Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-01-20
Open Letters
10 Anything
Wren'S Scathing Review Of
NGVlanQS.
A SHAM HERO EXPOSED.
Traitor Caught In the
Enemy's Camp.
NewIands Shows Gage How to
Kill Silver.
His Infamy Written and Signed
By His Own Hand.
NewIands Shows Gage How to
Kill Silver.
His Infamy 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 G..
Newlands, published before election,
and others hitherto unpublished, writ
since the election. They are
brought together and published in this
supplement in order that they may
be read as one production. Seldom
has a public man allowed his inor-
dinate ambition to betray him into such
a maze of grotesque ~follies, and absurd
and ridiculous inconsistencies, as Mr..
Wren so graphically describes and lays
at Newlands door; and seldom has it
been the fate of such a man to be
brought to task by so keen and merci-
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 in 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 tenan
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, i%nstructs 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 ~seignorage
as would leave no inducement for the
producers to continue their labors. He
assures Mr.. Gage that the present mines
will all be worked nj in five years. He
~~,~oeoc n ciV,-1or rat,a1y oftay 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 nourishment 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 q
e%luttonous 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 hi:
iron-clad anti-silver proposition.
Other delinquencies of Mr.. Newland:
are shown from the record. He has reat
them, but makes no other reply than
whine because he is not allowed to dodg,
silver votes in Washington and hob-nol
and conspire with Gage against bimetal
ism without having it thrown in His fac,
here in Nevada. Poor Newlands Wre1
might we'll say to him, as Prince Henri,
said to Falstaff under similar condition
when his sham heroism was being pune
tured: "What trick, what device, wha
starting hole canst thou now find out t