Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-06-07


Now or Never-Eyen If None Of these
Propositions We're True We Would
Make Money to Offer the Subscription
As A Gift.
Are you for the Decker's Creek
Railroad, or for the Cheat River Rail
road?
If for the latter, vote against the
railroad subscription.
Are you going to vote against an
other railroad, which will give you
work?
Are you afraid of II cents tax for a
new railroad, which will bring bust
ness, money and employment when
you have paid from 20 to % cents tax
for county roads, and then had to
work two or three days on the roads
without pay?
A new railroad means more work
for the workman, and one days extra
work will pay a gears tax, on $1,000
of property.
1t means more customers for the
barber, and dozen extra shaves or
half dozen chair CUTS will pay the
TAX at II cents, on 81, 900 Of property.
A new railroad means stone cutting
quarrying and culvert and bridge build
ing.
A railroad up Decker's Creek will
bring choice oak, cheap chestnut and
other lumber to our builders and fur
niture makers, and give them larger
profits and more business.
The millionaire Guffeys are going
to build railroad up Cheat River
They have many thousand acres of
coal ard timber lands on that river
and in Preston County. They want
to reach these lands by their own rail-
road. They don't want the Decker's
Creek road TO tap their territory or
prospective trade. Kingwood they
regard as theirs. Valley District
should be tributary to them. Hence
they are opposed to the Deckers Greek
road.
Last week Col. w. S. Guffey, one Of
the brothers, came here, and immedi-
ately appeared from the office of the
only law firm opposing the Decker's
/ Creek road number Of circulars de-
nouncing the latter project, and as
signing divers reasons against the sub
scription.
| These lawyers publicly boast they
are paid proposing the subscription.
Who pays them?
Certainly no one in this communi-
| ty.
Then it must be some one from a
broad.
Who more likely than the projectors
of the Cheat River road?
When charged with being paid by
the Guffey's they did not deny, but
evaded.
Will the voters follow the advice of
hired opponents of our local railroad,
who wish to give it death blow, in
order to get fee in supporting rival
line?
Hired lawyers, dixie the Hessians of
the Revolution, who having no prin-
ciple, fought on the side that paid
the best wages send out their circu-
lars and publish their newspaper arti-
Giles, declaring that the last assess
ment for Morgan District, forall prop
erty, real and personal, amounts to
81, 6l3, 787 eehen in fact ii amounts to
81, SO1, ST. (see Clerk Willey's official
certificate.)
If they knew no better they are too
ignorant to advise the people.
| If they knew better and simply
tried to deceive they deserve the con-
temptof allhonest men.
| They put the taxable property OF
| the District $1S7, $50 below the facts
| (See Clerk Willeys certit1cate) and
then assert the present Indebtedness is
| so, $50 more than the Constitution
permits, and assert that $40, 600 more
| for the railroad would make over S53,-
600 of debt, all IN ercess of the amount
allowed by the Constitution.
Morgan District owes no debt, and
! they know it.
Their statement that the lawful
debt creating power of the District is
exceeded already $40, $50 is as reckless
and as untrue as the statement that
the valuation of property is only ST.
613, 1877. when in fact it is 81 ,801 377:
| the per cent on the latter sum is
over 500, 900 and no part of the debt
which Morgan District might create
has been contracted.
an error Of sIS7, $40 is shown in their
statement Of alleged facts, which the
records disclose Just as great an err
ror is shown in their assertion that
the District has already exhausted its
right TO create debt, and exceeded
it by $40, $50 and tnat it cannot create