Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-05-22
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C0medy.

Informed W that great streams
from little fountains flow, big oaks
from little acorns grow" Denis
Kearnsy has lately been develop.
Ing Into very respectable intellect.
ual stature, starting at very mod
ct base THAT Of pure and unadul-
terated blackguardism. Day by
day his utterances have improved
until now he can almost speak with
the authority aud dignity of a gen.
tleman and with the impressive
ness born of truth. AS long as
Ksarney was blackguard, unre-
llsved by q scintilla Of anything
which might be called redeeming,
tkA Chronicie was his humble
hSnchmau and servitor. When his
Language was foulest and least in-
AusutiaI; while educated people
were wondering as to whethero or no,
in Ksarney, we had not California
edition Of the celebrated Dublin
widow Moriarty, the chief of the
h1hwives, the Chronicle delighted
70 pick up the vilest rawlings of this
man and reproduce them with all
the glories Of displayed heads and
broken lines. 1t seemed to be en-
gagged in an emulous rivalry to
show how much dirt it coull ca, In
its devotion to Kearney. Readers
of the HERALD will probably re-
member that we predicted, six weeks
ago. that Kearney and his chron-
iolsr. the Chronicle, would be at va
rlAnce; and, at the date at which
we wrote, we said that not a single
thing which the Chronicle would in
time cast up against Ksarney was
It ignorant Of then. We are some
what amused at noting how entire
~ right We were.
No one will suspect US of being
partial to Denis Kearney. We have
always struck straight out from
the shoulder at his favorite doc.
trines. But this we will say
Ksarney, as he stands now, repu-
dated by the Chronicle, is thous-
and times more manly and respect
abls than he was when the Chroni-
Gle groveled at his feet and sought
the honor Of being his plant, OBJ
sequious lackey. Kearney, en-
lightened by travel aud contact
with intellectual men, no longer
talks about his 'quail shooting
brigades" or about laying Mob Hill
In ashes. He no longer breathes
murder and slaughter from the ros-
trum. But 1t is worthy of remark
that, when Kearney, In his first,
callow days, had assumed a
Enurderous and incendiary role;
whom, as In his first speech in front
Of the Los Angeles Court House, he
said unutterably hideous things of
the Caucasian ladies Of San Fran
elseo, the Chronicle was anxious to
contest for the honor of lacing his
brogans. Its columns, even when
the expensive medium of the tele-
graph had to be relied upon, we're
full Of his anarchic, Nihilist and
blackguard rawlings. But, now
that the Chronicle thinks that it
oan play the Supreme Demagogue
itsslf-can dispense with the man
that gave 1t vogue amongst the
poorer classes-it tries to throw
down the Kearney ladder by which
it rose to q height which, before
the coming campaign is over, will
enable it to break its neck.
Our esteemed contemporary, the
0an Francisco Examiner, in com
menting upon this astonishing
rupture between Kearney and his
Hdxs Aohates, the Chronicle, says
that the "live" paper, with It's
seven issues week, will get away
with Dsnis Kesrney, with his ons
harangue o. Sundays, on the Sand
Lot. We doubt 1t. If Kearney has
the nerve to use the material at his
command he will be faciie 7or5n-
osps. His tongue Is hung accurate
" in the middle and moves with a
eeassless seIerlty. Let Kesrney
Initiate "Ipse Doodle" Ferguson
II his famous contest with the Sac
rameuto Union. Let him call
meeting every evening in front of
the Chv0niole Office aud nightly an
swer aud elaborate upon the morn
Ing diatrIbes OF the "live" paper;
and, II he falls to get away with it,
W will agree to become an humble
and probationary member of the
6aud Lot fraternity, with at least
ten thousand Democrats 10 our
wake.
The Chronicle is now posturizipg
for the biggest price ever paid for
Newspaper. 1t has made up its
mind that 1t can strike an attitude
which will make it Invaluable TO
the Republican party In the Presi.
dsntlal election next year, and 1t is
really engaged in throwing tub TO
the whale. We are inclined to
think that 1t has overshot the
mark.
One thing Kearpey has done.
His coinage Of the phrase. descrip-
tive OF the Chronicles satellites and
fsllav.conspirators =" Honorable