The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-04
FROM SAND LOT TO PALACE.
Orator Denis Kearncy Now Bloated
Aristocrat,

Aristocrat.
Yesterday Denis Kearney bought $40,-
900 worth of wheat. This is the same
Denis Kearney who howled upon the
sand lots in 1S7S-79. The same Denis
Kearney who made capitalists quake
in their shoes. The same Denis Kear-
new who built up a party which elected
the officers in the principal cities of the
state, The same Denis Kearney who
started the cry 1.-The Chinese must go!'
The same Denis Kearney who has for a
time been very nearly dictator Of Cali
fornia.
The followers of this Denis Kearney
once paraded the streets of San Fran
CISCO dragging nooses for the necks
of public officials who displeased them.
This is the same man who made neces-
sary Cor unnecessary the pick-handle
brigade organized to defend property al
the time of the big fire near the Paclhc
Mail dock. This very man made inc
words sand lot" typical of American
agitation. He it was who made kalloch
mayor and Beerstecher railroad COM
missioner.
In those days he might have reached
out and taken any office. he mlgns
have levied blackmail to the extent OF
millions. 1t may be said OF MIN tnat
he refused Office and that he saw MS
power slip away from him without
charge that he had feathered his nest at
the expense of the confidence OF MS
followers. A..
When his name was on half the
tongues of all the United States, Denis
Kearney was drayman-proau VI
shoulder. rough in manner. lo-aay
Denis Kearney is seen about the Pal-
alice hotel and frequently ne wears
gloves At the time of his ascendancy
he had bristling moustache ana &c
meanor that indicated that ne kne" ms
power Now he is smooth shaVen anu
suave, mild and rather retiring, except
when bent on some venture in tine
grain pit Yet this rather care1ull9
eroomed man is the same chap VINO mas
been given as an excuse by every Hih
lionaire who left California to spend
his money in the whirl OF New 1orh
or the ease of Europe. He has dropped
ont of sight for years. Now he is in
a fair way to come to the fore AGAIN
not as a. labor agitator, but as one
of those "bloated bondholders' Whon
he once so vehemently denounced.
AS he sat in the Palace hotel he did
not seem at all the thunderer VINO once
| had attracted thousands TO Tue tnei
vacant lots between the city nan anu anu
| Market street, He was one OF the last
men in view who would have been pick
| ed ont as the champion who shouteu'
| 1.-THE Chinese must go!' he haruly
| would have been selected as the oiie
who gave the name Honorable b,iNs
| to a POLITICAL party in the time or the
fieht IN the new constitution. stran-
| per would have been slow to choose MN
| az the orator who said of the state leg
| is1ature. There is man in the moon
and when, in his nightly rouna, ne
| comes opposite the capitol at SARA
| mento he turns away and holas ms
nose. They used to say elae for
| Hill wrote those bright speeches. aoi
him. but this is the same Denis heai-
| nav to whom Chambers encyclopeui"
| devoted a page and half
"Ah was a fool back there IN tne
DAYS of 1881" he said to an EXAM
| iner man. IT was fool! can ses
how, was used as a cat's-paw by other T
,,an nulled many a chestnut out OIL
The fire for the capitalists and scnemers
when I thought I was benehtlng .hs g
| cause of labor. I'm older now-lili Ut
Kearney doesn't look his age he
| easily could pass for AZ or ~. IN la 49,
he hardly seems as old as ne ola III .ns
| days of his power, "heh liias of ti,a
men looked to him as the savior VI .me
10 horer. and when the capitalists view
ad him with alarm. He is not as STOUT
"a he was. but seems wiry ana Wen.
FOR this man who was doesn ortin
and he doesn't smoke, though ne nus
| not been held up as a Little 1ol,l.s
| Reed model for the youth OF the s'"'e
| or the land. -or.
| Young man I would at once go to Work
| to organize the farmers INTO HiuSI
to handle their wheat. Perhaps l
| couldn't hold them together long enousn
| to do anything except cut their own
throats but Ia try to organi1 1so wan ne ~.
| I'm buying wheat as a buil on tne lliaI
ket, I'm loaded up with it. Bought
| $40 600 worth to-day. I believe that any
man who will buy wheat now and hold
it will make money. l think 1t VIII 60
| no to S1.15 and $1.25 and propaply 70
| sl.5o. I say this on my knoW WE thin ~.
/ conditions. I've gone into the tnlns
| ON my own hook. getting my own ad-
vices and studying the conditions tor
| myself. In this way | was able TO lore
| cast the last government report.
"That is how I made my first money
| in the call board. l looked INTO IN hgs
| for myself, and in the month of Letter S
failIre 7 made s21 900 right here in San
| Francisco
III is reported that you have made
| 5000 900 in your wheat and sugar deals,
| was suggested.
"Ahr' he laughed, '1'll not say
that, but l have enough to live on.
! And you know living doesn't cost me
| very much. / don't spend $50 a month
| on myself My fare is plain, and l
don't drink or smoke.
| .Where do you bank?"
over here at the Crocker-Wooi-
| WORTH
| ''Then you are friendly with the
| Crockers, now--you know you USED 10
| denounce them
| "Oh. I always have been friendly
with the Crocker boys. I never have
been in any deals with them, but we
always stop and chat when we meet;
! For instance, Colonel Fred Crocker toid
me a little while before he died that
he would be gone before year mao
| nassed. 7 occasionally talk with VIII
| Crocker about my ventures, and bank
| with him because I like his banking
methods and the people he employs,
| But, you know, I did not denounee the
railroad magnates as railroad builders