The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-09-19
Some Fairy Stories Regarding the Reforms
EIuh'S Work.
THE SOUTHERN SILVER MEN HONEST.
Tho Real object H. Education and
Not Corruption-A Small sum Mag.
niiicd Into Millions How il
Spreads Information Influence
and Scope of the Work.

commercial journal of this country. and
Ats statements show that the Reform
Club instead of having millions of dol
lars, which it is spending for corrupt
purposes really has n small fund which
1t is spending for educational purposes
1t is, III fact, experimenting tho work
done by our schools and collcgcs--or
rather it is doing work that they should
have done:
a Texas paper is manifesting great
distress over corruption fund Of ST.
5OO,0 600 said to have been raised 10y the
Chamber of Commerce or the Reform
Club, or each Of them, for the purposes
OF seduCing the south from its loyalty to
the long suffering and down trodden
white metal" This money, it repre-
sents, is being disbursod 10 secure tho
control of newspapers and TO buy votes
for sound money candidates for legisla-
lures and fer congress.
This corruption fund is mere night
marc. 1t does not exist. 1t is as baSclcSS
as the cargo of gold that Ernest Scyd
was declared, i'll Il Colorado affidavit.
TO have brought from London and used
i'll bribing congressman to commit "tho
crime of 1873. Children and suvagcs
easily believe in fairics and spooks and
the supernatural III various manifesto
tons, bit why will grown men, who
wish TO be rcputed Intelligent and scnSi-
bic, disgrace themselves by repeating
such nonsense?
Tho Reform Club has not vet succeeded
IN raising 500, 600, and it has not spent
quite all it has raised All its disbursc-
ments have been III support of its publ
cation Office, except II tritlo that has de
irayed the expenses of some public meet
lngs The Chamber Of Commerce com
mittee has probably raised less money,
and its expenditures have been of the
same general character
Tho Reform Club has bought or hired
no southern paper. Much less has it
bought or hired any southern politician.
The belief iii the Reform Club is that
the southern silver men are honest, but
mlsinforined and that any attempt To
1niiuence them by money would be flu
Tile and resented rs IN insult. The
0outiiern papers that are printing the
literature issued 10y the Reform Club are
dong it because they believe or their
readers believe iii sound money. The
matter is supplied to them. and they
PRINT 1t II they wish it, and it does not
cost them anything. But they are not
paid TO print it,
The Reform Club has issued more
than /, 800, 600 copies Of the 9 numbers
OF its regular publicis;ion. Sound Cur
fency, IN editions varying from 80, coo
20 sou, 900, according TO the adaptabil-
lty OF the various numbers for popular
reading. It'haS supplied "brOadsides. -
which have been folded into country
newspnpeISand issued as supplements to
S39 papers. having auaggrcgate circula-
iton of 2SS, 2l0, which gives an average
OF 500 Dhis is getting sound currency
literature into the hands Of the farmers
IN the back counties, who see only one
newspaper and do not often get TO pub
Tic meetings. This is getting back of the
local boss or the leading politician to
the sovereign voter himself OF these
papers 22o are published III the southern
states, including Kansas in the south
WESTERN group. and these papers have nm
aggregate circu iation of 1853 900 and an
ayeragescircnlation OF al In the mid
die west and northwest these supplc-
ments are used by "a papers whose aver
age circulation is IA little more than
1000
Sound currency literature already set
and stercotyped, what is called plate"
matter, has been supplied to and used
very freely by 5o3 papers with On aver.
age circulation Off, 400 and an agerc-
gate circulation of 724, 1863, and of these
there are III the southeast and southwest
2o6 with an aggregate circulation Of
sol,VOo. y large supply Of cartoons
mas also been prepared and is being
freely used. The majority of the publ
cations Of the club have been illustrat
ed ana less than 81 third of them have
been OF that literary or statistical char
acter which'is supposed to be unaccept-
able to tho average man The publica-
tons, as whole, have been of q VIEW
popular character. Their numbers ale
6ulnmed up as follows:
Bound Currency series. zap oo0
Di oi,IAut' pages .....................lG;JO 600
Plate matter. pages . 5oo mn
teprlhS ana miscellaneous documents
through supply bureau. l25 COZ
Speeches Of Carlisle and othots nor i'm,
Guiding the much greater number
lately furnished at the cEprnso of
ether parties, ............. ao o0O
do'ai ..'.'...'..............t. a, lU7, ooO
Tho influence of thhss work ON the
public sentImentr of the south and west
is a1ready anIaroNt f'la 1;.. e