The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-02-14
"a WOodeOck" on the Wing.

article OF "Eindex," | am placed in ar
unenv;able post on in connection with
the railroad meeting at Canton, Ohio
and that l am therein personally at.
tackled and grossly misrcpresented
Therefore, | ask the privilege, III the
columns OF Your paper, of putting my
self right in the matter.
In travelling through Stark county,
and indeed wherever / went, the people
wanted to know Of me what Wheeling
was doing about aiding in building
railroads. In conversation with them, |
learned the impression generally was
that Wheeling had already pledged a
large amount to a road leading to the
Northwest. | was told that a railroad
meeting was to be held in Canton on
the 7th, and was invited to be present.
On my return homeward | happened in
Canton on that day, and there met a
number OF delegates, acquaintances Of
mine, from the southern part OF Stark
county, who knew my views on the
question to be considered.
When it was known that there were
no delegates from Wheeling, some OF
these gentlemen spoke to me, before the
meeting organized, and wanted me to
represent the southern part OF the route
told them | was not a delegate, nor
did | intend saying anything on the
subject.
When the meeting was organized, a
resolution was passed, allowing the
Cleveland DELEGATES to make their re-
marks first, rs they wanted to leave for
home about three o'clock.
Then Akron was ca'lei out, then
Canton, Wheeling and other places
south of Canton. Quite a number OF
gentlemen addressed the meeting, and
showed the advantages OF building n
road from Cleveland to Bow er-town,
and very rarely was Wheeling name |
all this time, aud during which ] was
personally appealed 10 Sereral times AID
urged to make a speech.
Believing myself meant 10y the re.
pealed calls Tor "Wheeling," | aro-e,
and, addressing the chairman, said that
the meeting seemed to me like The han.
die OF a jug, all on one side; that
Wheeling appeared to have been left
out in the cold, there being no delegates
in attendance from there, and that,
from the tone of the remarks made, it
looked to me as tn ,ugh it WAS their III
tentlon to build the road TO Bower
town, and there run it in the ground
and pull the hole in after them.
then sad 10 him that ] was not q
delegate, nor was l authorized to say
anything or make any pledge; but, a.
had been personally urged to make
some remarks. !, with his permission,
would say something about the wants
O; Wheeling in ra lroad matters, my
interests being identified with that end
OF the route. lie said go on and
heard several voices saying the same, or
words TO that effect. This did not look
to me like "in,ruding' myself upon
the Valley Railway Meeting in Can
ton"
| continued and remarked tina,
Wheeling had been unfortunate in its
railroad enterprises, that it had invested
large amounts in the Baltimore and
OHIO road, in the Marietta and Hemp
field railroads; that Pittsburgh money
and influence forced the location OF the
Baltimore road through Maryland and
Virginia that they had also defeated
the completion Of the Hemptield road
10 its connection with the Pennsylvania
Central road at Greensburg, and in sc
doing they "cut club to break their
own heads, as, by both these routes
Baltimore had obtained benefits which
Pittsburgh and Philadelphia would
have shared, providing Pennsylvania
soil had not been so sacred.
also stated the opposition in Wheel
ing to engaging in any more railroad
projects was SUCH last spring as to de-
feat, by a vote, the subscribing Of
$l50.000 toward building the Wheeling
and Kentucky road up the east side Of
the Ohio river to the Panhandle road
opposite Steubenville, and that they
would likely have remained at that
status had not Garrett, of the Baltimore
road, switched them of as he had done
and which so incensed them that they
had recently subscribed. by vote
sos, 900 toward building the Wheeling
and Kentucky road. That Wheeling
was now ready to subscribe any reasona.
| bic amount to a road or roads looking to
the northwest.
| also stated that in that directio Il
there were two railroad projects, viz
the Lake Erie and Wheeling and the
Lake Shore and Tuscarawas Valley
but had discovered along the route Of
the former representations had been
made that Wheeling had pledg led $780,,
900 to it. | stated this was not the
case, that it had not subscribed a dollar
to this or any road in Ohio. suppose
here is where somebody's corus were in
danger, for the reporter for the Akron
Beacon, Mr.. Reynolds, "rebuked" me by
asking me "it Wheeling had not pied ed
this road, through the Council, $500
O002" answered him that it had not
and informed him that permission from
the Legislature had not been given to
take q vote on subscribing any amount.
The way the "rebuke" came in was
that the lntelligeneer had abandoned
the hope Of getting the Lake Shore aud
Tuscarawas Valley road into Wheeling