Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-09
Adncaster fntflhgencer.
SATURDAY EVENING. OCT. Q. 1890.
Food for Thought.

Mr.. Frank SHREDDER is one of the propri-
etors of very large cotton mill in this city,
employing hundreds of operatives Jacob
G. Peters is also a mill proprietor w. d.
Sprccher is the owner Of . very large ware
house business John D. Skiles is one of
the partners in very large tobacco pack
ing establishment, employing many hands
Or. Wickersham is director in our gas COM
pany and the president of one Of the larg-
est printing houses in the state Samuel
N. Myers is one Of the proprietors of the
largest clothing establishment in this city,
and of like establishments elsewhere, Civ
ing employment to many men and women
A. X. Hoffmeicr, Harry A. Diller, E. J.
Erisman, Lewis S. Hartman, H. B. Coch-
ran, Chas. A. Reece, E. J. Zallm, 3. F.
Breneman, j. w. Byrne, j. K. Smaling,
Joseph Samson, Jere. Rohrer, are among
our best known merchants and business
men, standing as high in the community
as any equal number Of men in it, etc.
NeO Era Of Tuesday.
A Democrat is president of the Penn
iron company, running a very large iron
mill in this city, ''employing hundreds of
operatives :" John Best is also an iron
works proprietor Geo. NJ. Steinman is
the senior member of "a very large hard
ware business - James B. Frey 6 is one
of the partners in a very large tobacco
packing establishment, employing many
hands - B. J. McGrann is a member of
a large banking house, an extensive
farmer and stock raiser; Mr.. Henry
Ger,lart is proprietor of a 6 large cloth
ing establishment in this city Messrs.
J. II. Widmyer, A. &. Kepler, J. S. Civ
ler, J. X. Hester, Chas. NJ. Howell, A..
Hirsll, II. Z. Rhoads, A. c. Finn, r. E.
FahnestOck, S. S. Rathvon. c. F. Ken-
gier, ii. 4. Slaymaker & are among the
best known merchants and business men,
standing rs high as any equaf number of
men in it, certainly Us high rs those cited
FROM their corresponding branches of
business by the Ncr Era They are
all supposed to Ike Democrats and
to be supporters Of Hancock, though
they do not carry ''partisan views into
the purely business relations of our
everyday life" nor seek "tO influence
public sentiment against business inter-
ests " for political reasons. And yet such
men as these are charged by demagOgues
and political hacks, and newspapers
which advocate the discharge of Demo-
cratic mill operatives and mechanics by
Republican employers. with being ar.
rayed against the business interests c1
the community, with being confederated
with enemies of the government, and
with conspirirg to overthrow the moral
and material interests of the country
1t is strenuously alleged by the head OF
the state department of public instruc.
tion that if the presidential ticket which
these gentlemen and hundreds of Oul
most intelligent business, professional
and workingmen support, should be
elected, disaster will Overtake the
iron mills, the dry goods stores,
the banking and hardware and clothing
business in which they are interested and
in'which they have their money invest
ed. Is this likely: DO the men who
preach this believe it ? Or is it the stale
cry of political hacks and ''disappoint
ed wire-pullers 2" If Mr.. Wickersllam is
dumb enough to believe what he says, he
is too stupid to be a public instructor.
II he does not believe what he sayS-and
nobody who knows him suspects that he
does-he is what his party in this county
and the state has again and again pro-
nounced him to he, when he vainly
sought it's endorsement.