Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-08-17

the French Chambers of Commerce. Tho Tours
Chamber Of Commerce was requested to exam
inc tho draft and give 40 expression OF oploion
upon it.
Kearney.
NEW YoR1, Aug 1.-THE Herald this
morning publishes az interview with hlr. H.
l.. Knight the secretary of the Kearney or
ganizaliou for California, in which he gives an
account OF The so called great agltatoF.
Kearney, bis associates 10 Sau Francisco say,
really raised tie "Kearoey movement out
there. lie gathered about him ooly the
rude and ienoraut" lie repealed decent and
intelligent people. The more cultivated DO,
manded that Kearncy should take back seat, -
says his associate, MIR. knight, but ne put
ignorance, bsrbarism and mob rule on top, and
the Intelligent and selfrespeoting fed away
from him, sud decent law abdi0g people look
cd On with horror" Meantime kearney
sought only Ito he The god of The sandot. =,
Mr.. Knight said the party never lntendcd
violence. They only desired by the ballot box
to get rid OF the Chinese, land and other mo.
nopulies by legislation. Knight says Koarney
has gone East with the reputation Ct being the
lion OF the worlineman party OF California.
lie is rather the donkey than ihe lion. His
shallow hombast about purity aud honesty IS
the mercst sham. lie is as base counterfeit
ca ever was nailed 10 COUNTER Ills whole
career ia the workingman' ! party has been one
Of abuse, profanity, empty Boosting, supers
tive egoism, inordnatc. ovarbaarng ambition,
and dishonest fuanoieiiug. Knight further
says the movement had hardly begun when
KeaTuey cast about TO see how he cDnld make
money ont Of il, lie soon i0uaG 3 Enay5 to
suit bis purpo5etho same Carl Browne, Oh
Carl McLoud-who is dow called his private
secretary. This fellow, who knows 10 rules OF
art or grammar. undertook to illustrate and
edit paper. kearney boosted of him as a
workinsmao, and used to show him up 10 the
saIdlot with u1kempt hair aud dirty face,
to prove that he Was honest. With this fellow
the open letter was begun. 10 teW days q
Joint stock publishing COMPANY Was tosned.
kearney WAS chief director, and Browne was he
board. They awarded | ,25O 0harea to them;
selves. Theu they sold stock. They had
public entertainments. Money that should
have Gamc to the party went TO the open let
ter. They kept no proper ACCOUNTS. made no
reports Of receipts or expenditures. Their
pancr wa3 q coutemptibIe and worthless rag.
This WAS tho aiul: hole OF al the money. 1t was
| disgrace to the party and to all connected
the county committee demanded reports and
explanations They resolved that tho paper
Of the party should make 40 honest showing.
Keaynnv and Browne We're resolved it should
not. kcarney had to explain or get rid OF the
committees. lie found it easiest to tenounse
The committees rs othcaa5eker5 10 delude his
ignorant followers, aud he did it, The open
letter scheme was fraud from beginning to
end for kearnoy' benefit. lie could not 1x.
plain. llo cannot now explain. He denounced
men whom hc knew to be honest to cover hla
own rasoality. The workingmen OF San Fran.
cisco were TO build temple. Sixteen thousand
two Lit tickets were to be sold to bulll it. 1t
was acknowledged that nearly three thousand
tickets were sold There was no temple. no
financial report, no explanation. The a)mmlt-
tees demanded an ocuount 90 this also, and it
was necessary for kearney to explain or get
them out of the way. Again the election was
coming. If the party followed the rules laid
| down neither kearney nor any other man
could pack the conventions or make peace
clubs. This did not suit Kearney. lie had
promised meu places Tic must get rid OF the
| committees. Better have faction in his own
| hands than victorious party, and no only one,
| and 80 he sIandered the bs5t and most lntolll'
| geGt men in the paper. lie appealed to the
Ignorant They listened 10 the impudent talsl.
| fer, and the blatant blalhersklte comes TO You
with this Endorsement. llo lost us the State
| Of California by his frauds, his talsehoods. and
| bis bad manners. lie comes to you not the
oorqucring lion his vain boasting pretends, but
the braying ass who bowls out his despair as
| though it were note OF triumph.
The Eighth Congressional District.
At the late meeting Of the conservatives at
| TW7man' Mill, Madison county, resolution
was passed iDstructng The CHAIR to appoint four
delegates and four alternates to represent that
| district 10 the Congressional convention. Said
| delegates were instructed First, to oppose the
nomination Of the present incumbent, the Hon.
Eppa Hunton "a, to support no man that is
| not in favor OF readju5ting the State debt.
At meeting Of the Fauquer conservative
committee, held last Saturday, the chairman
| was directed to issue credentials to the dele.
gates elected 10 Scott, Cedar Kun and Kappa.
hammock districts, and to those delegates elected
at Warrenton, 10 Centre district, by the meeting
| presided over by Isham Keith. AS there are
conflicting claims as TO delegates and district
committee men elected in Marshall district, a
sub committee of three, consisting of Col. VIM.
e, Gsskins, Maj T. T. Smith and E. d. Kin.
oheloe, was appointed to take evidence and
l'make report thereof to the next meeting OF the
county committee to assemble on the Goth inst.
! The sub committee agreed to meet at Salem
| to-day TO cslry out their instructions.
| The election for delegates to the Congressional
convention was held in Frederick county this
afternoon and vii be held 10 Winchester to-
night.
Society al Newport is agitatel by the re-
norted elopemept of Miss Sanford, of New
Haven, niece of Judge Sandtord, Of New York (,
| a beautiful! and ACCOMPLISHED girl, with Seth
Batcman Dodge, an adopted son Of the keeper
of q fashionable boarding house at Bateman' s
Point The couple left olandestlnely Thursday
J night