The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-05-29
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To TIE Editors Of the IsiclIlcEes'.
Since sou are posting tic books lOr q
trial balance at tho election Saturday
next, permit me 10 say word, rs see
you have adopted the system 0l "d9EJse.
tnirg" have chosen not 10 reply 20 the
repeated insinuatiOns against me by your
anynym0us correspondent. but when you
ciI,OralIy drag ny name before the pub
lie. | suppose It 10 Dc but night that |
should give il attention.
IN the first place am not editing and
controlling the columns Of the LSgpier,
nor nave / been. The only railroad edi.
tpr!aIs nDw have any recollection OF,
a. being written Or suggested by me. were
some Two NJ three written at your re.
uuest Tor your paper come three or tour
months ago When received the con.
tract from New York, first gave It TO
Daniel Peek my then law partner, TO CX.
anime, next 10 Dr. Baird, next 10 Mr.
Long, one Of the editors Of the Rgisier
each Of whom examined it critically,
and expressed him.C satisfied with It's
provisions. next tOOkit 10 you at your
Office aud rendered il TO you for your ex.
AMMUNITION. All this was about the 2lsl
OF February last.
You handed the contract back to me
In such way as impressed my mind with
the notion that you did not care to cx.
anime it. You we're told where the con.
tract might be seen by you at any time
Your recollection and mine are different
about my promise To furnish you u copy
for publication.
must plead guilty, Sir, Of having been
frequently at your office, but do not think
WAS always talking railroad and con-
tract You would sometimes ask me
when in your Office, how railroad mat
tiers were progressing, and ! cndeayOred
toadyisG you us correctly and CourleOusly
as | could. II ever Obtruded myself or
any information upon you, il was certain.
ly not intended, and was q breach Of Ell.
quclJe which exceedingly regret, and
hope not to pCrpCtratG again.
You will perhaps remember that Mr..
W. F. Hubbard took the contract to you
at your Office again about three weeks
ago, and upon your declining 10 examine
for want Of time, you were informed by
him that you could sec it ut any time at
his Office. now submit whether, alter
all this, it is altogether fair for you 10 en-.
quIre MS you did few days agO-"What
do our people know about this contract?
understand your petition now TO be;
first, that you are opposed 10 the cOntrac,
because you never saw ii; second, That
you refused to examine the contract be-
cause you feared you would not under
stand II If you did see it
may be mistaken Mr.. EiitOr, but |
beg leave to say that think you have
been treating me rather unfairly. You
have assumed, il not in the letter ut least
in the spirit OF your articles, that because
/ am the attorney 0fthG Wheeling IL Lake
Erie Railroad, am Conniving with thC
city Council, Joel Wood, Joseph BCll, Mr..
Wilson aud others to dcfraud the city out
OF her money. These destinations have
also been made in some of the articles Of
your anonymous correspondents These
insinuHiiOus arc very unjust and wound
ing 10 any man Of even average sensibli.
tcs, aud are especially so TO me, CUnSci
OUs us am Of the sinCcrcst TCctitude, ant
II desire to wrong no man or corporation
to the extent Of one dollar. Ii | bcliCv
cd, Sir, that there was apurpOsc on thu
part OF any one, or danger Of wrong
ing the city Of Wheeling out of one far
thing, would not lend my public in
ilucnCG in MD either OF the Bridge Of
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway. think
| know the secrets and purposes Of The
promoters OF these enterprises, and lhavC
no knowledge or belief OF the employ
mcnt Of any bride or corrupt means il
aid Of either of them.
Ii Mr.. Wilson is a scoundrcl, l do not
know or believe it. He is like yourself
somewhat peculiar" but l understand
his proller To you to take n dictatorship ID
the Bridge Company was TO meet YOU
complaint Of the untrustwOrthiress o
council, and he, not claiming any voice OI
authority in the matter, suggested that
you become one Of the directors in The
Bridge Company where you could sc,
that no swiadliug operations could b
carried on between that company anC
the City Council. Can there be any oh
lection To such a suggestion?
In conclusion, Mr.. Editor, lsuppOsc yor
will reply to this and continue to u5C
the columns Of your paper, over whicI
you have control and | have none, Il
place me at II disadvantage before TIT
public shall probably have no time o.
strength to reply. You have more thar
once assumed me to be the author o
letters and editorials in the Register abOu
which knew nothing until saw then
in print, and some of which were writer
and printed while | was absent in Ohio.
only ask 10 be fairly dealt with, and tina
if You arc detgrmined to kill the enter
prise which, in my ignorance, have
dared TO favor, you will not try 10 drag
meInd every other friend Of the enter
prise into disgrace and iniamy.