Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1881-09-20

they volunteer their aid TO the FundeI s
4 in piling up the taxes on the people of
Virginia TO pay n debt of which $l3, 200,
1000 bearing per cent. interest is unjust
land fraudulent.
+ The President liarrangued the club ut
great length. His speech, as usual, was
characterized by u total ignorance of the
n subjects attempted to be explained. He
stated that Gen. Malone was elected
70 the Senate by the Democrats, (mcan-
Ting the Funders,) What is the truth :
&Gen. Malone did not receive single
Funder vote, democrats as the Prcsl-
3dent wrongly styled them.)
d General Malone was elected by the
NReadiusters in the Legislature; every
AFunder casting his vote for Col. With
Ncrs or some other Funder; and before
#vOting for Withers every Funder in the
yLegislature, with the exception of cigh-
}tccn, had agreed to vote for w. c. Wick
Cham, the stalwart Republican, for the
NUnitcd States Senate.
II This is u sad commentary OH the poll
Hey of penning frcemcn once week
Mwitlin the narrow walls of Funder Club
Rhouscs, to be drilled by Ignorant or I'M.
Ncandid speakers. The Presidents com.
Hments on the Riddlebcrgcr bill display
Ned equal ignorance.
y 1t was believed that the sentiment
8''votc for your ticket without regard tC
Nits past record" promulgated by tn,
,aRcv. Five Per Cent, the leader and
Afdndcr Of the club, and received by his
$club with applause, would be ms mucl
Has the club could bear, but the bottom
Twas not reached till the meeting of the
6Club Thursday night. At this meeting,
Nan eyewitness repeats that resolution
WAS offered and unanimously adopted by
athe club, to have the forged Blair letters
Unpublished In the Bristol News, as an ai.
advertisement, from that time to the day
NOT election, the expenses to he paid by
|2the Club. The resolution was received
3and passed with applause. II this state
Nment was not vOuched for by gentle
Egman who was present, would not be-
&lieve It.
n Can II be possible that no member OF
|fthis club knew that the Blair letters arr
#base and hastardly forgeries, and thai
Hthey had been proven such by the sol
#emn denial Of Capt. Blair, supported by
the oaths of twelve gentlemen, as hon
Horable rs any in Virginia, that one OF
1.-The gentlemen who made oath to The
|Sforgery was ID. A. st. Clair, Fundcr
3who had set up and printed advertise
Nments written in Capt. Blair's own hand
the past fifteen years, and that til,
GCashiers (both Funders) of the tive
thanks of Wythevillc, have said tha
'Rlthey would not honor u check of Capt
n Blair's II In the hand writing of thu
NfOrged letters. Did not this club know
ltl,at Jno. W. Daniel and Geo. ID. Wise
|Nthc would be Ferret. made public Use Of
3these forged letters all the way from BIZ
z Lick to Wythcville, and at Wythevill'
4 lon the 18th, and that after the proof o
the forgery was made at Wythevllle OF
a the 18th they never limited the "Blai
Netters" In their speeches at Tazcwcl
nc. II. on the nth. Now, il this clul
Nknew that these letters were forgcrics
it, resolutions passed by reclamation an,
with applause, will place the club II
b7public estimation in equal guilt with thu
Mi0rger himself. lf they were iSnoran
Eof the proof of forgery, they shoul'
Ehide their heads from public view IL
livery shame. The uttcrcr of Il counter
Efeit, L. u cOuntcrler.
III Even the Abingdon Standard, whicl
Eloadcd itself with the false and Islander
Nous report Of Lancaster, concealed itScl
Mm L. :. mail bag, and took free rid
taat Uncle Sans expense for the purpos
Hof bushwhacking Jno. +. Lewis, wa
AnOt 50 lost to all sense Of shame, as I,
Hpublish these forged letters, after the.
Hwcrc proven torgerics, and the last is
Esuc Of the Standard was on the yer.
day the club passed Its resolutions.
~ Of course the Ncr3 will not publisI
@thcsc letters, it, editor is too HONORABLE
a man to publish IN his paper prove
Nforgcrics for pay. REApJrSrER.