The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-11-02
THE HON. TH0S. WREN.

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ter came to the conclusion many months
ago that any intelligeat and worthy
citizen of this State who would have tbs
courage to throw down the gauntlet to
Mr.. Newlands and enter the political
arena as candidate ior Congressional
honors, could have ..his unstinted4 SUPP
port. Such man, We think. hes been
found in the person Of the Hon. Thomas
Wren, a respected and courteous citizen
OF this commonwealth for more than
thirtyrfve years, who should for the
subjoined reasons receive the united
support of the miners, the farmers, and,
to be sweeping-of the people at large
who have long enough suffered from the
oppressive tactics pursued bya political
aristocracy. But apropos of Mr.. New
lands, no one would dispute bis claim
to being gentleman and scholar, but
it is asserted right here that he belongs
tothe class of aristocrats who possess
but very limited concern for the well
fare of the common people, who, in fact
consider themselves far above the. latter,
Instead of utilizing tha long recesses be-
tween congregational sessions in so-called
off-years to become acquainted with our
people and familarize himself with their
industrial status and their needs, Mr..
Newlands only stops off at Reno long
enough to have his arrival noted in the
papers and then continues ON to San
Francisco and his home, the Palace
Hotel. Only once he made some-
thing like . canvass through tho State
and that occurred six years ago, when
asa total stranger he submitted to the
tedious Inconvenience of speaking TO
audiences In the principal places. of the
several counties, more remote than
Washoe.
To-day it is fair to assue that over one
half Of the people of Nevada have never
seen him.' As to his investments in thiss
State, they fsll into utter insigni6canre
as compared with those made in WASH
ingtof where he is part owner Of several
street railroads, in addition to palatial
residence, or those in San Francisco,
where he is known to control fair share
of the real estate market. But, then
again, his money gave him that prerog-
alive OF free-horn American citizen.
To sum up, it has long since become an
apparent fact that Mr.. Newlan1s, at
best is only constructive resident of
this State, and then again for political
preferment exclusively.
How different with Mr.. Wren. AS
already mentioned he has been a con-
slant resident Of Nevada for over thirty
five years, which period discloses an
honorable as well as an active career
both as to business and to politics. He
is familiar figure everywhere. He has
invested more than 100000 in mines
situated in the counties of Lander, White
Pine, Eureka and Humboldt and is still
carrying on operations in q number Of
them. In the legislature Of 1875 as a
member from Eureka county he was on
record as favoring De Long for the
United States Senate against non-resi-
dent Sharon and hia millions.
The record Of the forty-fifth Congress
in which Mr.. Wren served, will substan-
tiate the fact that during the three ses-
sions of that Congress he was never alb
sent from his seat. He voted for free
coinage bill which was amended in the
Senate and returned as the Bland -Allo4
son bill, which was passed over the veto
of President Hayes-By the way Presi-
dent Mckinley, as member of the lower
house, voted for that measure in all its
stages. Mr.. Wren also advocated the
bill opening up the timer lands in Neva-
da and the other mining States and Ter
ritories to the miners, farmers and other
residents, and he enjoyed the glory of
introducing the first bill restricting
Chinese immigration ever passed by
Congress.
Finally in the fall of 1880 he took the
stump against J. &. Fair and w. E.
Sharon. opposing their candidacy for
the United States Senate purely on home
rule grounds.
Mr.. Wren is still actively engaged in
the legal profession, and up to the pre-
sent time is considered an authority as
to the Interpretation of some acknowl-
edgly instructive mining laws. The fore
going being undeniable truths, no rea-