, 1874-11-05
Every Vote for Jacobs is a Vote
for the Railroad! Every Vote
for Sharpstien is a Vote
against the Railroad!

Hundred Thousand Dollars, to COM
plete and put il active operation the
first section of seventeen miles OF the
road. At public meeting at biakeiy
on Saturday last. Mr.. McCausland' the
agent of the Mill Company. stated that
Z he had just arrived from Victoria where
h, had. On interview with the parties
from whom the money was to come
and received from them their fnality
If Judge Jacobs is elected to Congress-
thew are ready to pay over the money
ae soon as that fact is ascertained; II
not. further negotiations to that end are
closed, and all work on the road is sus-
rended for an indefinite period, with
little or no hope of aid from Congress-
either by grant or friendly legislation
(. for the same influences will operate up
ON Congress which control shrewd cap
italists in the management of their per"
sonal business affairs.
This is no attemI Of outside capital
ists to meddle with our domestic poll
tics, but simply an exercise of ordinary
saeacity on the part of the capitalists to
nrotect their own interests. We all
know that the success of our railroad
project and its security to bondholders
depends almost entirely upon sucE
friendly legislation by Congre s. as vii
Give some assurance to capitalist of the
safety of investment therein. All In
yestments of capital in public enterprls'
es are largely influenced, if not entirely
controlled by the character OF leglsla>
tion.
Now. we all know that Judge Jacobs
above all other issues pending IN the
canvass, is devoted to the interests OF
the Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad
and has been from its inception, ana
he has made it his speciality in all the
speeches he has made, east and west OF
the mountains, leaving no doubt on the
minds of any who have heard him that
/. he he is not only fast friend, but II
elected, will prove most efficient work
on for the project.
.nrMr. Sharpstein, on the other hand Is
identified in interest, and committed Dy
all previous action, against the Seattle
and Walla Walla Railroad, as the fol-
lowing facts will fully show:
He is next to the highest stookholder,
Vice President and Attorney. OF the
WalIa walla and Columbia River Rail-
@cad which has all its business con-
rect;ons with the O. s. N. Co., and with
Portland, Oregon.
The President of the Seattle Compa-
~, nv, on the first starting the project
wrote to the Company with the view OF
opening negotiations for uniting the TWO
q enterprises, and his letter was not an
swered. @@
u over a year ago, Mr.. Denny. the
President, and Mr.. McGilvra, the At
torney of the Seattle and Walla "aila
Railroad, visited walla walla for the
purpose of presenting the project to the
people of that section. In their ofnclal
report to tbs Directors, they say that
the principal opposition they met with
was from Mr.. Sharpstein's railroad COM
pat,y, every member of which was op-
posed to the Seattle road.
Mr. Day was subsequently authorized
~ Che Seattle Company to propose me-
,eotiations with Mr.. Sharpstein's Com
pany for consolidation Of the two Com
panies and he reported that the latter
Company refused to receive or consider
any proposition with any such purpose
in view.
Col. ". W. Chapman, the President
of the Portland. Dalles and Salt Lake
Railroad, told Mr.. McNaught. last win
tar. II Washington, that his Company
had N understanding with the "alla
Wara and Columbia River road. that
the two Companies would be cons0lieat'
ed in case the former got the congress
sional subsidy asked for.
We might instance other facts bear
ing upon this subject. but the foregoing
are sufficient to convince any re6sona
BILE man that the Seattle and Waila wal
Ia Railroad have nothing to expect IRON
Mr. sharpstein. and that his eiectlo'
would be fatal to all our hopes for tha
project. In view of these well esfab
,lishad facts, what man having he { IN
stefests Of Seattle at heart will give hin
.svote? E