The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-01-09
The Railroad Election at Cleveland
..JOke on HSnydeT."


..Joke on "Snyder."
The Cleveland Herald makes these
comments on the election there on the
question Of subscribing million dollars
to "the Valley railway"
"The election passed of in an extreme.
" quiet manner, very lew Of the persua'
i've accessories common 10 political cleo
lions being employed. There was lit
lie "peddling" Of tickets. At every poll.
ipg place ballots OF each kind were spread
noon the "Counter" and the voter took
NE choice. A few carriages were en-
ployed by the advocates OF the measure,
and sent around to stir up the ,laggards
and offer them the seductive alurements
Of a ride to and from the polls. Bulletins
were posted and dodgers" plentifully
scattered about, which exhorted the
workingmen to vote RAILROAD Yes" por.
traying in startling CSpiMls,the millcnnial
dawn Of 'cheap coal" that would shed
its Carboniterous reiulgence over the city
the moment the Valley Railway should
be completed. A good portion Of the
time the election clerks sat with their pens
stuck over their ears, aud the sentinel at
the boxes stood with arms akimbo, watt
log for customers.
UNDER CLOUD.
In the evening a number Of the promi-
nent leaders and friends Of the enterprise
gathered at the City Clerks Office to learn
Ihe result OF thcl battle. Returns from q
few Of the large wards were sufficient to
convince them that the people had decld-
ed against them, and they were exceeding
sorr0wiul. Mr.. John Huntington remark,
I'd to q representative Of this paper, as he
paced the floor, with tinge Of bitterness
10 his tone: It's the Herald that's done
III The Herald has killed the city, and
II will sometime bitterly regret its mis-
take !" Some were confident that had o
full vote been polled tho verdict would
have been reversed. It is u question,
however, whether a majority Of those who
stayed away from the polls were not
Noes" at heart, and would have made
the adverse popular mandate still more
emphatic.
"BIG THING ON SNYDER"
There is ono circumstance connected
with this election without which its his.
tory would be incomplete, and which is
really too good o joke not to be told. II
To- beyond all question, one OF the most
remarkable instances on record Of "cOunt.
ing chickens before they are hatched,"
and signally illustrates the uncertainty
that hangs over such operations. Itheats
AL hollow" the case Of the giddy milk.
maid, whose calamity, portrayed to the
school children of tho last generation In
"Websters Elementary" was the origin
Of the adsge.
The gentlemen who were running"
the railroad scheme had good reason 10
!eac that II the question should be decid.
ed In the affirmative an application would
beimmediately made for an injunction to
restrain the city authorities from issuing
the bonds, with aview Of testing the con.
stitutionality Of the Boesel law, and de-
Gliding other points at issue. Whatever
might be the final result, this would in
Volve them In tedious legal imbroglio,
which must postpone for some time the
screams OF the Valley Railway engines,
as they dragged in their ponderous trains
loaded with Cheap coal" They deter
mined, If possible, to outaank the ipjunc-
uon people, and, putting their beads TO.
gether, they concocted plan as original
as Y was designed to be effective.
They got up lithographic design for
me Valley Railway bonds. to be issued by
the city, and printed them off 10 the
amount OF ono million dollars. They laid
10 plump thousand of them, worth,
when duly signed, sealed and delivered,
one thousand dollars each. On Monday
certain city oftlcial-not the Mayor
whose name was required 10 the bonds,
was putting in his best ticks, writing his
John Hancock" on those bonds. or
course It was perfectly innocent amuse.
ment, Tor until the people had voted
Yes and the Mayor had added his
signature those bonds were only worth
Inelr weight for waste paper. Twas ex.
PecIed that the railroad would be carried,
anu then with the dawn Of TUESDAYS sun
Aey could rush out those bonds into the
World putting their thumbs to their
nuses and oscillating their fingers at any
nun VINO should try 10 scare them with
.GlGnCuons. But the eggs proved 10 be
Suuleu, the chickens didn't hatch, and
S S.Ss vigorous patriots have got on their
nAnos thousand ornamental and neatly
printed pn pieces Of paper, which can be Of
KIP w possible use except as playthIDgs for