The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-08-17

pagn tour tlnd your open letter OF Au-
gust |. which you so kindly gave to the
press Of the country before awaiting Its
receipt by me.
In your letter you refer TO the address
delivered by me ut the Chautarqua As
sembly at Madison, Wis, on July 81.
You must have known when you pcnncd
your letter that ! did not make any
charge against Hon. William ]. Bryan
Of any kind whatever: that did nothing
except TO read portions OF an editorial
published In the Chicago Chronicle on
the llth OF last July. The editorial ns
read by me Is as follows:
There was time when the owners OF
the big bonnnzns OF the far west were
glad to occupy by purchase, seats in the
United States senate.
Sharon, Stanford. Fair, Jones. Stew
art and others gratitled their fancy In
this manner until the novelty wore or.
and then they deputiZed attorneys and
other employees to tuke their places, and
vote for protective tariffs and free sil-
yer.
"Otla.e years. owing to the encourage
ment that they have received from the
Republican party, which always does
something for silver when IL passes a
tariff bill, the proprietors OF the big bo-
ranZas have found It profitable to keep
a large number OF orators, lecturers and
other spokesmen on the rond, preaching
10 the people. already limping ns a re-
suit OF bites by the free silver cur, the
sovereign remedy OF applying the hair
OF the dos to the wound.
Among the many who have been thus
Employed and carried on the payrolls of
he biz bonanzas for number OF years.
tIotr 7 tl,-,.r. ~ n6r oh rNl,1
paid agent and spokesman for the free
silver combine has not since retirement
from Congress had any other visible
means OF support"
did not directly or indirectly even c0-
press an opinion as to the truth or falsi-
~ OF the charge thus clearly, explicitly.
unequ!vocally and ed!torially set forth
by great Democratic newspaper, repu-
table and responsible.
''--- ------- wIii IIe'say IT. -.
did say, and I still say. that the man
posing as an advocate OF downtrodden
masses Of his countrymen, holding q
crown OF thorns in one hand and the
bugaboo, a cross OF gold, In the other.
owes II as duty 10 every man, woman
end child In this country. to say whether
that charge. thus publicly and dellber-
a,ely made, Is false or true.
Now, my dear senator. you must have
known. and you did know, when you in
dited your open letter TO me, that the
charge was not mine: no, not even BY
adoption: that had not even expressed
an npinlon with respect to II. and that
no more than fulfilled my duty as n clti-
zen in Insisting that Mr.. Bryan should
tcll the American people whether or not
the charge made by the Chicago Chroni
cle was true. One word from Mr. Bryan
on the 18th day OF last July would have
set ,he 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 CHI
caEO Chronicle. whlIc<the Chicago con-
vcntion wns stiil In session, was repro
duced In many OF the leading journals
In the country; II came to the attention
o! MT. Bryan's own paper. the Omaha
WoTll-IIsraId, Of which he was at the
time managing editor. and the only re-
ference ever made to II In that paper
was on the 18th day OF July. when In its
editorial column appeared the following:
The Chicago ChroniCl: wants MIR.
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-
grCss--hc stepped out-Dut he has been
In the employ OF the World Herald and
Il II generally conceded that he has fully
earned HIS salary"
Hr. Thurston, after making the above
quotations, says that Mr.. Bryan was
asked August !. to make an answer to
The Chronicles charge.
But" adds he. MIR. Bryan had moth
inr to ray except that he would answer
In due time and manner"
Another Charge.
Mr. Thur3tOn then makes the state
mcNt that the Chicago Post, OF recent
date. had said "that Mr.. Bryan's stated
salary from the silver mine owners, or
IT, silver league, wns $1,000 per annum."
Continuing, the writer quotes from the
PhllaGclphia Ledger OF recent Issue as
follows:
Those familiar with Mr.. Bryan's
political career nre aware that COntribu-
u0ns from yilyer miners Ia the eHpsngc
n hIs lectures began before his general
StumpIng tour OF the country two years
ago" -H
The Ledger EOeH on 20 say that In his
CAMPAIGN In 1892 for reelection 10 Con-
rftss "he tBrynn) was materially INSIST
cH IN the CSprnscs Of the campaign by
donations from Denver"
Referring to Mr.. BryHB's campaign In
1896, when he ran for United Statcs SEN
ainr, the Ledger Is again quoted:
During his so-cnlled lecturirB tour
nIcf" lF no reasnn TO doubt that snlnry
and rrpensCH were met by those most
strongly and personally Interested In
.E'r coinage. There never has been any
Hghlal uI; wee, that SIR. Bryan was erl-
,lnr"d NJ a hx"d comprnsall llOn to preach
thr GOspcl or free coinage and the funds
nom which Tits compensation cnmc
%fEe In very large degree derived from
tEr iGlNc OwncrS."
Mr, Thurrion. continuing. snys he
would bc the last man In the world to
aEsal the character Of Mr.. Bryan. ana
alIt.
II "a not jus, 10 the American people
mat charges Of this kind should 80 m
aW|nrnd He is tho man and the only
man who ran make definite and cOncltl-
~" reply" He SuREeatB Tint Senator
stewart turn his batteries upon those
"im:nhlc editors and newspapers maxi
ITr The charges" md states his surnrlfc
h'S'uniOr Stewart and his "fcllow mlDo
,n,%ncrF" remaining silent and not pub
"fly lrEWCrlng tbc Chronicles charges.
h"hntor Thur6tOu mentions Stcwarts
Z thtemcnt that contributions for the cir
eu'dI!on OF silver literature have been