Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1902-10-23
Wabash VS.. 3. e. o.

Reporting the contest between the
B. & o. and the Wabash railroads,
the Morgantown correspondent of the
Wheeling Intelligencer writes in a
recent issue Of that paper:
"a member of the law firm of
McGraw & Post, of Grafton, counsel for
the Greenbrier, Monongahela g. Pitts
burg Railroad Company, is here in
consultation with George G. Sturgiss
and other local attorneys in anticipa-
ton of the contest between that railroad
and the Baltimore & Ohio, over the
route surveyed down Cheat river to
Point Marion.
1.-THE Baltimore & Ohio has recent
ly purchased the Guffey survey in its
effort to block the line of the Green
brier, Monongahela & Pittsburg. Both
the Baltimore & Ohio and Chesapeake
g. Ohio roads are anxious to acquire
this route through West Virginia to
Pittsburg. The injunction granted
by Judge Golf, at Clarksburg, has
checked the efforts of the Chesapeake
& Ohio to seize this route at its Poca-
hontas terminals, while the fight with
the Baltimore g. Ohio here will be to
retain control of this end of the line
surveyed. 1t is claimed by counsel
for the Greenbrier, Monongahela g.
Pittsburg that the Gufey charter is
long since forfeited and that the Bal
timore & Ohio will have no standing
in court to prevent the building OF
the new road.
"Suits will be instituted in the courts
of this and Preston county, which,
together with the suit already entered
in the federal court, indicates that
the Greenbrier, Monongahela & Pitts
burg will make determined effort to
build its route through from Durbin,
in Pocahontas county, West Virginia,
to Point Marion, Pa.
A prominent local Democrat COM
menting on the above news says:
The gist of the above situation is
that the Pennsylvania Railroad pro-
poses through its control ofthe B. & o.,
the N. & W., and the G. g. o. railroads
to dominate the politics of West Vir-
ginia, as it has those Of Pennsylvania,
Delaware and New Jersey. Already
these corporations have the State by
the throat. The B. & 0. serves notice
on the people of the State of West
Virginia that it will crush any polit-
ical aspirant who will not bend the
pregnant hinges of the knee, that thrift
may follow fawning." John McGraw,
would not desert his party in SO, at
the behest of the then president Of the
B & O. Railroad. Dayton's brother-in-
law, a complaisant corporation attor,
ney, now fills the position vacated by
McGraw. "Verbum sat sapienti.
The entry of the Wabash Railroad |
into West Virginia will hasten its
development by century. 1t means
the opening of timber and coal lands
which are now comparatively valueless
for lack of transportation facilities.
1t means an impetus to the growth Of
it's towns and better markets for its
farmers. The dog in the manger
policy of the present railroad combine,
is in effect this: The B. & O. and its
allies control West Virginia and will
exploit it to their own advantage.
No other company shall come in and
develop its resources. Any one aid
ing in such treason to our great rail-
road trust, shall be politically excom-
Such insolence will re-
ceive a crushing rebuke at the polls
in November. John McGraw has done
more to develop his native State than
any living West Virginlan. The PEG
PIE ARE behind him, the hostility of
the railroads to the contrary notwith-
standing.
They should be curbed as in Vir-
ginia, by railroad commission, COM
petent to safeguard the rights of our
citizens.
I'll . TT-:tol CI.1o, I'll rnro ae;op