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OFFICERS!
e. V. M. Low, President.
James M.Staver, Vice President.
DIRECTORS:
James M. Staver,
Fred Ikeler,
8. C. Creasy.
Clinton Herring,
K. W. M. Low,
V.Q. York,
Louis Orosg,
M. E Btackhouse.
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED 1866.
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'.stabi.ishep 1837. Consolidated 1869
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At Bloomsburg, the County Seat oij;
ColumbiaCounty, Pennsylvania.
GEO. E. EI.WELL. Editor.
GEO. C. ROAN. Foreman.
Terms: Insul f the county t.oo a year
I 1 .idvance; 4 1 . 5 o i f not paid in advance.
v.siJe tl.t county, l.Jj a year, strictly in
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THE COLVMBIAN, BloomsV.urR, Ta.
HritDAY. AUGUST 12, 1909
THE STATE PLATFORM.
There is much wholesome read
ing in the Democratic platform,
and axmt the best of it all is the
appeal with which the plattorm
closes for the active support "of all
our fellow-citizens who are tired of
promises and demand fulfillment,
and who, disregarding past differ
ences, desire and demand honest
methods and good government."
A large proportion of the Republi
can voters of the State ought to ac
cept that iuvitation and elect the
Democratic candidates.
It is a part of the State Constitu-
on that railroad companies shall
vote themselves to the business
transportation and let other bus-
:ss alone. There has never been
iy real effort by the State to en
i.rce that provision, and the Dem
ocratic platform demands that there
shall be. The State Railway Com
mission is without any power ex
cept to draw salaries and give ad
vice. The platform demands the
enlargement of its powers, "and
penal laws which will enforce re
spect for its decisions." The plat
form denounces, what The Record
has so often condemned, the main
tenance of a largi Treasury surplus
"to be deposited in baDks, and thus
making the public funds liable to
use for political purposes."
The simplification of the ballot
and the better preservation of its
secrecy are essential to free and
honest elections, and the platform
demands both. The neglect to push
the prosecution of the Capitol loot
ers is pointed out; to condemu this
negligence is alone a sufficient rea
son why the Republican ticket
should be defeated. The pending
tariff is obviously a "direct viola
tion of the promises of the Repub
lican party," and "framed for the
benefit of special interests." Labor
anions, "acting within the limits of
the law and not subversive of pub
lic order or individual rights," are
very justly commended.
The platform also calls for State
pensions for civil war veterans and
their widows, and an income tax.
It is free from ambiguity; it ex
presses Democratic convictions, and
it gives abundant reasons why sev
eral thousand Republicans should
vote the ticket this fall. Record,
Supervisors Entitled to Pay.
Judge Shull, of Juniata county,
recently handed down an important
opinion in the case of tbe Supervis
ors of Tuscarora township against
that township to recover wages for
service as Supervisors. He decided
that the Supervisors are entitled to
pay for their service. This will
apply to the Supervisors in all oth
er townships in this State.
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J. '. TI (' H4I.T. I.0W9II. Maaa.
Myron I. Low, Vice President.
Frank Ikeler, Cannier
Myron I. Low,
H. V.Hower,
Frank Ikeler.
Problem of the Dustless Road.
Discussion of This Important Question to be
Feature ol Good Roads Convention.
The tentative program compiled
by the National Committee of the
second annual National Good Roads
Convention, to be held in Cleve
land, September 21, 22 and 23, un
der the auspices of the American
Automobile Association and other
organizations, indicates that every
subject of vital importance to the
good roads movement will be con
ducted on broad lines. The interest
taken in the convention by the U.
S. Office of Public Roads illustrates
the growing sentiment not only for
securing proper highways, but the
desire for improved methods where
by the most economical system of
maintenance may be acquired with
the utmost comfort to all users of
the highway.
Among these the dust problem
looms prominent. No subject at
the present time possesses such
widespread interest to the motorist,
the farmer driving to town with his
produce and, indeed, everyone on
the highway, as that of dustless
roads. Provost Hubbard, the U.
S. chemist, in the Office of Public
Roads, will explain the many diffi
culties in dealing with this prob
lem, in addition to showing the de
gree of success obtained in various
practical experiments in a paper on
bituminous road materials.
Logan Waller Page, director of
the U. S. Office of Public Reads,
will bring out some sharp contrasts
in his discussion of the road situa
tion in the United States as com
pared with foreign countries. The
farmers' interests in road improve
ment will be presented by the Hon.
T. C. Laylin, master ot the Ohio
State grange. In this connection
it is interesting to note that in many
sections of the country farmers are
now using wide steel tires, thus
preventing the cutting up of ordi
nary roads due by the constant use
of narrow tires.
The papers and discussions on
these important road problems will
be supplemented by many practical
tests on the highways in and around
Cleveland. There will be also an
exhibition of road-making machin
ery,' the largest of its kind that has
ever been arranged in the United
States, affording engineers and
highway commissioners an oppor
tunity to study every appliance
used in road construction.
The National Committee has is
sued invitations to the Governors
of every State to send from five to
ten official delegates to the conven
tion, and the Mayors of the princi
pal cities have also been requested
to designate representatives.
President Lewis R. Speare, of
the American Automobile Associa
tion, will deliver the opening ad
dress in the Chamber of Commerce
Hall, Cleveland, on Tuesday, Sep
tember 21. Governor Harmon will
welcome the delegates to Ohio and
Mayor Thomas L. Johnson will de
liver the address of welcome to
Cleveland.
Affiliated with the A. A. A. in
conducting the convention are the
National Grange, U. S. Office of
Public Roads, the American Road
Makers' Assaciation, the National
Association of Automobile Manu
facturers, the American Motor Car
Manufacturers' Association and
otber national bodies interested in
highway improvement.
WASHINGTON
From our Kegular Correspondent.
Washington, D. C, Aug. 9, 1909
The tariff bill is finally passed,
Congress has adjourned, the Presi
dent is packing his goods and chat
tels preparatory to moving to his
summer home at Beverly, Massa
chusetts and the few members of
the cabinet who have not already
left Washington are preparing to
do sj at the earliest opportunity.
Within forty-eight hours a member
of Congress will be as rare in Wash
ington hs "a hen with eye-teeth,"
to borrow one of Speaker Cannon's
bucolic similes. The annual sum
mer exodus of official Washington
leaves the national capitol, which
for nearly ten months of the year
produces more news of national im
portance than any other metropolis,
with little news of importance. Of
course to all intents and purposes
the capital will be transferred to
Beverly where the president will
remain until he starts upon his long
tour of tbe country on September
15-
The President and the Senate
leaders are rejoiced that their task
of revising the tariff is accomplish
ed. It has been attended with so
much turmoil and anxiety that
there is a disposition to give thanks
that it is over regardless of the fact
that the Payne tariff bill falls far
short of the promises and expecta
tions of President Taft or, for that
matter, of the Republican national
platform. In the eleventh hour of
the consideration of the measure it
became necessary for the Senate
leaders to devise a scheme for low
ering the duties on leather goods
still further than they had done in
conference. Under the law as final
ly signed the measure provides for
a duty of 10 per cent, on all leather
shoes, of 20 per cent: on all harness
and on all saddlery. As it passed
the Hcuse these duties applied only
to shoes, harness, saddlery, etc.,
made from the hides of cattle, but
when the measure, that is the con
ference report, reached the Senate
those western members who are
known as "range Senators" got off
the reservation and threatened such
dire things that it became necessa
ry to placate them to insure the
adoption of the report.
After passing the tariff bill the
House gave the President one more
slap, as a result of the personal an
imosity of Speaker Cannon. Mr.
Cannon told the President that un
less the Executive would promise
to appoint former Representative
James Watson, of Indiana, he who
ran for Governor last fall and was
defeated, a membar of the commis
sion, he, (the Speaker) would de
feat the entire provision, The Pres
ident refused to make any promises,
maintaining that the appointive
power belonged to him and that
Mr. Cannon had no right to at
tempt to drive such a bargain. The
Speaker in turn attempted to kill
the provision for a tariff commis
sion but was prevented by the Sen
ate couferrees who stood by the
President. When, however, the
appropriation bill providing $ioo,
000 for the pay and expenses of the
commission went to conference, the
Speaker scught first to have the
provision stricken out, and failing
in that, secured its reduction to
$75.ooo.
The fact is that most of the Re-
publicans, all to whom the term
"old line" amlies. are hostile to a
tariff commission. They are afraid
to have the facts ascertained even
by a Republican President, and
iney are especially opposed to Hav
ing them made public. They realize
no doubt that the publication of the
facts will prove an almost fatal
blow to the protective system, and,
moreover, they know that with a
commission to ascertain and make
public the facts there will be no on-
portunity for that trading of duties
ior political ana politico financial
support which has done so much tc
perpetuate the Republican majori
ties in the two houses of Congress.
There has been no feature of the
tariff Congress which has so effect
ively demonstrated to the thought
ful observer the hollowness of most
of the claims for the protective pol
icy as the opposition with which
President Taft's efforts to secure a
commission which would be com
petent to procure the facts has been
met. Nothing could account ior
this persistent opposition except tbe
fear of the Republicans in congress
to have the facts known.
The evil results of President
Roosevelt's action in waiving the
sentence of dismissal pronounced
against certain West Point cadets is
made manifest in the recent hazing
of Cadet Sutton and the events
which followed it. The Superin
tendent of the Military Academy
ment urged Mr. Roosevelt not to
exercise executive clemency at the
time, but he thought the hazing of
which the cadets had been found
guilty amounted to little more than
boyish pranks and that dismissal
was too severe a punistment. The
recent hazing of young Sutton is
held by the officers to be the direct
result of that clemency, for the 'ca
dets got the idea that provided they
could exert sufficient political influ
ence they could disregard the law
and the regulations with impunity.
.
A Little Ballot and a Second Choice.
The investigation into the uni
form primary laws of this State by
a committee from New York
brought out strong, if indirect, ar
guments against the big ballot and
to give voters at a primary or even
at election an opportunity of ex
pressing a second as well as first
choice of candidates. It was stated
in the hearings that one man might
be selected by the ruling, responsi
ble faction of a party and a dozen
free lances might put themselves
forward, and that where the alpha
betical order is followed with the
candidates 20 per cent, of the vote
would be cast for the first man by
citizens too ignorant or lazy to
know what they were doing, or
why.
In such a field, too, under tbe
present rule, the chances are that a
man who is the choice of but a con
siderable minority will win. Had
each voter the power to name a
second as well as a first choice for
each office, then a majority could
be required to nominate or elect, no
matter how many men were run
ning. As has been shown, the
failure of any one of a group of
candidates for, the same place to get
a clear majority would result iu the
throwing out of the low man and
the redistribution of his votes as
the second choices on his ballots
signified. This process would con
tinue until some candidate had a
clear majority.
Whenever there are fewer names
on the ballot, that is, whenever the
minor offices that the people pay
no attention to now are made ap
pointive and responsibility is clear
ly fixed, voters will give more at
tention to what they vote for.
Opponents of the primary system
are fighting the same losing fight
that the opponents of the Austra
liau ballot did and for the same
reasons. They are the same type
of men precisely.
And in most cases it is their ma
nipulation of conventions that is
forcing the primary system now
just as it was their unblushing
frauds at the ballot box and pur
chase of votes when they could be
sure that the goods were being de
livered that brought the Australian
ballot on their heads.
Pittsburg Sun.
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The Dollar Road Tax.
The dollar road tax has been
giving trouble all over the state and
collectors and others have been hav
ing all kinds of difficulties in col
lecting the same. The commission
ers of Armstrong county to get
right wrote to the auditor general
about this tax and in reply have
received information that the addi
tional dollar tax must be paid in
each township in which property is
owned. The opinion has prevailed
that this tax could only be assessed
against property owners in the
township in which they resided,
but from the above it is understood
that the extra dollar can be assess
ed f.nd collected in every township
in which property is owned.
A Novel HoteL
Scranton is to have a new hotel,
which is expected to be one of the
show places of that section of the
country, and what, perhaps, will
be its most unique feature will be
a "coal mine cafe" located in the
centre of the main grill room on the
first floor of the hotel. This cafe
is to be a replica of a coal mine,
with nothing but solid chunks ol
coal being used in its walls. Every
thing that appears in a regular
mine "chamber" will be embodied
in the cafe, such as the rough walls
and roof, from which ice cold water
will trinkle, as it does in nature.
The dark eerie aspect, the lighting
by electric torches, made to repre
sent the lamps used in the mine,
the extrance and exits, one and all
of which are to be made similar to
those seen in the anthracite collier
ies, are bound to make the spot one
of exceeding interest to visitors to
the city.
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