The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-17
RESULT OF AN OPEN LETTER
Thurston Is Placed in a Very
Large Hole.
ThurstOn Endeavors to Explain
What He Did Say and What He
Mennt-It Comes, However, as a
Deathbed Repentance-The Ameri-
can People the Only Judges of
Right from wrong.

OMAHA. Atsg Ex-senator Thurston
has sent TO Senator Stewart, of Nevada,
the following open letter:
ITO the Hon William NJ Stewart, Wash
ington, d. c.:
"Sir-On my return from recent cam
paign tour, l find your open letter Of
August !, which you so kindly gave 10 the
press of the country before awaiting its
receipt by me.
In your letter, you refer to the adj
1dress delivered by me al the Chautauqua
assembly at Madison. Wis. on July 81.
You must nave 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 ex-
cept tc read portions OF an editorial pub
lsne4 in a Democratic journal, The Chi
cago Chronicle. on the 1lth of last July.
The editorial as read by me, is as fol-
lows:
- There was a tine when the owners of
the big bonanzas of the far west we're
glad 10 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 deputZed
attorneys and other employees to take
their places and vote for protective tariffs
and free silver.
OI late years, OWING TO the encOGr-
agement that they have received from the
Republican party, which always does
something for silver, when it passes a.
tariff Bill, the proprietors of the big
bonanzas, have found il profitable to keep
a large number of orators, lecturers ana
CHER spokesman on the road preaching
80 the people,
ALREADY LINdPING,
as a result of hites 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 pay rolls
OF the big bonanzas for a number OF
years is William J. Bryan of Nebraska
The paid agent and spokesman for the
Tree silver combine he has been since his
retirement from congress. without any
other visible means Of support
L did not, directly or indirectly, even
express an opinion as TO the truth or fal-
slty of the charge thus clearly explicit
~, unequivoc2lly and editorially made by
a newspaper. reputable and responsible.
/ did 80 and still say, that the man
pCSing as the advocate of the down.
trodden masses of his countrymen, hold
ing a crown of thorns in one hand and
the bugaDoo, a cross of gold. in the other,
owes il as a duty to every man, woman
and child in this country to say whether
that charge. thus publicly and deliberately
made, is false or true. Now, my dear
senator. you must have known, and you
diQ knLW. when YOU indicated your open
letter &c me, that the charge was not
mine; no, not even by adoption; that
had not even expressed an opinion with
respect to it. and that I no more than
fulfilled my DUTY as citizen in insisting
kthat Mr.. Bryan should tell the American
Nbeople whether or not the charge made by
the Chicago 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 accomplished the
same purpose The charge thus
EpITORIALLY MADE BY THE CHRoN-
ICLE
while the Chicago convention was stiII in
session, was reproduced in many of the
leading journals of the country; it came
TO the attention of Mr. Bryans own
he was at the time observation-disclosures
the only reference ever MADE TO ii in that
paper was on the 18th of July.
when IN its editorial column ap-
peared the following under the caption
I'm. WHOSE PAY%
The Chicago Chronicle wants Mr..
Bryan to explain in whose pay he has
been since he was dropped out of con-
gT'eSs.-SiouH City Journal
g Mr.. Bryan did not drop out of con-
gI7Ss--ne stepped out-but he has been
IN ne e1onlny Of the W0rld-Herald, and
,n is generally conceded that he has fully
y. n4s salary
The press dispatches from Lincoln,
Men. SHOW lilaI Mr.. bryan was asked on
the first day Of August TO make such an
swer as he might desire to the charge
OF the Chronicle as read by me at Madi-
son, and the press report is to the effect
y7laf he would answer in due time and
ANOTHER.
I'm a recent issue OF the Chicago Post.
another prominent ard reputable Journal
/ find The statement that Mr.. Bryan
stated salary from the silver mine own
ers or the silver league was $1,000 per
year, paid to him in monthly checks,
which went through the Lincoln banks.
a recent issue of the PHILADELPHIA Ledger
written by Major John NJ. Carson, in
which that gentleman says that in 1892,
when Mr.. Bryan was a candidate for re-
election TO congress from the First dis
trict OF Nebraska, he was materially as
sisted in the expenses of his campaign by
donations from Denver. Colorado. which
funds he says were placed in the hands
of the chairman of the congressional
committee. Judge Broadly. and announces
that as a result Mr.. Bryan was elected
repaid during the Fifty-third congress
uhe money expended in his behalf
Continuing, Senator Thurston says
these are only a few of the direct and
epOsiaave charges of a similar kind which
Nave appeared from time to time in the
most reputable and responsible news
papers of the United States.
L would be the last man in the world
TO aSssEi the character of Mr.. Bryan. l
have not done SO in any instance or by
any word of mine. Mr. Bryan is the
candidate of a great party. Ii is not just
10 the American people that charges of
this kind should go unans wered. He is
the man, and the only man, who can
make definite and conclusive answer
Mr. Thurston suggests that Senator
Stewart turn his batteries upon those
reputable editors and newspapers maxi
ing the charges"
In conclusion. he says:
THE American people, however can
best Judge as to whether or not the con-
trlbutions for the circulation of silver
literature have been small If You viii sSab-
nit detailed account; and YOU say
that these NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to the
American Bimetaliic league and Ameri-
can Bimetallic union-for which you
stand aS sponsor. can account for all the
money received and the use made of il,
u hope you win not longer delay 10 pub