The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-09-11
KEARNEYZSH.

J Too much prominence has been given
Kearney, the communist, but it is well
that that the public should know who
he is, what he is doing, and how he is
| doing it. The following from the New
York Times, furnishes some idea of the
man, his aims and methods:
60 According to his own story. Kear-
ney had two thousand men secretly or
ganized and armed with bowie-knives
and reYOlvers, at the last California cleo
ton, ready to avenge any invasion of
the purity of the ballot. ie-knfves
and revolvers, and men wading knee
deep in gore are familiar to the imagin-
alton of this subsidized drayman, who
is continually passing around the hat
and urging the "horny-handed sons of
toil'' to contribute to the good cause.
And we of the East, who are supposed
to know nothing of the savage liberty
of the untamed Pacific States, are warn
ed that a man who dared to interrupt a
working mans meeting in California
would be taken out and hanged to the
nearest lamp-post. This, from a cham
pion who boasts of breaking up re-
spectacle citizens meeting, is a pretty
good example of what we may expect
when the only qualification demand. ed
daY laborers. IL is a fine thing for
working men" to drive out and scat
ter meeting of decent people. But.
somehow, this rule Cannot be worked
both ways, A free and Independent
citizen who asked for information at
the Newark assemblage the other night
was jumped upon and stamped as the
''liokspittle" of some political hummer.
" In that happy time, when men shall
fit themselves for the judicial Bench by
an apprenticeship at the cobbler's bench
and for the bar by practice in
Schwab's lager beer saloon, we
from the rich. The palmy days of
ancient Rome will come again, and
the headless trunk of the Secretary of
the Treasury will be thrown into the
TibeT. At least kearney says so; and
the same authority asserts that various
'tslimy imps of hell - ''infernal thieving
scoundrals, internal Yagabonds,"
'Iecherous bondsolders, ''hoary head
ed vampires, Washers and bloOd-suck-
ers, "5ummers and frauds of society,"
diverted f1unkies of hell, !" and other I'M
desirable people, will be driven into a
hot place which Mr.. KearneY contends
has not yet been desulphurized. This is
a rather cheerful view of the state of So
ciety which is to be organized for the |
benefit of the working men. In those |
days there are to be nc NEWSPAPERS. Ty- |
rants do not like newspapers. Men who |
object to the rule of the mob are to be !
hanged to lamp-pOsts. Indeed, in the /
programme laid down by the |
drayman Of San Francis !
co, lamp-posts largely figure. If any
man Offends the ruling power, away /
with him to a lamp-pOst! In that hap
py time employing men to build levees |
on the Mississippi River, by act of Con
gress, will prevent the spread of the yell
low fever; every man who works for a [
living in the sweat of his brow shall
have the right to take what he wants,
it belongs to him or another.
The preaching of this doctrine appears
to pay. 1t is popular, at least for sea-
son. And, while we believe that this /
particular mountebank viii play out his +
force, if left alone, we are bound to take !
notice of the sort of government which !
men like him would give us, if they had |
their way"