Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-10-25
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LANCASTER. OCTOBER cs, 1856.
Information for Cooper,

hWVi i"aiOn tOr NoOPeTs
The chairman of the Republican state
Committee has issued the following circular
letter:
MEApouARrERs, RxPuBLIcAS STATE CouurrrEE.
Philadelphia, October -, 1855. I
Penn Iron Company:
Our campaign is under splendid headway,
not only through the great sections travers6d
and yet to be visited by MIR. Blaine but in
All sections We must keep ii going to win,
Tor % great q movement once fairly started
cannot stop without danger To do this, and
~ meet other legitimate and absolutely nee
essary expenses OF the campaign We need the
sum Of five thousand dollars at once and we
have selected you as one of one hundred most
likely to contribute $50. II willing, please
send II at once, or so much as you feel you
ought to contribute to ensure great victory
Send check or postal order 10
THoS. V. CooPER, Chairman
Continental Hotel, Philadelphia
We are pleased TO know that brother
Cooper thinks that his machine needs to
be kept going vigorously to elect Beaver,
and that he has imperative need of five
thousand dollars. 1t appears, however,
that he needs much more than this mOder-
ate sum, since fifty dollar contri-
button from all TO whom he has sent
this fervent appeal would amount to much
more. One hundred" is doubtless a
misprint for one thousand because We
cannot believe that Brother Cooper would
not have been more successful in picking
out the places where he would be likely to
find fifty dollsrs, if he had only had one
hundred to select evidently he was some
what wild and a trifle desperate when he
alighted upon the Penn Iron company as a
likely place to find fifty-dollar contribu-
tion for the Republican campaign fund.
We do not know with how much knowl-
edge OF people and things Brother Cooper
should he credited, but as an old and ex-
perienced chairman of the state committee
probably he should be deemed to have at
least fair acquaintance with the men of
the state; and particularly, when he asks
them for contributions and assures them
that he has selected them as the most
likely sources of supply, does it seem that
he should be credited with a knowledge of
the people he addresses.
We should, however, I've pleased 10 know
from brother Cooper whereupon he based
his bope of fifty dollars from the Penn
Iron company, of which the chairman
Is MIR. Steinman, of the INTELLIGEN-
GER, and the secretary and tr5 asurer. Mr..
Charles Steinman Foltz, also anOwner and
an assistant editor of this journal the other
managers OF the Penn Iron company being
w. Is. Middleton, superintendent, \. Fl.
Peacock, Of Conestoga furnace, and John
Keller, railroad builder. As the latter
three are Republican in politics, the rea-
Sonable conclusion is that brother CoOpeT
expected them to override the two Demo-
cratic members of the board of managers.
and vote him the fifty dollars for
Beaver.
But brother Cooper needs to I've informed
that the Penn Iron company, like all
other well conducted business houses. is
entirely without political partsanshp in
its management. Its men are EMPLOYED
for the skill and capacity they have in the
duties asked from them, aud without in
quiring as to their politics. Its customers
are served without regard to their politics.
Mr.. Cooper needs sorely to be advised
that politics and business are two very
di1erent things. Mr.. Cooper may have
suspicion of this from the business en-
tanglements of his candidate for governol
with the Bellefonte Iron company. We
will confirm his suspicion by mildly advis-
ing him that it is not reasonable in him
10 expect campaign contribution
from any business lirm of re-
spectacle business instinct. All such
contributions by wise business men ale
made personally. They divorce theirpolitics
from their business as far as possible
They may believe that the political princi-
pies OF one party are more advantageous TO
their business than those of the other, but
they recognize the fact that there is no
unanlmity of opinion in this regard in the
business community with which they are
in relations; and as it will not do TO condne
their trade TO one party, so it is not correct
business conduct 10 make their business
firm political instrument.
We regret to disappoint brother Cooper's
hope of fifty dollars from the Penn Iron
company, but We are sure that there
is no chance of movement to that
end by the wicked partners" in the major
ity and that it will be long, underits present
management, before political checks aIe
ssued by the Penn Iron company.