Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-09-05
CHAMP CLARK INDIGNANT.
Somebody Has Sent Him a Bunch OF
Sound Money Literature.


From the st. Louis Post Dispatch.
BOWLING GREEN, PIKE COUNTY,
Mo-, Aug. 2s.-Once, when Col. Geo.
w. Anderson was in the bloom
of his youthful beauty and before
he had become du fat in the tech
nicalities of the law, he was trying a
case up here in Pike county. Some
other lawyer filed a motion, the in
tent of which was to land Col. An
derson and his client outside the legal
breastworks. Anderson didn't know
what to do in the premises. The
Judge, who was a kind-hearted man,
observing young Anderson's perpiex-
ity, and thinking to help him out,
said:
"Mr. Anderson, are you taken by
surprise by hat motion?"
Anderson made a reply in a manner
calculated to cause Sir Edward Coke
and Sir William Blackstone to turn in
their collins. He said in his deepest
basso profundo: "Good God! Your
honor; am not only surprised; | am
utterly astounded!"
Now, | was in Col. Anderson's frame
of mind when in your to-day's issue
saw my name in what purports to be
a list of persons to whom gold bug
literature is being sem for distribution
by the "Sound Money Club" God save
the mark, of st. Louis.
First and last, l have received a
good deal of such stuff, but supposed
it was sent for the purpose of convert
ing me to the worship of the golden
calf. That was insult enough to a man
who was made an orphan in his own
| political household because he would
not bow the knee to Baal and betray
his constituents in Congress by vot-
ing to e~onfiscate half of their property.
But | never dreamed that any goldy
really thought he could convert me,
much less induce me to become parti-
ceps criminis in inducing people to
commit hari kari.
But for whatever purpose sent, the
stuff went promptly to the waste
basket.
By the way, this gold bug literature
manages in some mysterious manner
to get through the mails postage free,
At any rate, there's never a stamp on
any that comes to me. Neither is il
franked. Some month or six weeks
ago, 1 called the Postmaster's atten-
ton to it. He could neither explain il
| or tell who sent it.
However, as the gold bugs violated
the constitution in 1873 by surrepti-
tiously demonetizing silver, and evade
the letter while violating the spirit OF
the law by persistently refusing to ex-
ercise their option to pay the obliga.
tions to the Government in silver OF
gold for the benefit of the people, ]
suppose it is a natural and easy steI
for them to break another law by
sending their literature out without
the formality of paying postage
thereby increasing the gold bug deficit
in the Treasury by the amount OF
postage thus saved.
1t seems to me that Hon. Joe P,
Johnston, Post Office Inspector; Hon
VIM. H. Clopton, United States At
torney, and Hon. John E. Lynch,
United States Marshal, might render
the country a service by keeping at
least n eye on the mailing depart
ment of the "Sound Money Club of st.
Louis"
No, thank you! Pm not in the dis
tribution business just now, except
occasionally to distribute by word OF
mouth a genuine, jam-up sound money
| s~peech-that is one in favor of the
free and unlimited coinage OF silver
and gold at a ratio of 16 to 1.
There are two kinds of action for
SANDER in this state-civil and crimi-
nal. l shall Immediately invoke both
these against all persons, great and
small, connected with the Post Dis
patch unless this denial is given as
prominent a place in your columns as
was the original charge; and l will dc
1t anyway if you don't put your whole
corps of reporters to work to find out
how the gold bugs send their literature
through the mails, postage free, while
the rest of mankind, who have not the
Thanking privilege, Are compelled to
pay postage. CHAMP CLARK.