Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-10-18
SEDUCINGTHE SOUTH
FAIRY STORIES REGARDING THE RE-
FORM CLUBS WORK.

Its Real Object Is Education and Not Cor
ruptlon Small Fund MaSnifled Into
DIiIIions-How 1t Spreads Information.
Influence and Scope.
We clip the following from The Jour
nal of Commerce and Commercial Bull
lctin of Sept. 3. This is tho leading
commercial journal of this country, and
it's statements show that tho Reform
Club, instead of having millions of dol
lars. which it is spending for corrupt
purposes, really has Il small fund which
it is spending for educational purposes.
1t is, i'll fact, experimenting the work
done by our schools and colleges-or
rather it is doing work that thoy should
havo done:
A Texas paper IS 1nanifesting great
distress over n corruption fund Of ST.
500, 900 said to have been raised by the
Chamber Of Commerce or tho Reform
Club, or each of them, for tho purposes
of fcducing tho south from its loyalty to
tho long suffering and down trodden
"white metal" This money. it repre-
sents, is being disburscd TO secure the
control Of newspapers and to buy votes
for sound money candidates for lcgisla-
lures and for congress.
This corruption fund ia n mere night
mare. 1t does not exist 1t is us baseless
rs the cargo of gold that Ernest Seyd
was declared, i'll ii Colorado affidavit,
to have brought from London and used
i'll bribing congressman to commit 1.-THE
crime of 1871" Children and savages
easily believe in fairies and spooks and
the supernatural in various manifesto
tions, but why will grown men, who
wish to he rcputcd intelligent and scusi-
bic, disgrace themselves by repeating
such nonsense?
Tho Reform Club has not yet succeeded
i'll raising $50, 900, and it has not spent
quite all ii has raised. All its disburso-
ments have been i'll support of its publ
cation office. except Il triflo that has de-
frayed the expenses of some public meet
ings Tho Chamber Of Commerce com
mittee has probably raised less money,
nnd its expenditures have been of the
same general character.
Tho Reform Club has bought or hired
bought or hired any southern politician.
The belief i'll the Reform Club is that
the southern silver mon arc honest but
misinformed, and that any attempt TO
influence them by money wouid 10 flu
tile and resented us IN insult. Tho
southern papers that are printing the
literature issued by the Reform Club arc
doing IL because they believe or their
rcaderS believe i'll sound money The
matter is supplied to them, and they
print it if they wish it, and it does not
cost them anything. But they arc not
paid to pint it.
The Reform Club has issued more
than 800, 900 copies of the 10 numbers
Of its regular publication, "Sound Cur
rcncy," in editions varying from 30, 900
to 800, 900, according TO tho adaptable
ity of the various numbers for popular
reading. 1t has supplied broadsides, "
which have been folded into country
newspapers and issued us supplements to
339 papers, having an aggregate circula-
iton of 2SS, 2lo, which gives an average
of 500. This is getting sound currency
literature into tho hands. of the farmers
i'll the back counties, who SEQ only one
newspaper and Ito not often get to pub
lie meetings. This is getting back of the
local boss or the leading politician to
tho sovereign voter himself OF these
papers geo are published i'll the southern
states, including Kansas in the south
western group, and these papers have I'M