Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-09-12
Mr.. LOCkWOOd'S Currency Club.
SAYS HE Is A BETTER DEM
OCRAT THAN SILVER
DICK" BLAND.
How Champ Clark Gets Gold Litera-
ture Without q Stamp Attached
to Its Cover He Will Not
Be q BOlter.
Ernm The 81. Louis Post Dispatch.

Geo. r. Lockwood, Secretary o
"the st. Louis Democratic Sound I'll
rency Club" has returned from M
summer vacation in Virginia. MT
Lockwood takes good naturedly Int
discovery that the goldbug literar.
bureau which he conducts is located
in the law offices of Gen. John W.
Noble, who was Secretary OF the III
terror in Benjamin Harrison's force
bill cabinet. He parties this thrust
with the assertion that he is an IN
tense Democrat, ever if he has pee
intimately associated with Gen. Noble
for Is years. "More than that" said
he, with some show of feeling, 81 am
a better Democrat than Mr.. Bland, II
he is quoted correctly by the news
papers in the declaration that he VIII
not vote for The next presidential
nominee of the party if it be Mr.
Cleveland or anyone holding Mr.
Cleveland's financial views; for VIII
vote even for Mr.. Bland hirhseii II ne
should be nominated"
Mr.. Lockwood then discussed the
insinuation of ex-Congressman Champ
Clark that there was coilusion be-
tween the postal authorities and the
goldbug literary bureau in the dis
tribution of the bureaus literature.
HSuch an insinuation is unworthy of
Mr.. Clark declared Mr.. Lockwood,
as his face assumed a serious express
sion, ssand ! can scarcely believe that
he made it. Why, if there were any
foundation of fact for it, it would lay
Postmaster Carlisle liable to criminal
prosecution under the statutes. AS a
matter of fact, all the matter sent out
by this bureau goes at third class
rates, that is. 1 cent an n and in
envelopes that are unsealed. In other
words, every separate piece goes 1 n
its own envelope, properly stamped.
Our records show that only mt did
we send Mr.. Clark any literature.
That was on Aug. Il, and if my MEM
ory is not at fault, l believe the en-
velore that enclosed it carried a two
cent stamp, so bulky was it. Mr..
| Clark is one of the very small number
of free ~silverites whose names we
have on our mail lists. l included him
among the number because l 81 ad-
mire his talents that want to convert
him from the error of his ways. Mad
ison r. Smith of Pennington is an
other. | see he has written a card to
the Post Dispatch since the publica-
ton of his name among our list, de-
nying that he is a goldbug. know
he is not, but he is such a bright man
that | didn't believe he could stay
long with the silver crowd after he
commenced to read our literature, and
so | am sending it to him right
along
GLOW, then, do you suppose gold
bug literature gets into Champ Clark's
post office box ut Bowling Green with
out bearing the usual stamp" the re-
porter asked.
CHATS simple enough" replied Mr..
Lockwood. s'There is a publication
in New York called 'Sound Currency
/ called on the editor in New York the
other day and he told me that he was
trying to help us out here In Missouri
by sending his publication free to as
many addresses as he can get. That
publication goes az regular second
class matter, like newspapers and
other periodicals, and the postage is
paid on it in bulk at the office of en-
trance. | suspect that it is from this
source that Mr.. Clark is receiving his
unstamped sound money literature"
81 wish you would make it plain,'
continued Mr.. Lockwood, Ethat not
only are we in any sort of collision
with the postal authorities or any
other class of Federal officials, but
that we have not solicited or received
any sort of aid Or suggestion from
them in the conduct of our bureau.
We mail our matter just like any
other character of letters hat go out
of my law office, and Postmaster Car
Isle knows nothing more about it
than any other letters / drop in the
post-ofice or letter box on the streets.
When we send our matter in bulk to
our distributors we usually do so by
express.
"By-the-way, all those names which
the Post Dispatch published n not in
reality the names of our distributors.
Very few of them, in fact, are. We
made up the lists in the same manner
as business firms do-got the names
from directories, gazeteers, etc. The
list you saw represents a very small
proportion of Missouri Democrats who
get our literature. There are between
1900 and $1,000 to whom it is sent in
one way and another"
"Do you observe any immediate re-
suits from the operations of your lit
erary bureaus?"
"Oh, yes. Why, already two Dem
ocratic sound currency clubs have
been organized in Missouri-one a
Jefferson City and the other at Han
nibaI-and we have hardly begun
work yet. You see, our work il
strictly educational, and the process
is necessarily more or less slow. Oul
programme contemplates a very Wig
orous campaign from this time on
We must control the spring conven
ton, or we are lost, and at the same
time a very serious blow is dealt Il
the cause of honest money within the
Democratic party. You see, the Mis-
souri, convention for the election O
delegates to the next National Con
vention is set for such an early dat,
that it will perhaps antedate all other
in the country, and it will therefore
have a very great influence in shaping
the course of the Democratic Nationa
Convention of 1896 on the currency
l think that we will capture the sprini
convention in this State, and thus set
tie all the party differences in time t
present an unbroken front to tn
enemy in Missouri next year"
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