Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1900 — Ruffianism Denounced. [ARTICLE]

Ruffianism Denounced.

Resolutions with the Right Ring. By Hissouri Republican. The McKinley and Rojsevelt Club, of LaPlata, Mo., has adopted the fo’lowing resolutions: “We, the Republicans of LaPlata, Mo., in meeting assembled, bitterly resent and uncompromisingly denounce the dastardly and anti-American treatment and the oersoual insult offered to our respected and honored leader, koi. Theodore Roosevelt, by a band of Bryanites at Victor. Colo , at a recent Republican meeting at that town. Resolved. That we congratulate Gov. Roosevelt on his escape and manly utterance in regard to that shameful affair, and bid him godspeed in his future travels, and express the hope to him that he may not again meet with another such a ruffianly gang of hoodlums, who have disgraced the' treasured reputation of the American people for fairness political opponents.”