The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-03-22
.Gt1tGttelIiae1ters:
Some Personal Aspects of the Bridge
and Railroad Discussion.
From Yesterdays Registsr.l
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and Railroad Discussion.
From Yesterdays Rsgistsr.l
"Spectator,'' GA. b. Co." sc.
Editors OF the Register.
SEQ the INTELLIGENcRR continues its
warfare against the substantial improve
ment Of the city, notwithstanding 1t did
a week or so ago have an article In favor
of the railroad bridge project. Some Of
our citizens are Of the opinion that the
articles in that paper signed "a. D. G."
l"spectator" are gotten up in the office.
This, in my opinion, Is an error. The
leading editor, l have no doubt, would be
willing that any and every enterprise con-
nected with our city's improvement
should go by the board, II there.
by hc could secure tho success,
at the city's expense, OF the Wheel
ing and Tuscarawas Valley Rail-
road. In my humble opinion, the ar
ticles in question are written by the paid
attorneys of the Wheeling & Tuscarawas
Valley railroad. One Of them, in his
place in the First Branch Of Council,
last evening, was very anxious to restrict
in some way the grant to Bailey, Wood
ward u Co. of the right to use certain
streets for horse railway Il isa bitter
| pill to these gentlemen to see such a
manufacturing firm as Bailey, Woodward
u Co. erect blast furnace in this city;
it puts the lie on their wicked prophecy,
that because Of the Councils failure to
encourage the giving Of $4,000 of the
peoples money TO that fraud, the Wheel.
ting Il TusCarawasValley railroad," wheel
ing capital would flow away from the
city and build rival towns on the oppo.
site shore, &C., &C." Want of time alone
prevents me from showing the fallacy Of
the view advocated by Spectator" this
morning. In fact, his own facts and
figures are amply sufficient 10 refute his
assertions. Respectfully Yours,
The foregoing communication is mani
testify unjust to ourselves and to others.
Tho assumption that we are warning
against "the substantial improvement Of
the city"-or against the building of a
bridge or against the success o! the Wheel
ing & Lake Erie Road, il that is what
the writer means-is unjust and un-
true, and nobody knows it better than he.
We have said that we believe the building
of a bridgeis the yto secure the success
Of both roads; and that the building OF a
bridge, as now proposed, is practicable
undertaking. We havenot expressed, nor
have We experienced, any modification of
that opinion. Nobody understands better
than our assailant that tce do not make war
on the bridge in printing the opinions OF
others who do. We must print for both
sides of any controversy that we allow
correspondents to carry on in our col.
umns, and we illustrate this in this issue
by printing a reply to the "wartare''
complained of, written, as we have abund-
ant reason to believe, by the same hand
that penned this complaint. According to
hislogic, VIC arc this morning waging war
on the W. & T. v. Road, and going in
strong for the w. &c L. E., and for a
bridge! The fact that he is willing to
use our columns in this way shows that
he makes a charge he knows to be un-
just. '.~t rrrr w
The idea that the articles of"spectator"
and "a. B. G." are written by ourselves,
which this correspondent takes so much
pains to suggest, IS one that we are at a
loss to account for. In, printing the letter
Of "a. B. c." we expressed our commen-
dation of its leading ideas. We have
already expressed. ourselves on the bridge
question, and dissented from the views Of
Spectator" Why we should write
anonymous letters for our own columns
on one side Of a question and editorials on
the other, is something we have not yet
discovered. Any statement that We have
done so is simplya falsehood; and lift Is
deemed matter OF any Importance, we
suppose our correspondents will be will.
ing to ayow. the authorship of their arti.
cles. sBs sSgttf5tgal 4
As TO this correspondents opinion that
"the leading editor" of the INTELLI-
dENcER would be willing to sacrifice
every other enterprise connected with the
citY's improvement 10 secure the success
of the W. & T. V. Road, our readers may
Judge Tor themselves whether VIC have
done anything to justify such an opinion.
We Think the files of the INTELLIGRN-
GER will show that we have contributed
something in the last four years To bring
the Wheeling and Toledo project up to
itspresent promising position, and we shall
be glad to domore whenever opportunity
affords, if the special friends oI that meas.
ure will allow us.
Its certainly unjust to say that any
member ofthe First Branch of Council
showed 'an unwillingness TO grant the
right Of way asked for by Messrs BAILEY
WOODWARD & Co. 1t was Mr.. BLAIR
who first suggested that the grant ought to
be made-as such grants always arc-sub'
lect to regulation by the city authorities
to see for example thattlie grade Of the
streets used for the railway track be moi
altered or the streets more obstructed than
would be neediul. We were present and
heard nothing from any member lndica.
ting an unwillingness TO grant The
privilege asked. On the contrary all
who spoke declared themselves nm.
hesitatingly for granting it; and The
condition imposed by the vote of the
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