Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-05-01

The Kearney Workingmen's
State Central Committee met IN
San Francisco on Saturday night,
and had a very stormy session.
M. G. Baker, formerly of this city,
figured In the acrimonious discus
cussion. 1t seems that Kearney
had fixed up programme in the
Open Letter office by which lead.
ing members of the clubs, the
members of the committees and of
the conventions were made ineligi-
BILE to election as delegates to the
Constitutional Convention. The
proposition was hurriedly adopted
at the previous meeting, but on
Saturday night motion was made
to reconsider the vote. Knight
offered the motion, and in doing so
made a very spirited and bitter
attack upon Dennis Kearney,
charging him with C@sarism, and
intimating that he had sold out the
party. Linehan followed in the
same strain, and Baker insisted
that all secret matters should be
brought out. Kearney at last got
the floor.
Kearney-Mr. Redstone in the
Chair-I am surprised that so many
members tumble down who advo-
Gated the document last night. If
1000 men called on Linehan to-day
to protest against our action, they
are only q drop in the bucket. If
a man falls down SO easily, then l
will look on him hereafter with
suspicion. 1 want men who will
face the gallows. II the party
must die, it will not die in closet,
but at the sand lot. We want no
men who will sell Jesus Christ for
q glass of beer.
Linehan-I hope you don't in
clude me, in that.
Kearney-I have the floor.
Linehan insisted on having a
categorical answer, and advanced
menacingly towards Kearney
who, after resistance, said: mo, OF
course not.n
Baker--Is this the closet?
Kearney Cunning on Baker)-I
look on you too with suspicion.
You came to the State Convention
from Santa Clara county, and l
look on you as travelling nler-
chairman. All the trouble in the
world comes from shyster lawyers.
The idea of calling me an Ignorant
man! 1 can build, rig and navi-
gate ship, and have read history
since l was IL years old. l never
learned grammar and can't write a
newspaper article, and always get
somebody to do it for me. | aint
grammatical. Knight was left out
of the Open Letter because he was
the editor of that scurrillous sheet,
the Jolly Giant.
Knight-Never!
Kearney-You was!
Knight-It's falsehood; | only
wrote for it.
Kearney-Everybody knew you
were the editor. | have long sus-
pected you.
Knight only wrote some arti-
cles for it.
Kearney-I have long suspected
you.
Rooney-One reason why L sus-
pected Kearney was because he had
an interview with Stanford, and did
not account for it.
Kearney-Last evening Knight
said he Joined the party for emolu-
ments.
Knight-That is lie! Don't
tell stories about me, Mr.. Kearney.
Kearney-It is so.
Knight advancing and shaking
his fist)-Don't tell falsehoods.
disorder and confusion. What |
did say was, that when L entered
the movement / did so for its good,
but if it wanted to give me emoiu-
Kearney-Tain't so. More dis
order) Knight has been to the
country and thinks he is big
man, but he'll find out / can pull
him down id quick when he gets
back.
Knight-That's right! Pull him
down.
Kearney-This man (KuighD has
got q fat Office from greedy cor
morant who employs Chinese, Peter
Donahue. | knew it months ago
and asked him if he was trying to
break up the movement so that
Donahue could get cheap gas. Now
he is at the head of the Labor
Union, the new paper, and / will
swear to God that as long as Kear-
.ney can raise his voice he will kill
that paper and the men who run it.
Now, that man there, pointing to
McCabe) is an interloper, and Mr..
Marchabout said McCabe was crazy.
MISUNDERSTANDING, tell the
truth; Mr.. President, it is not so.
McCabe-This is the first time
you have tackled me, Kearney;
and when you do so, L want you 10
confige yourself to facts.
Marchabout-I never said it.
McCabe-You can't bulldoze me.
A long discussion ensued, during
which McCabe shook his fist at
Kearney and denounced him as a
liar. The controversy was over a
dispute in the Second Ward Club.
After it was finished Kearney said:
III will take this matter out to the
sand lots, and if the people DOM
sustain me l will resign. I don't
want an office, and 1 won't take
one. There is not a man at the
head Of this party in San Francis
co that L would vote for, and
if they have not got any more sta
bility than they have got brains,
then the quicker the party dies the
better. They have not got the
brazen audacity that / have to
push themselves forward. If I
cannot get votes / will lead men
down to the Pacific Mail Dock
some day when a steamer is com
ing in, and blow them and their
slaves to hell" He then attacked
Knight and was called TO order by
Rooney.
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