w THE COLUMBIAN; GLOOMsBURO. Pa. STRONGEST BANK Capital $100,000 Undivided Profits S30.00O First National Bank, Solicits the Business and Accounts of Farmers and Business Men. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Y A STKOXU, CONSERVATIVE AND SAFE MANAGEMENT. 0 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Time Deposits. O F F I C K. W. Jf. Low, President. Jarires M.Staver, Vice President. DIRECTORS: E.W. M.Low. F.G. Yorks, M. C. Creasy. Fred Ikeler, H. V. Hower fames M. Staver, Myron I. Low, Louis Gross, M. E Staekhouse. Frank Ikeler, THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED if6b. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, 'CSrABl.ISIIKP IS37. CONSOI.IDA I H) 1869 ibi.ished Every Tiicrsimv Morsino, A' Bloomsburg, the County Seal of ColumljiaCouniy, Pennsylvania. CEO. E. EtAVMLI.. EnnoR. GEO. C. ROAN, Foklman. Tkk.m s: Insidethe county il.oo a year In aivai cej f I.5oif not paid in advance. Outside thecounty, 1.252 year, strictly in ivance. All commanications should lie.nldressed THE COLUMBIAN, BioomsburR, la TlIUItSDW, JULY 10, 11108. Democratic National Ticket. FOR PRESIDENT. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, of Nebraska. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, JOHN W. KERN, of Indiana. Democratic State Ticket. ITJDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT, - WEBSTER GRIMM, of Bucks .County. Temocratic County Ticket. FOR MEMBER OF CONGRESS, JOHN G. McIIENY, of Bentou. FOR MEMBER OF LEGISLATURE, WM. T. CREASY, of Catawissa, FOR PROTHONOTARV, FREEZE QUICK, of Bloomsburg. FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER, FRANK W. MILLER, of 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 Blooms Durg. (Second Term.) THE TICKET. The Democratic National Con vention has nominated William Jennings Bryan and John W. Kern as their standard bearers in the Presidential campaign. We have placed their names at the head of the political announcements, and will give the ticket our warmest support. Mr. Bryan, twice a Presidential nominee, has been before the public eye for the past twelve years, and is so well known that a biographi cal sketch is unnecessary. John W. Kern was born Decern ber 20, 1840, at the village of Alto, Howard county, Indiana. His father, Dr. Jacob W. Kern was a Virginian by birth, who removed to Shelby county, Ind., in 1836, and lived there until 1846, when he moved into the new Northern coun try. Kern's mother was Nancy Liggett and she and Dr. Kern were married in Warren county, Ohio. . In 1854, when John was five years old, the family removed to Warren county, Iowa. Prom the time he went to Iowa until be was 15 years IN THE COUNTY Surplus 8160,000, E R H : Myron I. Low, Vlco PreMrient. Frank Ikolcr, Cashier. olJ he did not see a railroad train. The family moved back to Howard comity in 1864. In the 6o's, while still in Iowa, Mrs. Kern died. Two children were left, John and li s sifter, who is now Mrs. Isaac Engel of Danville, Va. John was educated in the district schools and he continued this edu cation by attending the Indiana Normal School of Kokomo, Ind., riding borseback 10 miles each day. Later he taught school near Alto. He earned money to enter Ann Arbor, graduating from the law de partment of Michigan University in 1869. He immediately began prac ticing in Kokomo, Ind. Mr. Kern has been president of the Commercial Club and has al ways been conspicuous in all State and Civic movements. Mrs. Kern, who is his second wife, and whom he married in 1895, is prominent in all of the social and literary affairs of the city. Miss Julia Kern, their daughter, is well known socially. There are two other children John W. Kern, Jr., aged 9, and William II. Kern, who is now 5 yearsold. The nominee is one of the best- known men in Indiana and though he has made two losing races for Governor as the nominee of his party he led his ticket on both oc casions and has since then been re garded as the leader of the party in his state. When just 21 years of age and only entering upon his pro fession as a lawyer, he was "draft ed" to make the race for the Legis lature in the Republican county of Howard, but was defeated, after which he was chosen city attorney of Kokomo for six terms over Re publican aspirants. In 1884 he was nominated for re porter of the Supreme Court on the Democratic ticket. He was elected and served four years. In 1890 he was elected a State Senator from his county, and in 1900 uud 1904 was nominated for Governor, but was defeated. Since 1884 he has resided in In dianapolis, where he served as City Attorney under the last two admin istrations of Mayor Thomas Tag gart, from October 1897 to October 1901. Before the St. Louis Convention of four years ago Mr. Kern's name had been prominently mentioned among the Vice Presidential possi bilities. In 1907 he was the caucus nom inee of the Legislative minority for Uuited States Senator, and received the entire Democratic vote in both Houses. Mr. Kern has not always agreed with his party, but he has always bowed to it when it announced its principles in convention. Prior to the assembling of the State Conven tion in 1906 he was a pronounced gold advocate and made a number of speeches to deter the party from declaring for free silver. He was beaten in the convention, and when the Chicago Convention nominated Bryan on a free silver platform he yielded his individual judgment and went to work for the ticket. In reply to the criticisms of some of his gold Democratic friends and of the opposition press, he declared that the party law as enunciated in the platform was higher than the individual judgment and if a man were a Democrat, as he was, it was his duty to hold his judgment on political questions subordinate to that of the majority of the party. It was through Kern's fealty to Bryan and the Chicago platform that he won the regard of Bryan, and In the years that have passed this regard has ripened into a gen uine friendship on the part of Bry an and into generous admiration on the part of Kern. While not a polished orator, John W. Kern is a forcible and logical speaker and campaigner of more than ordinary tact and ability. He tells a story illustrative of his posi tion on any question well and has the faculty of getting a crowd in sympathy with him wherever he speaks. He Is thoroughly acquainted In Indiana. Those who have backed him for Vice President believe that this strength will be greatly aug niented this year, and they will make a special effort to awaken State pride in his behalf. Though not a polished orator, Kern's delivery is so forcible and his logic so convincing that there is no doubt but he will make a credit able campaign for the ticket. - - Dr. Miles' Antl-Pnln Pills relieve pnln. TAFT AND TRADE. Mr. Bryan's nomination was an nounccd Friday morning. On that and the following day th?re were several favorable items of commer cial news. As a result of them the New York Tribune came out on Sunday with the announcement that "business interests of all kinds in the East, West, North and South are moving rapidly toward n normal condition.' hot several weeks past there has been a slow movement toward better time s which has been noted from week 10 week in these columns. Probably Ihe Tribune's jubil.iton is slightly exaggerated. The Commercial and Financial Chronicle says more calm ly: "No doubt the current week has afforded evidences of an im proving business outlook." It will be observed that the current week is the week during which Bryan and Kern were nominated. Dun's Review is less optimistic; it says: "Further small net gains are re corded in commercial progress, fa vorable reports predominating, al though the tendency is by 110 means definite." Ihe Taibuue' s crowing overtrade wonditions follows hard upon the action of the Democratic conven tion. It says: "The revival as sumed a pronounced character im mediately after the close of the Chicago convention." We have not observed in the trade reports that the Chicago convention had any perceptible effect upon the amount of buying and selling that was going on. Ihe Jrtbune con tinues that "the nomination of Bry an, whose election would be con sidered most deploring (deplorable?) from a business standpoint, has no depressing effect because it had been expected and fully discounted. His election is not conceded by any business man." This is an engaging combination of trade and politics. Business has been moving cn an up-grade for several weeks. It continued to ad vance after the Taft nomination; therefore that was the origin of it for political purposes. It continued to advance after the Bryan nomina tion, but that was because his nom ination had been discounted and business men did not tuink he could be elected. We shall get this sort of trade news in the Republican papers for four months. When trade improves it will be due to the expectation of Taft's election. When it falls off it will be due to apprehensions of Bryan's election. The truth is that Presidential cam paigns and prospects have vastly less influence upon trade than po litical organs are wont to represent. The facts are that Bryan is nomi nated and trade continues to im prove. Record. Feared Without Reason. Dr. Herbert L- Burrell of Bos ton, in an address before the Amer ican Medical Association recently, said: "The medical profession and many of the public are afraid of the press. Whether this position on the part of the public is justified or not need not be discussed. I never had occasion to appeal to the press for assistance and co-operation in any public measure without receiv ing hearty but at all times, to my mind, indiscreet assistance. News papers will publish what they think the public wants to know, but not what we think the public ought to know. They assume, quite prop erly, the right of decision. The greatest power that we can have to diffuse information u the public press. Let us be frank with it and I believe that it will almost invari ably be honest with us." Culm Fire Threatens Railroad. Some anxiety is being felt by the officials of the Witkes Barre & Ha- zleton third-rail line owing to the fact that the culm bank of the Em pire colliery, Wilkes-Barre, is on fire, and the flames are approaching that part of the bank along which the third-rail line runs. 1 ne ciau ger point is on Northampton street Wilkes-Barre. It is feared that the culm bank extends under the car track, in which event caves are likely to result from the culm being burned. A close watch is being kept on the danger point. o itiU .OTOniA. . kiln Kind Yw HMNmn mpg WASHINGTON Washington, D. C, July n, 1908. The nomination of John W. Kern of Indiana, as Bryan's running mate on the Democratic ticket makes it certain that the battle ground of the coining campaign will be in the Middle West. Close friends of the Nebraska leader have repeatedly declared in the last few months that Bryan no longer look ed to New York or the East for sympathy or support. He and his immediate advisers were disposed to wiite the East down permanent ly as the "Enemy's Country," and cease to waste their time and energy in trying to make inroads in it while there was a more prom ising field of endeavor in Ohio, In diana. Illinois and Wisconsin, where the Republican party has been rad icalized and the party ties of thou sands of Republicans unmistakably loosened. The fact that Bryan has now turned away from the several can didates for the Vice Presidency pre sented by the Empire State and chosen his running mate from In diana seems to prove that the idea of abandoning the East is to be given practical effect this year by the Democratic National Commit tte, which Bryan will absolutely dominate. CHOICE REGARDED AS WISE. The choice of Kern is regarded by Democrats here as an eminently wise one, in the light cf the sup posed Bryan plan ol campaign, lie is a man of ability and popularity and his mine on the Democratic ticket will arouse the State pride and enthusiasm of the Iloosier De mocracy. The State for years has been in every campaign debatable ground. Just now the Republican party in the State is badly split up. The failure of the Republicans to re nominate Fairbanks will still fur ther weaken it, not becaus-j the Vice President is particularly popu lar there, but for the reason that he and his friends will have no imme diate stake in the campaign and will probably sulk 111 their tents instead of getting out and hustling for the ticket as they would have done had he been on it. In Ohio the lack of harmony and organization in the Republican par ly are notorious and the conditions there are likely to get worse before they get better. This will be es pecially the case if the Administra tion and Taft people carry out their suspected purpose of backing Rep resentative Theodore E. Burton for the Senatorship against Foraker whom many of the Taft people are bent on eliminating from Ohio pol itics. The Foraker following are aware that the Taft crowd can do this if they go at it with determi nation and the bare announcement of the fact that Taft has given his consent to the attempt will be apt to drive thousands of the Foraker supporters into the Democratic par ty. In this situation there would be a very good chance of the Dem ocrats capturiug the State this fall, despite the fact that an Ohio man is the Republican candidate. The Foraker men are desperate and will not hesitate to bolt once they be come convinced that their leader is marked for slaughter by Taft and the Administration. ILLINOIS DOUBTFUL, TOO. In Illinois the condition of the Republicans is better than in the neighboring States, and in normal times probably there would be small hope of the Democrats carrying it But the times are not normal, and will hardly become so before No vember. The industrial and busi ness depression is still keenly felt in Chicago, where thousands of men are idle. The labor element of the city is very strong and thor oughly radical in its political tend encies, and for this element Mr. Bryan will make a most determined play. He is expected to make a personal canvass of the city and surrounding region, as he did in 1896 and, again, in 1000, and, if there is much business and indus trial depression there toward the close of the campaign, the Repub licans cannot tail to suner heavily. Bryan will, no doubt, devote most of his campaigning to the States of the Middle West, and he may be expected to work even more ener getically than he did ;in his two previous campaigns. The feeling here is that there are the liveliest sort of times ahead in politics. 1' .laync SUBSTANTIAL Lowering of Suit Prices! 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. 10.00 SUITS FOR 7.50. Latest styles stripes and plain colors. Sale Price $7.50. 12.00 SUITS FOR 0.98. Blue and brown, self striped Panama, Prince Chap Style. . Sale Price $9.98. 11.00 SUITS FOll 10.00. Worsteds and self stripe Panama, Prince Chap and Cuta way style. Sale Price $10.00. 817.50 SUITS FOll 15.50. Excellent quality of Chiffon Panama, blues, browns and black. Jacket 27 inches, j fitting back with dip front.worth $20.00. Sizes 14 to 40. Sale Price $15.50. 18.00 and 20.00 SUITS FOll 12.08. Sizes 14 to 36 e ry suit a new creation. 22.50 and 23.00 SUITS FOll 10.00 1 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. Rest 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. We Do All Kinds of Printing Columbian Printing House, BLOOMSBURG, PA. 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