Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-09-15
Train on Kearney.
George Francis Train goes after
Dennis Kearney in this fashion:
pAurrTaNr Honrr

Dennis Kearney in this fashion:
PAVILION HOTEL. /
WooDsBURG, L. l., r. E. 40. !
CITIZEN DENNIS KEARNEY-
What do you soys-"Anybody IN
favor of the Chinese Is marked
manW Indeed! Then consider me
marked. Who are you to talk in
this way? My ancestors came in
the cabin Of the Mayflowsr nearly
three centuries ago! You came as
q stow-away In steerage passen.
ger ship only few years ago, and
yet you have the cheek to dictate
to me, born on the manor where
the title deed Of my ancestral home
In Massachusetts, Is 100 years old!
Your whole stock in trade is pro-
family and igaoble prejudice
against the mongols, your superb
ors in morals, brain, frugality and
industry! Now, blind leads blind,
and cripple races cripple, who need
be surprised to see Massachusetts
demagogues and California hood.
lums arm-in-arm to try and fool
the Workingmen into a third term
for Grant!
Those $4,000 votes in California
are mine-not yours You are
sneezing on labor-snuff 1 took ten
years ago! You are cackling on
greenback eggs Ralston offered me
a 10000 check not to lay In 1889!
You workingmen are just waking
from your Rip Van Winkle sleep
after [ have been dragged through
fourteen jails for fighting your bat.
ties! Although you arrived in 'eS
: never heard of you when fighting
the battle against the California
monopolists in '69, 10 and 72! Then
was the time to battle for the right;
but you were silent! held a hum
dred public mass meetings on your
coast to arouse your stupid work.
ingmen! But with stomach eaten
out with rOtgut, like the burnt
trees in an Oregon forest, how
could they have brains to legislate?
You are a nice watchman to wait
till the horses are stolen before you
lock the stable. door! For years
you all voted solid for free trade,
which crushed your manufactures
II you hang anybody, better hang
yourselves! If Syracuse -Shups-
Glue Pot and Fort Fisher really
represent your school, Maddox,
Ward, Hume, Myra Hall, Casey,
Hewitt Committee, evangels from
the San Francisco sand. hills Of
Zion, would not trust any of you
to drive two jackasses abreast over
an open prairie!
An army oflabor dug 50, 900, 900. 600
gold and silver in thirty years out
Of your big bonanz.! Today YOU
can not show $40, 600, 900 ON ali that
Ell Dorado coast! and yet the work.
ingmen held all the votes! Where
were You when the prodIgal sold
that golden land for the mess of
specie pay ment aud free trade?
What statesman ideas are YOU
advancing? Are you SO Inflicted
with Newspaper notoriety as to
suppose that all the world hangs
on your action? Can't you see
that the rlngs are using you to pau.
seate labor? To sicken ipteIli.
6NHSSt ~ utSSid WOIhIukIuen,
Somebody pays your bills! For
what purpose? To degrade the
cause of the people!
Sixteen years ago, having sacri.
feed $4,000, 900 in my horse rail-
ways In England, i was Knocked
down on that same Faneuil Hall
platform IN the presence Of Charles
when- representing the
workingmen, and 10000 Irishmen
lost no time in taking me out of
the city lock up. The outrage was
30 startling, followed up, as it was, |
by frequent arrests and attempts at
murder and assassination, and
backed by the press, misrepresent.
Ing all they did, !, too, commenced |
calling everybody names, but l |
wa, not biackguard! opened
'ire on corporations and Shylocks,
out | did not play the Bowery. boy
~ taking off my coat aud talking |
II my shirt.sleeves.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN.