The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-01-02
SIX DELIBERATE LIES
Sprung by the Market Street After
math conclusively contrcvsrted
BY the 1ntelligeneer-1t Was q
Scoop THAT Cut to the Heart - A
Possible Trip to Weston.

by the 1ntelligencer-It Was q
Scoop That Cut to the Heart - A
Possible Trip to Weston.
The 1ntellisencor dIsllkes exceedingly
to enter upon the New Year by waging
any sort OF controversy with the Mar
ket street Aftermath (otherwise the
Reglster), and for several reasons,
prominent among which is the dislike
OF readers to be compelled to read such
rot but there Is a present instance of
such glaring unscrupulOusness and au-
daclty that 1t cannot be overlooked.
In yesterdays issue the Register, re-
ferring to the Iatelligencer's exclusive
publication of the sale Of the Behwood
Southern railroad to syndicate COM
posed OF gentlemen interested In the
Wheeling Railway Company, said:
Not IN few weeks ago. but ten days ago,
the intelllgenCer published the statement,
in SO many words that the wheeling
Railway Company Ind puTchAAed the Ben
wood q Moundsville line. This was untrue,
hut the correction was never MADE, ana
the readers of the IntelligenCer were left
under o false impression. the publication
excited the greatest indignation among
business men interested, as the lnt0lllBen-
Ger very well knows, but this fact was also
withheld from the public. Now the In-
telligencer man once more enters the arena
10 say that ''the purchasers are as an;
nounced IN the Intelligencer previously, !"
which Is another untruth, and follows this
i'm by misleading the public once more
when II says: It would seem that the day
Is not very far distant when the two roads
Eak .En NRIrRn
moi he consolidated" because they can
not be. So much for 1ntelligencer accur-
acy.
iiEhed the fact that control OF the road had
passed, two days before the lntelllgencer
discovered the matter,
Now it's quite easy to dispose Of the
Registers assertions:
First-"Not "a few weeks ago but ten
days ago." says the Register, Thepub-
LEGATION in the Intelllgencer. stating as
positive fact that the sale had been
made. was in the issue Of November IS,
which is "a few weeks ago. Just five
weeks ago. In fact. The Register call
endars must need winding up.
second-"stn in so many words
that the Wheeling Railway Company
had purchased the line" again says the
Register. That is misrepresentation
No. ., for the Intelllgencer story was to
the effect that the line had been ac-
qulred by gentlemen who also happen
to he directors In the Wheeling Railway
Company.
Thlrd-"The publication excited great
indignation among business men inter-
estcd," walls the Register, The lndig-
nation, perhaps, was confined to the
Register office. such scoop scored by
the opposition naturally creating some
excitement and mutually OF hair
pulling and elimination among the
young men who ore alleged to cover
the news of the day" for the After
math.
Fourth-"The Intelllgencer once more
enters the arena to say that the pur-
chasers are as announced In the Intel
hgencer previously, which Is another
untruth," remarks the Register But
is It an untruth? Is 1t not a fact that
the purchases, are, as the lntelligencer
stated on November 2s. gentlemen who
are interested in the Wheeling Railway
Company Does the Register deny it?
Fifth-"And follows It up by mlslead-
Ing the public once more when 1t says,
1T would seem that the day Is not very
far distant when the two roads will be
consolidated'- two roads will not be
consolidated. because they cannot be"
is another Register observation. Poor
followl lie never heard OF the prac-
teal consolidation OF the Wheeling aud
Citizens Railway Companies.
slxth--"It may DO added that the
Register published the fact that con-
troll of the road had passed two days
before tho lnteillgencer discovered tho
matter" is the concluding paragraph