The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-12-10
GBEsHAM,s AMBITION.
Iay Gould has Something to spy on tHs
guhIont

Jay Gould has Something to say on lEs
Subject.
NEw EoRR, DEG. "a reporter has
finally succeeded in interviewing Jay
Gould in regard to the decision Of Judge
Gresham. N never met Judge Gresham, y
said Mr.. Gould, "and know little about
him. Some OF the Wabash bondholders
we're hero yesterday, and from what they
have told me about hlm / think lie must
be suffering from seyera attack OF the
Presidential fever. 1t Ia o terrible disease
and when man is fully under its sway
he will do almost anything,
In reply to an inquiry whether the de,
cisIon would interrupt the reorganization
scheme OF the Wabash Company, Mr.
Gould !spuHi 81, ssIf simply; "ls rather mixes
The Times to-day says: Wall street has
bad no newsin many aday--saye only tho
announCsmppts that they have led to dis
sster or Developments glllpnly whirling
the stock market upward-in which 20
muoh interest has been manifested as 10
shown In the leeisiop Of Judge Gresham,
OF illinois, in the Wabash Yecelvpruhlp
case. guCh bold words as Judge Gres.
ham used are not often heard from the
bench in these days. At one blow lie
knocks out one OF the wiCkedpst pieces Of
scheminH and chicanery that this country
hEs eyer known In all It's long line Of cor
poration porrpptiops. A black eye for
Jay Gould, o kiUkiug Of Gould's depsnd;
ants out Of official place,a slathtng r5buke
to Gould methods, check to an almost
inimitable plan OF rascality and robbery
this, from the bench, has seemed Butlc.
lent even for wonderment in Wall street,
where all theories are based on the idea
that the Ilittle man" owns courts and has
0 sort OF vested right In everything that
pertains to judges and judgements.
But there was not more wonderment
than admiration. Judge Greshsm's In.
dependence was everywhere. applauded,
outside OF the circle where Gould depend
ents sing forever the endless Gong OF
their masters pralSes. The story Of the
Wabash receiyership has long hspp by.
word In Wall street! Tho receivefs haye
been Gould men for years. One was his
lawyers one hao been his fRgrsheal In q
dt2sn cases. Gould, among kindred
clever men, was everywhere applauded
when II came about that he has been 90
able to manipulate things as To keep the
bankrupt Wabash system in his own
handp, "tor the projection" Of security
holders. "Protectlon1-thlg g2g the
courts phrase. Jay Gould's men waStsd
no time in hurrying TO make plain the
cynical hpnor Of II.
The deeisioa will 70 ipr, so those who
discussed II agreed, to give the lnyeptprp
confidence that lately II has not been
possible 10 cultivate. In this decision, 80
the general comment runs, clear and posi-.
tive notice Is served on stock jobbers and
railroad wreckers that, after oil, the men
who nay honest dollars for stock and
bonds baye some rights which the lay
will zee respelted. Investors have been
safe In recent yesrO only by the grace OF
stock market riggers their llCpmsS have
been regular or Irregular, Ss 1t has suited
knaves In corporate control. In Judge
Gresham's decree, 10 those who talked OF
| II averred, is DECLARED departure from
this Cut.throat fegtMs. How the current
opinion was voiced where men Of Integrity
end sense discussed the decision 10 Gptly
shown IN this DECLARATION by q gentleman
Of character and Independence,