The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-08-15
The n. Y. Tribune has this to say about
the blacllguard Kearney:
DENNIS KEARNGY

DENNIS KEARNsY.
1t is not q matter of great public i'm
portance that Dennis Kearney, of-Cali-
fornia, is a brainless blackguard. With
some flashes Of wit which the average
truckman OF New York could have
matched or surpassed and with an un
intelligent use of epithets, Kearney
wasted one or two hours Of time for him
self and for an audience in Boston, with
out expressing a single idea-unless it be
that the workingmen of Massachusetts,
if they are to win at all, must. pool all
issues into a single pot" that is to say,
translating Kearney into English, must
care nothing for ideas, principles. or OBJ
jects, except to get power. Several par
ties have been started with the same aim.
Not one, up to this time, has been frank
enough to own that it cared for nothing
except success. If Mr.. Kearney can ''or-
ganize victory" for the men who have
neither thoughts nor purposes, he can do
new thing in politics. There are men
in this country who can give reason for
hating the accumulation Of capital in the
hands of those who have the sense to
save it. But Dennis Kearney is not one
| Of them There are men who can give
reason for believing that a bondholder
who draws interest is less worthy OF con-
sideration than a worker who makes
| something for human use. But Kearney
gives no reasons He merely gives ex-
preston to the blind and brutal hatred
of the men who have saved nothing for
the men nho have saved something. He
hates intensely, as they do. He reasons
not at all, and therein represents them
all the better.
What a picture it would make, if one
could only express to the eye the notions
OF Kearney and the ideas OF the Socialists
who have besieged Mr.. Hewitt's commit
tee Though Kearney had ample time,
and knew that he was to speak in
Faneuil Hall in the name of the working
men OF California, he was not able to
give, and did not try to give, any reason
for the faith that is in him. He hurled
all the epithets in the English language
st men who have any money, but said
not a word to justify the feeling of the
tramp toward the taxpayer. That the
tramp hates everybody who has any
property of any kind, was sufficiently
known without any speech from Mr.
Kearney. What excuse anybody who
is not a tramp ha, for hating anybody
who owns land, or railroad stock, or bank
stock, or bonds it does not seem conven-
lent to Mr. Kearney to explain; but he
gives vent to the hatred nevertheless,
and in the most coarse, vulgar, brutal
and unreasoning way. Precisely there is
the most ugly fact in all this business !;
the hatred exists, and is intense, and is
shared by millions of men better than
Kearney, and yet neither Kearney nor
any individual Of the millions has rea-
son for it which he dares to expose to
broad daylight
If any journal tries to tell Mr.. Kearney
and his admirers what is the matter with
them, there will certainly be great out
cry, and the daring journal will be named
as having been bribed by capitalists Yet
the obvious truth is that men who have
wasted their earnings in drinking beer,
or in any other way, envy the men who
have not wasted earnings. Apparently
Mr.. Kearney wastes more money IN
making foolish political speeches than in
drinking beer, but what does it matter
Apparently the beer drinker is a little
the wiser of the two The kernel OF
the matter with both is that somebody
has saved something, and is therefore
hated As to the Chinese, who are hated
bv men of the Kearney sort only less
than the bondholders, they are particu-
larlv distinguished for their economical
and thrifty disposition, and the only one
excuse Kearney gives for hating them is
lhat they are willing to live more eco
nomically than the persons styled 10y
by him white men But the world
will never owe to "hoodlums'' or black
guards as much as it owes to the patient,
enduring and thrifty children OF the
Flowery Kingdom.
On the whole, it would be a good thing
if this country could have more speeches
from men like Kearney. 1t would soon
learn to despise both the speeches and
the halfrascally, halfbrutal feelings to
which they appeal. But r$on like
Butler, appealing to the very same feel
ings, and using many Of the same cpl
thets, can still so put the "hoodium" un
der cover that there are decent men IN
Massachusetts who would like to make
him Governor.