Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-12
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WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN. u. 1881.
A Struggle to Get In.

Struggle to Get In.
This Reading railroad fight has mani
festly degenerated into struggle of the
outs against the ins. The corporation
is rich plum to manage, and is an es-
pecial gold field just now to the lawyers.
The company suspended payments a
while ago because its receipts did not
equal its payments: and Immediately
began to spend money like water, trying
to get settled in its new relations. Itgo,
these costly receivers, by the kindness of
Judge MckennaE, to start out with. and
a couple Of expensive masters, bearing
the distinguished names of Dallas and
Clay :as outriders to the coach. Then they
took on any quantity of fresh positions
in the shape Of hish-priced lawyers.
headed by John c. Bullitt, to reinforce
the old staff of attorneys that had been
living fatty off the treasury of the road
that could not pay its debts. A great big
lot of outside vulturcs being thus in
vited to the feast, as natural consc-
quence, are now beginning to have i
high old time' quarreling over tie
carcass.
1t is manifest that the victim can't
stand all this blood-letting very long.
1t was clear as sunlight, ut an early pc
riod, that some of the too numerous peo-
pie invited to the pleasant feast would
have to leave before very long. And the
invited guests, headed by the sagacious
Bullitt, sought to lay their anchors to
windward by making themselves strong
with the owners Of the road, fancyiDg
that they really would control it. The
fancy was natural. and the men whom it
invaded are not to be set down as fools
because they became the subjects Of so
plausible Il suspicion. Nevertheless they
were not as wise as they thought: as
they have now found out and they are SO
dismayed at the discovery as to be in
duced to throw aside all disguise and
show themselves with their war paint on,
fighting for themselves, their affairs and
their sacred fires.
All the time they thought that the Nc
Calmonts controlled Reading because of
their big lot of stock, the control really
lay in the hands of Judge McKennan,
where they themselves had assisted to
put it, in the days when their only
thought was to get in on the carcass,
trusting to their wits to find way of
sticking to it when they got there.
And it does look as if the judge was
not on their side. They seem to think
so too, and have hunted up another
whom they hope to find more agreeable.
But the trouble they have is that there
is only one judge who is of any account
at all in their matter, and that judges
name is Mckennan. Judge Allison may
order the directors to hold stockholders
meeting, perhaps and. after all the laws
delay, one may be held. But what good
will it do our outside friends? They
will he outside yet. They will be in
side the corporation, it is true; but
there is nothing to feed Oh there
just now, and won't I've until the receiv-
ers yield up the plunder. And that may
not be for years and it may not be ever.
1t will be really amusing to see our dis
tinguished and hungry friends sitting in
their seats at what should he we'll
covered table, before empty dishes and
plates, waiting for the cook to send up
the tempting vianls. There is nothing,
perhaps, more trying to the temper
than such a condition of expectancy, {.
long continued. 1t would ruffle the most
angelic, and make the calmest pliiloso-
pher swear. Are the troubled outs all
hilOsophers Mr.. Bu!litt needs to look
to his line Of battle and see to it that
every soldier is equipped well for his
long march in the desert. They have
dwelt brief but profitable time in the
land of milk and honey and have waxed
fat therein. They should stand well good
season of hunger and they have plenty
of notice to fill their llaversacks against
the coming time Of starvation and
Brother Bullitt had nice voyage to
Europe, too, as part of his share of the
plunder; which will he joy to him
forever.