Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1900 — The Meeting at McCoysburg. [ARTICLE]

The Meeting at McCoysburg.

There was, comparatively speaking, an enormous crowd at the Republican meeting at MoCoyaburg, Wednesday night. It was held in the school house, which was far too small to afford even standing room for all who were present. Speeches were made by E. H. Wolcott, J. E. Wilson, A. MoCoy and Hon. j Frank W. Collins, of Lincoln, Neb. | The latter is the same who made the afternoon speech in Rensselaer, that day. He, though still ] comparatively a young man, is one of the ablest, most comprehensive and most' convincing political orators now on the platform, i A lamentable and well as most j contemptible and dispicable feature, of the meeting at McCoysI burg, was the conduct of a jot of Bryanite hoodlums, of both sexes, and various ages, who presisted in interupting the meeting, by yells land cheers and idiotic laughter. Worst and meanest of al ! , they redoubled their exertions in this disgraceful line when Mr. McCoy i was speaking, and to 6uch an ex- j | tent that he was unable to con-! I tinue his remarks. J People who will treat ah old 1 man like Mr. McCoy in that mani ner, especially people right in the town which himself has founded and always treated with the greatest liberality, are too contempt-1 ! ably mean and base for any use. i | Finally Mr. Arnott, a school J teacher, arose and stated that if 1 ! the interruptions did not cease, he i would take down the names of the | Worst offenders and give them to the next grand jury. This had a salutary effect on the disturbers. Some of them ougnt to be arrested at once, and not unlikely they ! will be.