Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-01-16
Newlands and the People.

NeWlandS and the People.
Newlands is afraid that the people do
not know what they want. The people
he has pretended to affiliate with and
torepresent are the advocates of the
free coinage of gold and silver. The
main body of these people spoke through
the silver state convention. They said
they wanted Stewart for Senator. They
told Newlands that he must support
Stewart for the Senate, and Newlands
said he would do it. The convention
told Newlands that they would favor him
for reelection to the lower House as a
free coinage man. This was after he had
nosed around among them as much as
see whether they would tolerate his de-
sire for Stewards seat. Finding that
nobody was for him for the SEN
ate, he devoted himself to making
his electipn to Congress a sure thing by
ploughing with the opposition. He
could not afford to be the nominee of
the gold faction in the state with which
he has close business. interests, but
through these interests he contrived to
prevent a Republican nomination for
congress. The Democratic party made
no nomination because its objects were
the same as those of the Silver party.
Mr.. Wren, the candidate of the Populist
party, and, of course, a silver man,
alone opposed his election. With the
united support of the Silver party, the
Democratic party and the Republican
party, of course Newland's election was
assured. If he had announced during
the campaign hat he would be a candi-
date for the Senate, or that he would in
any manner endeavor to interfere with
the reelection of Senator Stewart, Mr..
Wren would have been triumphantly
elected, because he would have re-
Ceived the votes of the genuine silver
men of the state.
Mr.. Newlands had not then discovered
that there was any demand for him for
the Senate. The mel who are now his
noisiest champions were then in favor
of anything to beat Stewart, but New
lands was for Stewart. Of course he
was. He said he was. He protested he
was. He hoped to die if he was not.
How dare anybody say he was not for
Stewart? Did men think he was a liar
and a common knave to be for Stewart
in public and against him in private?
He remained for Stewart until Stewards
supporters for the fourth time elected
him to Congress, and still ostensably he
stayed for Stewart. Was he afraid to
show his hand in the presence of
the people? When did he make up his
mind not to be for Stewart? Was he
hungering and thirsting for Stewards
election until he struck Winnie
mucca? Did the fellows who were for
anything to beat Stewart know what he
would say when he got to Winnemucca?
Did they try to brace him up before he
started for Washington to make him de-
clare himself a candidate? Who doubts
this? How did he know so much more
when he got to Winnenucca about what
the people wanted han he had found
out during the whole campaign? What
great light struck him at Winnemucca?
Everybody knows he experienced no
change at all at Winnemucca. They
know that he had not had the necessary
amount of nerve to openly attempt to
admit the betrayal of the people until
his back was turned upon them and he
was in full fight for Washington. He had
been the "anything to beat Stewart
from the beginning. He and his crew
1abored for the defeat of silver men and
for the election of Republicans to the
legislature wherever it was thought it
would be possible to secure a Legislative
vote for Newlands. Never in the history
of American politics has any man claim
ing respectability descended t. such
t~reachery and baseness as Newlands
has. We do not believe there is a com
munity or a camp in this state in which
a member of the legislature can hold up
his head after voting for Newlands for
the Senate under the circumstance
tr%uthfully narrated above.