The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-10-08
WREN AND NEwLANDss

n housing Silver m00s1uR ~ ehO
Court House Tuesday Evening.
A large and appreciative audience
of ladies and gentlemen assembled at
the Court Tuesday evening to listen
to Hon. Thomas Wren and Francis G.
Newlands, the silver champions, dis
Gus the political issues of the day.
The meeting was called to order by
J. F. Cupid, and, on motion, II. A.
Comins was made President and D.
D. Jolley, Secretary.
Mr.. Wren was the first speaker and
told the story of the great fraud by
which silver was demonetized in 1873
and the efforts made since 1876 to have
it restored to it's former position as a
money metal. He reviewed the de-
pressing effects that have followed the
destruction of half the circulating me-
dunn of the country-how the farmer,
artisan and laborer as well as miner
suffered from the bGghting effects of
the minis being closed to silver Mr..
Wren at intervals grew eloquent on
his subject. He drew living picture
of how the great crime of 1873 had
almost depopulated our own State and
retarded the progress of all the min
ing States and Territories. Silence
now reigned where once the music of
the stamps was sounding in every little
hamlet; grim and dark were the fur
nances that once belched forth with
life and light dark, dismal and de-
caying were the towns and villages
which were once the scenes of life and
the homes of prosperous communities.
All this was brought about by con-
spiracy of the money power. We had
implored both the old parties for relief,
but they turned a deaf ear to our
pleading, and our only hope lay in the
Peoples party. Mr.. Wren's were
heartily applauded.
Francis G.. Newlands, the nominee
for Congress, was next INTRODUCED to
the audience and was greeted with
prolonged applause. Mr.. Newlands
is pleasant speaker and no man in
the country is better posted on the
silver question in all it's varying
phases. He has spent more of his
own time and money in the interest of
free coinage than any other man in
the United States. In conversational
way he went over the whole ground of
the work done by the friends of silver
to educate the people of the East on
the subject. He recounted the battles
fought in Congress and out of Con-
gress to restore the white metal to its
old-time prestige and how Senators
Stewart, Teller and Jones, by threat
ening to bolt the Mckinley bill in the
Senate, had wrung the present silver
purchase bill from an unwilling Con-
gress and President. Mr. Newlands
explained to his audience his motives
in changing from the Democratic to
Republican party and from the latter
to the People party. He said that
two men-President Harrison and
Grover Cleveland, backed by Wall
Street-had more influence on the two
old parties than the will of the people
as expressed in the Congressional cleo
ton two years ago. He was for
Weaver and Field and the battle for
silver would be fought in the electoral
college. Mr.. Newland's speech was
well received and called forth hearty
applause. The meeting adjourned
with three rousing cheers for Weaver
and Field, Wren, Newlands and Stew
art and the entire Peoples party
ticket, after which the boys did little
town painting on the side.