New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-07

| but Kearney, was obliged to swim with
| the tide. and turned a sharp corner
with. "Ibave named no mans name; have only
limited at a personality. but now speak the word
Butler" and off tho crowd went again, with
| yells and screams to wake the dead. The speaker
went on a trihe too long, and the audience began
to call for Keamey. Mr.. Chamberlain apologzed
for the non-appearance of some distinguished per-
son who was to have introduced the great agitator
but the audience yelled that it would do without
him. and in a minute Mr.. Dennis Kearney stepped
bowling upon the platform.
KEAREEY's MANNER AND APPEARANCE.
shan't attempt to describe the thunders his APP
pearance woke; all can say is that Faneuil Hall
has well built roof and the old plasterers knew their
trade and Heaven be thanked for both these favors
While the roar lasted Mr. Kearney walked up and
down the platform meditating, and as uncon-
cerned as if he were Nahant Beach and
the surf was rolling His two index fingers
and his two thumbs pressed together, I'm
gers stretched down. thumbs strained mp,
be waited for a pause and when the time came, he
started off in a deliberate, hesitatng way, taking
up the name of Butler in a sentence containing
three illusions. not of which could have meant
anything whatever to any real workingman In the
room. even to Boston workingmen: Lesser than
Macbeth and greater" "the chivalrous Bayard,'
his absurd windy, forced peroration about the
planet concealed IN the MILDLY" midday
heavens, Venus rolling IN her sphere, Jupiter this,
and Mars that, and Uranus tother. and the grand
and guiding CLEAN Of the Polar STAR" ETC., etc,
from a man who says he Is plain,
blunt unpublished man, who only speaks right on,
and will not waste the honest wOrkingmans time
with single classical" wOrdl The newspapers,
all the same. have done injustice TO Mr.. Kearney
He is not at ali an SHOCKING threatening look
ing man, but just average bullet-headed lrlsh-
man, with every appearance Of being porter, or
coachman, OF sea-faTng man. lie dresses
just like his class. hasn't the least bit
of a bfogue, uses perfectly good grammar
and except in his abusive phrases, employs we'll
chosen words and has a straightforward English
pronunciation, with few lingering traces OF his
early education in such words as pulpit" " col
yume" Ccolumn and here aud there an insignificant
slip or two. He has style in his delivery, walks
up and down the platform, lifts his whole arm,
and shonts out his utterances in mOntonous way
often al a loss for words, but instead of stamIner-
ing bringing them out as fast found, one after
the other, with self-posseSsed deliberation.
The great trouble with Mr.. Dennis kearney is
that he has absolutely nothing TO say! He has as
few ideas in his head as any man l ever heard
speak. He has no facts no statistics, and II can
read the signs Alright, few more victories like that
of last night will finish his career forever. People
were tired of hun long before he was done, and
fatal sign-seyeral left the hall before
his speech was ended. The impression
came away with was that be had been looking
about him carefully since lac came here and that the
vast difference between this community aud the one
he glories in representing had been borne in upon
him IN a way 10 take all the starch out Of his
stock in trade. He had found too. that nobody
wanted his indecency and that hisprofanity was not
much needed either The consequence was that II ms
reported indecency OF speech be not a myth like his
british looks" he left il entirely behind him, and
except about dozen vigorous hels there wasn't
a word uttered by him last evening that might
not have been heard in Moody and Sankey
meeting.
/ confess 70 a great disappointment. went 70
the meeting expecting 10 hear the cause Of the
workingInan-and he has a cause-set forth by one
of his fellows who was dead in earnest. found
big clustering sohooboy, who put me of with bonn
baStie words one long, silly, utterly pOntle6s story
about crow and an old woman, illustrating
nothing; and never fact, slatlsuc, statement
of principle, an appeal 20 anything IN the
intelligence, the hearts or the souls OF MS hearers.
/ There was precious little OF the promised vat,
either The only thing that saVOTed OF VII was
when repelling an attack in one Of the dispatches
| of the Associated Press. He said he was an Amen-
can citizen, and had come 20 this country twenty
years ago hlln SUM Ol Siotncs On H'o Doy "a.
head full of brains 20 develop the country with,
| and that he would challenge anybody TO show an
| American who came here with more than thatl In
! California his great card was the Chinese" Here
/ he finds that fails fiat, and last night he
| tried 10 raise some feeling on the subject, but
| could not raise a spark. He only spoke few
moments on this question, and seeing that ms
hearers cared nothing for it, he let il drop AS soon
| as he had ended his speech he left the hail. aud
the interest that had come dangerously near To nag
pnp once or twice died away with FAINT party cheer
Butler was not there but his spirit was, and Mr.
Kearney and all tine crowd present were tools IN bis
! hand aud will be led 20 the slaughter by him like
/ the silly sheep that they Mr. kearney feels
| his POSITION He Is not the man he thought he was.
and he knows il. lie is not the man we were prom
sed and we know IL. and the wOrklngmen OF Boston
| know il. and will come TO think 80 presently. &C.