Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-08-30
KEARNEY At THE CAPITOL.
A Characteristic Speech from the
California AgitatOr.


instructed, under the provisions of an act of
Congress and the rules and regulations
adopted for their government to prevent any
meeting being held there. Those persons
curious TO see and to hear the great agitatorr
were therefore at loss what to do under the
circumstances. Some thought that the meet
ing would be held at the City Hall. and assem-
PED about that building, where they awaited
Ma carney coming, While large crowd assem-
oieu AT the CdpitOI, the Hloj oIiJy eTids uLy eX
pectlng scene. While the people were gath
9llng at these places Kearney was al the
hhEilIiihett House, 90 Brien 81 near the depot,
noldlng quite leyee. Capt, Blackferd, of the
CdpitOi ponce, III The meantime awaiti;a. Ea.r=
t ney coming, having received word from him
s sIaa ne Was Determined TO attempt TO make
With squad of the Sth precinct Metropolitan
ponce. In order to Illustrate the holding of
Inc meeting the gas lights on either side of the
them again and The officials again extins uisl:ed
them. In the crowd the questions discussed
We're: Would kearney speak," would Capt.
who took the ground that il Kearney e came se mp
and wanted to speak, that he should speak
Others claimed that If an arrest was attempt
bgsest card could ge We e the
crowd was discussing the probabilities, faint
cheer in the northern part Of the grounds an.
n'un'eo KEARsEY,s ARRIVAL.
and the drayman. with crowd OF followers,
managed to get about half way up the steps
Here he was met by Capt. Blackford, who an
of such meetings as was propos ...vld,ng
protested that as an Amer ~, KAArney
the right to speaL from tie s' citizen he Eal
nroa e before. an" eurnins tows a. I thy
grounds + he'll w.. voice, he said =" These
zmerica- ing to the people, and as an
The citizen claim the right to speak.
; chief of police or some one claiming
20 be such, threatens to stop me. If this
is cur bOaSted liberty want the people to know
it: and if l am arrested 1 don't want man
in this crowd to raise his hand, but want you
all to quietly disperse.' Captain Black ford
here announced that neither he nor his men
this announcement was received with cheers.
The crowd then pressed up, and Mr.. Kearney
and his immediate friends went to the south
side OF the steps, directly under the Statue of
KEARNEY's SPEECH.
kearney, taking off his coat, commenced his
speech. He spoke about an hour. He said that
he had been threatened with arrest if he spoke
here, and therefore he had come here. The
country was ripe for social revolution. Alud-
ing to the fact that residents here have no
vote, he asked why they paid taxes. He hid
found little dynasty here, and the attempt is
made to interfere with free speech, but they
should not intimidate the workingmea, who
were the back bone and siDew of the country
When they, with muSketS on their shoulders,
marched on the way to the war, they were
cheered by the ladles, and boquets were thrown
see tit to take charge OF their own affairs they
are opposed by the black blatherski,e OF po-
litical whelp who is subject of the plumber
erS of the nation.
ROUGH ON SECRETARY SHERMAN.
He said he was not going to make a political
speech, but he would refer to what he saw in
his visit TO the Treasury department this morn
and women working in that department. The
machinery was in perfect order and it is true
that the messengers who show visitors around
are instructed to impress on the minds of such
visitors how nicely everything is arranged, to
see that the WOrk1ngmen and WOrkingWOmen
there do not steal cent. There are so many
checks, and so much of this and so much of
that that ii a ten-cent ShinplaSter is LOST the
employees are locked TO make up for the loss.
Where does all this money go? Why, when it
million. When it gets into the hands of the
plunderers then it is all stolen, and you can
all starye. The idea of people calling this free
dom: American people, when they have no
plunderers have the say as to what they shall
pay. What is the remedy? Organize and pool
your issues. Put your ideas into one pot, aud
put the cover ON that pot and fasten it so
closely that no one can open 1t until this gov
eminent is captured by the workingInen.
Take such scoundrel as John Sherman, who
has cOncOcted scheme for plundering the
American people. He made an attempt to
speak recently at Toledo, Ohio, but the
people. did not care to have hiIn speak, for
their famished faces told too well the kind OF
man he was. No doubt it was a grand speech
which he had spent three months on with a
wet towel around his head [Appiause and
gans of the plunderers of this country, and
the next morning they all came out with dOu-
BILE loaded columns headed, " Brilliant speech
from John Sherman l don't like to see the
freedom of speech tempered with, but when a
man like this won't resign why don't Won
make him RESIGN? 1t was you that put min
where he is. The idea of his trying To cram
nonsense down intelligent thrOats! The hon
est citizens of Toledo taught him lesson he
will never forget. Then he addressed the
merchants of Cincinnati-the blood suckers.
Who are the people of the country? Are they the
blood suckers, or are they the honest working
men? The sooner these blood suckers are out
OF the way the sooner will the fires of liberty
again burn brightly, and the American bird of
freedom no longer be dunghill rooster. An
old prostitute, known as the Associated Press,
will telegraph word all over the country that
Capitol to hear kearney speak There are not
less than ten thousand people here and will
bet 50 on 1t by actual count. This prO,ti-
tute. the Associated Press, is owned by the
plunderers of the nation, and has now upon
these steps its miniOnS to report the proceed
ings OF this meeting and lie about the remarks
make"
NO MORE RLACKBURNs.
He next referred to Beecher in not very
complimentary terms. He then said that the
wOrkingmen intended to elect honest men-no
have no right to combine: All these are our
servants, from the President down, and as
soon as they refuse to do our bidding the
sooner we grab them by the neck and jerk
them out of their places the better. APP
piause.1 had an interview with the PreS
dent yesterday. / look upon him as very
nice gentleman personally, but as President I
havnt very high opinion of him. When 1
heard that band of thieving rascals in Chi
cago had Endorsed his policy I remarked to
meeting at San Francisco that the President
was owned, body and soul, by the money
power OF the United States. | cast my maiden
vote for him. and l was glad to see him
elected.
DESPISE TILDEN
and all his followers. The American people
want man who has backbone and is up to
the times and the issues Of the day. Peter
Cooper is too much of an old granny. Voice,
"Butler."1
KEARNEY ON BUTLER AND THE PRESS
Mr.. kearney proceeded: "Yes, that's the
man. IL we had him we'd be all right. All
the Cabinet officers are hard money men:
they all 60 to the same school and all answer
questions the same way. Let me appeal to
Your intelligence. You have power to shake
the social structure of this country from its
center to its circumference. The sooner you
kick out the political bummers from your
ranks the better. They create disturbance
and thus give the lickspittle. press an Oppor-
unity to say that your ranks are divided.
They are all communists. They take every
thing and divide it among themselves.
Laughter
Mr.. Kearney then appealed to the working