The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-05-30
KEARNEY'S GRATITUDE.
His Speech Before the Seventh Ward Club on
the Evening of May 18th.

President Kearney was called upon to ad-
dress the Club. He said 'sThe Constitu-
tion has been carried, but there has been no
moving of brick-houses yet-that was a
mere threat intended to keep the
workingmen slaves. The threat had failed
of it's effect. 1t is the lickspittle of thieves
who are calling now for Constitution
party, that sold their votes on election day,
and not the Workingmen. The latter have
proved their ability to govern themselves,
They will march on to victory as Working
men, not as Republicans or Democrats or
Dolly Vardens or Constitutionalists. Why
do these men want Constitutional party 2
Because they were too high-toned to join
the Workingmen, and the Workingmen are
too high-toned to admit them. The Work
ingmen's organization was for all time.
1t will send four Workingmen to Congress
and cast the Electoral ballot of the State
for the next President. The election will
be thrown into the House, and the Califor-
mia Workingmen, backed by seventeen
Greenbackers, will have the nomination of
the President. The country is about to be
Labor's legions are massing for the conflict.
The Democrats will do anything to oppress
labor, and God - the Democrats. The
Republicans defeated the antl-C Chinese bill,
and God - the Republicans. Our Con-
gresham from this district must be a
gerasy mechanic, but honest and capable.
Our Governor must be ana old farmer.
We want the honest producers of the State
outside of the city to understand that we
are not selfish but are bound to do all in
our power for the State. Forty Senators
will be elected next September and 90 of
these will be hold-over Senators in 1881,
when United States Senator will be cleo
ted to succeed Booth. He must be an
honest farmer. There is not man in the
Senate to-day who didn't buy his place.
But every man we elect to the Legislature
will be pledged to support the man that we
nominate in Convention. So there will be
no chance for bribery. You have nomina-
ted delegates to the Convention to be held
on the Sd of June. These men will be
pledged to carry out the new Constitution.
We will instruct them and they must follow
our dictation. Those honorable bummers
will be excluded, labor will be honored and
the Chinese must go. The honorable bilks
and professional dead beats, who are trying
to crawl into power On the wave of this re-
form movement have done nothing all
their lives long but dram the life-blood of
the Republic. They have not been pro-
ducers. Will you vote tor them? No. ]
The corporations must be obliged to dis
charge their Chinese employees. If these
codfsh-gilded bummers want to come into
our ship they must take a steerage passage,
and if not, they may go to- ICheers. ]
After next September none of these parties
will ever put ticket in the field. Nc NJ.
Shafter will be glad yet to sell his 10000
acres of land, stolen from the people, for
SO so an acre, but we won't pay it; we'll
take it for taxes, and any man who wants
100. acres TO cultivate can have 1t. Any
man who grabs the public domain-God' S
green earth-under guise of law, is worse
than highway robber. We are going to
get after these land sharks, Mo M. Shafter
and the rest. The day is near at hand when
the honest, brawny son of toll will get his
dues, when the laborer can make his own
terms and be no longer obliged to take
whatever his employer may choose te
give"
At the close of Mr.. Kearney's speech
three lusty cheers were given for him and
three for the new Constitution.