Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-01-28
WEEKLY CHRONICLE.
The FIrnY DENNIS.
How He Tore Up the Miiiionsirss in
New York.

New York.
From Kearney's Speech in New York. q,
I did not intend to deliver speech In
New York had not been prevailed upon
TO do 50; cons qiently have chosen for
my speech tonight THE Coming Empire
and the Downfall Of the Republic" Great
applsuse,) l shall use language suited
to myself -(cries off You,reright,i Dennis"
and Notwithstanding Dennis Kearney
as to the expressions he shall use. My
expression will mott rest easy upon the sor-
did despots ofthe rohber class who live on
Murray Hill. among whom are @. p. Hun
tington, who commenced life in my adopted
state peddling pickaxes and shoveis, etc,
to his heighbors but whoito day is stretch
ing his .blood-stained fangs across the
continent sapping the life's blood'of the
free people and driving them into condi-
tion of slavery. You in New York are
forced to submit to this blathering pirate,
who to-day haunts his Inverted fiunikes in
your faces and hurrahs for the empire.
(Applause Next comes Jim Bennett
(groans, misses and cries of Give 1t to him,
Dennis don't spare him'n-t lep. e-rous
proprietortofN New York Herald (Renewed
misses and greans) He has raised his black
flag againlt every noble principle and
against every honest man-(cries That's
soN)--apd to-day he is SO depraved in his
nature that he. can not find deprsvity
enough on the American continent, con-
sequently he is compelled to transmit his
vile carcass across to Europe-(uprosriou
applause}-tog spend the money that he
flches from the pockest the citizens of
New York City. (Applause.) Next comes
Jay Gould-( Dennis here dropped his
voice to q tone of whitening contempt)-th
lean, lantern jawed and shark-snouted
cormo rsntl Great laughter and applause
Look at him as he crawls likea reptile cur
through Wall street, cruching Sthe bones
Of his victimsl~ This is the honor of the
American aristocrsts. He wants Grant
and the empire. (Hisses / have done
thus far with these three pusillanimous
miserable, wretched lice--(great laughter)
who pale into contempt before that
colossal railroad highway-man and robber,
that bloody figure OF carnage and RUN
who dimes upon the carcass of his victims
and whose mansions are built and cement
cd by the walls and cries and the blood
and the tears of widows and orphans and
those who perish from want and starvation
I refer to the;thief Vanderbilt. He, too,
wants an empire. The next ,upon the list
is Cyrus w. Field (groans and hisses) and
the whole, Field crew. Field wants the
empire. But again we come to the Rev. DR..
John Hall, who dispenses.gilded religion to
$500 600, QUO every Sunday morning. Hall
says, 1t is terriblet it is terrible truly, ter
rible, those awful communists. The mis-
cradle, festering, contemplate whelpl
( Laug hter.). How dare he at this age ofin-
telligence cast stigma upon Gods noblest,
blessed freemen, the working men. But |
last though not least is the devil-fsh |
(laughter) the political devil-fish with his
false teeth false, wig, false heart and false
gizzard-he's got no soul-Qaughter and
cries of God it Dennis")-the fraud, the
cipher fraud, the election fraud, the fraud
of all frauds. Sam Tildens Great applause
laughter, Kisses and groans.) He stands or
sits in his office like a great spider with its
suckers spread out all along the continent,
fixing and oiling the machine, Yon may
seem astonish ed to thin k that Tilden wants
the empire, but he is one of the play -actorsin
this great drama that o-day is being work.
ed unknown to both you and me. He and
all his kind are being used with o perfect
understanding that the epubiican nomi
nee will be iraugurated If not elected, and |
the interests of Tilden are Identical with the |
interests of the leaders of the Republican |
party,