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Show GREAT SILVER ADVOCATE SUCCUMBS TO OPERATIOII Former Senator Stewart of Nevada, Coiner of Phrase "The Crime of 73," Dies at Age of 82. Washington Former United States Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada Ne-vada died at the Georgetown hospital hos-pital here on Friday, following an operation. The body will be taken to Nevada. Mr. Stewart was 82 years old, and had been a familiar figure in this city during the better part ol the last, half century. For thirty years, altogether, he represented Nevada Ne-vada in the senate, a lapse between 1875 and 1887 intervening to prevent a continuous service record from 1863 to 1905. Senator Stewart made many notable not-able speeches on the floor of the senate sen-ate in advocacy of silver, and his characterization of the demonetization demonetiza-tion of silver as "the crime of 73" is a marker in political history. After his retirement from congress he divided di-vided his time between Washington, where he had many interests during WILLIAM M. STEWART. Ex-Senator from Nevada. his life of fluctuating fortune, his farm in nearby Virginia and the west, where at his old home in Nevada, he had varied mining interests and experience. ex-perience. Mr. Stewart was the living incarnation incar-nation of Santa Claus, and on this account, ac-count, as well as on account of his kindly disposition, he appealed strongly strong-ly to the imagination of children. Probably no more picturesque or rugged rug-ged character was ever known to the senate. He was much in evidence around the senate chamber until within the last few weeks. Mr. Stewart was a native of New York, who went west in the early days of the California gold discoveries, discover-ies, and there wielded the pick and shovel as an every-day miner. Except in the first campaign of Bryan in 1896, when the silver issue was most prominent, Mr. Stewart was a Republican. He was, however, a man of independence, and often voted contrary to the wishes of the party caucus. He took a prominent part in the setting aside of the force bill of 1892, and he never failed to cast his vote in the interest of the white metal, met-al, whatever the attitude of his party on that subject. |