Show EVEN THE gray baits and philan thropio ways of the venerable Peter Cooper do not protect him from the scandalous annoyances of the disreputable dis-reputable and blackmailing politi clan One day last week a fashionably fashion-ably dressed young man Francis Heed Porter by name maliciously I broke two large J plates of glass in the hall door of the Cooper reidence Porter Bays that in 1879 he w i editor which he t of a greenback paper for had written an article saying Lewis the greenback candidate for governor stood a fair chance for election that Cooper asked him to suppress the L article in favor of Robinson promising promis-ing him 2500 which money wa I never paid Porter broke the glass in revenge upon the philanthropist t It was clearly a case of blackmail 1 and the law is now dealing with the young rogue |