The herald., 1896-08-17
ORATOR IYURST)N
WRITES 4 LETTER
In Answer to Stewart's
Message
AADE NO CHARGES AGAINST BRYAN
Expressed No Opinion as to
Others Charges
ONLY ASKED INFORMATION
Regarding Truth of Assertions Made By
the Democratic Editors
Stewart Advised to Train His Guns Upoa
the Authors
A SkriiulIy Sarcastic Letter In Which the
Opportunity Is Grasped to Maks
Right Appear to Be Dread.
fully Wrong
Regarding Truth of Assertions Made BY
the Democratic Editors
Stewart Advised to Train His Guns Upoa
the Authors
A SkiiiiulIy Sarcastic Letter In Which the
Opportunity Is Grasped to Maks
Right Appear to Be Dread.
fully Wrong
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
OMAHA Neb., Aug. Ex-senator John
NJ. Thurston today handed the Associa-
ted Press for publication the following
copy of a letter which he mailed today
to Senator Stewart of Nevada:
TO Hon. William NJ. Stewart, Editor Of
the Silver Knight, Washington, D. c.:
Sir: On return from the recent cam
pagn tour I find your open letter of
August 1, (which you so kindly gave to
the press of the country before waiting
it's receipt by me.
In your letter you refer to the address
delivered by me at the Chautauqua as
sembly at Madison, Wisconsin. on July
81. You must have known when you
penned your letter that 1 did not make
any charge against Hon. William J.
Bryan of any kind whatever; that did
nothing except to read portions of an
editorial published in the greatest
Democratic Journal of the west, the
Chicago Chronicle, on the 18th of July
last. The editorial as read by me is as
follows:
There was time when.the owners of
the big bonanzas Of the far west were
glad to occupy by purchase seats in the
United States senate.
Sharon, Stanford, Fair, Jones, Stew
art and others gratified their fancy in
| this manner until the novelty wore off
and then they deputized attorneys and
other employees to take their places and
vote for protective tariffs and free silver.
'Of late years, owing to the encour-
agement that they have received from
the Republinac party which always
does something for silver when it
passes tariff bill, the proprietors of the
big bonanzas have found 1t profitable
to keep large number of orators, lee
turers and other spokesman on the road
preaching to the people, already limp.
ing as a result of bites by the free silver
cur, the sovereign remedy Of applying
the hair of the dog to the wound.
Among the many who have been thus
employed and carried on the payrolls Of
the big bonanzas for number of years
is William J. Bryan Of Nebraska, the
paid agent and spokesman for the free
silver combine. He has not, since his
retirement from congress- had any
other visible means of support
1 did not, directly or Indirectly, even
express an opinion as to the truth or
falsity of the charge thus clearly,
explicitly, unequivocally and editorial
ly made by great Democratic news
paper reputable and responsible did
say and l still say, that the man posing
as the advocate of the down -trodden
masses of his countrymen, holding q
crown of thorns in one hand and the
bugaboo, cross of gold, in the other.
owes it as duty to every man, woman
and child in this country, to say whether
that charge, thus publicly and deliber-
ately made, is false or true"
Now, my dear senator, you-must have
known, and you did know, when you in
dicted your open letter to me. that the
charge was not mine: no, not reven by
adoption; that hadnot even expressed
an opinion with respect to it, and that
no more than fulfilled. my duty as cit
izen in insisting that Mr.. Bryan should
tell the American people whether or not
the charge made by tie Chronicle was
true. One word from Mr. Bryan on the
18th day of last July would have set the
public right; one word from him on any
day since that time would have accom-.
plshed the same purpose. The charge
thus editorially made by the Chronicle,
While the Chicago convention was still
in session, was reproduced in many OF
the leading journals of the country; it
came TO the attention of Mr.. Bryan's
own paper, the Omaha World Herald.
of which he was at the time managing
editor and the only reference made to
it i'll that paper was on the 18th day OF
July, when, in it's editorial columns, ap-
peared the following:
1.-The Chicago Chronicle wants Mr..
Bryan to explain in whose pay he has
been since he dropped out of congress. =
Sioux City Journal.
Mr.. Bryan did not drop out of con-
gress--he stepped out-but he has been
in the employ of the World Herald. and
it is generally conceded that he has fully
earned his salary
The press dispatches from Lincoln,
Neb., show that Mr.. Bryan was asked
on the 1st day of August to make such
answer as he might desire to the charge
of the Chronicle as read by me at Mad
ison, and the press report is to the effect
that Mr.. Bryan had nothing to say ex-
cept that he would answer in due time
and manner.
''In recent issue of the Chicago Post,
another prominent, responsible and
reputable journal. / find the statement
that Mr.. Bryan's stated salary from the