Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-08-17
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YELLOW FEVER HORRORS.
THE ST.PETERSBURG ASSASSINs
KEARNEY, THE AGITATOR.
His Career in California.
kEARNEY. THE "GREAT AGIra.
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A Not Very Flatterfug Portrait
Drawn by q Fellow Labor ne

NEW YORK, August 1.-THE Herald. this
morning, publishes an interview with Mr.. X
qan,1ats "a nnignI the secretary OF the kearney or
sanlAation Tor California, in which he gives an
account OF the so-called great agitator"
meaLney, ree, ms associates in San Francisco say
tbers 'u,nea ua me hearney movement" out
IneIe, he gathered about him only the rude
anu ignorant he repelled decent and inteIli.
gSnt zen. people. The more cultivated demanded
ms associate, MIR. Knight "Rut he mi ;yasn
rance barbarism and mob-ru on top. and the
iinIeilgent and self respecting lied away from
him, and decent, law-abiding people ionkaa
on with horror Meantime kearnay Son,ht
only TO be the god OF the sand lot" Mr. X niTht
SAID the party never intended violeace, they
only desired by the ballot box TO GET RIA 81
the Chinese, land and other opoies bv
legislation. knight says kearney has ,,one
east with the reputation OF being the lion OF
the worklngman's party OF California. He is
RATHER THE DONKEY THAN THE LION.
His shallow bombast about purity and honesty
Is the mereSt sham. He Is as base a counter
1elt as ever was nailed 10 counter. His whole
career In the workingman's party has been
perlatlve egotlSm, inordinate overbearipp
ambition, and dishonest finauciering Knight
further says the movement had hardly began
,sIl mnen mearney cast about TO see how he could
make money out of IT, He soon found kuaye
TO suit his purpose, the same Carl Browne or
carr McLoud, who is now called his private
secretary. This fellow, who knows no rules OF
aTt OF grammar, undertook TO Illustrate and
edit paper. kearney boaSted OF him as a
worklngman, and used TO show him up i'm the
sand lot, with unkempt hair and dirty face, 10
prove that he was honest. With this fellow
the open letter was begun. In a few days a
Joint stock publishing company was formed.
kEARNEY WAS CHIEF DIRECTOR
and Browne was the board. They awarded
LOO shares TO themselves. Then they sold the
stock. They had public entertainments Money
that should have come 10 the party went co the
open letter. They kept no proper accounts:
made no reports of receipts or expenditures
Iiielr paper was contemplate aud WORTHLESS
rag. This was the sinkhoe of all the money.
III was dlSgrace TO The party and 10 all con-
nected with il. The state contract COMMITTEE
ana the county committee demanded reports
ana explanations. They resolved that the
paper OF the party should make an honest
showing: kearney and Browne were resolved
IL should not. kearney had TO explain or get
rid OF the committees. He found il easiest To
denounce the committees as offiee-seekers,
TO DELUDE HIS IGNORANT FOLLOWERS,
and he did it. The open-letter scheme was a
fraud from beginning TO end for kearney's
oeneht he could not explain he canno. now
explain. He denounced men whom he knew
to be honest to cover his own rascality. The
worklngmen of San Francisco We're 10 build a
temple; l6CC9 twobt tickets We're TO be sold
to build il. 1t was acknowledged that nearly
three thousand tickets were sold There was
no temple; no financial report; no eXplaIa-
ton. The committees demanded an account
on TINS also, and II was necessary for Kearney
10 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
o.her man could pack the conventions or
make peace clubs. This did not suit Kear-
ney. He had promised men places. He must
get rid OF the committees. Better have fac.
tlon in his own hands than a victorious party,
and he only one, and SO lie slandered the best
and most intelligent men in the papers. He
appealed to the ignorant. They listened TO
the impudent falsifier, and the blatant blath-
erSkIte comes TO you with this Endorsement
he lost us the state of California by his
frauds, his false hands, and his bad manners
He comes to you not the conquering lion his
vain boaSting pretends, but the braying ass
who howls out his despair as though il were
note of triumph