St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-29

assassin. Cl1tuS barUour Iooh 1ho sOano
and addressed the meeting, earnestly
urging the workingmen to await the
arriv ! of Kearney before taking further
steps. The crowd, however, was eager
for action, and listened with bad grace
i to all arguments tending to delay thell
vengeance. Barbour continued dwell
ing upon the fact that they were I'M
organized and in no condition to cope
with the police and military. In reply,
the crowd demanded to he led at once
down town to hang De Young and de-
molish the Chronicle office. Barbour in
formed them that the presidents of the
Ward Clubs were in session, and had
decided to await the arrival of Kear-
ney, but that if Kalloch died they were
fully determined to hang De Young
without delay. Tremendous cheers
greeted this announcement. A dispatch
was read from Kearney stating that he
would be down from Vallejo by the 3
o'clock boat. Other speakers sought to
quiet the people, assuring them that in
case Mr.. KallOch's wounds proved fatal,
summary vengeance would be taken on
his murderer.
A GREAT MEETING AT THE SAND LOTS.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24.-Kearney
arrived from Vallejo by last evenings
boat, while the city was still seething
with excitement. He was met by a
crowd of several thousand who received
their leader with an almost frantic ex-
hibition of joy. The workingmen's
military companies, to the number of
I60 men, with rifles and fixed bayonets,
were on hand as an escort. With Kear-
ney at their head, the procession moved
up Market street for the sand lots, fill
ing the streets for several blocks, and
making the air ring with cheers for
Kearney and cries of ''Hang De
Young!"
The procession on it's way to the sand
lots stopped at the workingmen's head
quarters, in Market street, near Fifth
street, where the ward presidents were
in session, deliberating on the course
to be pursued. Kearney entered the
ing and joined the ward presidents.
After Kearney had concluded his con-
ference with the ward presidents, the
march for the sand lots was resumed.
A crowd had assembled there before his
arrival, and was harangued by several
prominent Workingmen, cOunseling
prudent action, Kearney on his arrival,
Immediately assembled the stand and
began addressing the assemblage, which
covered the entire space between the
rostrum and Market street, there prob
ably being not less than 10000 present.
The vindictive feeling which had pre-
vailed during the day was apparently
in no wise diminished, and at word
from Kearney the whole body would
he, i
tation to wreak vengence on the De
Youngs.
Kearney realized the situation fully,
and addressed himself to the task of
quieting the passions of his followers.
He reminded them that in ten days the
election would put the whole machinery
of the city Government in their hands,
and that without fail the proprietOrs of
the Chronicle would then meet their
deserts; that any present attempt at
violence would be met by the revolvers
of the police and the rifles and Gatling
guns of the military, and that the game
was not worth the shedding of blood of
one honest man. He abjured them by
their regard for their reputation
throughout the country, the eyes of
which were upon them, to do no vio-
lence, but to dispense quietly to their
homes, and tomorrow he would meet
them on the sand lots; meantime he
would inquire more fully into the state
of affairs, and would then, he believed,
be able to show them how to dispose of
the matter with credit to themselves.
Never was Kearney's bOundless in
fuence over his followers exhibited to
better advantage, for, although the
vast crowds were fairly bowling for the
blood of the De YOungs, they yielded
implicitly to his advice, and, when he
dismissed them, surged away in vari-
ons directions, evidently prepared to
follow his advice to the letter.
COMMENTS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO
... PRESS.
The Bulletin says in effect that the
shooting was deliberate assassination,
and reminds its readers that, % years
ago, the people Of the city hanged
man who killed az editor who dared
express his convictions, but that now
the law of society seems to be that an
editor may say what he pleases, and if
the assaulted party talks, his life is to
be forfeited. 1t warns the Working
men that the course they pursue will
be the best evidence of their ability to
administer the affairs of the city, and
that resort to violence would be fatal
mistake.
The Call says: "This affair serves as
a fruitful illustration of the general
course of the Chronicle, which has
boosted of its power to kill any public
men it did not like, and has, in pursu-
ance of this business, established a de-
tective system which has filed the
pigeon-holes of its private bureau with
damaging material against prominent
persons, both public and private.
This it has used to pull down those who
would not be blackmailed. Deriving its
sustenance from corrupt sources, it has
been IN measure independent of pub
lie patronage. Fed by wealthy corpora
tions which feared its enmity, or its
bad schemes to plumber people, it held
respectable public opinion in contempt.
Probably no other community in Ameri-
ca has been so disgraced and despoiled
by public Journal as this. Its attack
upon Mr.. KallOch and its subsequent
attempt upon his life are in keeping
with Its policy of killing where it can
not control.n
Inc Atlas comments are also vigor-
GUS: 1.-The Chronicle has been assault
ing the character and reputation of
men women and girls in this city for
years, and who is to blame for all this I?
We say that the weight of the outrage
rests upon this community, especially
that portion of it which has for years
not merely endured the presence and
existence of that journal, whose assaults
upon characters and regulations have