Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1905 — HOW WE MISS TOM. [ARTICLE]

HOW WE MISS TOM.

'iThe automobile craze was quite a tbng time reaching Rensselaer, but our people are now making up for lost time. There are now five of the “devil wagons” here and more are a-comin’_J What sport TomMcCoy would have were he in the swim here now, setting the pace for Rensselaer’s sporty ones, and driving a machine up and down the streets at its highest speed. And Tom would not be molested either for he has more than once turned Washington street into a race course and the city authorities merely smiled. It was “Tom,” and of course everything that he done, went. Bah, it would seem that some of the blank fools who used to float about on Tom’s coat-tails while he was working them to a finish, would feel like hiring a good, able-bodied man for about six weeks to elevate the seat of their pants up onto their shoulders. The Democrat is glad to be able to truthfully say that it never “toadied” to the McCoys, although a republican friend told the editor when he first came to Rensselaer that unless be did so he just as well get out of town.”He replied that if success depended on toadying to any person or gang, he would get out, but when he left we would walk. The friend and Tom have both gone, but The Democrat man is still here, and likely to remain until called hence.