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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-10
The Evidence Accumulates,


The stal wart bosses recognizing the fact
that the breach in the republican party
was not by any means healed followed
Quays advice and put an alleged indie,
pendent on the state ticket this year in
order to give the kickers no excuse for
refusing to harmonze. Representative
Niles, of Tioga county, who is supposed
to have been the inventor of United
States Senator Mitchell, was selected
as the most enticing bait for the hook
with which it is proposed to catch the
independents. .... ..
But some how or other many of the
independent leaders began to suspect
Niles and looked around for evidence
to support their suspicious, and they
did not have great trouble in finding it,
In the first place they discovered that a
bargain had been made with Senator
Stewart to the effect that if he would
aid in defeating apportionment by the
Legislature Niles should be placed on
the ticket. Quay made the bargain and
took Niles for his share Of the spoils.
Magee agreed to take Livsey and the
result was that a bosses ticket was
nominated while apparently bone was
thrown to the independents.
Conclusive evidence that these bar
gains were made has been constantly
accumulating until now no more is
needed. Candidate Niles at the last
session of the Legislature most emphat-
icly declared himself in favor of the
general assembly carrying out its "con
stitutional obligations by the passage
of apportionment bills. AT that time
his sympathies were with the independ
ents, This year the bosses took him il
hand and agreed to make him the can
didate for auditor general, What is tn,
resultl Nothing has been heard from
| Mr., Niles about the constitution ob
| legations of the legislature, although
they are even more binding now thar
they were at the last session, No fun
ther proof is needed that Mr.. Niles i
now completely in the control of tn
bosses and that he is the bosses cand
date for auditor general.-Patriot
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-10
Stewart the Author of the Republican Ulti-
matum,


On Tuesday in u discussion of the
apportionment question in the senate,
Senator Stewart stated that he was the
author of the republican ultimatum.
The following is the text of his speech:
'lf we are not now equal to the magni-
tudc of the duty before us when will we
bcS" he asked, glaring wildly about him
"Can the duty be discharged ?" he ques-
toned. 1T can be if the rules that govern
business life be Observed" was Stewards
answer to his own question. Concession
is not duty, There is the same arbitcr in
public as In private life, and there are be-
tween these two bodies irrcconcilable diff
feronces. Do you ask FOR proof-look at
the events of the past four months,
events written down to postcri-
ty in these very halls. This is
simply question of the distribution of po-
litical power, and as far as apportionmcnt
is concerned you have the differences now
existing in that fact. You censurc this
side for having an ultimatum. Let me say
that the ultimatum was a suggestion from
myself and made 1t standard so that the
republican position might not be msunder-
stood, IT the democratic party desired to
prevent the anarchy and revolution that
was feared by that party, it could accept
the senate measures, which were honest
and fair.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-10
DON'T BELIEVE 1T.

The candidates for district attorney,
Messrs, White and Buckingham, are
young lawyers of promise, either of
whom will fill the office with credit to
himself and with satisfaction to the
people. If left 10 themselves to fight
out the campaign, the result, whatever
it may be, would be received with no
i'll feeling and with no danger to the
harmony of the party. But the meth
DDS of modern politics are deplorable,
and while these methods are being
used 10 their fullest extent we cannot
as fair journalists, and as the recognlz-
ed organ of the democracy of this
county, remain silent without alluding
to them. So far as the candidates are
concerned we have no choice, and if
the same calumnies were being circulat-
ed about Mr.. White that are being
circulated about Mr.. Buckingham, we
should take the same pleasure in de.
nouncing them. Without the knowl-
edge or consent of Mr.. White, as we
believe, a number of men have been
travelling this week accusing Bucking-
ham of embezzling the funds contribut-
ed for campaign purposes last fall, as
chairman of the county committee, In
answer to this it is only necessary to
say that at the late meeting of the com
mittee, it was settled by decisive vote
not to require the chairman to publish
statement of his expenditures, and
Mr. Buckingham stated publicly that
he was ready to exhibit his accounts to
any one who would call at his office
and examine them. 1t has never been
the practice of any chairman to publish
his account.
When the committee was severa
hundred dollars in debt in | $50 the mer
who are now making this charge o.
embezzlement against the chairman
were among those who either refused
to contribute a cent toward campaign
expenses, or who subscribed and failed
20 pay. Their solicitude for the prope
expenditure of funds was not so grea
then as it appears to be now We have
seen letters from different sections o
the county, stating that certain parties
were making this charge against Buck
ingham, and as we belieyeit to be false
we deem il our duty to the chairman
as well as to the party, to say so'
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-10
PATTIS0N AND HENSEL,

Republican papers are devoting a
great deal of space to the charge that
there is quarrel between the governor
and the chairman of the Democratic
state committee, and some have even
gone so far as to assert that the admin
istration intended, before the conven-
ton, to have Hensel removed from the
craftsmanship, thus exposing their igno-
rance of the fact that the standing COM
mittee elected its chairman last January,
for one year, and nothing but his own
resignation could depose him. The al
legation that there is dispute is now
finally settled. Governor Pattison spent
few days at Atlantic City recently,
and in answer to reporter he said
GAS regards the personal ill-feeling
alleged in certain newspapers to exist
between myself and Chairman Hense,
/ know nothing of any such state of af-
fairs, except what see in those news
papers. l believe the Democratic ticket
nominated by the recent convention
represents the deliberate judgment of
the people, and that that judgment will
assert itself at the polls in the fall. l
am personally acquainted with both Mr.
Taggart and Mr.. Powell, and it happens
that they are both from the North
western quarter of the state. do not
believe that any question of locality in
fuenced their selection. was not
aware of the fact that there is a gather
ing of Pennsylvania politicians here at
present until my attention was called to
a mention of something of the sort in a
newspaper"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-10
Sorrow in the Camp of the Prophets.
From the wllkesbarro Union Leader,

From the wllkesbarre Union Leader,
Alas! what sorrow has come upon
these hopeful prophets of the republi-
can press. The convention met, attend
ed to business promptly and peacefully,
and then adjourned. There wasn't a
ripple of discord anywhere. Wallace
wasn't there Iensel made a happy,
hopeful speech, and Gordon followed
suit. The governor sat smilipgly by
and everybody was in the best of humor,
and when the ticket was finally made
everybody was chuck full of bowling
enthusiasm. 1t was a regular field day
with love feast thrown in, The plat
form of principles tossed a bombshelI
into the ranks Of the enemy, 1t wasn't
what they had predicted it would be al
all. 1t was altogether different, aud il
consequence there is weeping and wall
ing and gnashing of teeth among tn,
republican prophets today. Too bad
isn't it2 I.' .H
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-10

Wah, of Chicago, an intelligent
Chinaman, who is also bit of theo.
logian, says that the Chinese are not
idolaters, although it is true that they
use images in their temples. The Budd
hists hold many things in common with
Christians, but their religion is older,
and the priests have added a good
many superstitions to it, Wah says
that the stone and metal images in
Chinese temples mean no more than
the pictures and statues in many of the
American churches. When Wah first
saw telegraph poles in this country he
thought they were crosses erected for
devotional purposes, and as there were
so many of them, he thought the Ameri-
cans very pious people.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-10

The practice of promising political
preferment promiscuously through the
county in order to secure the services
of good workers in the interest of any
particular faction is an old joke, but it
still seems to work we'll. Of course, it
is an insult to the intelligence of the
party for any man or men to assume
that he or they can control the offices
in advance of a convention, and
there are always lot of defeated can
didates hanging around after conven-
tion and demanding satisfaction for
unfulflled promises but, Just the
same, there are always plenty of men who
are willing to sell themselves on these
promises without stopping to inquire
whether the promiser can deliver tie
goods.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-10
ITEMS.

The house received a message on
Wednesday morning from the COVER
nor stating that the judicial apportion-
ment bill was approved.
The Altoona Tribune says that car
No. 60, formerly used by the superin,
tendents of the Pennsylvania railroad
as a special car, is being remodeled and
fixed up in elegant style at the lower
shops in that city, and will be placed at
the disposal of President Arthur for his
proposed western trip next fall.
Mrs Webb, widow of the drowned
captain, denies the story that she is left
$4,000. She has the income of only
fl5O0, which her husband saved of the
$4,000 he made by swimming the Chan
mel. Their life was harmonious and
happy.
The impartial and Independent Phil
adelphia Ledger declares that "the
senate, under its peryerse and blind
leaders, is making up bad record, and
this the gay and festive senators will
find out The Ledger is usually an
accurate indicator of public sentiment.
Governor Pattison has signed the
death Warrant of John Maginnis for
the murder of his mother-in-law, Mary
Reed, September 80, 1881, and Octo-
ber 4 next has been fixed as the day
for the execution.
Mr.. Niles declared on the floor of the
house in 1881 that he would not GO
home until the apportionment bills com
manded by the constitution were passed
Now he wants to go home without
passing any apportionment bill and
wants the whole legislature to do like
wise.
Professor Richardson, a Canadian
says he will soon attempt to accomplish
the feat of crossing Niagara Falls HI
will use an elliptica-shaped silken bag
of his own invention, seven feet Ions
and four feet through, inflated will
gas like a balloon. The day has no
been decided when he will make Iii
| foolhardy attempt.
A blooming young widow of Leon
ard, Wayne county, was to have beel
married few days ago. The feast wa
spread aud the guests were on hand
but the bridegroom failed to come t.
time. Three days afterward the yours
man explained that his father, who oh
jected to the match, had hidden hi
wedding cloths, even to his undercloth
ing. The marriage will come of i
October.
Dispatches from Kansas City stat
that the heavy soaking rain which ha
fallen all over the Southern and centra
parts of that state will insure the larges
| yield of corn ever known in the state
Oats also promise to be very abundant
many fields yielding over 100 bushel
per acre. The wheat yield is also eS
ceeding expectations, some fields thresf
ing out forty-two bushels, and a grea
many Others over thirty bushels pc
acre.
Negotiations have been going 0
which will likely culmnate in the lea
ing of the Wilson Female Colleg
Cbambersburg, to the United State
government for the use Of a female Ii
dian school. Captain Pratt, of Carlisl
and several prominent government o
ticials are in favor of it and are worI
ing the matter up, The secretary {
! the interior has been advised of Il
proposition and terms, and it is expec
} ed that as soon as he can be heard fro
a lease for term of years will be c
fected. ..
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-10
Both Asleep.
AN ENGINE DAsHING ALONG AN ENGLISH
RAILROAD WITHOUT CONTROL.
From, a liverpool Paper.

The occurrence on the Holyhead line
of an engine driver and stoker falling
asleep while on duty, and the narrow
escape of the Irish mail, was even more
serious than reported; 1t would appear
from inquiries made last nig ght at
Llandudno Junction that the signal
man there, by extraordinary presence
of mind, saved the Irish mail passen
gers on Tuesday night from what
might have proved terrible fate. The
signal man at the junction received a
message from the signal man at Con.
way, the next station toward Holyhead,
that a light engine was coming. The
signal man, knowing that the Irish
mail was due, decided to run the en-
gine into siding, in order to permit
the express to pass. He accordingly
put up all the signals against the light
engine, but to his extreme astonishment
the engine came straight into the juno
tion at full speed, swept around the
corner, dashing past all the danger sig
mails, and disappeared from view down
the line toward Chester,
A moments reflection convinced the
signal man that both driver and stokel
must be asleep, and that unless they
awoke an awful calamity might occur
He accordingly wired to the Colwyr
Bay station signal man; ''1tngine com
ing. Driver asleep. Put fog signals OF
the line. The man at Colwyn Bay
was equally prompt, for running out o.
his box he had barely time to lay {
number of signals when the engine
came laundering along, and the eyplos
ion which followed effecthally awok,
the drowsy men. The engine was stop
ped and run back into siding, whel
it was discovered that the fire had gon,
out, the water had disappeared from
the boiler, and that the men had beel
asleep some time. An inquiry has re
suited in their immediate discharge
They had been fifteen hours on duty
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-10
AND DEMOCRAT, BLOOMsBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA
A Murderer Attempts Suicide.

EAsroN, August 6.--Sabato Alexan
der, the Italian murderer, was sen
fenced this morning to be hanged.
The sentence was translated and read
to the prisoner by Miss GARNER, of
Easton, who speaks and writes several
languages. While on the way to Jail,
in charge of the sheriff, the prisoner
attempted suicide by cutting his throat
with piece of chisel, which he had
on Saturday and fastened in
to an empty spool, and had carried in
his pocket. He was caught in the act
by son of the Judge who had pro
nounced sentence. The wounds are
two inches long but not dangerous.
After reaching the Jail Alexander
made a desperate attempt to escape
from the sheriff. but after short tus-
sle was secured and lodged in a cell
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-10
The Buchanan Reaction.

From the Sunday Mercury.
For about twenty years it was the
fashion in this country to look upon
James Buchanan as a monumental
specimen of the imbecility of states
manship in a great crisis. No mans
memory has ever been more studiously
and persistently blackened for party
purposes. Coward, dotard. bastard,
traitor, have been a few of the epithets
associated with his name in the press
and on the stump. Any one who had
the temerity to offer defense for him
was pretty sure to be assailed and de-
rided as sympathizer with treason.
He was the author of all our woes, the
miserable conspirator that delivered the
government over to its enemies. The
result has been that the generation
which has arrived at manhood since
1860 has become thoroughly imbued
with the idea that James Buchanan
was a feeble, heartless, nerveless, de-
testable old man who was anxious to
see his government go to ruin.
The hundreds of "histories" which
have been written on the late war, and
hardly half dozen of which have not
been conceived in the bitterest spirit of
partisanship, are all calculated to spread
this idea. 1t has only been within the
past two or three years that attempts
have been made by dispassionate inves-
tigators to rescue Buchanan's name
from this load of obloquy. The letters
which Judge Black has at various times
published have contributed not little
to this end
There seems now to be disposition
in the public mind to revise the hasty
judgments which were formed in the
midst of partisan passion and to arrive
at a truthful and accurate estimate OF a
maligned Pennsylvania. One of those
reactions which prevail in the formation
of history, as in all other events, ap-
pears to have set in, and a man who
comes forward now to vindicate Bu
chanan is received with at least respect
and attention. Curtis story of his life
will have an immense influence in dis
missing prejudices that were entirely
groundless, and it is certain that during
| the next twenty years James Buchanan
will be looked upon by the American
people in much more favorable light
| than during the past twenty years.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-10
A Live Issue.

The release of whisky and tobacco
from United States taxation, as recon.
mended by the Democratic convention,
is quite certain to be popular idea in
Pennsylvania which contributes so
large portion to that tax, Certainly
if the United States does not need the
revenue it gets from these articles, as
it seems to be agreed it does not, Penn
sylvania can very well demand that
they be left for her to tax. At present
the United States gets all out OF them
that they can be made to pay. They
are first class objects of taxation and
car justly be made to bear heavy i'm
post. They are articles Of luxury whose
consumption is not, beneficial to the
people, and those who insist upon using
them may fairly be made to pay round
ly for the privilege. If the United
States tax is taken off the state and its
counties and cities should be given
these rich revenve COWS to milk. To
bacco and whiskey would be good
things to substitute for the real estate,
which now bears the chief burden of
taxation.
When the farmers get it into their
heads that the release of the revenue
from whisky and tobacco by the United
States will enable their farms to be
freed from taxation, it is likely that
they will be warmly in favor of the
proposition. The whisky and tobacco
manufacturers will like it because they
will hope to fare better with the state
than with the United States And to
the temperance people it is matter of
indifference who gets the tax when
they cannot stop the manufacture. AL
together it looks as if the Democratic
convention had taken the wind out of
the Republican sails on this question.
The idea of surplus distribution look
ed well enough as a popular issue until
it became clear that as Pennsylvania
contributed more for the "surplus" than
she would get back on redistribution
it would pay her better not to have the
surplus. The Republican newspapers
seem to have concluded that the con-
vention put its foot into it in endorsing
the surplus idea, and would like to get
away from defense of it. But as the
Democratic convention squarely antag-
onized the idea it cannot be got away
from as one of the issues of the CAM
paign. The Democracy will claim the
votes of everyone who would like to
put the land tax on whisky and tobac
co.-LancaSter InteIligencer.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-10

The suicide epidemic has struck the
country again, and the papers are filed
with reports of the successful attempts
of people who are tired of life, to put
an end to themselves. Unsound mind,
jealousy, rum, financial troubles, and
other causes are assigned as the reasons
for the acts of these self murderers.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-10

Everybody, says the Pittsburg
Post, wishes we'll to Miss Nellie Ar
thur, the twelve year old daughter
of the President, but it is crowdlng
the mourners that a United States
steamer has been detailed to carry her
and two friends, also young misses, on
pleasure trip from New York along
the New England coast to Mt. Desert.
Such appears to be the fact. The
gallant captains of the Presidents
navee must be charmed with their
duties.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-10

The Legislature should ask the Gov
ernor for permission to adjourn as a
means of saving the people three thous-
and dollars a day.-Phila. Times.
The better way to save the people S
money would have been for the Repub-
lican senate to agree to fair apportion-
ment. This is all that has been asked
by democratic House from the be-
ginning, but under the lead of Cooper
an apportionment was made an impos-
sibility because the senate adopted an
ultimatum which they knew the Demo
Gratis could not accept. Who is re-
sponsible?
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-10

b Governor Pattison vetoed an item in
the general apportionment bill, giving
$500 for repairing the board walk on
the capitol grounds. Out of other
moneys appropriated the walk is to be
relaid several feet wider than at pres
ent, and after making all other neces-
sary repairs about the grounds there
will still be $4,000 of the fund left
This shows how public money has been
misappropriated for years past under
Republican administrations.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-10
The Champion Sleeper.
Bridgeport, Conn, Dispatch.

Bridgeport, Conn, Dispatch.
Two days before Christmas last
Sherman W. Plat, residing with his
father, Wenzar Platt, well-to-do far
mer of Morgan's -Four Corners, town
of Newton, twenty-three miles distant
from this city, went to bed and to
sleep as usual with him. From that
time until March he scarcely moved in
bed, and took no nourishment save
what was forced into his mouth
With lengthening days he exhibited
signs of returning animation, but not
till the arrival of May did he move
from his recumbent position, utter an
intelligent syllable, or open his eyes
He began to get hungry in June and
first spoke on July 10, when he heard
a passing teamster address his cattle,
and, as if in mimicry, sang out,
"Whoa!" the first exclamation he
made during 2l3 days.
On Monday night he left his room
stealthily, without money and clad in
thin garments, slippers and an apology
for a hat, walked to this city where he
was recognized, but nothing could in
duce him to speak. His father was
notified and he has been taken home
again: His malady is supposed to
have been occasioned by over exertion
in the hot sun in July, 1882.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-10

Sullivan aud Slade had set-to with
hard gloves at Madison Square garden,
New York, on Monday night. About
10000 people were present. Sullivan
knocked Slade out of time in three
rounds. Each man pocketed several
thousand dollars as the profits of their
brutal exhibition.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-10

John Stewart and his ultimatum at
an expense of $4,000 day to the state
will be fine record for the future of q
boasted independent. The bosses are
well pleased with such Independence.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-10

w. Hayes Grier, editor of the Col
am,bia Herald has been appointed
superintendent of public printing by
Governor Pattison.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-10

Is it called independence for one
senator to dictate an ultimatum and thus
obstruct all legislation at an expense of
$4,000 a day?
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-10

The situation at Harrisburg remains
unchanged There is no prospect of
passing apportionment bills, nor of ad-
iournment.