Show STEWART TO SHERMAN I I Gentleman from Nevada Speaks in I No Uncertain Tones Calls n I Spade u Spade WASHINGTON Aug 26 Senator Stewart Stew-art of Nevada yesterday afternoon gave I to the press a fivethousand word open letter let-ter to Senator Sherman as a reply to his recent speech opening the Ohio oampaign at Columbus K = accuses ssnennan with greatlj misrepresenting him and of quoting quot-ing garbled extracts from his Stewarts speech in the senate June 1 1874 By way of explanation Mr Stewart says he at j that time inadvertently used the term 1 gold for specie whib Wcus very common com-mon in those days I Senator Stewart quotes largely from his j i 1S74 speech to show that he was then advocating ad-vocating the coin standard of both gold I and silver Instead of advocating sold as reported by Senator Sherman Much space Is taken to snow by quotations from speeches message ctc that the demone tization of silvei in the mint act was secretly accomplished Senator Sherman Is challenged to point to a single word spoken in debate up to March 4 Ib75 when his Stewarts term expired that related to the demonetization of silver You knew what you were doing at the time No other senator has confessed that he did writes Senator Stewart He charges that the scheme was successful because the law came in the shape of a codification hill coming from the department depart-ment and by reason of tills fact Senator Sherman was able to cunningly mislead the senate With some warmth he says Senator Sherman left the senate every time he Stewart spoke to avoid debate In which Senator Sherman would be called upon t explain Instead of meeting me in the senate and debating the question in the usual way says Senator Stewart you go a thousand miles away and reiterate your falsehoods I have examined with care your various attempts to defend yourself against the charge that you demonetized silver The ony defense which you make is that you were not caught at it while whie the bill was pending and you lay all the blame upon me and other senators for that wicked legislation because we did not suspect that you were doing anything dif ferent from what you were pretending to do I you have any other defense for demonetizing de-monetizing silver when the silver dollar was worth 3 per cent more than the gold in the gold dollar the public undoubtedly wlll be glad to hear from you So far as I am concerned I know you have none I |