Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-08-08
A GREENBAOK SPEECH BY AN
EMINENT GREHNBAOKER.


+ BOSTON, August 5-Dennis Kear.
ney spoke this evening in Faneuil
Hall to one of the largest gatherings
ever held there. No one quarter OF
the crowd could gain admittance and
noisy and enthusiastic but good
natured overflow meeting was held
IN the Common. T. c. Brophy call
ed the meeting to order e M.
Chamberlain was made President
and addressed the meeting. He said
the iaboring men might obtain the
Governorsbip. Cries of SHUTTER"
and loud outburst Of cheers. which
were repeated still more when The
speaker repeated Buffers name. I He
said the capitalists are hitting us
now but tho time will come when
we will hit hack with tremendous
vengence. He then introduced Dem
mis- Kearney. [Uprorous cheering I
Kearney expressed gratitude for
the enthusiasm of this vast assem-
blage, and it's reception of the name
of Butler, to whom he paid hearty
compliment as bold orator of down
trodden humanity. Here he took off
his coat and loosened his cravat, and
regretted the workingmen were not
able to hire Beecher to knock the
bottom out of hell this weather.
What meant this universal working
mems rising? 1t meant they were
to manage their own affairs. 1t
meant death to railroad robbery and
lecherous, thieving BODYBUILDING, and
political oblivion to the rancorous
political hummer. He appeared as
the workingmen's representative, to
use plain English language. and not
attempt to fool the people with elias.
sic words. The speaker then paid
his respects to the press, and said
from the earliest days the printing
press has boon more in the interest
of cutthroats, political bilks, daylight
thieves and midnight assassins.
EGreat applause and laughter and
cries, "put that in print."] For the
reporters of the press l have great
respect. They are workingmen like
ourselves. working for bread and But
lcr. GGreat laughter.1 But the vii
famous serpents, like shiny imps of
hell, Qaughterl that own these pa.
pers have the utmost contempt for
"a villainious, thieving band of scalI-
awags (laughter) that are aiming
to control public opinion. If the
workingmen of the United States
possessed within their breasts q sim
gle spark from which fame of free
dom could be famed they would not
permit such monsters to live in their
midst. They would control these
telegrapbs. They would hurl these
informal scallawags from power and
select honest men to transmit the
plain unvarnished news. [Applause]
Kearney then read from the San
Francisco Chronicle o dispatch which
he attributed to tho Associated press
not one word of which was sent by
the Associated Press. Kearney looks
like an average Irish workingman.
To this he said he was an American
citizen had been here twenty years
and brought suit of clothes and
head full of brains with him to help
develop the country. He would like
to see single American who bro't
so much. Great applause and laugh.
ter. 1Other quotations: 'in the train
which brougha him here rode no
despotic aristocrats." That was the
only truth in the dispatch. Laugh
ter. "But in a dim smoking car
entertaining dingy clay pipe"
That's lie never smoked tobacco
or drank whiskey in my life. 1 don't
care how l look that's my business
and nobody else's Laughter and
applause. As to my ungrammati-
cal sentences and speeches, for $3.50
| can always hire man to write
grammatical speech. daughter. !
But it takes millions to buy an hon.
est man, be he ever 40 ungrammati.
cal. [Applause The country is
run to perdition by band of classic
thieves and legal pirates. Applause
What workingmen want is common
honesty and common sense, better
guides than classic attainments. Eel.
low citizsns [ mention these facts TO
impress the necessity ofignoring the
newspaper reports and particularly
reports sent by the Associated Press
"A band of pirates. daughter and
applause.
Kearney then declared that the
workingmen's movement had driven
Democratic and Republican thieves
out of California. Now he could say
whatever he pleased in California de.
spite the hell hounds that infest it.
He urged the audience to pool all
their issues in Massachusetts; bunch
all their prejudice and pull together
for victory. The workingmen had
the power to do with tho Govern
ment as they pleased. l know the
workingmen of Massachusetts, will
succeed. I walk the earth at mid
day. find vast expanse of blue
heavens unrelieved by the sparkle of
single star, but know that Mars
still holds his course, that Venus still
whirls through space, that Jupiter
end Uranus are flashing in the heav-
ems, that the blazing belt of Orion
and the bright guiding CLEAN of the
North Star are all there, and it is
thus and by movement of this kind
that we know that workingmen are
as true as the stars in the
heavens, and will when called up
exhibit themselves in beauty,in mai
esty and in power. Tremendous
applause Frequent cries of "that's
good" "Good boy" applause and
cheers greeted the speech.
What Makes the Man.