Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-05-21
rns II. rs.

Denis Kearney Is slowly evolving
himself from the grub to the chrys.
alls state. He Is still an unparal-
lsled master OF biIlingsgate, but his
manifestations of the commodity
ars becoming scenic, theatrical and
even ssthstic. There Is certain
rugged consistency about this man
that Il deserving, within certain
bounds, of all praise. He declines
TO allow himself or his Working
men's party to be the mud-sill upon
WhIch the ornate Corinthian COL
umns, highly pretentious pedi-
ments and commanding turrets
eomposed Of the men whom he has
ehristensd "Honorable Bilks and
Blatant Blatherskites" shall be su-
psrimposed. There Is both merit
and retribution In Kearney's meth
odic madness.
Contrary to expectation, the
LIeutsnsnt.General of the Work.
iDgmsn's party did not go to Mar.
tines Sunday last. He remained
In San Francisco and delivered, at
the meeting Of the Ward Presi-
dents, . speech highly charged
With rhetorical nitro. o.glycerine and
. Workingman's honest indIgna-
tlon. He devoted himself to the
Chrossteie, . journal which has
hitherto profited largely by Kear-
nsy's condescsnding patronage. but
which has lately set up in business
fsritself, with its "New Constitu-
tIon Party" The Chronicle, with
conspicuous ingratitude worthy
Of all rsprobation, having devoted
much Of it, italics and feeble and
febrile editorials to Kearney,
Ksarney repaid the compliment in
kind. We quote from his speech
before the Ward Presidents. He
said:
The Chronicle had q meeting Sat-
urday. 1t was "New Constitu-
ton Party" meeting. Laughter. I
Who did they representa- They rep
resented themselves, and nobody
else. There was not one of them fit
for Workingman to vote for for
Pound-keeper. Laughter.1 The
qualifications required to attend
that meeting were tall hat and a
high collar; and an honest work.
ingman, who sought admission in
. shabby garb, was rejected at the
door. He went away and got a
stOve-pipe hat aud returned, and
the man that put him out before,
then shook hands with him, and
ushsred him to q choice seat
Laughter. In addition to "Hon.
orabie Bike" we must now call the
ssNew Constitution Partyu the
Plug Hs. Brigade. [Cheers and
laughter. have no fault to find
with = pi.ig hat. l wore one once
myself. But IL is the clothes that
make the member of the "New
Constitution Party" o e of them
says to the Workingmen:" Haven't
We given you respectahliity?" The
Idea Of few jackass lawyers z living
the WorkiDgDeu's party of Cali
fornia respectability! Laughter. ]
II our respectability comes from
such "H0norable Bilks" as com
pose the Plug Hat Brigade, the
sooner the w. P. G. disbands the
better.
We have no doubt whatever but
that Denis Kearney was an orns-
mont to his "plug hat," or the plug
hat to Denis. However that may
be, we sympathize with the Presi
dent Of the Workingmen's party in
his honest desire to rid himself of
the compromising contact, which
oncs seemed imminent, with the
"Honorable Bilks and Blatant
Blatherskites," who fondly sup.
posed that o Workingmau's party
was only devised to admit of their
easily riding into power.
All honest men will avow cor.
dial sympathy even with Kearney
when he announces that his party
10 one Of principle, and not an or
ganixation consecrated to the
spoils. through unnatural and un.
princIpled political alliances. He
stated this aspect Of the matter
thus:
Ours Is q party that puts princi-
pie ahead, and will yet sweep the
State Of California aud the United
States. [Cheers.] 1t therefore be-
comes our duty to place our feet on
the action of these men who are
selling out the Workingmen's
party to Its enemies. Will you al
low yourselves to be captured by
the Gkroaicle G"Never The
4 <Sv4 )icle has been lying. Voices
In dc crowd-''I believe it." "It
always lied.n] The Chronicle did
some work for us; but what Is the
good Of . COW that gives pail of
milk and kicks IL over? lCheers
and Iaughter.1 do not thank the
ChronicLe for what it did. The men
that veted for the new Constitution
did 90 for their own interests. Stop
this thanking business. If a man
does right it Is what he ought to do;
II he does wrong, condemn him.
Attend to your own business. Pay
no attention to the "New Constitu-
tIon Party" composed Of crawling
creatures OF society.
Kearney went on in a similar
strain for quite a while. We have
only space for one more brief ex-
tract from Denis's peculiar but
brilliant fusilade. He said:
Come to the Sand Lot next SUM-
day aud hear me dissect the Hon-
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