The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-08-22
= LETTER FROM THURST0N
STEWART ASKED WHERE BRYAN
GOT THE CASH.
arysa's Paper States That Charges
VIII BE Answered in Due
Season.

kANe-NeNeAN@@
Of a letter which he mailed today to
Senator Stewart OF Nevada:
ITO the Hon. William Stewart, Editor
oil the Silver knight. Washington, d. C.:
Sar.-On my return from a recent cam
paign tour, 1 find your open letter Of
August /, which you so kindly gave TO
she press of the country before awaiting
hts receipt. In your letter you refer to
tSse address delivered by me at the Chau-
sauQua assembly at Madison, Wis, on
July 81. You must have known when You
penned your letter that l did not make
any charge against Hon. William j.
Bryan of any kind whatever; that l did
Nothing except to read portions of an
editorial published in the greatest dem
soCatic journal of the west-the Chicago
shronicle-on the 18th of last July. The
editorial as read by me is as follows:
There was a time when the owners Of
big bonanzas of the far west were glad
DO occupy by purchase seats in the United
States senate. Sharon, Stanford, Fair,
Jones, Stewart and others gratified their
fancy in this manner until the novelty
wore off, and then they deputized attor-
seys and other employees to take their
place and vote for protective tariffs and
free silver. OF late years owing to the
encouragement that they have received
from the republican party. which always
does something for silver when it passes
tariff bills, the proprietors of the big bo-
zanzas have found it profitable to keep
a large number of orators, lecturers and
ether spokesman on the road preaching
to the people. already limping as a result
Of bites by the free silver cur, the SOW
Sse.gn remedy of applying the hair of the
sAcg to the wound.
Among the many who have thus been
employed and carried on the payrolls OF
big bonanzas for number of years, is
william J. Bryan, of Nebraska, the paid
agent and spokesman for the free sil-
yer combine. He has not since his retire
Eent from congress had any other visible
@eans of support
II did not directly or indirectly even,
express an opinion as to the truth or fall
sity of the charge thus clearly, explicitly,
nnequivocally and editorially made by a
sreat democratic newspaper, reputable
aad responsible. 1 did say, and L still
say, that a man posing as an advocate
of the down-trodden masses of his coun-
wymen. holding the crown of thoras in
enc hand and the bugaboo, a cross OF
gold. in the other, owes 1t a duty &c
every man, woman and child in TINS
country to say whether that charge, thus
publicly and deliberately made, is false
true
Now, my dear senator, you must have
known, and you did know, when you in
sicted your open letter to me, that the
charge was not true; no, not even by
adoption; that L had not even expressed
an opinion with respect to it, and tha
~ no more than fulfilled my duty as {
citizen, insisting that Bryan should tel
the American people whether or not the
charge made by the Chicago Chronicl,
was true. One word from Bryan on tn,
12th day of last July would have set tn,
public right; one word from him any
day since that time would have accomp
Ished the same purpose. The charg,
thus editorially made by the Chronicle
while the Chicago convention was still
Ia session, was reproduced in many o
the leading journals of the country; l
came to the attention of Mr.. Bryans owl
paper, the Omaha World Herald, of whicl
he was at the time managing editor, ant
the only reference made to it in tina
paper was on the 18th day of July, wheI
in its editorial column appeared the fol
Lowing:
The Chicago Chronicle wants Mr
Bryan to explain in whose pay he na
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 il
the employ of the World-H erald, and /
is generally conceded that he has full!
earned his salary
THE press dispatches from Lincoln
Neb., show that Bryan was asked oil
August l to make such answer as IN
might desire to the charge of the ChroR
icle as read by me at Madison, and thu
q press report is to the effect that Brydi
had nothing to say except that he would
answer in due time and manner.
I'm a recent issue of the Chicago Post
another prominent, responsible and -epu
table journal, find the statement tina
Bryan's stated salary from the mine own
ers or silver league was $1,000 per annum
paid to him in monthly checks, which
went through the Lincoln banks. 1 ais,
and in a recent issue of the Philadelphia;
Ledger an article by its well known cor
respondent, Major John NJ. Carson, a.
follows:
"a dispatch from Lincoln, Neb., an
nounces that Mr.. Bryan will answer b.
proxy the charge that he has been tn
paid representative of the silver mining
interests in his advocacy of free coinag
at 16 to /. 1t is to be hoped that thi
answer will be explicit and not evasive
Those familiar with Mr.. Bryan's ca
reer are aware that the contribution
from the silver miners to the expense o
his lectues began before his genera
ago. In 1892. when Bryan was a candi