Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-24
PATRICK EGAN.
The President OF the Irish Ma
tional League Repudi-
ates Cleveland.
In q 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 Land 1!esgqe. to the press of Lincoln Neb.. ex-
"LNco1N, Neb., Sept. I, 1884.
"To the Editor of the State yourmG!:
9op1 contemporary: the Datly State Dene1
as consider most unwarrantablv and unfairly,
to my political opinions, now refuses, contrary
to all recognized rules Of decent journalism. to
send you herewith the letter which addressed
TO that journal in full, aud beg You will do me
the , favor of placing it before the public Yours
LINCOLN Neb.. Sept. 8. 1884.
Editor Of the Daily State Democrat.
SIR: For the second time within the last
tn three weeks weeks you have DRAGGED my name into
ent moment have never spoken publicly or
written single word to give you as journalist
any ground for SO doing Before the late Bos.
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
cause happened to be an Irishman, weighed
with care and deltberation the merits Of the two
Presidential candidates, and came to the con-
a a @ Nh
Cleveland have my support. The case Of Mr..
John Devoy, on which you so persistently harp.
and which you have again and again referred to
ss the only ground Of my opposition to Mr.:
jectionss which I entertained to that gentle
man: did indeed consider the treat
kind, and as . strong evidence Of either the
hostility and contempt of Mr.. Cleveland for
1rishmen Of national opinions but objected
the London Times, the London Stan dard. the
London Daily Telegraph, the London Daily
Neaos, the London st. James Gazette, the
London Saturday Reuie,c-in fact, of the en-
candidate Of Puck and Harper's Weekly, as
the author OF innumerable vetoes in the interest
OF the great monopolies and as man who had,
every just right Of the toiling millions. OBJ
the words Of the Boston Pilot. straight out
quality to ft him for the Presidency OF the
United States I had made up my mind to
support Mr.. Blaine, because from long observa-
posite of all this, as an American of Americans,
man among men, as an able statesman fitted
by nature and culture and experience to fill
TO the ~ and to the
were few Of the grounds of my objection
to your candidate and my, preference for Mr..
6b,ane and as have bef4Fe stated they
public by me. nor would they be now If you had
not compelled me by your unfair comments and
by your unworthy sneer at Irish wisdom to
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 as long as I hold the Office.
This is my position. 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 I pay to the hon
Ored mother of the man whom am proud to
be able to claim as personal friend, as well as
co-wOrker in the cause Of Ireland, Charles
Stewart Parnell, and am sure she will not mis-
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-
sire OF her son, by keeping his name entirely out
OF the present political contest. Yours truly,
"PATRTCK EGAN0