The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-02-19

dent by the Democratic Nationa
Convention. Sentiment in favor o
his selection predominates every
where. With Cleveland as the candi
date and tariff reform as the platform
the Democratic party will be victor
ious.
The statement has appeared severa
times recently in the city dailies, tha
Hon. c. r. Buckalew will be candi
date for Congress this year. Mr.
Buckalew has authorized a denial o
this. He is not a candidate fol
Congress, and will not be this year
Cleveland is his preference as Presi.
dental candidate.
There is going to be some fun be.
fore the campaign is over in this
county. 1t is generally understood
that William Krickbaum will be a
candidate for nomination for a third
term in the Legislature. Peter A.
Evans, whose name has been used in
connection with that place, has de-
cided that he will not run, and SO
George w. Sterner has fully deter
mined to enter the field and measure
lances with William. He says he is in
to stay, and it will be a fight to a fin
ish. Krickbaum had a close shave
for second term, and it is generally
believed that Sterner can beat him for
a third term. The trouble with
Krickbaum is that he never knows
when he has enough. He wants to
be drawing salary from the public
perpetually. He wanted third term
as Prothonotary, but the people said
mo- Now he wants third term as
Representative. Sterner says he will
give the people a chance to say
whether they will endorse third termers.
The assertion made in the .Senti-
mel last week that everybody who op-
posed the selection Of Krickbaum as a
delegate to the National Democratic
Convention, were working to secure
Wallace delegation to the State Con-
ention, is utterly untrue, and is only
"A keeping with the constant political
clap trap with which that paper is
weekly nauseating its readers. Ex-
Senator Wallace is not candidate for
anything this year, so far as heard from,
and there was not man among those
whose names have been mentioned as
anti ti-Krickbaum candidates for dele
gates to the State Convention, who
could have been influenced by Mr..
Wallace or anybody else to 'ote or
work against the nomination of Gro
yer Cleveland. Chairman Townsend,
Senator Herring, Robert Buckingham,
and all whose names were included in
that frothy article, are warm admirers
of the Ex-President, and desire to see
him nominated.
In connection with the allegation
that Chairman Townsend voted in
State Committee, against the inter
ests of Cleveland and Pattison," how
does the following dispatch from
Washington read? Mr.. Townsend
vored for Kerr for State Chairman,
believing that he was a supporter of
Cleveland. He was not controlled by
the Harrity combine. Now read the
following dispatch to the Harrisburg
Patriot.
WASHINGTON, Feb. I2-The cat is
out Of the bag. Congressman Beltz-
hover let it out to day in an interview
in which he stated that the state ad-
administration people would make an
effort to send solid Pattison delega-
tion to the national convention.
This information will not be very
cheering to those friends of ex Pres
ident Cleveland who are in training
with the Harrity- Pattison combine.
Before the Democratic state com
mittee meeting was held the Pattison-
Harrity people sent the word broad
cast that the Democrats of Pennsyl-
vania were for Cleveland and that
a delegation for him would be sent to
the national convention.
1t would seem from what Mr.. Beltz-
hover said to day that Cleveland was
to be dumped to make way for Gov
ernor Pattison, Mr.. Beltzhoover is
credited with being the mouth piece
of the Pattison- Harrity faction of the
party and his utterance to-day that
the unit rule would be adopted by the
state convention, and that the dele
CATION would be instructed for Pattison,
has stirred up hornets nest among
the Pennsylvania followers of Cleve-
land in Washington.
In speaking Of Mr.. Beltzhoover's
declaration, prominent Pennsylvania
r Democrat said The friends OF
Cleveland have suspected for some
4 time that Harrity and the state ad-
minstration people would prove false
m 7. tx.presiden'. They won the