Show AN EXCHANGE credits the San Francisco flannelmouthed agitator Denis Kearney J with applying to Elaine the title of Plumed Knight Our contemporary is In error It was that eloquent pagan Bob In gersoll who gave to the Maine statesman the title which will cling to him till death and thereafter the mention of Blames name will recall the white plumed It was in the Cincinnati convention of 1876 in hi nominating speech the most eloquent ever heard in a Republican convention that Inger I soil used the expression as follows 1 Like an armed warrior like a plumed knight James a Elaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen forehead of every assailant assail-ant of his country and maligner of its honorFor the Republican patty to desert that gallant man is as though an army should desert tin ir general upon the field of battle We believe that Kearney on the occasion of his pilgrimage to the shrine of Butler a few years ago un aertock to apply the title to bluff old Ben but made an awful fist of it gelting half a dozen phrases which he had stolen from others mixed and jumbled together in such a way as t 3 disgust even Butler himself |