Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1890 — The Ladies Withdrew. [ARTICLE]

The Ladies Withdrew.

A correspondent from Monon writes as follows: “There have been two political conventions held in Monon recently. The first gave a special invitation to ladies,

I and besides a good representation of women as delegates, the ladies of Monon attended in large numbers and were treated with due coiurtesy. Last Wednesday our ladies had the rink beautifuHy decorated, in honor of the conven- . tion, and quite a number were out in theithe afternoon. One of the speakers, in a tirade against the republican party, chose to relate one of the most disgraceful stories . ever told .in public. Respectable men were shocked and most of the ladies quietly withdrew. Another speaker, who hoped the farmer might have good crops as ‘the more corn the mere whisky’ ©tc., was set down as having imbibed more whisky than was good for him. The saloon patronage was excellent all day.”— —Manticxdlo Herald. The statements in the above are undoubtedly true The incident of the dirty story and the withdrawal of the ladies was gleefully related in Rensselaer, the very evening after the 'convention, by certain democrats of this place, who were present when it occurred. The person who committed the offehbe against decency was Robert Gregory, of Monticello, himself a prominent candidate before the convention for the Democratic nomination for Congress. He is the same fellow who-caused the old soldiers who were gathered at the Remington fair on Old Soldiers’ Day, so much humiliatiffil by his unpatriotic and demagogic harangue on that occasion. It is but charity to believe that he had been indulging in his accustomed stimulent a little more freely than usual, on both these occasions.