Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1920 — Nickname That Stuck. [ARTICLE]

Nickname That Stuck.

On the 24th of October in 1835, a Rotons Democratic county convention was held in Tammany halt A reform faction got control of the convention and put their chairman in. The Tammany men left the hall and ent off the gas light. The . triumphant reformers supplied themselves with candles and a kind of sulphur match called ‘“locofoco,” and carried on their meeting by candle light The following morning the opposition, .newspapers ridiculed the affstr and nicknamed the reformers “Loco-focos." The name spread throughout |he country and was used to designate ' the entire Democratic party for several years.