4 THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOAlSBURd, PA STRONGEST BANK Capital $100,000 Undivided Profits $30,000 First National Bank, OF UliOOMHHUUG, PA. S Per Cent. Interest Allowed on Savings Deposits o r r 1 0 K R H : I . W. M. Low, President. J. M. BUr.r, Vic. President. K. H. Tustln, Vice President. E. F. Carpenter, Casbier. DIRECTORS: V. M.Low, K. O. Yorks, Frank Ikeler, Joseph Haiti, R. Tustln, Kredlkeler, Oeo, H. Uobblnn, H. C. Creasy, J.M SUver, M. I. Low, THE COLUMBIAN. r.STAHt.ISHF.D tM6. TKE CCLUP-'CU DEMOCRAT, . St Ml US UK t iSjy. CoSSOl IPA1 tl lSfV Mll.ISHKll Kvkr v Thursday Mohninu, At HIii.iiinliurR, the County Seat of Cl ml i a County, I'cti nsylv.mia. .;!.(). K. KIAVK1X, V.niTot. ;i'.i. C. KOAN, Kokumas. VtKMii: Innlc the county 1.00 a year li atrjiice; 1 . soi f not paiil tn a Wance. Out ..ul e t lit county, 1 1. 2 5 a year, strictly in a trance. A 1 c o 11 111 11 ni cat ions ahoulii be nlJresed THK CPI."V1U.N. Moomslmrg, Pa. 'l'lll i).Y, JANUARY 13, THE KRICKBAUM CASE. The jvople of Columbia County have received another bitter lesson on the folly of relying upon ante election promises. When Judge Kvans was a candidate for his pres ent office, asking to he elected in a Democratic district, he based his appeal for votes largely upon his alleged freedom from party politics. His agents placarded the whole county with posters proclaiming that he would be an honest, iiupar ; l Judge, and not a politician. I the vast majority of our peo- - took Judge IC vans at his word. ?n those who opposed him at the ction felt that whatever might be ., ability as a lawyer, at least we had secured a Judge who was above the schemes of petty politicians, aud who would keep the Bench clear of party politics. But this view has received a shock. On Monday Judge Evans, by a sweep of his pen, disfranchised every democratic voter of the County, overturned the fair, hon est expression of the will of the majority of our citizens, deprived a Democrat of his office, to which everyone admits he was honestly elected, aud seated a Republican on the bench beside him. And why has all this been done ? Did Krickbauoi obtain his election by fraud ? Was Hughes deprived of a single vote that he otherwise would have obtained ? Was there any conduct by anyone in the whole election, that rendered the vote un certain, or tainted it with fraud? No. Not a single allegation of this kind is even pretended to be made. But in one of the election districts, two men, each claiming to be Judge of Election, entered into a friendly dispute, both pro fessing that they wanted no trouble made over so slight a matter. One of these men, Mr. Whitney Hess, was allowed to act. The election was duly held, the votes honestly received, the return correctly made, and the rights of neither candidate affected in the least. Aud now Judge Evans promul gates the startling proposition, that because Mr. Hess did not possess all the techuical requirements of a Judge of election, every Democratic voter in Columbia County must be disfranchised ; the whole election over-turned, William Krickbaum deprived of his office, and a Repub lican elected, who himself admits that he did not receive a majority of the honest votes cast at a per fectly honest election. We confidently assert, after care ful consultation, that for this de cision there is absolutely no war rant of law. The judicial decisions cited by Judge Evans, when ex amined and compared, certainly do not support such a conclusion. In stating the facts upon which Judge Evans bases his decision, he avoids all mention of the importaut and controlling fact that there was not the slightest fraud, mistake or unfairness in the conduct of the Mifflin election, or in the return made by the election board. He had before him, ia making his de cision, a long list of authorities, furnished by Krickbaum's counsel, which established beyond dispute the propsitioa that the return of an IN THE COUNTY Surplus $160,000. Louis Orow, H. V. llowwr. entire district it never to be thrown out, tiniest for fraud, or because of some conduct on the part of the election oficcrs which renders tuir return of the vote cast utterly unreliable and uncertain. No decision of any Court lias ever questioned the correctness of this proposition, and yet, with all these decisions before him, Judge Evans avoids even referring to them. On the other hand, he cites a few cases clearly not applicable to the present contest. These are cases in which au election was held entirely outside the limits of the election District. Of course, to advertise an election at one place, and then hold it a number of miles nway at another, even beyond the limits of the district, would neces sarily rentier unreliable the vote returned, and would itself be a fraud upon he voters In addition to this class of decisions. Judge Evans relies upon one or two other cases in which rival elections had been held by rival bo.irds, at differ ent places, and each board had made a separate return. With two elections, and two sets of officers acting, and two separate returns belore the Court to determine which shou'd be received, of cour.-e the Court decided that the return made by the duly qualified officers should be received, and the other thrown out. Anv ordinary layman can understand that a decision in a case of this kind is utterly inapplicable to the Mifflin Township contro versy. We are honestly sorry for this unfortunate judgmeut. Casting out of consideration the injustice done to Mr. Krickbaum, it is a matter cf deepest regret that we can no long er have confidence in the ante-election promises of Judge Evans. In speaking of this matter this paper must not be understood as championing the cause of Judge Krickbaum. We have never been counted iu that class. But every voter in the state is concerned in the principle of law involved. Judges may make mistakes, and often do. They are but human, and it has never been our custom to criticise the beuch. But iu the present case, after an examination of the authorities produced by Mr. Ikeler in support of his couteutiou that the vote of Mifflin township could not be thrown out under the facts in this case, we are forced to conclude that in utterly ignoring those authorities, and basing his opinion on authorities submitted by the other side, which do not seem to be applicable to this case, Judge Evans has been governed more by partisan prejudice than by his le gal judgment. Clmles Emory Smith, editor of the Philadelpnia Press, former Min ister to Russia and Postmaster Gen eral, died suddenly at his home in Philadelphia on Sunday inoruiusr. aged 65 years. Death was caused by heart trouble. There is one thing that will cure It Ayer's Hair Vigor. It is a regular scalp-medicine. It quickly destroys the germs which cause this disease. The unhealthy scalp becomes healthy. The dandruff disap pears, had to disappear. A healthy scalp means a great deal to you healthy hair, no dan druff.no plmples.no eruptions. - 'Ttv beat kind ola testimonial "Sold lor over atxty yeare." A11 by J. O. Ayr Co.. LorUa aa4uuriM(urr of SARSAPAB1LU. PILLS. CHtltKV PECTOJUU yers For that Dandruff The Republican Revolt The Republican party iu Penn sylvania is responsible for its lead ership. The leadership has Inien so corrupt iu the p;ist and has liecotue so contemptible at present that it breeds discontent within the State lines and invites doiisiou without. It would be a calumuy to impute to three-fifths of the voters who make up the rank and file of the party any active sympathy with the sel fish designs of the pirates and plun derers iu control of its organization. Under such circumstances the ordi nary nutans of political houseclean iug aud readjustment is to turn out the party iu power aud try the other party. But this is not easy to do in Pennsylvania. There is a large preponderance of white voters iu Pennsylvania who prefer to take tne chances of corrupt rule at the hand of the Rcpublicau party to running the risk of reform at the hands of auy other party. This white preponderance is nude fur ther iuipreguable against any re foriuntive assault by a solid, uu assailable, unthinking support from the army of 00,000 black voters in the State. This is the political situation iu f eunsylvauia to day, set dowu with out malice, extenuation or exag geration. 1 here is no hope fur im provement unless it shad arise Irom a moral awakening within the ranks of the great majority party. Iu the division of the party lien the salva tion of the State. Eor this reason the revolt led by ex-Seti.Uor Elinu, iuvolviug the coutrol of the next Legislature and the defeat of the present corrupt leadership, is a most welcome occurrence. Elinu. him self, is not the issue. He has wise ly chos.-n to make hU fight under the bauuer of reform, not for the destruction of his patty, but for its redemption, and for the restoration of decent administration of the State affairs. The movement, concurrent is it is with the sifting of the State Capitol iraud in the Courts and with industrial tumult and depres sion, cannot fail to I ecoine impress ive. It ought to receive the hearty encouragement of all good citizens. 1 he Democrats of the State, who are the saving remnant and solid nucleus about which all reform movements necessarily must eeutre, cannot look upon the prosjiect of disruption among their opponents except with favoriug and expect ant eyes, ihey have everything to gain and nothing to lose. Even if the battle between the Philadel phia aud Pittsburg Machiues were nothing more than a falling out of the rogues there would be a gain for holiest y. There may be here and there a trading-post coutiugeut among the Democratic following which might miss the crumb throwu to them by Republican bosses, but their deprivation is a private grief. :So atteutiou need be paid to their outcry. The wolves of all parties now! wnen there is actual or pros pective hunger. Phila. Record. "leep Your Head Cool, your conscience clear and your bowels open." There is a ton of commou seuse in it. Constipation is death in life. The intestines are clogged with matter. You must move it or be sick fever possibly. Take Dr. David Kennedy's Favo rite Remedy until the bowels are clear and natural. Write Dr. David Kennedy's Sons, Roudout, N. Y., for a free sample bottle. Large bot tles ft. 00, all druggists. Bloomsburg Souveuir Books, 4S half tone pictures, 25 cents, at the Columbian- office. tf. Who Stole the $6,000,000 V When the new Pennsylvania Cap itol was built $6,000,000 was stolen. That it was stoleu has been proved beyond any possibility of a doubt. ineotuy thing which remaius to be established is who were the thieves? There has been uo hysterical haste in pushing- this case to its prcseut state of iueompletiou. Pre liminary probes and investigations were elaborate almost to the poiut of tediousuess. But now the matter comes right down to the point of trying to fix the crime upon certain individuals connected with the building. If they are innocent a prompt and speedy trial will set them free. If guilty, just as swift punishment will be demanded by the 7,000,000 people of this Commonwealth. The one thing that would be hostile to all interests is delay. Jus tice may be blind and may also move with a leaden heel, but it should not be bound to a rock and helpless. Let us know who stole that $6, 000,000 of the people's money. Phila. Press, O.A.STOn.T.A.. Bavt tiw 'M M Haw Aiwaw Bought THE NATIONAL CAPITOL. (Special Correspondence.) Washington, D. C. Ian. 22, 1908 Congressman John G. Mcllenry lets no day pass without doing something for his constituents. His assignment to the Committee on Banking and Currency was a rare compliment, as I said at the time, but it has involved vast responsibil ities and much labor. Most other committees meet once a week aud the members of them imagine that such meetings take a good deal of time from their routine duties. But the Banking aud Curreucy Com mittee has bceu meeting every day, since the re-assembling of Congress after the holiday recess, and this week begins holding two sessions a day, In order to give financiers au opportunity to express their views at public hearings. A member of the Committee must atteud all these meetings iu order to fulfill bis du ties but he is not absolved from his other obligations as a Representa tive of the people iu the Congress of the country. But Mr. Mcllenry docs more than this, lie is one of the most useful members of the Committee, because as one of the veterans of the House expressed it the other day, "he has j ideas that are helpful to his associ-! ates." Therefore he attends every meeting, participates in the deliber ations of the Committee and keeps his routine work up better thau most of his colleagues, besides. That is to say he has found time to prepare and introduce several of the most important measures of general interest, referred to hither to, besides a great number of spec ial bills providing for pensions, cor recting military records, and kin- Ired subjects of local interest. No member has given more tune to such matters than he aud uo new member has ever accomplished more. If he were less energetic it would be impossible for him to achieve the results. Since my l ist letter Mr. Mcllenry has introduced another bill of gen eral interest aiut much value. It will be rerrembered that during the last Congress a bill was passed pro viding for a pension for a'l soldiers who had served three months or more aud were honorablv discharg- l. It is known as "The Act of February 6, 1907," because it was approved ou that date aud provides that at the age of sixty-two years veterans are entitled to a pension of $12 a month; at seventy years, $15 a month and at seventy-five years, $20 a month to the end of their lives. Mr. Mcllenry reasoned that few, if any of the veterans are now under sixty years of age and that equally few live to be over seventy. Therefore he has introduced an amendmeut to the Act of February 6, 1907, providing that at sixty years the veteran is entitled to $12 a month; at sixty-nve to $15 a mouth and at seventy and as long thereafter as he lives, the govern ment ought to pay him $20 a mouth. This change in the bill will add little, comparatively speaking, to the aggregate of the pension fund but will contribute vastly to the comfort of many a veteran who has lived beyond the Scriptural age of three score and ten. Most men at that age are totally incapacitated for auy kind of work and though the difference in the amount is small it will help a great deal to ward the miintenance of those he roes who offered their lives for the preservation of the Republic. Mon ey is spent freely, not to say profli gately, for less worthy purposes. v or example there are bills pending for "the beautificatiou of Washing ton," tint will involve the expen diture of probably fifty millions of dollars. I don't object to these ambitious schemes aud I don't be lieve that Mr. Mcllenry does. But I believe with him that money spent to relieve or avoid suffering of vet erans of war, is more wisely appro priated. The public hearings by the Com mittee ou Banking and Curreucy, which begin this week, will be both interesting and illuminating. Mr. Mcllenry has arranged for a bearing of State Treasurer Berry of Pennsylvania. No time has been fixed, as yet, for this event, but it is likely to be in the near future. Mr. Berry has some strikingly orig inal ideas on the currency question and I predict when he addresses the committee some of the "bank ing barous" will sit up and take notice. G. D. H. Before that cough turns into a serious throat or lung trouble stop it .itn Jayne's Expectorant (fee?- It has proved its real value during 75 years. -OldiS' Ask your druggist for it TOWNSEND Wool A ME AIL OUST 15c Pursel's Clearance Sales. The greatest line of Rockers we have ever shown and probably more of them than was ever gathered together at any one time in this section. We picked and pruned from two of the largest manufacturers in the business and to make a long story short, there isn't any better and very few as good. 'Twill do your eyes good to see them. They make such splendid gifts. Children's Rockers a host of them, 75 cents to $2.75. MISSION FURNITURE. Mission, Weather and Golden Oak MorrisJChairs, broad arms complete with Velour, Corduroy and Leather cushions $5 to $15 Mission Rockers with broad arms and panel backs solid wood seats $475 to $6.75. Mission Rockers with leather seats and panel and inlaid backs $7.00 to $13. Mission Rockers with leather upholstering on back and seat, $3. 00 to $15. Mission Arm Chairs and Rockers complete with loose leather cushion $10 to $15.00. Golden Oak Saddle Seat Rocking Chair, panel back and shaped arms from 1.75 to $11.50. Wisconsin roll seat Rock ers in Golden Oak and Ma hogany finish, the very pic ture of comfort, bolted and riveted built for service, $2.50 to $10.00 . Elegant Mahogany Rock ers and corner chairs same, with plain veneered seats, others upholstered in leath er or gre'en hair cloth $4.00 to $14.00. Polished Golden Oak' Rockers luxurious leather seats high and low panel- F. P. BLOOMSBURG, Hose ISARGAfN SHIRTS ed or upholstered backs,$3 to $15.00. Antwerp Oak Rockers back and seat shaped arms, splendid, upholstered in plain and embossed Mexican leathcr,$i4, $14.50 and $15.00. Mission Screens filled with plain burlap and heavy tapestry, also wood panels, $5.00 to $9.50. Mission Library Tables, drawers and shelf, for mag azinesplain and quarter ed oak stock. $5.00 to $10. Mission Writing Desk (for- men) complete with pigeon holes and drawers, $10.00 to $16.50. Mission magazine and book shelves, $1.98 to $6.00 Mission weathered oak hanging hall racks with beveled plate mirror S3. 75. Women's Mission Desk Chairs $3.03 to $3.50. Mission Card Tables leather or green felt tops, close folding, $3.98. Umbrella Racks, Tabour ettes. Dinner Gongs, Smok ing Sets, Tipe Racks, Foot Stools, and numerous other items in Mission Furniture that go to make up the perfect Den. CORNER. I PURSEL. - PENN'A.
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