Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1888 — A Socialist Recruiting Agent. [ARTICLE]

A Socialist Recruiting Agent.

A dispatch from Chattanooga, Tenn., says: “A man named Barnean, hailing from Fort Wayne, Ind., is in this city to get Socialist recruits to go to Chicago. He has succeeded in enlisting ten men, who have been furnished by the Socialist clubs of Chicago with railroad tickets and llfi in cash to go onto that city. Barneau claims to have been present at the Hay market riot, and save the Chicago Socialists are adding to their numbers recruits from all over the country. He leaves for Birmingham Monday, where he expects to obtain not less than twenty or thirty new men. He says there will be a terrible Socialist uprising in Chicago in less than ninety days-