The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-09-18
PATRICK EGAN.
The President OF the Irish Ma
tional League Repudi-
ates Cleveland.
In Vigorous Letter He Gives the Rea-
sons That Impel Him to
Such Course.

The following correspondence Of Patrick
Egan, the recently elected President OF the Irish
Land League, to the press OF Lincoln, Neb., ex-
plains itself:
LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 4, 1884
To the Editor OF the State Journal:
Your contemporary. the Daily State Demo
as consider most unwarrantablv and unfairly,
TO my political opinions, now refuses, contrary
to all recognized rules OF decent journalism, TO
publish any but garbled copy OF my reply, l
send you herewith the letter which | addressed
to that journal in tull, aud beg you will do me
the favor OF placing 1t before the public; Yours
truly, PATRICK EGAN."
LINCOLN, Neb., Sept 3, 1884.
Editor OF the Daily State Democrat.
SIR: For the second time within the last
three weeks you have dragged my name into
the political campaign. although up to the pres
ent moment have never spoken publicly or
written single word TO give YOU as journalist
any ground for 30 doing. Before the late Bos-
ton convention of the Irish National League
had as the result of close observation and care
full research made up my mind that there ex-
listed no good grounds by which the Democratic
party should hold any mortgage on my vote be-
cause happened to be an Irishman. / weighed
with care and elaboration the merits of the two
Presidential candidates, and i came to the con-
olusion that neither as an lrishman nor as an
adopted citizen of America could MIR. Grover
Cleveland have'my support. The case OF Mr..
John Dewey, on which You SO persistently harp,
and which You have again and again referred to
as the only ground OF my opposition TO Mr.
Cleveland. was only one of the many OBJ
jections which / entertained to that gentle
man. did indeed consider the treat
ment melted to Mr.. Dewey of the very basest
kind, and as strong evidence Of either the
hostility and contempt of Mr.. Cleveland for
irisbmen or national, opinions, but / objected
also TO Mr.. Cleveland as the pet candidate OF
the London Times, the London Standard, the
London Daily Telegraph, the London Ddity
Ne,cS, the London So. James Gazette, the
London Saturday Recie,c-in fact, OF the en-
tire English press / objected to him as the pet
candidate OF Puck and Hdrper's Weekly, as
the author OF iunumerable vetoes in the interest
OF the great monopolies, and a. man who had,
IA i believed. proved hims the enemy OF
every just right of the toiling millions. l OBJ
jected to Mr.. Cleveland because i felt that in
the words of the Boston Pilot, a straight out
and-out Democratic organ, he has not a single
quality to fit him for the Presidency of the
United States. / had made up my mind to
support Mr.. Blaine, because from long observa-
ton had come to regard him as the very op-
posite OF all this, as an American of Americans,
a man among men, as an able statesman htted
by nature and culture and experience TO NIL
with credit to the country and 10 himself the
position of President Of this great nation These
were a few of the grounds of my objection
10 your candidate and my preference for Mr..
Blaine, and, as | have before stated, they
have never. up to this present time, been made
public by me, nor would they be now IL you had
not compelled me by your unfair comments and
by your unworthy sheer at Irish wisdom 10
state them. When, however, at Boston j ac-
cepted the Presidency of the Irish National
League | considered that whatever my private
opinion might be was then precluded from
taking any active part in American politics.
Accordingly have abstained from taking any
part, nor shall i as long as l hold the office.
This is my position. 1 must beg you, therefore,
to spare me the trouble of any further contra
dictions or corrections on this subject With
regard to your quotation from speech of Mrs.
Parnell: yield to no one on this side OF the
Atlantic in the respect which pay to the hon
ored mother of the man whom am proud TO
be able to claim as personal friend, as well as
a co-worker in the cause of Ireland, Charles
Stewart Parnell, and am sure she will not mis-
understand me when / state my conviction that
she would best consult the welfare of the great
movement in which she and are interested
and in my belief she would best consult the de-
OF the present political contest. Yours truly.
PATRICK EGAN."