Show WHAT THEY THINK OF HIM the tile san F francisco ran cisco chronicle has never made pretensions of being a pious journal or even one of overly religious proclivities it is on the contrary of a pronounce pronounced d liberal character strongly attached to the cause of freedom of thought speech and worship still it knows the limit where liberty ceases and license begins and makes a distinction between freethinkers free thinkers and tinkers of free thought thus it by no means takes stock in D M bennett the itinerant editor of an infidel new york journal who is about terminating a trip around the world under tho the heading of bennetts brass band and the buncombe com be Brethren the chronicle reports in its tuesday issue a public reception given to bennett as follows A man called D SI IM bennett who lias has served a term in the albany penitentiary furd caling in licentious lit R creature cra ture talked haltingly lial tingly to an audience elice ol 01 of cranks in platts hall last nig bt having served out his sentence bennett it appears lias has been vagabond izing through europe and asia thanks to tho the contribution of those of his followers who believed ho lie needed a little fresh air looked upon as a martyr to the cause use of license under th the name of f freedom breedom cre edom the members of a queer body saling styling itself the liberal league of san francisco ran determined to give the ex convict a reception on his arrival on this city that reception taking the form of the public meeting referred to the proceedings were erratic ec musical and melancholy after a narrative of the preliminaries the reporter furnishes the following I 1 ow ing denand pe pen nand and ink sketch of the lion of the day ire ile proved to bo be a little old person with black panties cut short so as to show how low shoes and a good deal of white sok bald licad gra gray beard heavy lids and small eyes ily in n fact a pei perfect feet specimen oran of an sniff in the fashion of a panorama lecture rho briefly recounted what lie had seen abroad was generally uninteresting te and mildly atheistic there was an evident feeling of disappointment in the audience which had hoped to hear something naughty nauF lity ty and not even three cheers and and the liberal use of the big drum restored its enthusiasm the picture drawn bythe by the chronicle reporter is not the most flattering that might be limned limbed of its accuracy as far as cis the personnel of the notorious liberal is concerned wo we will be better able to judge when the gentleman arrives in tin this s city as is 13 intended in regard to the strictures on benners Ben bennetts career it cannot be gainsaid gain said that he lie has laid himself open to his own imprudence and by a 0 verbose vin vindictiveness against his unjust persecutors which is neither liberal humane nor philosophical however strenuously lie claims these adjectives jec tives |