Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-03-22
OLD FASHIONED AMERICAN
THRASHING.
Tho Great Bull-Doser Is Bull-Dozed- First
Dawn Of American Manhood.

Gentlemen who were present at
the Kearney meeting at Santa Ana,
on Thursday afternoon, inform us
that the agitator, during his ha.
rangue, indulged in the most un.
stinted abuse of some of the most
reputable citizens of that section OF
the county, including the Messrs.
J, III. Fruit, James McFadden and
w. Spulgeon, of Santa Ana, and
Mr.. B. F. Seibert, of Anaheim. At
the conclusion of his speech, these
gentlemen, with several Others
who had been referred to by Kear-
ney, called at the hotel and asked
him, Mr.. Fruit being the spokes-
man, to give the names of the peo-
Pile who furnished the Information
upon which he based his charges.
This Kearney refused to do, saying
that, as an agitator, he picked up
all the information he could gather
and used it to arouse the people.
Mr.. Fruit insisted upon knowing,
but Kearney still refused to
give his authority, and used
some insulting remarks in regard
to the party whom lie had assailed,
when Mr.. Rule, who was present,
and who enjoys the reputation of
being not only n temperate, law
abiding citizen, but II man free
from all the smaller vices, struck
him, not from behind, as Mr.. Page
reports, but in the face. Kearney
retreated, drawing his pistol, and
and was followed by Mr.. Rule, who
also drew a pistol, when the Lieu
tenant. General turned and ran.
We cannot be exact as to details
of where he ran, owing to conflict.
ing accounts, but he ran vigorously,
and, colliding with a hitching post,
fell down. Rule pursued him; and
the two finally pulled up in drug
store. Rule, after disarming Kear.
ney, wound his hand into his hair,
drew his head down on the counter
of the store and gave the agitator a
terrible pounding. That is all there
is to the matter. Kearney, q COM
mon scold and vilifier, and vulgar
fellow, simply got n terrific thrash
ing. The wonder is that he did not
get 1t long and long ago.
In reply to the absurd and dema.
gogic charge that Theodore Lynill
was employed by that clever gen.
tleman, Col. e. E. Hewitt, Super
intendent of the Southern Pacific
Railway,to follow Kearney through
California and answer
him, 1T is enough to say that Col.
Hewitt pronounces the statement
lie and Mr.. Lynill, by telegraph,
with electric emphasis, also pro.
nounces it lie. SucD trash had
better neither be published nor tel
egraphed. The fact is that Mr..
Lynill is q twenty times better
talker than Kearney, has all and
more than all that demagogue's
clipper readiness of speech, and
that he saw a point in following
Kearney up and treating bim to
the grand bounce, oratorioally
speaking. The attempt to bolster
up Kearney, a man utterly with
out pluck, eloquence or natural
gifts, by imagining tremendous
cOnspiracies against him, is simply
ridiculous. The fact is that his
blackguard role has lost its novelty
and he is playing QUITS, in fact,
played out. The political philoso.
pher who contemplates this graft
flying fact is only sorry that he did
not play out sooner. AS for vast
ing sympathy on blackguard who
invites fight by personal scurrili-
ty and loses it, nobody, here at
least, dreams of it. Anybody
would contribute salve to heal
Kearney's light flesh wounds, but
nobody would raise hand to ward
them off. The general sentiment
is that a blackguafd should take
his chances.
In reply to the laughable charge
Of a Democratic plot to secure the
mobbing of Kearney, it is enough
to say, first, that Kearney himself,
in his Watsonville speech, an
nounced himself as a Republican,
and as always having voted that
ticket; secondly. that Mr.. Rule,
who thrashed him, is an ex-Lieu-
tenant of the Federal army and a
Republican; thirdly, that the Mac
Fadden Brothers are Republicans
to the backbone. By the way, all
we know Of the MacFadden Broth.
ers, outside of their politics, was
embodied in the frequent eulogies
we have seen in the Express of
their sublime anti-monopoly rec
ord. We may suppose that that
paper spoke by the card. although
we disputed it at the same time.