The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-17
WAS BRYAN APAID AGENT?
SEN1T0R I'll URSTON TELLS S FEN Il ron
 STEWART SOME PLAIN FACTS.

in the Employ of Silver Kings-The Charge Made by Great Newspaper and Never Refuted-Why Does the Boy Orator Remain silent?--It is His Duty to Speak Out-He is Convicted by His Own Silence.
 Omaha, Aug. 16.-Senator Thurston has sent to Senator Stewart of Nevada letter in which he says:
 'On return from recent campaign tour I found your open letter of Au- gust l, which you so kindly gave to the prSss of the country before awaiting it's receipt by me. In your letter you refer to the address delivered by me at the Chautauqua assembly at Madison, Wis, on July 31. You must have known when you penned your letter that did not make any charge against Hon. William J. Bryan of any kind what portions of an editorial published in the greatest democratic journal of the west, the Chicago Chronicle, on the lltu Ol lSiSl J uiy. GulLOIldl us TedQ by me is as follows:
 There was a time when the own CTS of the big bonanzas of the far west were glad to occupy by purchase seats in the United States senate. Sharon, Fair. Stanford aud Stewart gratif1ed their fancy in this direction until the novelty wore off, and then they depu- tized employees and attorneys to take their place and vote for protective tar ifs and free silver. Of late years, ow- ing to the encouragement that they have received from the republican par ty, which always does something for silver, when it passes a tariff bill, the proprietors of the big bonanzas have found 1t profitable to keep number of orators, lecturers and other spokesmen on the road preaching to the people, already limping as result of bites by the free silver currency, 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 payrolIs of the big bonanzas for number of Sears 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
 q did not directly or indirectly even express an opinion as to the truth or falsity of the charge thus clearly, ex- plicitly, unequivocally or editorially made by great democratic newspaper, reputable and responsible.
 T did say and still say that the man posing as the advocate of the down. trodden masses of his countrymen, holding crown of thorns in one hand and bugaboo, a cross of gold, in the other, owes 1t as a duty to every man, woman and child in this country to say whether the charge, thus publicly and deliberately made is false or true.
 Now, my dear senator. you must have known, and you did know, when you indited your open letter to me, that the charge was not mine; no, not even by adoption; that had not even expressed an opinion with regard to 1t and that I no more than fulfilled my duty as citizen ill insisting that Mr. Bryan should tell the American people whether or not the charge made by the Chicago Chronicle was true. One word from MT. 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 editorially made by the Chronicle, while the Chicago con- yention was still in session, was re- produced in many of the leading journ- ais of the country; it came to the atten- ton of MT. Bryan's own paper, the Omaha World Herald, of which he was at the time editor-in-c and the only reference made to 1t in that paper was on the 18th day of July when in it's editorial columns appeared the fol- lowing underline caption, "Tn Whose Pay?
 "The Chicago Chronicle wants MT 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 MT Bryan was asked on the first day of August to make such answer as he might desire to the ClrOn1cle'S CndTSes dS eau ny ilC GU Madison, Wis, and the press report is to the effect that MT. Bryan had noth- ing to say except that he would answer in due time and manner. In recent issue of the Chicago Post l find the statement that MT. Bryans stated sal ary from the silver miners or the silver league was S6000 per annum, paid to hin in monthly checks, which went thrg,ugh the Lincoln banks"
 Mir Thurston quotes an article in the Philadelphia Ledger, written by Major John M. Carson, which says that in 1892 when MT. Bryan was a candidate for reelection to congress from the First district of Nebraska, he was ma terially assisted in the expenses Of his campaign by donations from Denver, Col, which funds placed In the hands of the chairman of the congressional committee, Judge Brody, and which an- nounces that as a result MT. Bryan was elected by a majority of 140 votes and more than repaid during the fifty third congress the money expended in his be- half Continuing, Senator Thurston asserts that these are only few of the direct and positive charges of simi- lar kind which have appeared from time to time in the most reputable and responsible newspapers of the United States.
 He says: T would be the last man in