The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-10-08
r-om President R. II. Cochran, OF
tho Terminal Company.
7gF WHEELING Z LAKE ERIER.R. co.
c,,o,y, up In Very Interesting Way.
What il Demanded, and Its Plnn for
Revenge when It's Demand was
r,rncd down .-- That Company's
c,ur,c not Frank nor Honest.

the hand and purse behind the opposl-
,iou which has SO annoyed tho officials
oi,bc county and tho citizens generally.
Tb.ir appeal to every fair.minded man
IN ,hc county" to stand by them comes
with i'll grace, when 1t Is remembered
,b,, their present opposition was be.
GUN in disguise, under false pretcnses
in ,he name OF n paid client, aided by
nonresident Of malodorous fame, whom
Colonel Blsscll aptly called n guerilla.
Til. hostile attitude against Wheeling
Is consistent with the course they have
been pursuing for years. Tho official
rcports will show that as far back us
ISIS, when the management Of the Old
company WAS urged to build on to
Wheeling, 4 prominent officer oil that
Company said damn Wheeling, We will
% 10 Marietta; that city is OF more con.
Sequence to us than Wheeling"
these same parties wrecked the old
Wheeling & Lake Eric and wiped out
hundreds OF thousands OF dollars OF
stock all the old stock which tho peo.
nlc along the line had subscribed and
naI 10 the company. They abandoned
The richt which they had to bridge the
river at Wheeling and they abandoned
,be line from Bowcrston to Wheeling:
and when they organized the present
company their charter only extended
from Toledo to Conversion. For awhile
thew os,ensibly encouraged the efforts
Of others to build 4 line between
Eowcrston and Wheeling, and refused
iorvears to consider the question ut all
Of whether they would ever build.
When times began to brighten and
others tried to negotiate money to build
The link between Conversion and Wheel
ing ior the use OF the Wheel
inc 4 Lake Erie and all other
roads as well, the Wheeling &
Lake Erie, in the money markets Of the
East, did all they could to thwart them,
declared they were going TO build them
selves, that there was room but for one
line and not business enough for two.
They did all they could to prevent sue
cessful financing for the bridge. They
objected 10 Ohio county having any
stock or voicein the bridge. They said
they did not want Ohio county to have
any voice in the bridge and terminal
property, or as n stakeholder to be in
,crlncddling in its management or al
fairs, ii they had anything to do with
it, For years they have been "nagging"
and "nagsing' at our every effort to
make the bridge and terminal success.
Several times they, OF their agents, have
appeared in this city OPPORTUNITY to
stir up commotion and adverse action.
Unjust be apparent that they desire to
wreck our property with hope that it
will fall into their hands freed from its
Union and neutral features.
After they procured the use OF Mr..
NcNe!Ps name to begin the~present op-
position before the board Of commits
'sioncrs, their officers appeared in this
city and protested to the public, and
announced through Mr.. McNel's per-
sonal organ, The Nsws, that they were
not interested in the movement against
Us. 1t now appears that they were in
stlgatOrs OF it and were furnishing the
money to pay persons to become COM
plalnants against us and to pay at
torneys TO conduct the fight, intended
toput the county in the attitude OF
!epudiator in the financial world.
Long after We began work on the
bridge and terminals, as late perhaps as
4 year and a hall or two years ago. they
made all sorts OF professions that they
were going to run across the hills from
Short Creek via st. Clairsvillo to Nc
Slahons Creek and Bcllairo, and give
Wheeling the "so-by."
In my last interview, the Wheeling &
Lake Erie were asked to name the rate
which they called eXorbitant: this they
have not done. They, oicourse, were offer
edihcsamc rate quoted to other compan-
!esOilt they were not satisfied with that,
my demanded rate OF Sl.00 per car, and
ia'rtcd ne should make them That rate, and
make It prirdte and prefer them 0ter other
roGd%, alleging that they were our natu-
"a! allies. In this they invited us to
discriminate in their favor against other
loads and against the interests OF the
county and subject ourselves to fine oil
I'VE thousand dollars Tor every o!Tcnso
under the Interstate commerce law.
Does 1t not seem odd to sec them calling
on The fair minded people" here to aid
mem IN compelling. us to keep con-
uaGi which they have been urging us to
violate? will you walk into my par
ioT: said the spider to the fly"
lhcy have not been open, frank, sim
cefs or honest in their dealings, either
WIN TINS company or the people of
, ,llls county, and | repeat, they are the
n as. people in the world to ask the
lar minded men" OF this community
10 stand by them in the war which in
u! !ne East and here they have been max
lls against the best interests OF tho
people OF this county.
We wish the people here to bear
lhesS Things in mind, and not allow the
shNlii'ng and assembling OF these
strangers to count against all We have
n ; here and the perfectly open and
, ,r;.t manner in which We havo worked
WIN WI and Tor the people OF Wheeling,
T Gn stood IN their midst in open day.
.ish' Tor years. Please bear in mind
y, further TACT that We began opera
IONS here long before We were really
I Py This We did to accommodate
rn%ylnnann's, Whitaker's and the Fulton
pIopIe, and at time, which still exists,
; %seh our construction was going on to
interfere and make operations exceed.
Msly difficult and expensive. We will
want the business OF the Wheel.
~; ~ " Lake Eric as soon and rs
. .Is. as We are ready to accommodate
, ,hhSm, but one trouble has always been,
, ,%ar every effort on our part to oblise
c S',Sln and treat them kindly has been
v ,raai as an evidence that We arc
S Teak and helpless, and they are not
o,oM 70 give out by speech and inu.
umao 'hatwe are operating at n loss and