The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-09-05
DENNIS kEARNEY.
Am INTERVIEW wErH THE LOUD
RHDUTMEsp CALIFORNIA AGHFATOR.
Some observations below the Surface
The Causes thHG Produced the Man
and olive RIs Views EEnpOr fRnce-The
Outgr0wtHR of New England Ideas and
civilization.

The Causes thHG Produced the Man
and olive His Views Hmp0rfRnce-The
0utgF0wtH of New England Ideas and
Civilization.
Especial Correspondence of the Democrat
WASHINGTON D. c. August 30, 1878.
The unearthIy hush Of Washington In mid
summer has been disturbed If not relieved dur
ing the last twenty four hours by IN irrupti0n
Of
THE CHAMPION BLATHERSK1TE OF THE ENGLISH
SPEAKING WORLD,
Mr.. Dennis Kearney. / have had n curiosity to
500 this follow and henr him talk; partly BE-
cause he Is the natural fungus upon the rot
ten body Of tho prevailing state Of things hnd
partly because 1t was my fixed belief that the
press In heralding his approach. had treated
him with the superficial contempt due his In
dividual weaknesses rather than with the sincere
sorrow which his appearance as Il symptom Of
widespread popular disorder and suffering
should excite, have seen Kenrney and heard
him say bis say. both publicly and In private.
AS an individual. travelling on his check" and
subsistlng by bis chin ns they say Of light
ming rod agents in Yankee land. he certainly
deserves very little respect and from me re-
ceives little. Hs is5
A WBLL-BUIrT, BRAwNY FELLOW,
OF LHb OTutHtttV lFlSt- American type, WnDfn, At
sight. one would much rather encounter In
Joint debate than in flsticuH. Personally
there Is nothing more remarkable about him
than there would bo about any vulgar fellow
having the gift of volubility and tho attribute
Of courage, both Of opinion and of speech. Hs
appears to mo to be q man equally at home in
mental conflict with what he calls tho Goliath
Of Money and in physical combat with an op-
position boss drayman. There is In his man
| ner the bluff. hearty swagger Of his rough~and-
ready type, but with 1t he cat ries - singular air
Of defersnce for superior intellect and Of cour-
tesy toward those who disarm his rude instincts
By treating him rs Il man.
TN NOT A WILD ANIMAL
said he. though / should Judge by tho way
people stare at me that they thought was Ny
| Talk ig probably wilder and rOugher than you
ore accustomed TO hear in public speeches but
| 1t isn't any wilder and rougher than the
passions and resentments that tear the hearts
Of The oppressed, plundered and lnsuted class
[ represent"
This observation impressed me with the no.
tion that even in his own brarnblr. uncultivat-
cd hedgeroW Of q mind there was quite defln-
ito notion Of the difference between Kearney as
| an individual sensatiOnast. and Kearney as q
symphonic the volcanicsocial agitation whereof
his speeches" may be called the surface rum
blinge But when he went on to say that he was
| not to blame for his own appaarance in public,
nor for the doctrines he held. but was the invol-
| him one Of those primitive instruments which
Fate traditionally employs In blocking out tho
'"h" the ngS oney " kngs ngs4 Hadn't seized this coun
try by the throat and nearly choked the life out
Of her no said you never would have heard
tell OF me. When you take q man by the neck
| and squeeze the wind out OF him he suuawks
aSf9 hi "D1 Me hs sna o4 sn pHsifa nv
neck. and my voice is
THE sQUAWK OF THE MAN WHO IS GETTING
II It Isn't musical, it's because I speak under
antiquities. Perhaps II the choker would take
his fingers OF tho neck Of his victim you would
hear moro natural and sHeeter voice!'
Now there nre ways and ways OF looking at
things. Iho inverted clodhoDpor who unfortu-
| nately acts rs reporter or paragraphist for the
modern American newspaper Is not person
OF suhlclent discernment 30 look beyond the
surface Of dirty shirt and discover whether
fD6r6 is any great reason or cause behind such
&. man as kehrney. impellfng his actions and
guiding bis ,n!ovements; Therefore we have had
Of speeches" reported reyLnlju,: but not q single
calm thoughtful analysis Of him as the expo
mont Of II school Of thought, Or as
THE SURFACE EFFECT OF a DEEP LYING AND
VASTLY IMPORTANT CAUSE,
So far Mt least, the seven-by-nine scribblers
and literary mechanics who have been his cur
rent bi0graphers in he daily press have shown
themselves quite as ignorant and brutal in fact
as kearney Is in respect Of Appearances; and
they are moro TO blame, because they ought to
know better, Moreover. they haye done u vast
himself. instead Of faithfully noting tho Ieve-
opm"nts Of popular thought whereof he is the
symbol and diagnosing the great public disease
They have, therefore, abused and lampooned
IN their own small bore way, and he In turn
has eta!iated IT, with his own mud -howitzer; the
p!!ozed: and not much diiTorence at that Much
OF kearneyS ranting aud rowing is
CALCULATED TO DISGUST SOBER MINDED PEOPLE,
bis behavior are calculated to arouse the CON
tempt Of discerning mankind for the scrt bb)ers
the American press Of the day-,and here let me
sny that when use the words American press"
In this connection mean the so-caled great
feeble imitators, the journaist!c magpies Of the
provincial towns-I suppose If this Institution
had existed In France In 1889 it would have
Murats, Bareres and Robespierres I who. rsing
pgmies from the dust and ashes at the feet Of
y Wbq seWed earthquakes broadcast in Europe as
Il they had been grains Of f4xseed, and then
lowered into tho monsters whose lightest
For my part, then, / have no inclination to
whistle Kehrney down the wind I am not 50
besotted with the things that are. as to be IN.
different things may be-. Human nature is lust
as prevalent among the American people as
t"ta'Chf 1by DbbSI iildSSbS OL UlpU, Nn1, tnaUkS
to our system and style Of breeding it is
very easy Tor human nature to express itself in
our country in words not only. bu. in deeds az
we'll. To mo
DENNIS KEARNEY APPEARS AS THE FIRST vHITEN-
ING BUBBLE
WhriIng down the placid. smooth th-1Owing mill
race TO- warn those living on the treacnnrOus
banks that the dam is breaking above, He is
going to run his race, and subside by mere
bursting, perhaps, but after him will come
Others IKE him thicker and faster, until things
are cleaned out one way or another.
mat post bellum NOrthern or more strictly
sDtak1ng Northeastern civilization, which has
typefed its reli ion in Beecher, its finance in
Jay Gould and its politics in John Sherman
Whicn has enbocied it's Intellect in Eadicalism
ana its morals in fraud, has at last eliminated
II Spontaneous explosion from its own gen
eeatteh - io gases, and Kearney is one
o. 81 the ascending fragments. The trouble with
all these fine spun systems Of society and poll
tlcs' passed upon the ayarice Of shrewd men
mnd s me apathy OF the ignorant. is that one Of
5hese Int days God Almighty always begins to levy
MS taxes, and from the taxation Of G d AL
11rmIghfy not even government bonds are exenp
The worn maxim. that