Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-06
AS VillainOus, Serpent-llke, Shiny Imps
Of Hell, Cut-ThrOats. Bilks, Daylight
Thieves and Midnight Assassins-
Ben Butler, the White
Plumed Navarro,
OF New England, is to get his Reward
from the LabOriDg Multitudes OF
Massachusetts. whom he Adj
Yises to Vote for the
WOrkingman.

BosToN, August 5.-Denns Kearaey was
| formally received at Fanuel hall, this even
! ing, by one of the largest audiences ever held
| within and around its walls. Not one-fourth
| OF the crowd could gain entrance, and dur
| ing the proceedings an overlooking meeting
of immense proportions was In progress In
| the square. The crowd was noisy, enthusi-
| astic, and reckless, but, withal, good-natured.
| Within the hall the heat was intense, and
| following the example of Kearney, the ma
| Jority of the audience were soon In their
| shirt-sleeves. T. G. Brophy called the
! meeting to order, and E. E. Chamberlain
| presided and made a speech He regarded
| the great gathering of laboring men as pre-
saying the overthrow of the power of capt.
talists, and said that the gubernatorial office
was within the grasp of the laboring men,
when some one cried out Butler" when
there was loud outburst and three cheers for
Butler were given with great enthusiasm.
The speaker was pleased at the demonstra
ton, and requested that the audience should
again cheer, and at the name of Butler louder
applause ensued. Concluding, the chairman
said: Though capitalists are hitting US now,
the time will soon come when we will hit
back with righteous vengeance" Dennis
Kearney was then presented and received
with uproarlous cheers.
KEARNEY's SPEECH.
Mr.. CHAIRMAN ["Three cheers and tiger
for Dennis Kearney' Mr.. Chairman and
fellow workingmen and women of Boston,
on behalf of the workingmen of the Pacific
coast thank you for this grand, enthusiastic
reception. In order to beat responsive to the
popular will and expression that went up
from this meeting tonight, when a certain
mans name was mentioned, | feel like
bringing message of greeting and love
to man who is lesser than Macbeth,
yet greater, to that fiery and incompatible
Rupert of debate Voice-Go on to that
chlvalrous and white plumed Navarro of the
rostrum, the gallant, gifted, glorious Butler.
Great applause and cries Of ''Say it again. -"
We bid him take heart and hope; he will re-
ceive the reward from the workingmen
of Massachusetts, he so justly merits for his
bold and out spoken action IN behalf of
downtrodden humanity. [Applause.l With
the remark ''it is getting hot, MIR. Chairman,
Kearney at this point took off bis coat and
lOosened his cravat amid loud cheers and
laughter. Continuing, he SAID: | am sorry,
friends, we are not rich enough to be able to
hire Beecher to knock the bottom out of hell.
Laughter What Is the matter with the
country that workingmen are arising from
north to south, from west to east, to
do what? To take charge of their own af
fairs. Applause. ask you [applausel
does it not mean death to the railroad robber
and to the lecherous, thieving bond-holder?
[Applause.l And does it not mean political
oblivion to the rancorous, villainous political
hummer? [Applause.l Kearney then al
luded to the method IN which the meeting
had been organized, and contrasted it
with the manner of the far west,
where the chairman was nominated by
the people present, thereby depriving the
with wet cloths around his head
studying a speech with which to psycholo-
gize his hearers. He then went on
the following day, scheming and
planning to rob the men he
addressed on the previous evening Applause
and laughter Ny fellow countrymen, as
the representative of the poor working classes
appear before you tonight Applause. Cries
of Good. y, with no classic language with
which to fool my hearers lapplausel, believing
the English language contains in the neigh
borhood Of sixty thousand words. | am in
possession of a few hundred of those words,
and use them by humble, plain, unvarnished
words to extol virtue and condemn robbery.
Applause. The speaker then paid his re-
spects to the press and Associated Press.
The newspapers, from the earliest days of
printing, have been more in earnest OF cut
threats, bilks, daylight thieves and midnight
assassins. Applause and laughter, and cries
of ''Put that in print!''l For the reporters
of the press have great respect; Laughter
for bread and butter laughter; but for the
vIllainous, serpent-like, shiny imps of hell
laughter that own these newspapers
| have the utynost contempt-a villainous,
thieving, Infamous band of scalawags laugh
ter that are aiming to control the working
men. If 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 nom
sense to live in their midst. They would
control these telegraphs. They would
hurl these internal, lying scalawags
from power, and select honest men to
transmit plain, unvarnished news. APP
plause.J l don't care, of course. how look;
that's my business, and nobodys else.
Laughter and applause.] AS to my un.
grammatical sentences and ungrammatical
speeches, for two dollars and half can
always hire a man to write grammatical
speech, but 1t takes millions to buy an honest
man, be he ever so ungrammatical. APP
plause The country is to be run to perdi-
ton by band Of classic thieves and legal pi-
rates. Applause. What workingmen want
is common honesty and common sense. These
are better guides than classic attachments.
Kearney then read from the San Francisco
Chronicle dispatch which he attributed to
the Associated Press, not one word of which
was sent by the Associated Press: ''Kearney
looks like an average Irish working mau."
had been here twenty years; brought suit
of clothes and head full of brains with him
to help develop the country; would like to
see single American who brought so much
great applause and laughterl. Other quota
tions: I'm the train which brought him here
rode no despotIc arlstocrats-that was only
truth in dispatch laughter; but in a dim
smoking car entertaining a dIngy clay pipe"
That's a lie; | never smoked tobacco or
drank whisky IN my life. Fellow-citizens, |
mention these facts to impress the necessity
of ignoring newspaper reports, and particu-
larly the reports sent by the Associated Press,
a band of pirates Laughter and applausel.
Kearney then spoke of the workingmen's
movement in California, that have run Dem
ocratic thieves and Republican robbers out
Of the State. We were vigilant active and
energetic. We allowed no one to address our
meetings but honest, hardiste men. APP
plause. That's good.'l We elected to the
constitutional convention poor, obscure arti-
sans over the heads of senators and ex-gov-
ernors, milhonaires and bank-smashers. Now
can say what L please in
California despite the hell
hounds that infest it. l hope
you viii profit by my advice, which is to pool
all your issues-put all your issues into one
pool lapplausel, and III next November you
will be able to announce victory for the
honest workngmen of Massachusetts. All
In favor OF pooling the issues hold up their
hands lall hands were rasedl; all opposed
lno sign. Now hope no one will state to-
morrow that this is not unanimous meet
ing. Kearney continued In this strain for
some time, advising workingmen to cut
loose from all parties as alike unre-
liable, and take charge of their own affairs.
He concluded: We have got the power to do
with this government as we please. We pro-