The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-08-24
Denis Kearney Falls Into the Hands
Of the Chicago Times Reporter
His Description Of Denis.
From the Chicago Times. 2lst.I
ABLABBING BLATHERSKITE.


Denis Kearney blew bis horn last night
on Market street near Randolph, and the
announcement made OF his intended ora
ton in the Times OF yesterday drew quite
a large croWd-perlIaps as many as three
thousand people at one timeIto near
him. This number did not last long, be-
cause after the first ten minutes "Deny's"
attractions as an orator failed, and the al-
dience began to leave by the score.
The California blatherskite hoodium was
disappointment to all who heard
him, and none were more thorough
" disguised than his own kith and
kin-the Irish. "Why, Jack McAuiiffe
can beat him all hollow as q speaker" was
the comment OF hundreds who have heard
the eXtravagant red-mouth crate. Nc
Aulifre, half mailman as he is, has very
many advantages over Kearney. "Jack y
is good-looking fellow, with fine, ring
ing voice, and some original, il seml-crazy,
ideas. Kearney is q contcmptible-look
little pill, with mean, insignificant couri'
tenance, a hoarse voice, and an epileptic
style of alleged cocuton. There is moth
ing whatever rrepossessng about the Tel.
low. He is as common as turf, and
AS FLAT AS BoG-wATER.
He has neither "the genius. tie manhood
nor the lirc OF his race" He has trick OF
words, seasoned with blasphcmy, and may
be described as an ignorant little black
guard, showed into prominence by condl'
ton of things which ought to make decent
people blush for allowing such creature 4
plausible opportunity for springinS into
notice. Denis Kearney is not Il power; he
is monstrGsity, born OF al abnormal con-
dition OF labor and capital. He has courage
and cunning,
TIRE INTELLECT OF A PARROT,
and the fearlesSness OF brute. lie may be,
morally. superior to bank defaulter or 4
roeuish city collector, but he is personally
reDulsiye, ostentatiously vulgar, and dema.
goglcaly disGainful OF the usages OF civilized
society. Nature branded him rs common
fellow, and, having played his brief part on
the political stage, he will pass out OF sight,
leaving behind him the reputation OF the
greatest oratorical fraud that Ireland has
Graded, and that America has allowed to
flourish. He may be potent in California,
but he is Il stick in Chicago. His rhetoric
is forced, his manner 0diouS, his sentiments
foogy. his egotism unbounded, his plaSia'
risms disgusting and disreputable to the last
degree. No decent workingman could pos
siblv look UP to such thing as this misera.
bic Kcarney either as guide or savior.
Seen by the tlaring, unsteady light OF
few torches on Market street last night,
Denis
LOOKED LIKE 4 " CHEAP JACK"
selling off rotten goods. He had all the
marks and tokens of slum auctioneer-a
dealer in pewter watches. lie had the same
strained voice and brazen manner. He was
not audible afar off, because be turned
around all the time, like fellow dancing 4
hornpipe, or like soldier new to arms
practicing "right-rear vault" in the baYo'
net exercise.
II the workinSmen OF America can flnd
10 champion more comcly or more decent
than this abortion of an freshman, whose
physical appearance diSgraces Il stalWart
race, and whose vile and pro1ane language
disgustS all people. rich and poor, religious
and Indifferent alike, they have good reason
TO be ashamed OF their position. The main
wonder with great number OF persons
who heard Kearney last night was that he
should have so long passed undiscovered rs
wINDBAG AND FRAUD.
His visit to Chicago, where people are in
the habit OF hearing wel-dellvered speeches
even from the Communists, has tlattened
KearneY out in public estimation. He is
no longer a rare animal to attract the
thonghtless crowd. He is an exploded
humbug, and Il carricature OF the genius OF
two nations. 1t is difficult to say whether
Ireland or America ought to be most
ashamed OF the flatulent little brat.