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We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

Denis Kearney

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Denis Kearney
Age: 60 †
Born: 1847
Born: January 1
Died: 1907
Died: January 1
Drayman
County Cork
Ireland
Denis Kearney
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Form
Power
Dispose
Government
Gilded
Take
Fraud
Must
Toil
Work
Charge
Honest

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