The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-10-28
THE INTELLIGENCER.
wHRELING, OCTOBER IS, 1897.



The Register must have been taking a
vacation for two or three days. and per-
mitted itself to get behind with the news
CONCERNING the Union Pacific matter.
about which it has had so many echoes
from the New York Worlds hysterical
TRADES recently. Yesterday, in a
lengthy article. the Register occupied
a column of editorial space in shrieklng
that the government was to be cheated
out of s2O.OOO,OOO by the Morgan syndi-
cate and that neither President McK!n-
ley nor his attorney general had lifted
hand to stop the steal" In fact, the
Register was sure that the President
was paying an alleged campaign obliga-
ton TO the Morgan syndicate, and stated
that not move had been made toward
postponlng the sale of the Union Pacific
road to give Congress an opportunity to
stop the steal"
It was the same attack OF demagogic
Mysteries which the Register always in-
dulges IN when It refers to Republican
administration. The trouble Of writing
the article might have been saved had
the editor taken the pains to read his
morning exchanges, wherein It was an
nounced in the Associated Press dis
patches that the administration had done
the very thing which our able contem-
porary was denouncing It for not doing.
The announcement appeared in Tues
days Intelligencer; the same dispatch
was received at the Register office. but
was not published, possibly through an
oversight. Having received this belated
information our neighbor will probably
admit that its editorial was rather I'M
timely, and must have caused some Won
der Oh the part OF Its readers who do not
depend on our neighbor alone for their
information.
Seriously speaking, President McKin-
ley decided last week to notify the reor-
ganizatlon committee of the Union Pa
cific road that an application would be
made to Judge Sanborn,at st, Paul for a
postponement OF the sale OF the road I'M
der the mortgage foreclosure proceed
ings until Decembe. Is, and on Monday
Attorney General McKenna carried out
these instructions. The purpose was to
give Congress an opportunity TO pass
upon the matter and take action to stop
the steal" as our nelghbor would say.
While this was the purpose of the ac-
ton of the administration, It had a more
immediate and satisfactory result. No
sooner had the Union Pacific syndicate
realized that President Mckinney
course was designed to head off the
"gobble." and defeat the effort TO OBJ
tain possession of the property at the ex-
pense Of the people, than 1t came to terms
and Increased its bid to an amount that
would cover the entire government claim
on the main line, and withdrew It's bid
for the Kansas Pacific This Is regarded
as a complete surrender by the syndicate
of It's plan to mulct the people Of the
United States out Of s2O,OOO,OOO.
Under these circumstances, Attorney
General McKenna, on Tuesday. with
drew the request for the postponement
of the sale OF the main line, but the sale
of the Kansas division has been set for
December is. 1t will be seen that
through the policy pursued by the ad-
ministration. the government will not
only not lose the s2O.cOO.OOO about which
our neighbor is concerned, but that the
date OF the sale OF the Kansas Pacific will
be arranged to suit the convenience oil
the government
As this all occurred previous to the
Registers editorial our neighbor mus
admit that II was unduly excited,