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published by men who were active in the movement, 

 such as Buchanan's Indianapolis Star, Noonan's 

 Industrial Age of Chicago, and Donnelly's Anti- 

 Monopolist of St. Paul, labored not without avail to 

 spread the gospel among their readers. The most 

 effective means of propaganda, however, was prob- 

 ably the Greenback Club. At a conference in 

 Detroit in August, 1875, "the organization of 

 Greenback Clubs in every State in the Union " was 

 recommended, and the work was carried on under 

 the leadership of Marcus M. Pomeroy. "Brick" 

 Pomeroy was a journalist, whose sobriquet resulted 

 from a series of Brickdust Sketches of prominent 

 Wisconsin men which he published in one of his 

 papers. As the editor of Brick Pomeroy' s Demo- 

 crat, a sensational paper published in New York, 

 he had gained considerable notoriety. In 1875, 

 after the failure of this enterprise he undertook to 

 retrieve his broken fortunes by editing a Greenback 

 paper in Chicago and by organizing Greenback 

 clubs for which this paper served as an organ. 

 Pomeroy also wrote and circulated a series of tracts 

 with such alluring titles as Hot Drops and Meat for 

 Men. Several thousand clubs were organized in 

 the Northwest during the next few years, princi- 

 pally in the rural regions, and the secrecy of their 



