THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURQ, PA. STRONGEST BANK Capital $100,000 Undivided Profits S30.00O First National Bank, Solicits the Business and Accounts of Farmers and Business Men. SATISFACTION GUAKANTKKI) HY A STUOXU, CONSERVATIVE AND .SAFE MANAGEMENT. 5 Per Cent. Interest O F F I K. W. M. Low. President. James M. Staver, Vice President. DI RECTO RS: E. H, W. M.Low, F. O. Yorks, V. Hower James M. Staver, M. E Stackliouse. THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED iSub. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, CSrABMSHLD I 8J7. CoN Si M I ll A'l 1 1 ' I S69 UHLHHEL) EVKKY TllURSDW MOKMNH, A' Bloomsburg, the County Seal of Columbia County, Pennsylvania. OEO. E. ELWELL, En iron. GEO. C. ROAN, Foreman. Terms: Insid t the county fi.ooa year la advance; 41 1 . 5 o i f not paid in advance. Outside tht county, f 1. 2 5 a year,3trictly in advance. All communications should hciddressed THE COLUMBIAN, Bloomsburg, I'a THt'ItSDA N JULY 0, 1!08. Democratic County Ticket. FOR MEMBKR OF CONGRESS, JOHN G. McIIENY, of Benton. FOR MEMBER OF LEGISLATURE, VM. T. CREASY, 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. POHE, of Catawissa. JERRY A. HESS, of Bloomsburg. FOR COUNTY AUDITORS, CLYDE L. HIRLEMAN, of Benton Borough, (Second Term.) KARRY CREASY, of Bloomsburg. (Second Term.) GUFFEY SOLD OUT. Creaty Sayi He Dealt With Penrose in 1906 to Deleat Emery. Hon. William T. Creasy, the leading Democratic legislator of the State, tells how he discovered in 1906 that Colonel James M. Guffey, State Democratic boss and finan cier, met Senator Boise Penrose, the Pennsylvania Republican boss, in New York during the last mem orable Gubernatorial campaign, ap parently to arrange finally for the defeat of Lewis Emery, Jr., and the election of the Republican nominee for Governor in 1906. Mr. Creasy practically charges that there and then Colonel Guffey sold out the Democratic nominee for Governor and gave Senator Pen rose assurance of a delivery of the goods. Here is the story as Mr. Creasy tells it, for publication, up to date: "I had an engagement to address a graDge picnic in New Jersey on August 1 6, 1906, and on my way there on August 15, 1 stopped over in New York to meet Colonel Guf tey, who was stopping at the Hol land House, where he had a suite of rooms on the second floor. "I was there with him through out the day, and when the tele phone rang in one of the rooms upon the occasion in question I answered it. The telephone opera tor at the hotel exchange, in re sponse to my query, said: 'Senator Penrose Is down here.' "I was amazed, and again asked her who wanted Colonel Guffey, and again she replied: 'Senator Penrose.' "I went into one of the other rooms of the suite and informed Colonel Guffey that some one want IN THE COUNTY Surplus $150,000. Paid on Time Deposits. C E R S : Myron I. Low, Vice I'resMent. Frank Ikeler, Cashier S. ('. Creasy. Frocl I keler, My roll I. Ijow, Louis Gross, F'rank Ikeler, ed him on the telephone. IT WAS VERY PRIVATE. "Answering the 'phone he in formed me that some 0113 wanted to see him on business, and if I ha; no objection lie would like me to retire to one of the other rooms, which 1 ciici. Alter tiie conversa tion had been completed he rapped at my door and said I should come out. "What the conversation was, I, of course, do not know; but I had a mighty strong supposition that plans were discussed to encompiss Emery s defeat. I knew that Guf ley was opposed to Emery, and I know furthermore that the people at 25 lircauway were mightily in terested in the defeat of Emery. "I never mentioned the matter to Guffey. I was so utterly disgust ed with his that I did not care to bring up the subject." LAWYERS AFTER COURT. The Pennsylvania State Bar As sociation, at its session, took a pos itive position in reference to the superior court, decla.iujr that that body was unnecessary and that the enactment creating it should be re pealed. Who are better qualiSed to judge of necessity than lawyers? When the superior court was cre ated there was a hue and a cry that it was to give berths to political supernumeraries to whom politic ians were in debt. A virtue was made of necessity, however, and it was accepted, and the layman has by slow degrees been iuduced to believe that it had earned a right to existence by enabling protnot ad judication of long standing litiga tion. Lawyers are particularly con cerned that cases on appeal shall be disposed of quickly and they would be slow to condemn the superior court were there any dautrer that the calendar of the supreme court would be glutted with uutried cases. a condition which does not exist. We doubt not that there are good and sufficieut reasons back of the demand for the abolition of the su perior court, and when lawyers say tuat it is not necessary we are pre pared to take them at their word. How the legislature will view the matter is another question. It is a difficult matter to uproot establish ed institutions, particularly when there are comfortable salaries clus tering about the roots. Altoona limes. Dr. Mllea' Antl-Paln Pills relieve pain. Quay Statue as a Gift. The Town ol Beaver or Dead Senator's Fam ily Might Have If. The Board of Public Grounds and Buildings held its monthly meeting last week, and again side stepped taking action on the plac ing of the Quay statue. Colonel Moody, secretary of the Quay Mon ument Commission, has not follow ed up his last letter asking that a conference be held between the Board and the Commission, and the Board is in no h firry to fix a place for the statue. It is understood that the matter will be held up until after the Leg islature meets, when it is possible that a bill placing the statue in the Capitol grounds may be repealed and the statue given to the city of Beaver, Quay's home, or else to the immediate family of the dead Sen ator, for the burial lot at Beaver. To Enforce Rice Throwing Law. We would infer from an article in the .Tyrone Herald that it is the purpose of the Pennsylvania Rail road company to enforce the recent ruling relative to suppressing the rice throwing at stations on wed ding occasions, and in towns where the company has no police officers stationed arrangements have been made ' to secure the names of per sons who are guilty of the practice and bring the offenders to justice under a recent act of assembly. WASHINGTON From our Regular Correspondent. Washington, D. C, July 6, 1908. Notwithstanding the departure of the President to his summer home and the scattering of the Cab inet and the Supreme Court, move ments emanating from or centering in Washington are of mote than usual interest this summer. The Secretary of War or he who was until recently the Secretary of War and is now the Republican presi dential candidate, is in the city winding up matters for his final de parture. He is today, for the first time for years, a private citizen and the most conspicuous private citi zen in the western hemisphere. He left for the Hot Springs of Virgin ia on the Fourth cf July, with Mrs. Taft and (heir youngest son.Charles Taft, a youth of ten years. Mr. Taft has been in the habit of spend ing his summers in Canada, but it will not be convenient for the pres idential candidate to be out of the country and he has selected a nlace in Monroe county, Virginia, among the mountains, for his summer home. The Hot Springs of Virginia have been a resort for fifty years or more and, even before the War, rivalled the Green Briar White Springs as a fashionable resort for the slave-holding aristocracy of the South. Within the last lew years it lias been a resort of the wealthy and ultra fashionable people of the North and Northeast. While the presidential candidate and part of his family will be there for the hot test of the summer months, his daughter will visit a school friend in Georgia. There is, of course, no political significance in the se lection of a resort south of the Ma- sou and Dixon hue, but the fact, insignificant as it is. marks the amelioration of long standing polit ical asperities. There are political wiseacres who predict that the re piiDiican candidate will carry two or three southern states in the com ing election ;and the fact that he and his family are at home in the south will not be without its signif icance. It is reported that President Roosevelt has bought a lot for a residence, in the City of New York, at a cost of a million of dollars. Two or three weeks ago only, it was supposed that the President would be without occupation after March the fourth, and it was pub lished that he was comfortably well off, having an income of at least ten thousand dollars ! The ques tion naturally arises: How is the President able to buy a lot for build ing purposes worth a million dol lars? Many ex-Senators and ex cabinet officers have been known to buy homes or build homes in Wash ington, but no ex-president has ever remained in the city longer than his term. Ex-presidents have al ways returned to their homes in the states. There may be a reason for this. No kiug or emperor, after having 'enjoyed or endured the splendors of state, was ever known to settle down as a quiet citizen amid the scenes of his vanished glories. The President of the United States, is, as far as honors and pageautry are concerned, a king or an emperor; and the anti climax of private life would doubt less be too severe, as felt by him self and all who came in contact with him, for a merely mortal man. At the State and War Depart ment in this city, the situation in Mexico is watched with intensest interest. The Mexican Govern ment, of course, treats the insur gents as banditti for precisely the same reason that the British Gov ernment a hundred and thirty years ago, treated the revolutionary fa thers as rebels. An important dif ference in practice is that the Mex ican Government takes no prison ers but kills those it captures. Por firio Diaz, president of the so-called republic for the last twenty-five years, has been very much praised. The Government has at least one recommendation. It is a very strong government. It is despotic and in its despotism, Mexico has enjoyed such internal peace as she had nev er previously known for so long a period, but it is absurd to call the government a republic. The elec tions are absurd. There has never been a free or fair election in the country. All law, order and au thority emanate from the palace of the President, whether from his home in the City ol Mexico or from Chapultapec, three miles out. Diaz might say with even more consist ency than did Louis XV "Z etoe tstMoi." There is a junta or body of con spirators against this iron order of things, and the habitat of this jun ta at present is St. Louis. The ,0, T)Kitail ibii WWW tea Irish have or had in New York City, very much such a junta against the English government. There ate malcontents, and with good reason, against every govern ment. Diaz has the railroads for the transportation of such troops as are in the Mexican army, which con sists largely of barefooted convicts, and he will probably be able to suppress the insurrectors or drive them across into Texas. But it is not at all certain but that there will be a succession of uprisings in Mex ico, or that that tountry has a more stable government than the Central and South American countries. Diaz is very old and feeble too, and revolution is anticipated at his death. essential. ins Become a Qualification Next to Discipline In Importance. Mirksnianshlp has become the 1110. ;t Msentlnl qualification of a soldier, r.et to discipline. Time was when ir.ur.kcts were of Biich short ratine th:it lishtliig was In solid formation Liiwceii lliiis not far apart, when a M!tlier shot nt the whole line fronting i:t:n at point blank range, and had Ciuy to he careful not to hold his 1 !. too hlh or too low. But with U.s modern hlah nower niilitnrv ii:lo 1 us come dlsperso.1 order in lighting Mid long distances between contend inc lines. retltilllnK individual marks l.ianslilp and the ai.nlng at Individual t.irxi-ts. President Roosevelt has epi tomized the whole matter In his terse expression that "it ia only the hits that count in war." Under modern iMiiiIitlons only a marksman can r.inko a hit. A man who is not a qt::tt. i:li d sharpshooter has no plane on t'.ie f.ilr.g line. He only makes a noLo. and mlRht net hurt and take the scr. vices of a good man to care for him. I was forcibly Impressed with this 1 lie night when my company lay be hind a 12-inch rice ridge In the Phil. !;l'!i:ns repelling a night attack by a L' ':-f!y superior force. Just In front f'f nip were two men, a sharpshooter and one who was not. The sharp t.:i,,ot(r It was firo at will loaded Ms piceo deliberately, yet quickly, n::d held It at aim until he could r!f.ht U the flash of the gun, and then fired; while the other man loaded ! M l fired in the general direction of Ci" enemy as fast as he could, using up three cartridges to one used by his nnid.bor. I said nothing, because, vl ile he was not hitting anybody he vp ?. helping to make the noise, and In B-andlng off a FIllpln0 attack noise r'ovs an impo-tnnt part The importance of marksmanship w,is illustrated In the Philippines In r.!iot!icr way. Time and nsain our n.rn captured trenches occupied by a superior force, simply becauso the ce. fenders could not shoot stra'rht. If the Filipinos had been as good mark3- n.en as tne Americans three times as many men. or more, would hava been required to suppress the insur. rrction. One obstacle In the way of regular nr.d general target practice Is the ina. billty of many companies and regl. n.ents to secure good ranges within convenient reach, or any range at all in many Instances. Manv State are very niggardly in their approprla. tli;ns fop their national guard, and it requires all the national allotment 'f thoso States merely to maintain tr eitard In ordinary condition. The F'-nTal public, from the bodv of v'Mfh legislators come, and which tV.pv renresent. has not vet f nil v com prehnded that rifle practice Is of far m."ri Importance to the soldier trr.n miiine ror parades. A qualified eh'irnshooter in a tattered uniform Is a far more serviceable soldier than one neatly dressed parading with a run on hla shoulder which he does rot know how to use. State and regi mental nride demand new uniform rn-1 perfect alignment of parade; but eomrron sense demand rifle ranee pr( their constant use by every en. .islet! man, Dog lias Bank Account. Bluff, a bulldog, is heir to a for tune of 11,000, left by hla master, William E. Butts, a wealthy resident of Chicago, who dlea recently. Bluff, sc far as la known, Is the only dog in the world with a bank account. A little bank book will be Issued in the name of Bluff and checks against V,a account will be signed "Bluff" ty th administrator of the estate, who will look after Bluff's future. Rat's Strange Death. A cocoanut was brought to me JubI as picked up in a Colomba garden, with the bead of a big rat fixed into the nut, the rat being not long dead. Clearly the rat was op a tree nib bling at or rather being well Into the nut, nearly full slse, when the nut tumbled and before It could withdraw It was crushed to death between the nut and the ground. Ceylon Observe. For 75 years the favorite SUBSTANTIAL Lowering of Suit Prices! Today we commence .1 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. 10.00 SUITS FOll 7.50. Latest styles stripes and plain colors. Sale Price $7.50. 12.00 SUITS FOll 9.98. Blue and brown, self striped Panama, Prince Chap Style. Sale Price $9.98. 11.00 suits for 10.00. Worsteds and self stripe Panama, Prince Chap and Cuta way style. Sale Price $10.00. 17.50 SUITS FOR 15.50. 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. 18.00 and 20.00 SUITS FOll 12.98. Sizes i4to 36 e ry suit a new creation. 22.50 and 23.00 SUITS FOll 1G.00 Elegant materials and tailorings blues, brown and greens, Many of the best models. Sale Price $16.00. 25.00 SUITS FOll 17.50. Excellent assortment, most all sizes in this lot. Best styles included. High grade handsome materials. 32.00 and 35.00 SUITS FOll 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. We Do All Kinds of Printing Columbian Printing House, BLOOMSBURG, PA. familyThcdicine for throat and PURSER.. PENN'A. feofer lungs. i 1 . t
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