The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-01-17
1880,


Nr. Camden says that he is not Vice
President Of the Standard Oil Company.
lsaysso over his own signature. See
iBlth he has seen fit to put pen TO paper
on this subject will he inform the public
jult what bis relations are to the Standard
Oil Company TO deny simply that he is
another Of tho Standard Oil Company
ha very little bearing on the monopoly"
isue, will be enlighten the members ot
theIegislature on the following points:
FiBt-As to whether he is not o stock.
hddein the Standard Oil Company at
thii time?
SeCond-As to whether the Camden
Consolidated oil ia not to all intents and
purposes part and parcel Of the Standard
Oil Company?
Third-Asto to whether he Is not Presi.
dent Oi the Camden Consolidated Oil
Company, Gnd in receipt ot a large amount
Imoney from that company, either rs
hIY boHusor dividends, and whether
@eFpment Oithis money 10 him depends
oniheamount Of oil manufactured by the
Camden compauy2
Fouhh-Haye not and do not his prin.
sPl, profs n the oil business come from
iheDanipaAtions Of the oil market by the
Si1diid Oil Company, and have not
@Re profits been both enormous and llle.
climate?
F'ih-Ilave not q portion Of these
P'od sheen trnceRble to the manipulations
blythe Standard Oil Company Of railroad
Heights, by which they secured preferred,
exclusive and extraordinary rebates and
phVileges2
Sixth-tleg hO not, as President 81 the
Camden Company, had a preferred, e1clu.
Sve aud extraordinary arrangement with
the Baltimore K Ohio Railroad Company 2
Seventh-Was this arrangement not 90
peculiar in lie nature as 10 cause him 10
shrink from divulEiug 1t 10 Colonel Dan
JohOsou'J Railroad Investigating Commit.
lee in 1887
Eish h-ls 1t not the object Of the
Reagan bill now pending HI Congress, To
correct the gtievuus railroad abuses which
have enriched the Standard oil Company y
at the expense Of its competitors In
busihess2
Nlnlh-As Il stoCkholder In the Stand.
a'd Oil Company, and q participant
In lls enormous aud Legitimate
profits, would the President Of the
U1mdeo Consolidated Company, as a sona.
Tor, be in a position to cast llsinteteSted
vo'e' OIL to protect either the interests Of
Tue people OF Of legitimate competition?
Ienlh-lIas not Mr.. Camden, as a mem.
oef OF the Standard Oil Company,
oeen long cognisAnt Of the secrets that
lessed out in the celebrated suit at Clsve.
land the other day, and do not the dtS.
closures made in that suit show that the
Standard Company is a monstrous and
ue'polic monopoly, exercising almost the
power OF life and death over everything
''Ie competition in the oil business7
he'ehth-lsil the inle,est nj iha bao.
p,e o. West Virginia, either as producers
Sl OIL, ofnS ovnen Of timber that should
W used oy ftd0eties on our coll, or d In.
,e..u s,t'led IN the question Of cheap lisbts,
mat the Standard OIL Company should 70
yu % now organized, and 90 enlarge lie
%y mastery and monopoly over oil pfoduc.
"9n as to make competition impossible,
lne'e are points that enter into Al lsast
., ZONE Of the objections that have been
S. Sade to Nj. Camden's candidacy for tbe
SENATE, SENATE and inasmuch as he sesms tlis.
rSWot Sss1 70 Wti,eon this subject viii he
tSTs.sale tn,s .' to ,he members oi the I,eVislG.
'e oV ~ @mneh light ss his best Standard la,
b.iIaa Gllln'e over the mallerY We ihinE
llSniIS.,..slufe would relish some official
"Saoh on the subject,