America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 425 The end of offending American journalists in the 19th century
Dennis quickly gathered a group of members of the California Labor Party, and aggressively rushed to the meeting place of the Labor Knights two streets away.

Different from their deserted atmosphere, there are huge crowds of people here.

Hawley was delivering his speech on a small stand made of temporary piles of boxes:

"The situation today is grim, the enemy is powerful, and they are trying to divide us! Disintegrate us!"

"Only by uniting all the forces that can be united! Can we have the capital to fight against them!"

"This is not without success. In the coal mine in Shiquan Town, we increased the wages of workers and realized an eight-hour working day!"

"Further afield, in New Mexico, what we used to think of as the frontier is on the rise, where workers earn more, live better, and live with more dignity."

Hawley's presentation was passionate and accessible.

Dennis and his people stood behind the crowd, watched him coldly finish his speech, and received warm applause.

The workers gradually dispersed.

Dennis stepped forward with people:
"What do you mean? Fuck me?"

Holly was communicating with Duncan, when he heard this, he raised his head.

"What's wrong? You are only allowed to talk nonsense, but I am not allowed to spread ideas?" Holly asked with a smile.

"You can fool others, you can fool me?" Dennis narrowed his eyes, and looked at Holly, who smiled harmlessly, "Do you think you can subvert the dominant position of white people in the labor movement with the help of those Chinese laborers? "

"Narrow." Holly shook his head, "I respect you as a senior, but please don't judge the heart of a gentleman with the heart of a villain."

"It's a proverb from China," he added.

"Hmph, one joke after another, are you going to Harvard University?" Dennis didn't want to continue entangled in this issue.

"You'd better be careful, I'm not Cronin, and the Workers' Party is not those small labor unions before. If you want to treat us the same way you treated them, you will face the cruelest counterattack!"

He finished his harsh words and was about to leave.

However, suddenly someone stopped him from behind.

"Mr. Dennis! I heard that you are not willing to accept my request for a duel, so what about the debate? Do you dare to start a debate with me in public?"

Dennis turned his head and found a black-haired, yellow-skinned Chinese man in a suit walking out from behind Holly.

Compared with other Chinese workers, he appears to be refined and refined.

He was a little puzzled.

I didn't seem to have seen this person before, but he seemed to know me.

"My name is Wang Qingfu, sir. I am the one who challenged you in the Boston Post. I made a special trip across the United States from New York to San Francisco to find you."

Dennis snorted:
"You are not worthy to argue with me, you are just a low-class person who eats rats."

"Mr. Dennis, why don't you have a debate, our readers want to see it." The reporter from the "San Francisco Pravda" who interviewed him yesterday appeared from nowhere.

"I've been looking for you everywhere!"

Seeing the reporter, Dennis immediately lost his temper. He stepped forward and grabbed the reporter by the collar.

"Let go." The reporter stared at him coldly.

"Why are you writing nonsense everywhere? Did you collect money from them?" Dennis pointed at Holly and Wang Qingfu.

"No, why should I charge them money?" The reporter said without the slightest fear, "I wrote this, why did I tell you?"

In fact, he simply wanted to sell more newspapers for the newspaper to have more highlights.

Mr. Hanif of the Frontier Detective Agency provided him with clues here.

Journalists just write in the usual way.

He didn't think there was anything wrong with what he did.

"I don't believe it!" Dennis still refused to let go, "You newspapers will do anything for money, San Francisco reporters, there is nothing good."

Dennis hadn't read much, and he could barely read newspapers.

He now extremely regrets letting this reporter interview him.

"Let go, Dennis!" Holly took two steps forward.

The Workers' Party members behind Dennis also leaned forward.

Both sides are at war.

Dennis glanced left and right, but still let go of the reporter's collar.

He patted the reporter's clothes: "Very good, very good, I found the Labor Knights as a backer, let's wait and see."

After giving the reporter a hard look, Dennis left with the workers.

Hawley walked up to the reporter: "Are you okay?"

"It's okay." The reporter stared at Dennis's back, and said bitterly, "Let me wait and see? He deserves it too!"

Dennis was on the way back, discussing with the people around him how to deal with the Labor Knights.

He was completely unaware of the seriousness of offending the American media in this era.

As a low-level Irish person who has not received much education, he is too ignorant of the horror and narrow-mindedness of those reporters.

Over the next few days, the words of Labor leader Dennis that "there's nothing good about San Francisco journalists" spread throughout San Francisco's media circles.

Thus, the verbal criticism of Dennis began.

".Dennis once again avoided a duel with Mr. Wang Qingfu! His mental state was extremely worrying, and he claimed that he could eat rats!."

".Dennis was at a disadvantage in a head-to-head confrontation with Moody, the new leader of the California Labor Knights, so he decided to resort to violence!."

All kinds of speeches emerged in an endless stream, as newspapers spread everywhere in San Francisco.

In the beginning, it was only the "San Francisco Pravda" reporter and his colleagues who were dissatisfied with Dennis and launched an attack.

But as more and more reports were published, everyone suddenly found that the name "Dennis" had become a hot topic.

As long as it is related to it, the citizens love to read it very much, and the sales of the newspaper are very good.

He is the "top class" in San Francisco at this stage!
The editors of the San Francisco newspaper were ecstatic.

They no longer have to worry about having nothing to write!
A reporter was sent to interview and was kicked out by Dennis and members of the Workers' Party.

good!There are headlines in the newspaper tomorrow.

".Dennis and the California Labor Party led by him are a cancer growing in San Francisco! They brazenly attacked journalists who dared to expose the truth!"

But if you are driven, you have to queue up.

Therefore, the excavation of Dennis's personal settings began to be carried out step by step.

The reporters used their various contacts and resources to dig up Dennis' history and gossip from childhood to adulthood.

".Dennis was born in a poor Irish family, only went to elementary school, his father was an alcoholic, he often beat him, and instilled in him the concept of violence since he was a child"

".Junior Dennis' grades were not satisfactory. After he came to San Francisco, he rented a house. The landlady was a young woman who lived alone"

By the end of the newspaper, it was completely impossible to tell the truth from the fake.

Some things that even Dennis himself didn't know appeared in the newspapers.

When he held a rally again, Dennis found that there were not many workers who came to participate, and most of them were reporters from the newspaper.

No one wanted to hear what he said about the Chinese.

Talking about it for more than ten years is too boring.

"Mr. Dennis, why don't you talk about what happened between you and the landlady back then." A reporter shouted loudly from the outside.

As soon as he finished speaking, there was echoing voice around him.

"Get out! You all get out!"

Dennis was hysterical and furious.

(End of this chapter)