America 1881: Legend of the West

Dennis quickly gathered a group of California Labor Party members and stormed toward the Knights of Labor meeting two streets away.

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

On a small temporary platform made of boxes, Holly was giving his speech:

"Today's situation is serious and the enemy is powerful. They are trying every means 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 a case without success. In the coal mine of Shiquan Town, we increased workers' remuneration and implemented an eight-hour working day!"

“Further afield, in New Mexico, the land we once considered the frontier, is emerging, where workers are earning more, living better, and living with more dignity.”

Hawley's speech was passionate and easy to understand.

Dennis and his people stood behind the crowd and watched coldly as he finished his speech and received warm applause.

The workers gradually dispersed.

Dennis led the people forward:

"What do you mean? Throw me into trouble?"

Holly was communicating with Duncan, and 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 deceive others, can you deceive me?" Dennis narrowed his eyes and looked at Holly, who was smiling harmlessly, "Do you think that with the help of those Chinese workers, you can subvert the dominant position of white people in the labor movement? "

"It's too narrow-minded." Holly shook his head, "I respect you as a senior, but please don't judge a gentleman's belly with a villain's heart."

"This is a proverb from China," he added.

"Humph, one witty line after another, are you going to Harvard University?" Dennis didn't want to dwell on this issue any longer.

"You'd better be careful. I'm not Cronin, and the Workers' Party is not those small trade union groups before. If you want to treat us the same way you treated them, you will receive the most brutal counterattack!"

He finished his harsh words and prepared to leave.

However, someone suddenly called him from behind.

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

Dennis turned his head and saw a Chinese man in a suit with black hair and yellow skin walking out from behind Holly.

Compared with other Chinese workers, he seems gentle and gentle.

He was a little confused.

It seems that I have never seen this person before, but he seems to know me.

"My name is Wang Qingfu, sir. I am the man who challenged you in the Boston Post. I traveled across the entire United States from New York to come to San Francisco to find you."

Dennis snorted:

"You are not worthy of debating with me, you are just a low-class person who eats mice."

"Mr. Dennis, why don't you just have a debate? Our readers would like to see it." The reporter from the San Francisco Pravda who interviewed him yesterday appeared out of nowhere.

"I'm looking for you everywhere!"

When Dennis saw the reporter, he immediately became furious. He stepped forward and grabbed the reporter's collar.

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

"Why are you writing nonsense here and there? Did you take black money from them?" Dennis pointed at Holly and Wang Qingfu.

"No, why should I charge them?" The reporter said without the slightest fear, "Why should I tell you when I write this?"

In fact, he simply wants the newspaper to gain more attention and sell more newspapers.

Mr. Hanif from the Border Detective Agency provides him with clues here.

The reporter just writes 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 can do anything for money. None of the reporters in San Francisco is good."

Dennis hadn't read many books, and he could barely read enough to read a newspaper.

He now extremely regrets allowing this reporter to interview him.

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

The Workers' Party members behind Dennis also came closer.

There was tension on both sides.

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 have found the Knights of Labor as my backer. We will see."

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

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

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

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

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

As a low-class Irishman without much education, he was too ignorant of the horror and pettiness of those reporters.

Over the next few days, Workers' Party leader Dennis's words that "there are no good journalists in San Francisco" spread throughout San Francisco's media circles.

Thus, the verbal attack on Dennis began.

".Dennis once again escaped the 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 the head-to-head confrontation with Moody, the new leader of the California Knights of Labor, so he decided to resort to violence!"

Various comments were made and circulated in newspapers throughout the city of San Francisco.

At the beginning, it was just an attack launched by a reporter from the San Francisco Pravda and his colleagues who were dissatisfied with Dennis.

But as more and more reports were published, everyone suddenly discovered that the name "Dennis" seemed to have become a hot spot.

Citizens love to read anything related to it, and the sales of newspapers are very good.

He is the "top player" in San Francisco at this stage!

The editors of San Francisco newspapers were ecstatic.

They no longer have to worry about running out of things to write!

A reporter was sent to conduct an interview, but Dennis and members of the Workers' Party drove him out.

good! The newspaper has the headline tomorrow.

"Dennis and the California Labor Party he leads are a cancer growing in San Francisco! They brazenly attack journalists who dare to expose the truth!"

But you have to wait in line even if you are kicked out.

Therefore, the exploration of Dennis’s personal personality began gradually.

The reporters used their various connections and resources to uncover the history and gossip of Dennis from childhood to adulthood.

"Dennis was born into a poor Irish family and only attended primary school. His father was an alcoholic and often beat him. He instilled in him the concept of violence since he was a child."

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

By the end of writing what was written in the newspaper, it was impossible to tell the truth from the false.

Things that even Dennis himself didn't know about appeared in the newspapers.

When he held another rally, Dennis found that not many workers came to participate, and most of them were actually newspaper reporters.

No one wanted to hear what he had to say about the Chinese.

I've been talking about it for more than ten years and it's so boring.

"Mr. Dennis, why don't you tell us 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 a chorus of echoes around him.

"Get out! Get out of here all of you!"

Dennis was hysterical and furious.