The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-08-16
Presr uplnionr Of Kearney.

Notwithstanding Dennis Kearney al.
iects to dispise the opinions o! the press,
by the press he will stand or fall. He,
like his prototype, Butler, fails to recog'
ni1e that only in limited degree are the
press Of the country the manufactures oil
public opinion. They are for the greater
paft but the mouthpisce Of the public
through which is expressed the general
sentiment OF the country on men and
measures, therefore the voice Of the press
isbut The voice Of the people. That the
glamour Of success among the excited and
turbulent population Of the Pacific coast
whishle the people Of the East to sup
pose that underlying all the ignorance
coSrseness and vulgarity Of Dennis
Rsarney, there was some motive power
Of rude uncultured intellect that was cal
culated to make him power among the
malcontents OF the whole country, is be-
Ing rapidly dissipsted, is very evident
from the fact that already the curiosity
which attracted an immense crowd to
hear his first deliverance in the East has
even now been satisfied.
Hence we End in the leading news.
papera such comments as the following
from the Baltimore American
safer attentively reading all the pub
lie addresses which Mr.. Dennis Kearney
has delivered since his arrival in the
East, we have come TO the conclusion
that he should borrow 81 50 from Gen.
Butler and hire somebody to write a
new speech for him. He has talked at
Boston, Marblehead and LINN, and at
each place has simply reiterated his ORR
gipal coarse and ridiculous stupidity.
He has not struck out a new idea, or ut
tered phrase worth remembering, except
the !one that be stole from Tom Fitch
and appropriated to his own use. When
Kearney came this way there was some
feeling that perhaps be might be n dan.
gerous mana born leader, who could
DO au immense deal Of mischief. His
own speeches have destroyed that i'm
preston, because they have made II evil
dent that he is not u thoughtful or a
clever man. He can gable. and can
swear loud and long; and that ia all. II
ishard 10 believe that he even feels the
distresses OF the workingmap; and 1t ia
certain that he offers no remedy for them
Any audacious rufian gathered up from
the slums, or selected from jail'birds
could make Kearney Of himself
It. il very little trouble to curse
aud rant, and the work requires
no especial qualifications Of hon.
esty or intelligence Of conviction. All
thatli wanted is furnished by loud
mouth, impudence, and moderate ac-
quaintance with vile language. Success
full and dangerous agi.ators have invari
ably been men Of brains, and Robespierre
in France; Lasalle and Carl Marx, u
Germany; John Wilkes, in England; and
even the Buffers and Voorheeses, oil OUT
day and land, hold places in history as
the owners OF mental ability. II they
had all been simply vulgar blackguard'
Of the Kearney stripe, they would have
shone for the moment like stale mack.
erel In the dark, then passed away and
been remembered no more. Such will be
Kearneys fate. There IL no danger In
him, except as he Ia put forward 10 do
the bidding Of more adroit demagogues
But II he 10 to be even effective in that
line, his hackers should see that he Ia
provided with a new speech. 1t ia get
ting terribly monochrome TO hear every
day from him that bondholders are lech'
erous, and newspapers Shiny. lfthere is
no originality in the man, he ought to be
Furnished with counterfeit, artificial
the rate OF 50 so per harapgue."