The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-18
PARKERssuRe, December ID.

such light on the bearings OF j. ~ Jam
den's business identifcstions with the
Standard Oil Company, Of Cleveland, a
will enable people to judge whether Oh
not such business identifcations are really
in conflict with public interests.
Mr.. Camden, in his published letter
does not give prominence to his connec'
ton with the Standard Oil Company, par
ries the charge OF being "monopolist''
by atribudng It to the envy Of those who
have not been SO successful as he in "getD
ting ahead" and speaks Of his manipula'
ton Of the refining business Of Parkers.
burg as an attempt TO organize, consolidate
and build up business OF such siZe "a
would induce the Baltimore aud Ohio
Railway Company TO grant him equitable
rates OF freight to the seaboard. He adj
mits that the refining business Of Parkers-
burg Is ruined, but seeks to cast the blame
on the people who interfered, through the
legislature, with his business arrange.
ments.
Il is desirable that the people should
have the facts clearly set before them that
they may fairly weigh Mr.. Camden's
claims.
II the Standard Oil Company is a
monopoly then ]. N. Camden Ia q "mono-
polist" in the worst sense. The success oil
his scheme for consolidating the refining
business OF Parkersburg and making oil
exclusively for export through Baltimore
depended upon the STANDARD Company be-
ing able to keep monopoly OF the refining
business.
At the time Of the organization Of the
Standard Company and the establishment.
OF the rebate system in its favor, Parkers
burg was the refining point for Cincinnati,
Louisville and st. Louis. The rates oil
freight on oil were IS follows:
Cleveland to Cincinnati. fifty cents per
barrel by rail.
Parkersburg TO Cincinnati, twenty cents
per barrel by river.
Cleveland to Louisville, 81 90 per. barrel
by rail.
Parkersburg to Louisville, twenty-five
cents per barrel by river.
Cleveland to St. Louis, 81 20 per barrel
by rail.
Parkersburg to St. Louis, fifty cents per
barrel by river.
Mr.. Camden acting for the Standard
Company and with the Standard Com.
pany's money, and to enable 1t TO get and
keep q monopoly Of the business in those
markets, bought up and shut down every
refinery on the Ohio river below Pitts
burgh, and agreed to send into those
markets only such quantities Of oil as the
Cleveland Company might direct, and the
refining business oil Parkersburg Is ruined
because Cleveland sees tit to supply those
markets from her own reineries at net
profit Of three dollars per barrel, and Mr..
Camden cannot run his own refinery or
those which he purchased and agreed to
run.
Look for moment, iii you please, at
the advantage which Parkersburg possess
ed as refining point before Mr.. Camden's
manipulations. It had dozen refneries,
each one OF which with fair field and no
tavors, might have equalled the business
done by the Camden Company. Besides
having what might be called free. pipe
line In the Allegheny add Ohio rivers Tor
the transportation OF Pennsylvania crude,
ii had q belt OF oil territory OF its own
touching the Ohio river at one end, the
Little KanawhA at the other, and cut by
the B. & o. railroad through the middle.
Mr.. Camden having helped Cleveland
drive Parkersburg out OF the markets in
which she had natural advantages, having
helped Cleveland lay 8 hundred miles Of
pipeline to take the oil away from the
river, now says II Ia useless for Parkers-
burg to try 10 compete with Cleveland IN
refining for the home trade in the South
and Southwest. The voice is the voice OF
Mr.. Camden, but the hands are the hands
OF the Standard Oil Company.
The facts seem to convict Mr.. Camden
OF having given Cleveland, for the sake Of
personal gain, the benefit OF his business
ability to the detrimeAt Of his own town
and State, and this is the chief reason why
his iellow.citizens, irrespective OF party,
object TO his holding the responsible po-
sition OF United States Senator. In the
language OF Senator Beck, Of Kentucky,
at Ia impossible to have sn honest Legis-
lature, State or federal, so long as Repre-
sentatives are cent who owe their election
to, or are personally interested in, great
monied corporations or moropolies. No
matter whether they call themselves
Democrats or Republicans, they are not
the representatives OF the people; they are
simply the SCENTS and attorneys OF those
who seek. by taxing the masses. to enrich
themselves" RRENER.
Apropos to the above, we notice an edi-
torial in the Parkersburg Journal Of the
10Th, in which the 1STELIIoEScER's call
for show ofhands on the transportation
question is referred to-the same call that
called out the above communication.
The Journal says that while the call is
timely it does not call for enough, and it
proceeds to supplement Its deficiencies by
calling for show Of hends from the Sem
atorial candidates in regard to their posi-
tons on the tariff question and upon the
Southern question:" aud also in regard
to the development Of our State by rail-
roads and the Improvement OF our navt-
gable streams"
Upon the Southern question, It may be
assumed that all the Democratic aspirants
for the West Virginia senatorship will
either dodge or lean to the Bourbon side.
II there was a Joe Brown, Of Georgia,
among them, he would probably speak
out and give US some refreshing good
sense on the subject, but what can be ex-
pected from men who, after the adoption
OF the amendments to the National Con-
stitution, wanted to insert the word
"white" in the West Virginia Constitu,
ton as qualification for suffrage, or from
Others who actually got US into all the
confusion and expense Of the Taylor
strauder case by inserting the word
"white" in our statutes as a qualification
for Jurors. Such men are incorrigible
Bourbons, and we presume incapable Of
rising to the plane that Senator Brown
rose to in his speech to the Georgia Leg.
;.l.Irra hafoya he vaa elected.