Jackson County IA Archives News.....Disturbance at Methodist Church October 11, 1883
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Davenport Daily Democrat October 11, 1883
Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, October 11, 1883.

MAQUOKETA HAS A SENSATIONAL CHURCH ROW IN MEETING

The following dispatch appeared in the Davenport Daily Democrat, of Monday. 
Whoever furnished it to that paper seemed disposed to continue the statement 
to plain truths:

MAQUOKETA, IOWA, Oct. 8-A sensational church row occurred here Sunday night at 
the Republican Union prohibitory meeting composed of the Congregational and 
Methodist denominations. The meeting occurred at the Methodist church, which 
is quite a large one, and as it had had been announced at the morning services 
that the people would be told how to vote, the edifice was densely crowded. 
After the introduction of the pastor of the Congregational denomination, who 
delivered the address, H. W. McCarron, a former Republican, but now a strong 
prohibition Greenbacker, arose from his seat and asked the M. E. pastor if 
this was to be a meeting in the interest of temperance and Christianity or was 
it in the interests of the Republican party. The congregation hissed him, and 
the pastor called upon the deacons to put him out. He then turned upon the 
ministers and denounced them as hypocrites and unworthy of the name of 
Christians. The deacons then made a rush at him and attempted to drag him out. 
His daughter then called upon the congregation to hear her father, that he was 
right. His friends then made a rush to his rescue and a scuffle ensued. In the 
heat of the excitement noses were pulled and one deacon received a blow on the 
neck; but owing to his under position, he was unable to turn the other side to 
his assailants. McCarron freed himself from the deacons and cried that he was 
not a ruffian or a drunkard and did not wish to be treated as such. He was 
then allowed to depart quietly. Several old supporters of the M. E. church 
followed him out and did not return. When order was restored the meeting went 
on.


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