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STRONGEST BANK
Capital
8lOO,000
Undivided Profits
$30,000
First National Bank,
Solicits the Business and Accounts of Farmers
and Business Men.
SATISFACTION O U A H A N T K E L 11Y A .STKONO, COX8KKVAT1VE
AND SAFE M AX AG E M EXT.
Per Cent. Interest
OFFICERS:
K.W.M. Low. President.
James M. Staver, Vice President.
D I HECTORS:
E.W.M.Low. F. G. Yorks, S. C. Creasy. Fredlkeler,
H.V. Hower Janus M. Staver, Myron L Low, LoulsGross,
M. E Stackhouse. Frank Ikeler,
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED 1S66.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
Establish f.d 1837. Consolum 1 en 1S69
UHi.isiiEU Every Thursday Morning,
At Blojmsburg, the County Seat of
Columbia County , Pennsylvania.
GEO. E. ELWELL, Editor.
GEO. C. ROAN, Foreman.
Tkkms: Insidf thecounly ? 1.00 a year
la advance; $ 1.501 f not )aul in advance.
Outside thecounty, if 1.25 a year, strictly in
advance.
All communication should deaddressed
THE COLUMBIAN, BloomsburR, Fa.
THUItSDAY. JULY :), 1WW.
Democratic National Ticket.
FOR PRESIDENT.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN,
of Nebraska.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
JOHN W. KERN,
of Indiana.
Democratic State Ticket.
IUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT,
WEBSTER GRIMM,
of Bucks County.
democratic County Ticket.
FOR MEMBER OF CONGRESS,
JOHN G. McHENY,
of Benton.
FOR MEMBER OF LEGISLATURE,
WM. T. CREASY,
of Catawissa,
FOR PROTHONOTARV,
FREEZE QUICK,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER,
FRANK W. MILLER,
ot Bloomsburg.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
CHRISTIAN A. SMALL,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER,
JOHN M0UREY,
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.)
HARRY CREASY,
of Blooms Durg.
(Second Term.)
PROGRESS OF THE CAMPAIGN.
Republicans are in a very differ
ent mood from that in which they
adjourned the Chicago Convention.
They were going to have a walk
over. All they wanted was that
Bryan should be nominated. They
had beaten him twice, and they
knew just how to do the trick. Of
course he'd get the Solid South;
any Democratic candidaie would do
that. But the East-Bryan couldn't
touch it with a ten-foot pole. And
the West why, the West was
bowling itself hoarse for Roosevelt
and his policies, and Taft was
pledged to continue them : he was
Roosevelt's maa Friday, and he was
as good as elected by the votes of
everv State north of Mason and
Dixon's line, and some cf the Re
publicans thought Taft might break
into the South.
Well, Bryan was nominated. In
stead of falling to pieces, the Demo
cratic party is found to be more
united and aggressive than it has
been since 1892. The dollar, on
which the Republicans won, is not
an issue. But the corporations are
an issue; the influence of wealth
upon politics is an issue, and on
IN THE COUNTY
Surplus
SIOO.OOO.
Paid on Time Deposits.
Myron I. Low, Vioe President.
Frank Ikeler, Cashier.
these issues Bryan not only has all
of li s party with him, but he has a
good deal of the Republican party.
For .seven years Roosevelt has been
preparing the country fcr Bryan,
and the country shows a disposition
to take the "original Jacobs" in
stead of the President's pupil and
heir.
The conference of Republican
leaders has just broken up with the
conviction that there must be the
best fight they can make all thro-
through the West. Tliev admit that
California end Colorado are doubt
ful. Utah and Nevada are subject
to the same influences as California
and Colorado. Cummins has mide
Iowa doubtful. Kern's nomination
has made Indiana doubtful to the
Republicans: it is nearly safe for
the Democrats. Our esteemed Re
publican contemporary 2ie Press
recognizes Oregon as doubtful.
We do not claim that Ohio is doubt
ful, but it isn't long since it elected
a Democratic Governor by a large
majority. Cleveland got one elec
toral vote and came within less
than two thousand ct getting all
the rest. The Foraker fight is
getting more serious. In two weeks
the Republican tone has changed
remarkably. Piila. Record.
The Party to Restore Prosperity.
Mr. Kern strikes the most telling
keynote of the coming campaign in
his comment upon the assurance of
fair treatment and all possible en
couragement for every honest en
terprise under a Democratic admin
istration of the government.
Of course, reasonable men should
need no such assurauce, knowing
that such a policy is a part of Dem
ocratic doctrine, and is urged by
every consideration of party inter
est, but there are always some who
will see in everv bold insistence up
on essential reforms, and in every
demand for the restraint of the too
arrogant powers of wealth and mo
nopoly, a dangerous tendency to
radical or revolutionary policy; and,
on the other hand, there are some
who fear that the party not in pow
er will hesitate to fulfill its promis
es at the risk of business disturb
ance if it should become the party
in power; and these last need to be
assured that there is no risk of bus
iness disturbance in any Democrat
ic policy, but on the contrary, ev
ery assurance of the vigorous stim
ulation of business.
Only the vast and defiant monop
olies, the stock jobbers, who ma
nipulate railroad combinations, mas
ter and mismanage insurance com
panies, and otherwise prey upon
the public, have anything to fear
from Democratic policy.
For the rest of the business world
the policy of our party, declared in
its platform and promised by the
sincerity and ability of its leaders,
is such as to assure the stimulation
to both corporate and individual
enterprise, and the prompt recov
ery of that prosperity which has
been lost under Republican man
agement, despite the favors of Prov
idence and bountiful crops.
This stimulation is to be sought
through the restoration of confi
dence that there will be an end of
the eternal shaking of the big stick,
and a thorough prompt readjust
ment of the tariff upon the only
right principle, that of revenue,
with such incidental protection as
may be fairly offered, but no pro
tection for monopolies which sell
their products cheaper abroad than
at home.
The hard experience of the bus
iness world in the last year and a
half has fully demonstrated that
something must be done along dif
ferent lines from those followed or
proposed by the party in power. A
safe, bold, but not radical Demo
cratic policy, reaffirming the old
principles of Democratic govern
ment, with such new application
and development as the times de
mand, and such economies as the
conditions urge, is the promise held
out to the voter.
Lancaster Intelligencer.
TO AMEND CONSTITUTION.
What the Voters Will Decide Upon at the
Fall Election.
Secretary of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Robert McAfee, Esq
is sending out ccpies of the nronos
ed amendments to the State Consti
tution, which must be voted for at
the fall election, and for the edifica
tion of our readers we herewith
append a memorandum of the same:
Amendment No. 1. Providing
for the consolidation of the courts
of Common Pleas of Philadelphia
and Allegheny counties, and to give
the General Assembly power to
establish a separate court 111 Phtla
delphia county, with criminal and
miscellaneous jurisdiction.
No. 2. Proposes an amendment
to the Constitution allowing coun
ties, cities, boroughs, townships
school districts,-or other municipal
or incorporated districts to increase
their indebtedness, never to exceed
ten per cent, upon the assessed
value of the taxable property
therein.
No. 3. Designating the manner
in which the Governor shall make
appointments and fill vacancies.
Fo. 4. Designating the change
in the terms of State officers so that
the State Treasurer shall be elected
at the same time with the Secretary
of State, Secretary of Internal Af
fairs, etc.
No. 5. Designating the change
of terms of Justices of the Peace
and Magistrates from five to six
years.
No. 6. Designating that the
general State election hereafter shall
be held biennially, in the even
numbered years.
v No. 7. Designating the dispens
ing with the spring election, and
pioviditig that the local municipal
officers be voted for in the odd
numbered years in November.
No. 8. Giving the General As
sembly authority to make laws pro
viding for the appointmeut of elec
tion boards, when not elected bien
nially. No. 9. Designating that all of
ficers whose election is not provided
for in the Constitution shall come
under the new provision.
No. 10. Stipulates that county
officers shall be elected at the cen
tral elections and shall hold office
for a term of four years (beginning !
on the first Monday of January
next, after their election,) instead
of three years, as at present.
No. 11. Indicates the change of
the County Commissioners and
Auditors' terms to four years, dat
ing from 191 1.
Fo. 12. Summarizes that in order
to carry these changes in the Con
stitution into complete operation, it
is hereby declared that all terms of
office, as at present, with an odd
number of years, shall each be
lengthened one year.
This extension of official term
shall not affect officers elected at
the general election in 1908, nor
any city, ward, borough or town
ship, or election division officers,
whose terms would expire in 1910.
In 1910 the municipal election
shall be held as usual in February,
but all officers chosen at that elec
tion to any office for two years, and
also all election officers and assess
ors chosen at that election shall
serve until the first Monday of
December, igu. All officers chosen
at that election tor four year terms
shall serve until the first Monday
of December, 19 13.
All Justices, Magistrates and Al
dermen chosen at that election shall
serve until the first Monday of
December 191 5.
All terms of office after 1910 of
city, ward, borough, township and
electian division officers shall begin
on the first Monday in December in
the odd number year.
All officers of any kind whose
terra may expire during the year
191 1, as at present provided, shall
continue to hold their offices until
the first Monday of December of
that year.
All Judges of the court and all
county officers whose term may ex
pire in the year 191 1, shall continue
in ofEae until the first Monday of
January, 1912.
"Gompers was a great man as
long as h was chasing a Republi
can Will-o-the-Wisp, but now that
he has discovered that through
Democracy labor has its only hope
of improving its condition the part
isan Republican press are saying
that he is no good anyhow and will
likely be forced out of his position
as head of the American Federation
of Labor. Of course he will if they
can accomplish the result, but if
labor is wise it will heed Mr. Gomp-
er's advice and try the experiment,
at least once.
Norman E. Mack of Buffalo, has
been chosen chairman of the Dem
ocratic National Committee.
O
the
ITOIIIA.
,lha Kind You Haw Always BomW
Hearst Will Not Be a Candidate.
Would Not Accept Presidential Nomination
ol Independence League. He Declares,
but will Preside at Party's
Convention.
William Randolph Hearst, who
arrived from Europe on Saturday,
was asked if he would accept the
nomination for the Presidency on
the Independence League ticket if
it should be shown that the senti
ment of the league was unanimous
for his nomination. Mr. Hearst
replied:
"I ca'nnot.
I have given my
word that under no circumstances
will I be a candidate. I haveg'ven
my word and i will abide by it."
"Does that pledge hold good for
future years, for 19 12, for instance,
as well as for this year?"
Mr. Hearst laughed, and he an
swered: "You have been going into my
past, and here now you proceed in
to my future."
Mr. Hearst left that afternoon
for Chicago, where 011 Monday he
presided at the opening of the first
national convention of the Inde
pendence party.
The Democrats of the nation did
not want Mr. Hearst as a candidate
for President four years ago ; the
Democrats of New ork did not
want him for Mayor of their city,
and now Mr. Hearst thinks the
Democratic party has gone to the
diminution bow-wows, and he is
trying to organize a new party to
be called the Independence party.
His departure is a good riddance
to the Democratic party, and it is
to be hoped that he will never try
to get back into the fold.
State Pension Bill.
The last encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic, department
of Pennsylvania, which was held in
Erie, instructed Captain P. DeLacy
of Scranton, the new department
commander, to appoint a committee
of seven to draft a bill for the pen
sioning of Civil War veterans of
the Keystone state.
It will be remembered that a bill
with that purpose in view was pass
ed by the last legislature but had to
be vetoed by the Governor for the
reason that the money to carry out
its provisions had not been provid
ed. The bill which died was not
put forward by the G. V. R. men.
In the next Legislature a new
bill will be presented which will
have their approval and it will be
the duty of the committee of seven
to prepare the bill and submit it to
the Governor for criticism before it
is introduced. Members of this
committee from the northeastern
part of Pennsylvania are: A. B.
Stevens of Scranton, and former
Judge George H. Troutman of
Wilkes-Barre.'
Judge Taft is now sure of the
fact that he has been nominated for
President of the United States. A
committee of notification broke the
news to him gently at Cincinnati
on Tuesday, and in a few brief
words occupying about twelve col
umns of newspaper, Mr. Taft in
lormed them that he would accept
the honor so unexpectedly thrust
upon him. Now both sides can
rest easv. The judge knows he
has it, and the anxiety of the Re
publican party lest he might re
fuse (?) it, is allayed.
Never mind, Mr. Taft. One of
these days somebody is going to
tell William J. Bryan that he too,
has been nominated for the Presi
dency, and when he finds it out, he
also, will probably utter a few
sentences by way of acceptance.
Dr. Miles' Antl-Paln rills relieve pain.
Democratic leaders in Indiana are
confident that Bryan and Kern will
carry that State. Adlai Stevenson
is likely to be the Democratic can-
didate for Governor of Illinois", and
he can poll a heavy vote. Cleve
land and Stevenson carried Illinois
in i8qa. Iowa and Wisconsin.
Colorado, Oregon and California
are doubtful States, according , to
Republican authorities. Demo
cratic prospects are by no means
discouraging in New York. The
Republicans have a verv different
sort of campaign on hand from the
one they anticipated.
The rain's of last week did much I
good, though thev washed the road 1
badly in many places. 1
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SUBSTANTIAL
Lowering of
Today we commence a period of Suit Selling destined
e the best in the department's history. To get quickly
to be the best in the department s History. l'o eet nuiclh-
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. i
12.00 SUITS FOR 9.98. '
Blue and brown, self striped Panama, Prince Chap Style.
Sale Price $9.98.
11.00 SUITS FOIl 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, J fitting back with dip front.worth
$20.00. Sizes 14 to 40. Sale Price $15. 55.
18.00 and 20.00 SUITS FOll 12.98.
Sizes 14 to 36 e ry suit a new creation.
22.50 and 23.00 SUITS FOlt 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. PURSEL.
BLOOMSBURG,
We Have Ten 5tyles 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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