Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1900 — A Jasper County Journalists [ARTICLE]

A Jasper County Journalists

A number of years ago, away back in the 80’s, Leroy Armstrong, now of the Lafayette Journal, we believe, came down to Rensselaer from Chicago to write-up Jasper county for the Chicago Herald. Among the interesting curiosities of Rensselaer he mentioned the “editor” of the Barnacle, who was then posing as a democrat and collecting “campaign” funds wherever available! In referring to (ha Barnacle “editor” Armstrong, among other things, equally complimentary, said: One time Del Crampton, of the Delphi Times, met this editor in a democratic convention and stated in the ensuing number of his paper that his confrere had come to America in 1492 as a stowaway on the Santa Maria, and had been put ashore on Watkins’ Island by Columbus for not washing his feet. Crampton confessed at the time, however, that the Spanish court journals contained documentary evidence that the "editor’s” real offence was a refusal to run Queen Isabella’s name in small caps without extra compensation from tne ship’s storekeeper. The “feditor” is then said to have come West and settled in White county, whence be was driven by advancing civilization to the wilds of Jasper.