The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-03-28
For the Daily Gate City.
XVI VIC N1'Iy "Htt Wy.
Citizens 81 Keok NIX:


sumptive embodiment Of the Keokuk Fort
Des Moines Rail Road Company, published
in all the daily papers of the city, in which
he labors to screen the designs Of himself
and the ,hwarted individuals behind the Di-
rectory of the Railroad, Of which he or they
are not members, and to make unnecessary
and unjustifable personal attacks upon me,
it is perhaps expected of me to make proper
response.
1t was distinctly stated in the article about
which Mr.. l.. and his friends seem so much
worried, and now reiterate, that there was
nothing in it intended as an attack upon any
of our Railroad interests or the Directories
thereof. Nor is there anything in the Ian
guage or sense that would be 80 construed
by the true friends Of the Roads, or either Of
them, although it may have pinched and
created noundering among the monks and
burxards lowering around our suburbs. On
the contrary, it has since been fully approx
ed and endorsed as literally and substantial
~ true by Mr.. Hiatt, and other members Of
the X. Fl. d. & NJ. K. r. Directory, who are
well acquainted with the whole matter, not
withstanding Mr.. LIS. episode to the contra
ry. and all those acting with me in the ef-
fort to get reliable Keokuk Packet Line,
have felt and still feel too much interest in
the prosperity and rapid progress Of each and
all our Railroad projects, to permit Mr..
Leighton or any of his designing conductors
to draw or ensnare US into q controversy
with our Railroad or other true interests of
this city,-by which they will attempt to con-
ceal their hypocrisy and personal spleen
On the contrary, we, each and all, under
stand too we'll the true interests of our city,
to be instrumental in encouraging and aiding
newspaper controversy that would directly
or indirectly embarrass or conflict with our
city and railroad interests at home or abroad.
Hence leave Mr.. l.. and his clique to swal-
low their own bait, and will close all further
newspaper comments, by merely calling the
attention Of the public to a few Of the many
contradictions and perversions contained in
the record Of Mr.. l..
lie starts out with the assertion that SPAR
tial evidence is no better than falsehood,"
and with an acknowledgement that the truth
of the larger portion OF our statement was
conceded, and that we did make offers to the
Railroad Directory, (of which he has not the
honor of being a member,) and then imme-
diately eschews his own position or commits
falsehoods by proceeding to pervert the his
tory and the connecting facts in the publica-
ton OF but one OF the three offers made by
us in writing, &c. Why not publish all Of
them? o, no That would not suit his pur-
pose, the one was more than he could mas
ter, even with the use Of three columns
Again: Why did he not publish correctly
the amount actually subscribed by another
to the stock Of the Railroad, who has stock
in the Packet Company And why did he
no. inform the public how much stock he
was to have but didn't get in that Packet
Line? But perhaps this was deemed unne-
cessary, as it is already we'll understood in
this community, the peculiar interest felt by
Mr.. l.. in this matter.
His statement about the rates of freights
charged by the old line, and as proposed by
us, is simply ridiculous, as it is we'll known
that the rates of freghts on any Of the lines
between this city and st. Louis have at nc
time for years past ranged less than the high
est limit OF figures contained in our PROPOSE
ton. And il is we'll known by all our ship.
pers that there has been no year but that
they have been charged much higher rates
during the heaviest business season, in low
water, and very frequently double and three
/ fold, late in the season, or during running
! ice while, on the contrary, it but rarely oc'
| ours that even the heaviest articles of freight
are carried at less figures than the highes
limit contained in our proposition, and tha
only by transient boats, or during the goot
water and dull season.
Our propositions being based upon al
! equitable basis, the rates Of charges con
templated to be as low as any other reliable
line, or boats, with the express provision
that the price Of passage and freights shoult
at no time ExcEED the figures therein named
which were more than Is per cent, even ion
per cent, less than frequently charged du
ring the thronged season Of low water ant
ice.
! will not spend my time by noticing hi
voluntary and unjusti6able personal and po
litical attacks upon and abuse Of myself, Blu
will merely inquire Of him to point at or di
rect US to where we can find the traces o
visible monuments he and his friends hav
made for the good and growth OF Keokuk
about which he and they so zealously pratt
and croak. Has he or his monks ever made
any substantial improvements, or expende,
any Of their money in building, or other
wise improving our city9 Echo answers
where are they
4 will not attempt distich, but will mere
ly ask Mr.. L., for whose good, and where
did he leave for this country
II. w. SAMPLE.
ATHENlEUM.