Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-03-28
Denis Kearney as AZ PhiIologist.

ASaho GAAOhs IAtal
ney, Lieutenant General of the
Workingmen's party of California
figured ut the "sand lotsn last
Sunday, amidst the pouring rain,
as a very Jupiter Tonans, or, rath-
er, as very "Widow Moriarty"-
the redolbtable he-fishmonger en-.
countered by Daniel O'Connell,
once upon time-of Billingsgate.
And, by the way, Kearney's title
of Northumberland reminds us
of the lines,
What no Dalgettyl Thou great God OF
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT to the Earl OF Mar.
The anti-climax in the one case
is about as great as in the other.
But, waving Kearney's military
pretensions, while he is not quite
up to the standard of Grove L.
Johnson, he has certainly a lush
and luscious precipitancy of tongue
which, when it seeks greasy and
filthy epithets, runs with more
than the freedom of piston over
its newly oiled grooves. The illus
trious Pixley, the dilettanti editor
of the Argonaut, is not without
faint of having truckled to the
brawny and truculent ora tor of the
sand lots, at the Platt's Hall meet
ing. To recover the ground thus
lost with decent people, Pixley
eventuated, in the last number of
the Argoaaut, in an article of ex-
--traordinary scurrility, directed
against Kearney. On the sand
lots Kearney got even. Here is the
mellifluous strain in which Pixley
was apotheosized:
Bones thought that he would
just make that remark so as to
make a lever of the Workingmen's
party to elevate himself to office,
as did that blatant bloviator Pix
ley-that contemplate eur; that
man who to-day is hated by nine
teen.twentieths of the people of
California; that ljckspittle of capt.
talists; that poodle-dog of Mob
Hill; that incendarist who said at
the Mechanics Pavilion: "Let us
take torch and burn the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company's wharf
aud steamers" When he said that
he didn't mean it. That cur has
not the courage to burn q NANCY
dogs tail, let alone a stick of wood.
He meant it to lift himself into
Office. He meant rather to use 1t
as weapon to lift his friends into
office. He was not running for an
of1icei he could not get elected in
this country to be ponndkeeper.
In his article of last Saturday, in
the sheet he publishes, he used in
cendiary language, and here is his
language. He said that the pro-
cession which followed me were
lot of whisly-soaked, lazy tramps.
He is q liar! He lies!l That is
incendiary language. 1t proves
nothing. A gentleman who walked
in that procession has published an
open letter to this man Pixley,
which will appear in Tuesdays
Open Letter = an open letter to
Pixley challenging him to show
any man in that procession who
was a lazy and whisky-seaked
tramp. | say that remark was in
cendiary. Suppose one of these
men who paradod the streets last
Sunday We're TO go right up to Pix
ley and call him liar ana knock
his teeth down his throat, as he
very justly deserves, would he not
be justified? Yes! Yes!l Would
not that justify one in calling him
n liar? | say that he is an incen-
diary. He called you men lazy,
whisky soaked tramps. / say that
he ought to he made to take it
back. He ought to be compelled
TO take it back. A man who ridi-
cules journalism by STOPPING so low
IN order to fawn and become a
poodle-dog to the miserable reptiles
that climb Mob Hill-to denounce
the honest, horny-fisted sons of
toll as whisky tramps! | will tell
you what he is. | will tell you
more of this man by and by. 1
don't know his record. / don't
know whether he is worthy of my
shafts or not. He may not be a
foeman worthy of my steel. l am
going to inquire and see whether
his record is good or bad. If his
record is that of n blatant blather-
skite politician, L won't degrade
my manhood by STOPPING so low as
even 10 attempt to reply to this
iickspittle-this poodle-dog Of Mob
Hill. [Applause. ]
In the course of this Sublime ora
ton, in which every euphemism of
the English language, as appreci-
ated from an Irish carter's stand
point, was exhausted, Denis
Kearney alluded to Senator Sharon
ms "that yagabond." Ye Gods and
little fishes! What nice appreci-
alton our agitator shows of the
English language? Sharon vag-
abond! Who wouldn't be a vaga-
bond on the same terms?
lmpeiied by curiosity we sought
what the dictionaries had to say as
to "yagabond," and we found the
following:
Zone who wanders from town to
" town and place to place, having
"no certain dwelling, or not abid-
:" ing in it, and usually without the
"means of honest livelihood; a
vagrant
Reduced, like Hannibal, 10 seek relief
FrSm court TO court, and wander up and
down
A vagabond in Afric.'
" 4 vagabond is said to be per.
son who, without travelling in
"quest of domicie, has really