Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1904 — TOM McCOY’S RESIGNATION. [ARTICLE]

TOM McCOY’S RESIGNATION.

White County Democrat: It is rumored that Thomas J. McCoy will soon tender his resignation as a member of the Republican State Central Committee. Owing to circumstances over which he at present has no control Tom's enjoyment of his political distinction as a party leader is somewhat shaded, and he is inclined to seek some secluded spot to meditate over his sins of commission, omission and remission. The do say that Tom McCoy has resigned as chairman of the Tenth District Republican committee. Surely the politicians will not force Tom to quit simply because he swindled people out of many thousand dollars? Besides it has been but a few months you well know since these same politicinns and the press of the district were assuring the people that no one could attend to the job of chairman as well as Tom had done. Guess they were right, too, as it will be hard to find another man who will tap the deposits of customers of a bank for funds to run the Republican campaign. In view of this fact surely Tom should not be forced to resign merely because his victims threaten to attempt to send him to the penitentiary.—Lake County News. Warren Review: “The McCoys whose bank closure for liquidation was in fact, an awful failure, it is said, were very liberal and philanthropic. They gave publicly to the poor. They used to give banquets to the teachers and take them to the theatres in ' a body. It has been their custom to give the widowed families of Rensselaer Christmas turkeys. The poorer people who had any money entrusted it to the McCoys because they were generous to the poor. It has long been a common practice of men who were skinning the people to pose as philanthropists, and, making the people accept them as such, skin them the deeper, and with the less difficulty. ()ur great and glorious country is being dotted today with fine library buildings and great pipe organs out of funds that have peen obtained by unfair means, which the music made by these instruments might well be termed as miseries.