Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-01-18
Open Letters
10 Anything
Wren's Scathing Review Of
NeVlandS.
A SHAM HERO EXPOSED.
Traitor Caught In the
Enemy's Camp.
NewIands Shows Gage How to
Kill Silver.
His Infarly Written and Signed
BY His Own Hand.
NewIands Shows Gage How to
Kill Silver.
His Infarly Written and Signed
BY His Own Hand.

No better reading can be found just
now by any citizen of Nevada than the
open letters of ex-Representat1ve Thos.
Wren to Representative Francis C.
Newlands, published before election,
and others hitherto unpublished, writ
ten since the election. They are
brought tog ether and published IN this
supplement- in order that they may
be read as one production. Seldom
has a public man allowed his mo
dinate ambition to betray him into such
a maze of grotesque f%ollies, and absurd
and ridiculous inconsistencies, as Mr..
Wren so gre phically describes and lays
at Newlands door; and seldom has it
been the fate of such a man to be
less a critic as Mr.. Wren.
The edge of these letters is their truth,
certified to by Mr.. Newlands himself.
They do not deal so much i'll the opinions
of Mr.. Wren as they do in the very
words of his miserable victim. They
convict the professed silver champion
by his own testimony, written down by
himself, that he is the merest mounte-
bank, whose intercourse with his tenant
and crony, Secretary Gage, the keeper
of the Presidents gold conscience, is
wholly at variance with his loud and
ELUSIVE professions to the people of
Nevada.
His letter to Mr.. Gage, reproduced in
part by Mr.. Wren, instructs that chief
priest of the gold worshipers how the
cause of silver coinage can be defeated
while appearing to the unwary to pre-
vail. He invites that official to CO.
operate in forming a conspiracy for that
purpose. Read it, and you will see
that this expression is not too strong.
In that letter he treacherously offers to
abandon the friends of free coinage and
aid in the scheme to deliver them into
the hands of the enemy.
He would combine with all the Ameri-
can republics on a measure to discourage
the production of silver from the mines
already discovered, by refusing coinage
to silver bullion except upon the pay
ment of such a government ~selgnorage
as would leave no inducement for the
producers to continue their labors. He
assures Mr.. Gage that the present mines
will all be worked u in five years. He
proposes a simpler remedy after that,
which is for all the silver-producing
countries, including the United States,
to withdraw all silver mines hereafter
discovered from sale or other grant, and
not allow them to be worked.
How simple. First, no coinage for
silver for five years, and, second, no sill
yer for coinage after that period. This
is n~ourishment for the cause of bimetal.
lism, compared with which the birthstone
treacle provided by Squeers for the boys
of his school in Dotheboy's Hall was a
gluttonous diet. How Newlands heart
must have bled for the cause of bimet.
allism while he was thus making him
self solid with Secretary Gage by his
iron-clad anti-silver proposition.
Other del:nquencies of Mr.. Newlands
are shown from the record. He has read
them, but makes no other reply than 6
whine because he is not allowed to dodge
silver votes il Washington and hob-not
and conspire with Gage against bimetal
lism without having it thrown in his face
here in Nevada. Poor Newlands Wrer
might we'll say to him, as Prince Henry
said to Falstaff under similar conditions
when his sham heroism was being pune
tured: "What trick, what device, wha
starting hole canst thou now find out t.