The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-07-16

MEANS MUCH TO WHEELING.

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Tomorrow OCCURS the special elec-
ton, at which will be submitted to the
voters Of Ohio county the issue OF bond
Ing the county for 100000 for the pur-
pose Of subscribing that amount TO the
capital stock OF the proposed Union
town, Wayncsburg & West Virginia
Railway Company. To carry the bonds
there must be q three-ilfths vote in
their favor.
II Wheeling and Ohio county are a
community where progress is the
watchword and the ability to perceive
opportunity characteristic, then the
issue will carry and this great manu-.
featuring center will become greater
and possibly rival Pittsburgh as the
greatest center for the manufacture OF
iron aud steel in the world.
II Wheeling and Ohio county are a
community where untra- conservatism
to the extent OF "dead-townlsm" is in
the majority, and inability to perceive
golden opportunity makes 1t impossl-
bic TO grasp it, then Of course the bond
issue will fall tomorrow, and Wheel
ling Will continue to labor under the
handicap of being unable to produce
iron and steel as cheaply as Pitts
burgh,
1t does not seem possible that the
people are In a mood to accept the lot
ter alternative. In the past evidences
have abounded to show that Wheeling
Is live, up-to-date town. always on
the lookout for new opportunities. The
greatest opportunity ever presented to
Wheeling is now at hand-all that is
necessary Is for three-ffths of the vot-
ers to walk up to the ballot boxes to-
morrow and vote For Subscription" land
very soon the other two-nfths will have
come to wonder how 1t was that they
ever listened to the appeals of prejudice
and Misrepresentation that have char
acterized the campaign against the
bond issue.
For it undoubtedly has been q cam
pu'sh OIL preJuuice anu ii'isiepiesei'u-
non Inc oppoheh.s OIL t''e pohus ni'e
Waseu. Inc uraues asseitipis l"'ose
campaign, By the way, has not the en-
dorsement Of the majority of the
"orhlhs Peopie'' States III d cifcu'ur
ttut the loan VIII cost me county
sl'ooV'VGV Whlch is untrue. Inc loan is
s'oV'oVo anu me iiteres. VIII ainount u
put SS'oouo' NOT SoVo'VoV' US the un-
scrupuious or ignorant author OF inc
| circuiar either knew OF ought 10 nave
known. again. this same clrcuiar states
that the county Is no" paying interest,"
agsregatins $l"'ZiS annually, ana that
Tor thirty-one years, IN the event Oh the
passage OIL the bonds, the county VIII
be paying s3o''45 interest-which Is also
untrue, as the loan on winch interest Is
now being paid VIII nave been wiped
out In ten years, Just when the propos-
ed bonds VIII begin to fall due.
This same circular. which is the
work OF prince OF drivellers. proceeds
to ask why Wheeling should subscribe
to n road whose terminus Is to be at
Bellaire. when another road proposes
coming to Wheeling, and asks not n
cent. OF course the tnlontown road Is
TO reach Bellaire but II passes through
Wheeling and 1t is the manufacturers of
Wheeling who Will be most largely
benefited by its construction. On the
other hand, the opposition road, which
entered its second period on earth, sin
gularly enough, just when the Union
town road innugurated its present ear
| nest effort to bring to Wheeling It's long
cherished dream Of short line 10 the
coke fields. only promises n branch line
to Wheeling. and in addition its route
is not to the coke fields, and Its promo
tiers. do not promise 10 bring coke to
Wheeling. 1t is even rumorcd that the
opposition line is enjoying Its present
period of good health" by the grace OF
two trunk lines that are particularly
J interested in not seeing Wheeling given
competitive line to the coke territory.
ana that III the event of the defeat Of
the bond issue Tomorrow 1t will drop
out of view with rapidity that will be
amazing.
The opposition road does not rench
the Masontown coke fields, and Its con-
struction would not give TO Wheeling a
cheaper rate of transportation on coke
than the manufacturers here now have.
On the other hand. the Uniontown
lines promoters agree In the loan ordi-
nance that the rate from the coke fields