The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-08-15
SLOANE!
Why Fremont, FOStOria. FiBdla!
and the Adjacent County
Should Support lin !
WHY THEY OWE HIM A DEBT ?

Rush r. Sloane has entered into
this campaign as a financial transac-
ton. He purposes to buy and sell rs
in an ordinary business affair. Now,
here. in Tihin, we acknowledge that
we owe him a debt-not for money he
has given us, but for that which he
has ground out Of US, besides the man
ner in which his management Of the
les & C.. Railroad has retarded the
growth and prosperity of our city.
We have been prosperous, and the
county and city have grown, but it
was rather in spite Of Rush r. Sloane,
than from any assistance, or even or
dinary accommodation, from him. We
will pay that debt. Other places in
this District owe him debt-whether
it is one of good will, orOtherwise, the
sequel will show.
Fremont, FostOria and Findlay Sre
under special obligations TO him.
A few years ago Rush R. Sloane origi-
mated a scheme to buy up the stock Of
the Lake Erie & Louisville Railroad
for the purpose of making it a feeder
to the C. s. & c., somewhere north Of
Tifin. To do this he moved in his
usual crooked manner and tried to get
hold of the stock, by making false
representations to one stock holder
that he had bought the stock of an
other, thus hoping to induce him to sell.
The scheme ofltself was not an illeg-
innate business transaction, but the
manner in which ne tried to make
the affair a success was, and showed
him to be dishonest, unscrupulous,
aad butl above the level Of many
behind the bars of the Peuitentiary.
Atsome future time, we shall prob
ably give his mode Of operation, but
pass it by for the present.
He intended taking up the road,
from Fostoria to Fremont and laying
the track from the former place to the
C.S. & c. Road. What the effect of
this transaction would have been upon
Fremont, FOstoria and Findlay can
easily be seen. In this cOuntywe can
appreciate it having been cursed with
SIOane's idea of railroad management
for years. Had he accomplished this
result, Fiudlay would have been with
out competition on freight-wOuld
have had but one road, and that Rush
r. Sloane's road. Fostoria has but
one road, but it is under management
so very liberal that it needed no COM
petition. 1t would then have had but
one road, and that-Rush r. SlOane's.
Fremont would have been cut off from
a section of country that now is q
great source of revenue to it-wOuld
have lost a heavy lumber, and other
trade, that makes its navigable river
of value equal to that of railroad
With success in his project, he
would have been enabled to set his
foot on the necks of all the people Of
Hancock county and Findlay, as well
as those of Fostoria, and the people
that trade there. As TO Fremont, they
can say whether or not the Lake Eric
& Louisville Railroad is an object to
| them.
AS it has been here, so in The places
cited would it have been, had Sloan
got their road; high freights in and
out, market ground down by extOr-
tionate freights and insults and injuries
to all who saw fit to complain of the
monopoly of which Sloane is the head.
A little thought by those referred to
will show them just what they escap.
ed, and tLey should pay their
debt of gratitude to Sloane at the POLLS
this fall.
Hon. Chas. Foster, in a square, ,busi-
ness-like manner, puncUured this
movement of Sloane's and would
not listen to SIoane's proposition Of a
brilliant speculation for them tOgeth-
er, and it failed.
Sloane then swore vengeance.