The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1870-02-17

Senator Reed and our Railroad

arrived IN Madison TIE next morning. uf
up at the Villas House, = hotel where they
charge s. per day and you sleep on the
floor In Madison We fell in with Messrs.
Fue.senich, klingholz and Lueps, making
up. Rail Road delegation, whose objec,
was TO effect = compromise Of the interests
Of the President of the Railroad Corpora
ton now in existence, With the new com
pany, about to be org-:.;zcd.
We found our old friend, Bae,z, snug and
warm in his new bed of down, and held ,
meeting il bis Office Thursday evening,
At which meeting President Reed promised
to 90 with US to Milwaukee, and unite
with parties who were ready to build road
for US. Or failing to do 20, would show US
; wherein he had the means to build the road
himself
On Friday VIC paid our respects to the
capitol-overlooked the whole thing-thc
magnificent building-ths costly and beau
tiful finish of its interior. And LIST but not
least the members Of the assembly and sen
ate. therein congregated.
We heard several speeches while listen
ing to the assembly proceedings, but not
one Of the many surpassed in point Of abil
ity and sense, little speech made by our
able represep alive. Carl H. Schmidt, upon
a tariff question before the assembly. Carl
bas the ability of saying what be has to
say in few words and then stopping-a
very liable faculty for a member of as
sembly.
Leaving Madison, we reached Milwaukee
Saturday afternoon, wendcd our way to the
best hotel in the world-the Kirby House.
This hotel i. run by meu who are endowed
with soul and conscience Stop with
| them and they will give you q good room
and bed-give you better grub than you
| will get At any other hotel in the city, and
when you leave will charge you but 81 per
day. Everything about the House i. right
and comfortable.
In Milwaukee we met with the Railroad
men who we're in Manitowoc a short time
ago. They were called upon by Mr. Reed
At this conference We all confidently ex-
pec,ed that Mr.. Reed, in accordance with
bis promise to US at Madison would agree
| to stand out Of the way Of these men, if
they wished to build the road. Or failing
TO come to terms with them, that then he
would show US wherein, and how he pro-
posed to build the road, and the means he
had at his command to do it with.
Reed here again. and for the thousandth
time disappointed us, and failed to carry
out his promise. He neither propos ed 10
give any one else chance to build the road,
nor would he shower even attempt to show
the Manitowoc delegation how he propos-
ed to build it himself And to wind up the
farce, and We hops the last farce that he
will ever be permitted to play upon our
community, he took the avowed position Of
antagonism to the charter now trying to be
pushed through the legislature.
The dog in the manger At las. took O e his
disguise and our people now know his true
bearings
We yet, in charity, will say, that Judge
Reed is not villain. We will not say tina, he
is, and has been for years, the efficien, tool
Of the North Western and St. Paul Rail
road, in their pay to delay or defeat the
building of any line of road that might,
wnsn completed, become = com peting road,
but by his acts be has exposed himself
to this accusation.
But We look upon him Is one of the
most magnificent failures that ever cursed
= communicates \ man whose touch upon
any project is ike the bite of the scorpion
AS . man who never yet undertook a
task small enough for his abilities to
handle-as = man who has no more bust
ness At the head Of great railroad project,
than has buzzard ia the mouth Of . vol
csno And the great trouble with him is,
that he has not the ability to know bis own
weakness.
While We, with hundreds more, would
have been glad TO have stood by him, and
ucicuucu ultu III us pOs}tlOuS, uSu uc
shown US wherein they had been tenabls or
pr ac,icable-now that he has refused, or
neglected, to give US light, or to abandon
his position, As he agreed with US TO do
At Madison, tho only conclusion We
can reach is that he il either dementsd,
insane, or hypocritical. At least he has
forfeited the confidence OF friends, forti-
fed hi, enemies, and standI to-day,
not the reprcscn' alive Of Mantle
voc county in the senate, but BY his acts,
shows himself to be the alder and sbetsor
Of the projects of our enemies We hope,
however, to be able to say to our readers,
next week, that the lake shore towns and
the towns west and northwest of US are to
hear the shrek Of locomotive.
We shall await the action of Reed and
the Legislature upon the charter. and next
week shall have more to say in regard to
our representative, and hope that he will
not. By his acts in the matter, compel u to
say anything hard of him.
The scales once fell very suddenly from