The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-18
NAILED HIM.
BROOKS SEVERELY SCORED BY
ALLEN w. THURMAN.
Republican HoYyIer shown Up as
Man Devoid of Even Common De-
cency and Truth.

COLUMBUS. o., Sept. 17.-Hon. Allen
w. Thurman today addressed an open let
ter to j. T. Brooks. second vice-president
of the Pennsylvania railroad.
In a political address here this week.
Mr.. Brooks, who has forsaken the Demo-
cratic party. declared that the late eX-
Senator Allen G. Thurman was a gold
man. In this connection he referred 10
the attitude of Allen w. Thurman IN
favor OF the free coinage OF silver ana
said
Ii is in reply to this that Mr.. Thurman
writes as follows:
MIR. j. T. Brooks, Pittsburg, Pa:
Dear Sir-From what l have been told
and from the report l saw of your speech
here the other night you said, in speak
ing of the act of 1873 that you Appealed
from the younger to the elder Allen BY
this you no doubt intended TO convey the
idea to your audience that father knew
that the act of 1873 demonetized silver
Why did you thus indirectly state what
you must have known 10 be false II you
had taken the least trouble TO investigate!
IF you had taken the trouble to inves-
tigate you would have found that Judge
Thurman said In the senate: cannot
say what took place in the house, but
know when the bill was pending in the
senate, we thought it was merely
n
regulate coinage and fix up one thing and
another, and there is not single man
in the senate, l think, unless 4 member Of
the committee from which the bill came,
who had the slightest idea that there was
even squint toward decentralization
And if you had intended TO be honest
in your statement you would also have
referred 10 this statement and also 10
the speech made by him showing how in
q codifcation of the law without the
knowledge Of scarcely any one, the whole
viiainy was perpetrated.
THE further inference to be drawn
from such reference to Judge thurman
was, and you must have intended II as
such because you linked my name with
him, as if to draw 4 comparison between
the beliefs of father and son, that he was
in favor Of a gold standard. Again, II you
had examined not only the Congressional
Record. but the record of the monetary
conference of 1881, you would have seen
that such an insinuatlon
CANNOT BE TRUTHFULLY MADE.
In one short paragraph at the Brussels
conference, his works settle any contro-
Versy in This direction. He said: / be-
lieve that bimetailism will ultimately pre-
vail, for L cannot see how the vast Struc-
of modern industry and commerce, can
be supported on a gold basis alone. With
both metals, its base has often been found
too narrow, but with one, it would be,
10 my apprehension, pOSiliNtiy unsafe.
He lived nearly fifteen years after this
declaration and if l heard him refer TO it
once, I did so a hundred times, because,
as year by year, he saw the increasing de-
mand that was being made by the differ
ent countries upon gold alone, he clearly
saw and said his prediction must be Veri-
fed, or national, corporate and individual
bankruptcy would be almost universal.
After he had gone, however, you come
here among the people with whom he had
lived for several years and not directly,
but indirectly, try to make them believe
just the opposite of what every public and
private utterance he ever made showed
was his belief. There can be
NO MEANBR KIND OF DECEPTION
than for man who pretends to be a
public teacher. and especially when he is
proclaiming that only his side is honest
TO indirectly attempt TO impose upon his
audience as you must have done upon
yours. Any praise which you may have
bestowed upon Judge Thurman only makes
your deception more fragrant
ALLEN w. THURMAN"