Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1894 — He Knew The General [ARTICLE]

He Knew The General

From his pulpit Sunday Rev LTadd. pastor of the Presbyterian church at Monticello, read the riot act to Gen. Coxey and his clans. “I knew this Coxey personally at Massillon, Ohio, the point at which this commonweal had its inception. He is a disgrace to his family, is disowned by his own father and brothers, is a gambler and a horse racer. And yet this charlatan, this vagrant, this libel upon mankind has the audacity to claim his infamous movement as a Christian uprising,”— Hammond News.

Yes and he was divorced from his wife on the grounds of his extreme cruelty. But he is a great populist leader, and their candidate for Congress from his dis-' trict, all the same.