The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-02-19
Dennis Kearney on the Rostrum.

| lDlue lne IOTluic OI all Olu ldsiitOilNu I'O-
litical editor. He addressed meeting
III New York last Friday evening.
| There were some three thousand persons
present, and it is safe to say that they
got about as much pepper and spice as
their constitutions would bear. He
struck rignt into tho heat Of the sub
.iect by calling attention to the fact that
there was no long list of bald headed,
hot patcd honorable bilks and bummers
on the platform as Vice Presidents and
Secretaries. AS soon as possible he be-
gan shaking individual capitalists over
the hot Goals Of his wrath. He called
G. p. Huntington n blatherlhg pirate"
who was stretching his blood stained
fangs across the continent" "Next
comes, he pleasantly remarked, "Jim
Bennett, the lep-e-rous proprietor OF
the New York Herald" Jay Gould
was graphically described as I" the lean,
lantern .awed and shark shouted cor
morant, reptile cur" Finally, these
three men were punched together as
pusillanimous, miserable, wretched
lice" Then came Vanderbilts turn.
"Those mentioned" he said, "pale into
contempt before that colossal railroad
highwayman and robber, that bloody
figure of carnage and ruin, who dimes
upon the carcasses of his victims, and
whose mansions are built and ce-
mented by the walls and cries, the blood
and tears OF widows and orphans and
those who perish Of starvation
Whew Dennis has a terrible vocabu-
larry. Think of Vanderbilt as a canni-
bal, dining on the carcasscs of his vic
tins, slaughtering score or SO every
forenoon so that he may have com
Portable dinner of "long pig" Then
came the Fields and finally Rev. John
Hall, "who dispenses gilded religion to
$500, 100000 every Sunday morning
the miserable, fostering, con
temptible whelp." Reverence, it seems,
is not among Dennis weaknesses. Til
den, too, the gentle, honest old reformer
excited the wrath of the sand lots era
tor. He was described as "thc poiti-
cal devil-fsh, with his false teeth,
false wig, false heart and false
fraud, the election fraud, the fraud of all
frauds Further along in the speech
Dennis discharged a regular broadside, a
sort of Gatling gun volley of epithets.
Capitalists and the politicians of the
great parties Were punched as murder
ers of the people, assassins of virtue and
morality and deserters of the race; land
pirates, watersharks, railway highway
men, stock-skinners, plundering blood
hounds who fatten on corruptlons;
those who corner grain; those who
corner the produce of labor, black.legs,
thimble-riggers, Peter Funks, perjured
Judges, false swearers, blood-sucking
shysters, journalistic harlots who open
their stink-pot batteries against human
ity, and cancer-breeding editors
of the black-paged newspapers. 1t
is with some surprise that we learn that
editors live like princes of the house
of Munster" That is an item of news
which has escaped US. But Dennis is
not yet exhausted He resumes with
something about diverted tlunkies,
pimps Of perjury, mining stock gamb-
lers, corn and cotton gamblers, white
livered national bank smashers, Shy
lockian grabbers of pounds of flesh,
lecherous bond holders, Chinese slave
drivers, brainless snobs and fashionable
frauds, the nasty pole cats of the Union
club, the Union league, the Manhattan,
the knickerbocker, the Lotos, the Uni.
versity club "a voice-Captain Viii
liam's club and all their lazy, drunken,
red-eyed, long cared mouldy headed
vampires and small Drained lower fiends
whose pestiferous presence testers where
they sit"
The thoughtful reader will cut these
dainty epithets out and file them away
when some "white livered" opponent
makes an attack on him.
We suppose Mr.. Kearney regards
such mass of verbal garbage as elo.
quence, but he will find that eastern
laboring men, educated in our schools,
have too much refinement and sense to
approve of his violent language. What
Mr.. Kearney said in favor of assassina.
ton in Europe we need not repeat, but
it is certain that it met with but little
favor from his audience Indeed, it
would be an insult to the intelligence
of the laboring men Of the east to sup.