The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-08-20
LETTER FROM THURST0N
STEWART ASKED WHERE BRYAN
GOT THE CASH.
nryan's Paper states That Charges
VIII he Answered In Due
season.


Omaha, Aug. Ex-senator John NJ.
Thurston today handed to the Associated
Press for publication the following copy
of a letter which he mailed today TO
Senator Stewart of Nevada;
ITO the Hon. William Stewart, Editor
of the Silver Knight, Washington. ID. c.:
Sir.-On my return from recent cam
paign tour | find your open letter Of
August /. which you so kindly gave TO
the press of the country before awaitlng
its receipt In your letter you refer to
the address delivered by me at the Shau-
tauqua assembly at Madison. Wis, on
July 81. You must have known when YOU
penned your letter that | did not make
any charge against Hon. William J.
Bryan of any kind whatever; that | jid
nothing except to read portions Of an
editorial published in the greatest dem
ocratic journal of the west-the Chicago
Chronicle-on the 18th of last July. The
editorial read by me is as follows:
:" There was time when the owners OF
big bonanzas of the far west were glad
to occupy by purchase seats in the United
States senate Sharon. Stanford. Fair,
Jones, Stewart and others gratified their
ropc,, In tbis ,,oprar ,,ntil tha novattv
" ore ar and than the,, den,tivad attor-
news and other emn,oves to take their
r,aca ana vote for nrotects,,a tariffs and
free silver OF late years owing to the
| encoura cement that they have received
| from the republican marty. which always
| does something for silver when 1t passes
tariff bills, the propi1etors of the big bo-
nanzas have found IT profitable to keep
a large number of orators. lecturers and
other spolxesmen ON the road preaching
to the people already limping as a result
of bites by the free silver cur, the SOW
ereen remedy of applvine the hair of the
dog to the wound.
"Among the many who have thus been
employed and carried on the payrolls of
bie honanzas for number of wears. is
William 7 Rrvan of Nebraska. the pnid
a.ent aud spokesman for tho free al.
ve, combina He has NOT s,nca b,s retire
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rymen' hoidlng the crown Oh thor's
one manu- anu the pusdpoo' eross
gold, IN the other' owes II as duty =
every man, woman ana child III I'M
country to say whether that charse, thu
publicly and deliberately made, is fais
or true
Now, my dear senator, you must hav
known, and you did know, when you in
dicted your open letter to me, that th
charge was not true; no, not even b
adoption; that | had not even expresse
an opinion with respect TO it, and tina
no more than fulfilled my duty as
; citizen. insisting that Bryan should tie
the American people whether or not tn
charge made bv the Chicago Chronicl
was true one word from Brvan on III
1otb dav of last Tu,v would have set IN
n,,hlic .,gbt. ono word from him on an
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