Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1901 — The Ranking Mason. [ARTICLE]

The Ranking Mason.

Congressman James D. Richardson of Tennessee is now the world’s ranking Free Mason, and as sovereign grand master he will receive a salary of >3,000 a year the remainder of his life and have a right to oocupy the official residence, “Holy House of the Temple,’’ in Washington. His position will give him a Masonic superiority over King Edward VII, of England, and President Diaz, of Mexico.