Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-06-21

Representative Nfen n~
another "~private" letter. He writes
good many Of them to newspaper editors
II is about the only way in which bis con-
stisuency has heard Of him since he went
to Washington. One Of the latest Of has
"privase' notes appears in the Enterprise
of the 18th. 1t is as follows:
my friend Cassidy, / see, permits no
opportunity to pass to m~isrepresent me
The story circulated during the last eiec-
ton campaign, that ! had tried to cur
down the wages Of miners at Eureka, orig
mated in the Sentinel Office. At that time
Cassidy aspired to be the Democratic can
didate for Congress. After Ellis nomlna-
ton, G. quietly assisted IN contradictlng
the report. l understand mat ne again
expects to be a candidate for Congress- ana
am not surprised to find in his paper an
innocent-looking notice, under tne neaalne
of "A Lucky Firm" to the effect that wren
& Thornton are the attorneys OF the zen,
trial Pacific Railroad Company IN several
CO. aties Of Nevada. on course, me ha'-
ural inference is that q paid attorney OF the
Railroad is not quite the man 10 ASSIST IN
legislation on subjects in when the
hIliIUUQ Is lnttItotCQs
facts are, I never received q dollar IRON
the Railroad Company in my lie, either
as its attorney or otherwise l mad q
limited partnership with Mr.. Thornton, but
each had branches of business in which
the other had no concern. Whatever Mr..
Thorntcr has done for the company he has
done on his own account. and | have never
had one dollars interest in that business.
Mr.. Wren is unfortunate in provoking
these issues. 1t is not true that we were
the first to talk Of his attempt to cut
down the miners wages to 50 so per day.
In fact we don't know of our W knowl-
edge that he ever tried it at all, though the
circumstances all pointed strongly in that
direction. The effort was made on behalf
Of the Richmond Company, of which Mr..
Wren-then as now-was the President
and legal adviser. 1t is hardly possible
that so important a step would nave
been taken without his knowledge
and consent. The first we ever heard OF
the move came from the President of the
Miners Union. The miners OF this dis
trict generally believe to-day that DIR.
Wren was willing that their wages should
be reduced in the interest of a foreign cor
poration, There were afterwards some
compromises and a whitewashing report
from q Committee of the Miners Union.
The SENTINEL never said much about the
affair, because it was hardly policy to do
so. One Of the proprietors OF this paper
was running for the Senate. As
have always understood it,
Mr.. Wren agreed with a friend OF said
proprietor to give Mr.. Wallace, the Repub-
lican candidate for the Senate the clash
in the Richmond mine if the wages ques-
ton was not agitated too much. This is
the whole truth about the matter q, we
understood it at the time and still under
stand it. We should never have referred
to these matters if Mr.. Wren had not seen
proper to revive them. AS regards the
railroad matter he admits all that we as
serted. We said the firm of Wren &
Thornton enjoyed a monopoly Of the legal
business Of the Central Pacific Railroa d
Company in this State. Mr.. Wren says
this is SO, but he explains that the junior
member of the firm gets all of the fees.
We never pretended to know or state any
thing about how they divided. Neither
did we ever assert that this attorneyshir
had anything to do with our Reprasenta-
tive voting against all competing lines tc
this coast.