THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOAfcsBURG. Pa. STRONGEST BANK Capital $100,000 Undivided Profits $30,000 First National Bank, Solicits the Business and Accounts of Farmers and Business Men. SATISFACTION OUAIt ANTKFJ) ltY A STKONU, COXSEKVATI VK AND SAFE MAN All KM EXT. f Per Cent. Interest Paid on Time Deposits. O F F I C h. V. M. Low. President. Janie M.Staver, Vice President. D I R E C E. W.M.I.ow. F. O. Yorkft, H.V. Hower Intncit M. Stavor, M. E Stacklioum'. THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED 1866. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, hSTAHLISM KD 1 837. C'ONSOI.l I)A1 F.I) I 86g Published Every Tih rhay Mr knin, V Blojmsliurg, the County Seat of Columbia County .Pennsylvania. OKO. E. Et.WKl.L. Entron. GEO. C. ROAN, Foreman. Term Insidt the county $ l.oo a year la alvance: Si. Soil not paid in advance, 1 utside tlit county, 1.25 a year, strictly in lvance. All communication should leaddresed THE COLUMBIAN, BloomsburR, I'a, THURSDAY, JUNE IS, 1'tOS. Democratic County Ticket. FOR MKMBER OF CONGRESS, JOHN G. MclIEXV, of Benton. FOR MEMBER OF LEGISLATURE, WM. T. CRKASY, of Catawissa, FOR PROTHONOTAKY, FREEZE QUICK, of Bloomsburg. FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER, FRANK V. MILLER, ot Bloomsburg. FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY, CHRISTIAN A. SMALL, of Bloomsburg. FOR COUNTY TREASURER, JOHN MOUREY, of Roaring Creek Township. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER CHARLES L. P0HE, of Catawissa. JERRY A. HESS, of Bloomsburg. FOR COUNTY AUDITORS, CLYDE L. HIRLEMAN, of Benton Borough, (Second Term.) KARRY CREASY, of Blooms ourg. (Second Term ) OF INTEREST TO DEMOCRATS. The National Democratic " Con gressional Campaign Committee has begun active operations at its head quarters at Washington, D. C. In addition to its regular work, it is now preparing a Campaign hand book which it hopes to have ready for distribution by July 1 two or three months earlier than hereto fore. The Committee is charged with the duty of assisting, in every way possible, the election of a Demo cratic Congress. We wish the ac tive co-operation of every voter in the United States who believes, with us, that the election of a Demo cratic Congress would greatly bene fit the country. We must rely upon the people to sustain our work by giving information as to local conditions, and suggestions for our guidance. Each individual can at least aid us by making a contribution. Will he not do so and interest others in helping us, too ? We wish our Campaign hand book distributed as generally as possible, and we will iuruish a copy, as soon as published, to every one who contributes to our Committee. Send remittances to me at Wash ington, D. C. James T. Lloyd, Chairman. James Scarlet Esq., of Danville. delegate at large to the Republican National Convention at Chicago. was selected to make the speech seconding tnc nomination of Sena tor Knox for President. Of course it was a good one. By the ability which he has displayed in the capitol graft cases, Mr. Scarlet has sprang into national prominence. IN THE COUNTY Surplus $150,000. E It H : Myron I. Low, Vico rrcxldcnt. Frank Ikeler, I 'ashler. T O R S : S. C. Creasy. Fred I kelor, Myron I. f.nw, Louis Grows, Frank Ikcler. Bryan Has Enough Voles to Nominate Ncbraskan Has 668 Delegates Out of 1002 or the Two-Third Necessary to Choice. The New York Tribune of last Sunday summarizes the Democrat ic situation as follows: Seventy delegates to the Demo cratic National Convention have been chosen .since the Tribune's last table ot delegates-elect appeared on June 7. Full delegations were elect ed last week from Oregon, New Mexico, Kentucky, Virginia and Utah. All seventy delegates were instructed for Bryan, who now has a two-thirds majoiity. The call for the National Con vention fixed its membership at 1002, the Philippines being exclud ed from representation. Six Phil ippine delegates have been chosen, however, and will apply for admis sion. Of the 878 delegates so far elected, 668 are instructed lor Mr. Bryan, or committed to his support, by resolutions of preference or pub lic announcement. Twenty-two are for Johnson, 1 1 are for Gray and 177 are uncommitted. Mr. Bryan has the support of 76 per cent, of the delegates so far elected. The distribution by States, terri tories and dependencies among the various candidates of the 878 dele gates so far elected is shown in the following table: Alabama 23 Alaska 6 Nebraska 16 Nevada 6 New.Hampshire 6 New' Jersey New Mexico.... 6 New York North Dakota . 8 Ohio 46 Oregon 8 Oklahoma. 14 Pennsylvania... 30 Porto Rico Rhode Island... 4 South Carolina. 18 South Dakota... 8 Texas 36 Utah 6 Virginia 24 Washington jo West Virginia.. 14 Wisconsin 26 Wyoming 6 Arizona 6 Arkansas 18 California 20 Connecticut. . . 4 Delaware Dist. of Colum. 6 Florida 4 Hawaii. , b Idaho 6 Illinois 54 Indiana 30 Iowa 2d Kansas 20 Kentucky 2b Louisiana 1S Maine 6 Maryland 4 Massachusetts.. 24 Michigan 23 Minnesota Missouri 36 Montana Total 663 Among the 177 uncommitted del egates are ten from Connecticut, six from Maine, twelve from Mary land, eight from Massachusetts, two from New Hampshire, 24 from New Jersey, seventy-eight from New York, twenty-seven from Pennsylvania, six from Porto Rico and four from Rhode Island. Judge Gray's eleven votes come from Delaware and Pennsylvania. Governor Johnson's twenty-two come from his home State of Minne sota. Contests are being made for six seats from the District of Columbia by an uninstructed delegation and for six seats from Idaho by a rival Bryan delegation. Total membership of the conven tion of 1908, 1002. Necessary to a choice under the two-thirds rule, 668. The Song of the Hair There are four verses. Verse 1. Ayer's Hair Vigor stops fallinj hair. Verse 2. Ayer's Hair Vigor makes the hair grow. Verse 3. Ayer's Hair Vigor cures dandruff. Verse 4. Ayer's Hair Vigor makes the scalp healthy, and keeps it so. It is a regular hair-food ; this is the real secret of its won derful success. The beat kind of a teatlmonUl "Bold for over alxty yeara." by J. O. Ayr Oo., LowU. Ao manuffcoturor af III KABSAPABILLA. it ova pills. If wf J cnem pbctobal. A Ready-Made Republican Creed. . 'The candidate to be nominated by the convention having been se-1 lected in advance, it was appropri ate that the platform for the con vention to adopt should also be written and given to the press be fore the convention was called to order. The Republican party hav ing destroyed the deliberative char acter of the House of Representa tives, it has now degraded the na tional convention to the level of a mere ratification meeting. Of course, the most delicate task in compounding the platform was to get over the panic of last fall, which not only occurred under a Republican Administration, but of which the Presidents speeches and messages wee a contributing cause. All the financial reverses for half a century the panics of 1S73, 18S4, the partial panic of 1890, the severe stringency of 1902 and the panic of 1907 occurred under Republican Administrations, with the single exception ot the panic of 1893, which came before the Cleveland Administration hail ha 1 time to do any thing and which was caused mainly by the Republican silver legislation of 1S90, aggravated by the sacrifice of revenue which the McKinley tariff effected. In view of this perfectly faniilhr record, it provokes laughter rather than re-; seutment that the platform atlri- bates to "the operation of Republi-1 can policies the recent safe passage of the American people through a financial disturbance which, if ap-1 peanng 111 the midst of Democratic rule, or the menace of it, might have equaled the familiar Demo cratic panics of the past." This is really ihe finest achievement of political impudence that can be found in our history. The platform bristles with plain falsehoods. That Congress did not enact a lot of the Roosevelt meas ures is attributed to the Democratic filibuster. Everybody knows it was due to the .opposition of Cannon, Payne. Dalzell and other Republi can leaders 10 the President. The statement that the Democratic par ty opposed the Anti-Trust law and refused to enlorce it is plain lying. Senator Sherman introduced an Anti-Trust bill, but Senator Vest said he wrote more of the measure as it passed than Senator Sherman did. The Cleveland Administration originated or pushed to the highest Courts suits against two great in dustrial combinations. The state ment that the Democratic partv stands for the contraction of Amer ican influence in the world has no other warrant than Democratic sup port ot the traditional anti-impen-alistic policies of the American na tion. President Cleveland challeng ed England in the case of the Venezuelan boundary, the boldest step ever taken in support of the Monroe doctrine, and he warned Spain of the impending interference of the United States in Cuba if the disorders should not speedily cease. The statement that "the Democrat ic party of today believes in Gov ernment ownership" is a grotesque taisenood, tor Mr. Bryan s proposi tion of the Government ownership of railroads was so promptly reject ed by Democrats all over the coun try that Mr. Bryan made haste to declare that it was not a present issue. For mendacious effrontery the platform goes far beyond all politi cal documents of its class. Phila. Record, Dr. Miles' Anti-Fain Fills relieve pnln. State Paying School Fnnds. Last week the State began pay ment of the largest annual school appropriation made by any com monwealth in the United States, and within the next six months no less than $7,500,000 will be paid out of the state treasury for educa tion. This is over $2,000 000 in excess of what is paid by New York, and far ahead of Massachusetts, Texas and other states where large educa tional appropriations are made. It is one half of $15,000,000 school appropriation made by the last leg islature and urged by Governor Stuart in his inaugural address, being carried to fruition by the ef forts of State Treasurer John O Sheatz, then chairman of the ap propriation committee of the House Mr. Sheatz will make the pay ments as fast as the warrants are sent to him by Superintendent of Public Instruction N. C. Scnacfler Dr. Schaeffer makes up the war' rants from reports made by local districts. These districts receive the money for reimbursement of what they paid during the year ending June 1, and must certify that they paid the minimum sala ries of $40 and $50. O BaantU AVi Kind YoaHiw Always BNgM Gemmae ROTTENNESS IN PHILADELPHIA. There is nothing new in the de velopments of fraud in Philadel phia. Senator McNichol acknowl edges that the jury was "fixed" in the Salter case and that John Weav er, then district attorney and .sub sequently compensated by promo tion to the office of mayor, was cognizant of and contributary to the conspiracy. But every intelli gent observer of events knew that at the time. For that reason we repeatedly admonished the public against placing faith in the reform professions of Weaver. He had proven himself a corruptionist and a man with such a record can't rep resent genuine reform any more than a leopard can change its spots. But the devtloptnents of the last couple of weeks in relation to the frauds in Philadelphia are import ant, neveitheless. They indicate that the machine has so accurately measured the civic immorality of the people of Philadelphia that its leaders 110 longer think it necessary to conceal its immiities. McNicholJ leels confident no exposures will turn the people of that city against an organi. itiou which pays them for their support. So long as the loot is divided with reasonable lib erality it may continue the plunder ing operations and the chief boodler is therefore willing to let the whole world know. That is the assurance of the confident criminal. Wc are inclined to share in the opinion of Mr. McNichol. In 1900 the people of Philadelplria knew that in voting to restore the Repub lican party to power they were voting for the resumption of the looting operations. Ytt by enor mous majority they declared in fa vor of the restoration, and subse quently, in the election of Mayor Reyburn, testified to their satisfac tion with the result. Such exposures as those of the last few days add nothing to the enormity of the crimes that have been perpetrated but they prove that the community is morally rotten and serve as a warning to the outside world. It is inconceivable that such a people can be trusted in anything. Watchman. Robbing the Widow. Widows of deceased veterans of the civil war should beware of the greedy pension sharks at Washing ton. Ihese sharks are fending out letters to widows soliciting their applications for pensions un der the recent act of congress. The act provides that widows who have been receiving less than $12 per mouth should have their pen sions increased to $12. It is not necessary for the bene ffciaries of this law to make appli cation to anybody for this increase, as the amount will be paid them when they present their vouchers to the pension agency at Pittsburg. The pension agent at Pittsburg says it is not necessary lor a widow to send her pension voucher, exe cuted as usual, before July 4. A check for $34 will be mailed her with a request to return her certi ficate after July 15, in order that the same may be stamped with the new rate. Address Every Package. After the first of next July, shippers will be obliged to use caution in making freight ship ments smaller than car load lots. On that date an order will go into force to the effect that the trans porting companies will refuse to accept any shipment smaller than a car load if the package is not plainly marked with the name of the consignee and the name and address of the consignor. This rule is enforced to protect the railroad companies trom damage claims arising from unnnrked consign ments going astray, as it was the practice of some shippers in send ing out a large number of packages at one shipment, to mark one and simply initial the balance or leave them blank. F'ormer state officials Matthues, Snyder and Shu'maker, who were on trial at Harrisburg for conspira cy in overcharging the state for metal cases, were acquitted by or der of the Judge, and Architect Huston and Contractor Cassell were found not guilty by the jury. This may be all right and according to law, but the fact still remains that the state was robbed by somebody of several millions iu the new capi tol job. . Get SUBSTANTIAL Lowering of Suit Prices! MaMissssae mm " a eai saaaasM a immm Today we commence a period of Suit Selling destined to be the best in the department's history. To get quickly to the bottom of the matter, these few facts are told. Within a very short time the space occupied by these suits will be taken for advance summer garments. This low price method is taken to get what Spring Suits remain out in time to accommodate the new arrivals. The following prices will prove interesting to the woman who has yet to purchase her Spring Suit. 310.00 SUITS FOR $7.50. Latest styles stripes and plain colors. Sale Price $7.50. 12.00 SUITS FOR 0.98. Illue and brown, self striped Panama, Prince Chap Style. Sale Price $9.98. 1 1.00 SUITS FOR 10.00. Worsteds and self stripe Panama, Prince Chap and Cuta way style. Sale Price $10.00. 317.50 SUITS FOR 315.50. Excellent quality of Chiffon Panama, blues, browns and black. Jacket 27 inches, jf fitting back with dip front.worth $20.00. Sizes 14 to 40. Sale Price $15.50. 318.00 and 320.00 SUITS FOR 312.08. Sizes 14 to 36 ev ry suit a new creation. 22.50 and 23.00 SUITS FOR 10.00 Elegant materials and tailorings blues, brown and greens, Many of the best models. Sale Price $16.00. 25.00 SUITS FOR 17.50. Excellent assortment, most all sizes in this lot. Pest styles included. High grade handsome materials. 32.00 and 35.00 SUITS FOR 25.00. The newest creations. Some of them copies of fine im ported models, fine quality of fabrics good color variety. Sale Price $25.00. F. P. BLOOMSBURG, We Have Ten Styles of Envelopes and Paper to Match FOR Invitations, Acceptances, Regrets, Announcements, &c. Full size Wedding with two Envelopes, down to Billet-doux size with Card to Fit. Twenty-Four Styles of Type FOR CARDS AND INVITATIONS. I We Do All Kinds of Printing Columbian Printing House, BLOOMSBURG, PA. Cut off that cough and prevent ironchidi and conxunntinn. The trorld'i Gtindr4 TKtv-t. i w.J. r iricoians ror 75 jan, " h of your drag! ad tot? it PURSEL. PENN'A. with DneumdHi's - tfcrty. rtztj b dt boa