The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-14
The lnteinge6eer On Railroads nd
BRtnges.
Editors OF the Register:

recklessuess and inconsistency OF those
VINO have SO bitterly opposed improve
meut. If it should be the great ME-
fortune of our city to fritter away the
excellent opportunity she now has to
gain new railroad facilities, ! shall take
fresh alarm at the power OF the press
WIN n controlled by lshmaelites, who
veer with the winds, and whose chief
business is to be miserable themselves
and to make all other men miserable
Could the citizens OF this city at q
glance read the railroad articles OF the
Intelliosncer for the last wear and hsl',
they would see vast collection OF gross
inconsistencies and self-contraGlctions.
Nv recollection OF these are so vivid
that have wondered again and again
whv YOU did bot expose them in one
sweeping article and lay bare the false
hoods OF the InteLigeacer, by which W.
are being slowly drawn TO our CONNER
cial aud manu- 'scturing death.
LET THE READING AND REFLyCrISG MEN
OF OUR CITY REMEMBER
tha, wear ago the Iatslhgsncer most
,ehemeutly urged that il we could sc
cure bridge and railroad TO the north
west by the expenditure Of million
dollars it would be money well spent
Nou he claims that we have railroad-
enough.
That he then demanded an act q. the
hands OF the Legislature exscting no
conditions, and charged the City Coup
Gil with an intent to kill railroads, when
they asked for the passage o. acts re-
curing guarantees
Nor he most yehemeutly demands
such guarantees and securities as no
CITY ever asked or got. and as no rail-
road company ever gave or could give
That then be urged US to subscribe
six or eight hundred thousand dollars
to bring two roads to the opposite side o.
the river.
Noe he resists the giving Of dni lar
TO bring two railroads across the river
into the city over our own bridge, winch
will put US on the great highway from
the west to the east.
That then he thought the Council OF
posed the Tuscarawss road to Bridge
Dor. and abused them soundly for ask
ing the Legislature to limit their powers
and discretion.
Nov, he charges Council with incom
potency and corruption from the least
to the greatest, until its memhers are
regarded az knaves and public plumber
ers hy the stranger without our gates.
That he then combatte6 the theory o
one OF his correspondents, who urged
the wrongiuluess OF taxing the com
munity Tor public Improvements.
Nor, he urges that theory nimseIi
with more than the zeal OF q new con-
vert
That he then commended the zealou;
efforts Of those who urged the absolute
necessity TO this city for greater railroad
facilities to the northwest.
Nor. he pursues, beiitties. impugne:
the motives questions the integrity, sno
with a devilish consistency sud satanic
venom, by inuepdo and all sorts o
filings, defames those same jealous men
That paper has not SCRUBBED TO make
wholesale charges OF corruption sga'ns
our City Council. =,
1t has charged the officers and friends
OF the Lake Ere Railroad Company
a. liars, swindlers and cheats.
II has charged the officers, directors
and trends Of tine Railroad Brlig'
Company as attempting TO deceive
Council as to the plans snd cost o! th'
bridge, when il is notorious tact tina
he papers have been on the tables o
both branches OF Council, open to thei
and his inspection and to the examlna'
ton OF ell persons
He hss been proven 10 have refused
again and again to examine a contrac
which he hae. falsely AMI with Eiliiu
ignorance assailed.
He has given editorial sanction II
die street rumors OF the impractlcs
bility OF The Lake Erie road, and re
fused to allow his readers TO be en-
lightened BY the Official correction o
these rumors by engineers who surveyed
the route.
He has based unfriendly editorials OF
copiectural items from other untr,endI
papers. and withheld from his column
the official correction OF those iem'
from subsequent issues OF those papers
He has published ss facts the I'M
sgined proceedings OF the Directors o
the railroad, and withheld from hi
readers their fist contradiction b! In
President o. the Board.
He has charged upon Wilson q
Co" the acts of others who were II
LEAGUE with the Tuscarswas road. snt
other enemies OF the company and con
tractors. Dozens OF times have TIT
articles which spring from his magma
,ions been officially contrsdlcted Ii
your paper and otherwise, but he ha
nermitted the decisions he has create'
TO grow and faster in the public MIND
He has openly challenged the intelIl
gence and integrity OF every TREND o
railroads who cannot count his none.
by tens and hundreds OF thousands.
He has, assuming to follow the lea'
of few of our wealthy men, attempted Il
provoke q contest between capital an
labor, by challenging the right OF an,
man, having voice or opinion on thes
subjects, who is not heavy taxpayer
He insiuustes tbat every poor MAJ
in Council, who favors the subscription
has q dishonest axe TO grind.-snd 81
OF every other man, rich or poor.
He, in one Issue OF hls papers
astters Council and bids for Its triendi,
ear: in another he calls them simpietons
dotes and fools-
"wrapt in the solitude OF bus Owl
originality" he withdraws himself tron