The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1878-08-13

knock the bottom out Of hell. Laugh
ter What is the matter with tn,
country that the workingmen are aris
ing from the north 10 the south, frou
the west To the east. To do what? II,
take charge Of their own affairs
| ask you does ii not mean death &
the railroad robbcr? Applause. AND
does il not mean political oblivion tc
the raucorous, yillianous political bum
mers. [Applause.
kearney then alluded to the method
in which ihe meeting had been organ.
lied, AS contrasteds with the manner OF
the far West, where the chairman was
nominated 10y the people present, there
by depriving the shylockian yagabond,
who spends weeks with wet cloth
around his head studying a speech
with which TO psychologists his hear
ers; then on the following day schem-
ing and planning to rob the men he
addressed the previous evening. IAp-
plause and laughter. My fellow coun-
trymen, as representative OF the poor
working classes i appear before you to
night applause aud cries of goodt
with no classic language with which 90
fool my hearers lapplausel. believing
that the English language contains in
the neighborbood of sixty thousand
words. L am in possession Of a few
/ hundred OF those words, and use them,
my humble, plain, unyarnished words,
to extol virtue and condemn robbery.
Applause.
+ The speaker then paid his respects
l - hA IL
from the earliest days of printing had
been more in the interest Of cut
throats, political bilks, day light thieves
aud midnight assassins. Great app
plause and laughter. and cries Of Put
tlat in print. For tho reporters of
the press / have great respect. Laugh
ter They are workingmen like our
selves, working for bread and butter,
laughter but for the villainous, SER
pent-like. shiny imps of hell laughter
that own these newspapers, have the
utmost contempt-a vlllainous, thiev-
ing. infamous band of scallawags,
laughter that are aiming 20 control
public opinion. Ii the workingmen of
the United States possessed within
their breasts a single spark from which
the flame of freedom could be famed,
they would not permit such monsters
to live in their midst. They would
control the telegraph. They would
hurl these internal. lying scallawags
from power and select honest men TO
transmit the plain, unvarnished news.
Applause. / don't care, of course,
how l look. That is my business and
no body's else. Laughter and ap-
plause. As TO my ungrammatical SEN
fences aud ungrammatical speeches.
for $3.50 / can always hire man TO
write a grammatical speech, laughter
hut il takes millions to buy an honest
man, be he ever so ungrammatical.-
Applause. The country is run to
perdition by band of classic thieves
and legal pirates. Applause. What
the workingmen want Is common hon
esty and common sense-better guides
than classic attainments.
Kearney then read from the San
Francisco Chronicle q dispatch which
he attributed 10 the Associated Press
mot one word OF which was sent by the
Associated Press saying that kearney
looked like an average Irish working
man. To this he said that he was IN
American citizen. had been here 20
years, aud brought suit Of clothes
aud head full Of brains with him 10
help develop the country. He would
like TO see single American who had
brought so much. Great applause
and laughter. Here are other quota
tions: "In the train which brought
him there rode no despots or aristo-
Gratis. That was the only truth in the
a'sra,"h Laughter But in dim
smoking-caT, entertaining n dingy clay
pipe" That's lie | never smoked
tobacco or drank whisky in my life
Fellow citizens, | mention these facts
to impress the necessity OF ignoring
newspaper reports, aud particularly re-
ports sent by the Associated Press,
band Of pirates. Laughter aud APP
plause
Kearney then spoke Of the working
mems movement In California that
drove the Democratic thief and Repub-
lican robber out Of the State. We
were vigilant, active and energetic, al
lowed no one 10 address our meetings
but honest, hnrd-fsied men. APP
plause-"'that's good. We elected
To the constitutional convention poor
obscure artisans over the heads of
Senators ex-Goyernors. millionaires
aud bank smashers. Now | can say
what please in California, despite the
hell-hounds that infest it. i hope you
will profit 10y my advice, which is to
pool all your issues, put all your is
sues into one pot, [applause and on
next November you will be able to an
nounce victory for the honest working
men OF Massachusetts,. All in favor Of
pooling issues hold up their hands. -
Many hands were raised. All oppOs-
ed. No sign. Now, i hope no one
will state tomorrow this is not a unan-
imous meeting.
Kearney continued in this strain for
sometime, advising workingmen TO cut
loose from all parties as alike unrelia-
BILE and take charge of their own af-
fairs.
he concluded: "We have got pow
er 20 do with this Government as we
please. We propose to take advantage
Of that power aud use IL from this day
forth. l know the workingmen of
Massachusetts, will succeed. / walk
the earth at midday and | find a vast
expanse of blue heavens, unrelieved
by the sparkle OF single star, but
know that Mars still holds his course,
that Venus still wheels through space,
that Jupiter and Uranus are flashing
in the heavens, that the blazing belt OF
Orion and the bright aud guiding
CLEAN OF the North Star are still there.
And tbs thus with a movement OF this
kind. We know that the workingmen
are as true as the stars in heaven, aud
will. when called upon, exhibit them
power. Tremendous applause.