ
ent newspaper to "more carefully
scrutinize his record and make due
comparison of his capacity f jt use
ful public service with that of other
candidates for the same position.
So considered, it is not to the cred
it of Mr. Sheatz that he has been
willing to accept a candidacy at the
hands of an Organization so utterly
condemned as the Republican Or
ganization in Pennsylvania. His
sole prestige as a public man has
been gained by his several instances
of manly opposition to gang meas
ures. The serious objection agaiuft
him lies not in the fact that he was
sometimes independent, but iu the
fact that he was not always inde
pendent. He voted for some of the
gang's vilest schemes.
Mr. Sheatz cannot complain of
criticism based on his record. He
cannot complain of the unfavorable
showing when his public record is
weighed in thebalanre against that
of John G. Harmau, his Democratic
competitor. The gang leaders do
not love Mr. Sheatz for the decent
things he has done, but they are
smart enough to value decency as
a political asset, and they are trying
to make use of it to get their fin
gers back in the State Treasury
and keep the surplus where it will
do the most good and get Boies
Penrose back in the Senate for an
other term.
Mr. Sheatz is now an independ
ent decoy. He is a negligible quan
tity. It is his backers whom the
people desire to rebuke.
Phila. Record.
Vote for William Krickbaum for
Associate Judge. Election Tues
day, November 5th, 1907.
AN ENCOURAGING PROSPECT.
An activity and spirit prevail at
Democratic headquarters in Phila
delphia such as has cot attended
its operations in many a year. The
number of leading Democrats from
all parts of the State who are call
ing at headquarters and manifest
ing the liveliest interest in the pro
gress of the campaign is unprece
dented, indicating that the Demo
cratic party, not to speak of Inde
pendents, is being solidly arrayed
in favor of the election of John G.
Harman as State Treasurer. Prom
inent Democrats who have not been
openly active in State campaigns
since the last Presidential election
are now either writing encouragiug
letters to headquarters or making
their appearance there for the pur
pose of promoting Mr. Harman' s
candidacy.
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UWf U CHLRUY PECTORAL.
UNION VETERANS NOW SLASH
SHEATZ.
In G. A. R. Hall They Bitterly Denounce the
Trick That Beat Pension Biil.
WORK AS UNIT AT POLLS.
"Don't waste a particle of am
munition; wait until o:i have the
enemy dead to rights, then shoot
your ballots stiaight and true r.ext
election day and force John O.
Sheatz to an ignominous retreat in
his efforts to capture the Republi
can .State Trtasurciship. Knock
him out so that the scheming mas
ters of the Republican State Ma
chine cannot continue robbing the
taxpayers any more and deprive
the old soldiers of needed aid."
This was the pith of the senti
ment "expressed at an enthusiastic
meeting of the War Veterans' Po
litical Association of this part of the
State, held in the lodge room of
Lincoln Post, No. 140, Grand Ar
my of the Republic at Shamokin,
Friday night.
Ninety-five per cent, of the audi
ence were Republicans, comprising
members of the Grand Army, sol
diers not affiliated with the organi
zation, sailors and maiines, Sons of
Veterans and a fair-sized scattering
of tlie wives of old soldiers, the
worm 11 also exhibiting enthusiasm
in the effort to create a sentiment
among all veterans in the State to
chastise the dictatorial and tricky
Republican Machine.
- When President John I). Harris,
former CJinnian;ier of Lincoln Post,
called the audience to order he was
greeted with applause, as were M.
J. Freeman and W. C. Roth, also
former past commanders of the post
and prominent 111 the organization
of the political club.
A LETTER THAT STIRS THEM.
M. C. Roth, member of Compa
ny K, Forty-sixth Pennsylvania
Volunteers, who had his left thigh
shot away by a Confederate minie
ball at the battle of Cedar Moun
tain, August 9, 1862, and is one of
the best known soldiers iu the
State, a few days ago communicat
ed with comrades of the war
throughout the State, a uumber of
enthusiastic replies iu favor of his
sentiments being received Friday,
and when they were read at the
meeting Friday night, they were
heartily cheered as well as Mr.
Roth's communication.
WANING HARDWOOD SUPPLY.
Although the demand for hard
wood lumber is greater than ever
before, the annual cut today is a
billion feet less than it was seven
years ago. In this time the whole
sale price of the different classes of
hardwood lumber have advanced
from twenty-five to sixty-five per
cent. Yellow poplar, which was
formerly second in point of output,
has fallen off thirty-six per cent,
and elm has fallen off one half. The
cut of the soft woods is four times
that of the hard woods, yet it is
doubtful if a shortage in the form
er would cause dismay in so many
industries. The cooperage, furni
ture and vehicle industries depend
upon hardwood timber, and the
railroads, telephone and telegraph
companies, agricultural implement
manufacturers, and builders use it
extensively. The hardwood cut in
Ohio and Indiana, which seven
years ago, led all other states, has
fallen oS one half. Illinois, Iowa,
Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri, New Jersey, Tennessee,
Texas, West Virginia and Wiscon
sin have also declined in hardwood
production. The chief centres of
production now lie in the lake
states, the lower Mississippi valley
and the Appalachian mountains.
Twenty billion feet of hardwoods
would be a conservative estimate of
annual productive capacity of the
75,000,000 acres of forest lauds iu
the Appalachians if they were
rightly managed. Until they are
we can expect a shortage in hard
wood lumber. Ex.
Find a New Defective Law.
Dauphin Officials Will Test the Act to Hire
Defense.
The Dauphin County Commis
sioners have instituted proceedings
in Court to determine the constitu
tionality of the act of the last Leg
islature providing for the payment
Dy the county or counsel appointed
by the Court to defend indigent de
fendants in murder charges.
Two attorneys were appointed by
the Court to defend a foreign mur
derer, and the County Commission
ers pleaded exceptions on the
ground that the law was unconsti
tional, being defective in the title.
The allowance for counsel is $200
and the expenses incidental to the
case and fees. The counsel accept
ed service, and the matter will be
disposed of in 10 days.
Support the Democratic ticket as
nominated. Don't cut if you waut
LABOR WARS.
Both Employer and Employee Have Lost
Millions by Labor Disagreements.
The Department of Labor at
Washington has collated, and will
soon publish some very interesting
data in regard to the causes and
cost of strikes nnd lockouts iu the
United States for the past twenty
five years. Short of actual war
there has never been devised a more
costly, unsatisfactory and material
ly disastrous method of settling
economic disputes. For the twenty
years .bet ween iSSt and 1900, in
clusive, the loss to emp'oyees
through strikes amounted to $257,
863,478. The loss to workers
through lockouts in the same peri
od was $48,819,745, or a total loss
to employees through industrial
disturbances of $306,683,2:3. The
number of establishments involved
ill strikes was Ii7.enn. mnkino an
- - o 1
average loss to employees in each
establishment in which strikes oc
curred of $2,194. These strikes
threw out of employment 6, 105,694
wage earners, making an average
loss of $42 to each. There were
9-9.V1 lockouts in the twenty years; ,
the average loss to ech employer, j
fV'Ji H'C llllllll'CI Ul CD
dismissed, 504,307, making an av
erage loss of S97 to each wage earn
er. It is estimated that the loss to
employers through strikes in the
same time amounted to $122,731,
I2t, and through lockouts, $19,
9279S3 making a total cost to em
ployers of $142,659,104. The
above monstrous figures only cover
tlie money loss of the combatants
employers and employees. No
attempt lias ever been made to com
pute the extent of loss inflicted up
on the mass of men and women not
directly engaged in labor disputes,
for which tliere is no recovery.
But the interruption of output in
important industries and incident
disturbance of values have no doubt
proved of as great cost to the pub
lic as that borne by the actual par
ticipants. Playing With Fire.
The notion is spreading that the
fleet is going to the Pacific for any
but peaceful purposes, and that the
statement that the trip is only for
practice is a mere pretense. Some
people will naturally think that the
administration has inside informa
tion, and that a Japanese attack
upon the Philippines is nearer than
we common people know. Others
will see in the movement an exhi
bition of the president's talent for
forcing an issue. All who know
Mr. Roosevelt will recall his fre
quent assurance, usually made in
conversation with diplomats, that
foreign nations realize that he is a
friend of peace because he is ready
to fight for it. In view of the senti
ment which he represented and
illustrated by the article in the
limes, the proposed expedition
assumes wicked proportions. It is
a distinct menace to peace, the pre
servation of which may come to de
pend upon the honorable intentions
of the Japanese government, which
doubtless knows that the American
people are not in favor of war with
any other power ; and that most
Americans who agree with or who
are convinced by the writer in the
limes regard the whole affair with
dissatisfaction, if not with appre
hension, in the mean time it
would be well for the American
people, if any power of indignant
protest remains to them, to assert
themselves, and to refuse to be led
mto a war, or into the appearance
of expecting war. Harper's Weekly.
The prospects are brightening
every day, and the enemy is alarm
ed. Harman and Berry are enthu
siastically greeted by immense
crowds wherever they go, and the
tide has set in favor of a State
Treasurer who cannot be influenced
or coerced by the Penrose and Mc-
Nichol machine. If Harman is de
feated it will be the fault of apa
thetic Democrats who have not pa
triotism enough to vote, and of
cowardly Independents who want
to break away from the party lasb,
but have not the courage to do so.
There are enough Democrats and
independent citizens in the State to
elect Harman, if they will but do
their duty.
.
Go to the polls on Tuesday, No
vember 5th and vote for William
Krickbaum for Associate Judge,
and John G. Harman for State
Treasurer.
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Right at this time when good housewives are buying
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Now just a word as to this Furniture. We only ask
that you look all around compare ours with other stock
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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
35.00.
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 iustlv celebrated Ri.
I 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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Come in and
see our line of
$10 and $12
Suits for Men
Black, Greys,
and Fancy
Mixed. They
will surprise
you.
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
3.50.
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
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