Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-08
apt to 90 to ruin under any political ad-
ministration. It takes some little sense
20 carry on any business.
Right For Once.


Right For Once.
The Ne,c Era of last evening says ed
itorially: There are a good many things
to be deprecated in politics, but perhaps
there is nothing SO inexcusable as the
introduction of partisan views into the
purely business relations of our every
day life. The right Of every man to his
opinion is freely conceded by all sensible
men, and to taboo men in the ordinary
business relations Of our everyday life
for holding certain views is a principle at
once unrepublican, narrow-minded and
thoroughly vicious. We have the right
to be Republicans or Democrats, but
,rken it is sought to influence public senti-
nsent against business interests for this
reason it is time to call a halt and TO de-
nounce such action as the most detesta-
BILE a public journalist can advocate
We are glad to see the Ne,r Era COM
ing to its senses and to an admission
that the " introduction of partisan views
into the purely business relations of our
everyday life," is utterly inexcusable.
As we have tried to show the Nec E.a-
and apparently with good effect when
it is sought to influence public sentiment
against business interests on narrow
partisan grounds, the attempt deserves
the prompt reprObation of all good citi-
zens.
The Republican managers in PhiIa-
delphia and New York, running short
of money to buy votes in Ohio and In
diana, devised the business peril''
dodge to bleed rich men in Or
der to raise corruption fund.
This was the origin and purpose
of the movement. It had it's inception
in no other purpose. The politicians de-
vised it in New York, in Philadelphia
and on small scale in Lancaster-and
everywhere for the same purpose.
Sensible people know that no harm can
come to the business interests of This
country from the election of Hancock.
If Mr.. Barnum's iron works, and Mr..
Scott's coke furnaces, and Mr.. Hewitt's
great mills, and Gen. Robert Patterson's
woolen factories, and Col. Scott's and
Mr.. Packers and Mr.. Gowen's railroad
interests, and Judge Hilton's and Major
James'S and Mr.. Hoods vast dry-goods
stores will not be damaged by Democratic
success-and they ought to know if they
would-Republican merchants and mill
men and railroaders and manufacturers
can suffer no harm.
And SO in our own good city. Here
there are hundreds of Democratic business
men who are supporting Hancock's cleo
tion with no fears that it will enure dis
astrously to their business interests. a
number Of the most intelligent of them
are associated with the very Republicans
who are trying to get up the business
scare. And do these Republican . bust
ness men, conceive that il the inter-
ests of their Democratic partners are
safe undera Democratic administration
their own will lie imperiled? If the dry
goods merchants, and hardware mer-
chants, and clothiers, and iron manu-
facturers, and lawyers, and doctors, and
butchers. .and bakers,in this city who pro-
pose to vote for Hancock will not have
their business disastrouSly affected by
his election, does anybody of any sense
suppose that their Republican neighbors
and partners seriously believe theirs will
he damaged? Not at all.
The truth is that sensible men know
''there is nothing SO inexcusable as the
introduction of partisan views into the
purely business relations of our every
day life" and that "business men, do
not advertise themselves us Clarified
merchants,'' OF :: Hancock manufacture
ers,'' nor seek g to influence public senti-
ment against business interests" by in
flammatory appeals " to taboo men in the
ordinary business relations OF our every
day life for holding certain views.''
This is fit work only for demasogues and
trembling office-holders.
LET the CALLED jade vince: our
withers are unwrung.' The Republican
politicians who, having failed utterly to
offer any good political reason why Gar
field should he elected and who, as !. last
resort, a forlorn hope, attempted to get
upa business - scare, and again failed
signally, are terribly angry because the
INTELLIGENCER exposed their unwor-
thy attempt to play upon the fears of
the people, OF the 1900 business men
in Lancaster, the political hacks under
the lead of J. P. Wickersham were able
on Monday night to muster only 50:
and after the most careful drilling, and
the most frantic appeals, and the most
unstinted abuse of the INTELL1GENCER
and the Democracy in general, they were
able to muster on Wednesday evening
only $40, including national, state,
county and city ofice-holders, and a
number of men who were never engaged
in any business pursuit. So flat, stale
and Improbable has fallen their silly
attempt to get up a "business scare
among the sensible business men, and SO
meagre in number is the squad engaged
in the disreputable work, that they are ,
ashamed to show themselves alone in
parade, and SO the leaders have changed
their programmes ,and instead of confining
their demonstration to Republican bust
ness men, they appeal to professional"
men, and independent men, and all