Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1880-02-20
Very Much Doubted.

T. A. Sullivan, of Nez Perce war
notoriety, who is in Washington city
to write back to Oeegon for pay any
thing that may suit those who employ
him, sends the following, which is pub.
lished in the Portland Standard of the
Sth inst.
j. b. Montgomery was here the
other day, and is now very bitter
against the Northern Pacific railroad,
maintaining that it has no capital and
less credit, and that it's talk of eastern
connection is mere moonshine.
The new Oregon company, lie says,
is the only one that has money and a
place to get more, and tells me that
the story of the n P. r. Il. and the
new O. S. n. Co. consolidating to
build road down the south bank of
the Columbia river, is the veri,st non
sense.
We receive this intelligence with q
double doubt of it's truth. First, it is
well known that j. B. Montgomery
has, though u stockholder in the North
er,. Pacific, been for "a long time at
outs with the managers of that com
pany, and las on several occasions
sought to cripple IT, operations by at
tempting TO defeat it's extension OF
time, and with Senator Mitchell work
ed for another road, and all in the in
terest of the city of Portland. 1t is
! no new thing to announce that he is
bitter against the Northern Pacific
and hence whatever he may say of its
ability to carry forward the enterprise
it has begun, and is now so success
fully carrying forward. must be re
ceived by those who are acquainted
with Montsomery's relations to th'
company with many grains of allow
ancc. Again, if we were to judge o
the correctncs; of Sullivans report o
what Montgomery sa'd d about the com
pany by what we know he wrote AM
published Of the incidents Of the How
ard campaign against the Nee Perces
we should be inclined to the belief tha
Montgomcry's statements lad bee
colored 10y Sullivan to suit the purpos
Of those fer whom Sullivan is writin
letters from Washington to be read il
Oregon and elsewhere. You mus
give us better authority than eithe
Sul'ivan or Montgomery to induce j
US the belief that the Northern Pac
fic will not bc pushed forward bot
east and west, till a connection
made between Duluth and the Coiun
bia river. They have and can CON
mand the capital, and the whole poc
pie Of the states and territories mort
of the parallel of Chicago are virtua
/ " interested in the completion of thi
northern route, and among that pc
pie are millions Of idle capital in tn
hands of persons who know full we
that the road will pay handsome il
terest on the money invested in il
construction so soon as it is complete
20 III Columbia river.
1t is folly for Montgomery or Su
livan to attempt to stihe the opHri
r tons of this company, by sendin
abroad any such nonsense. Even II
r Otegon Railway and Navigation Con
t pany, whatever may be It's own tinal
cial status, cannot make point
THEN favor, by countenancing any sue
thrusts oeing made at a rival, who fir
occupied the field, but who, throug
= general financial distress and busine
of the country, We're, for a time sci
ously crippled, but who have show
themselves men Of great energy al
= economy to have retrieved their loss
and pushed the road as far as th'
r have without rendering themselv
e wholly insolvent. The maligners
h the Northern Pacific have been man
= and they have done that compal
great damage in days gone by; l.
:, their power has been overcome by t
n company, and no company to-day h
d a better financial record to show th
lie has the Northern Pacific, Montgome
,e ,e and Sullivan to the contrary. notwit
" standing.