The Portland daily press., 1892-10-28
HOT SHOT FOR lIACVEAGH.
He Declares Judge Gresham Able and
Without Reproaeh.
THE JUDGE LESS FLATTERING IN
SPEAKING OF MAC VEAGH.

calls Law Suit in Which Judge Gre
sham Declared, in Effect, That Mac
veagh Had Entered Into Conspiracy
the Way, Denies the Report Which
Aroused Macveagh's Admiration.
New YORK, October 27.-The Repub-
lican National Committee issues the fol
lowing manifesto:
"Last Monday morning, Wayne Mac
Veagh addressed an open letter to an
eminent Republican Irishman (Minister
Patrick Egan) accusing him of misap-
propriating the Irish Land League fund,
and saying, I do not like dishonest
man, no matter where he was born
"On Wednesday, October 10Th, Mr..
| MacVeagh delivered a Democratic
speech in Cooper Union in this city, and
in commenting on the report that Judge
Gresham had decided to vote for Cleve-
land (Which report has since been de-
MED by Judge Gresham himself) Mr..
MacVeagh said of the Judge: From
his birth to this hour his life has been
absolutely without suspicion of any act
which was not honorable In his judi
cial office he has been able, brave and
without reproach.'
''On Saturday, October 18th, Mr.. Mac
Veagh delivered a Democratic speech in
Philadelphia, saying, among other things
that he had been Republican until after
the election of President Harrison. But
he said; All my hopes were disappoint-
ed. and from that day to this the convic-
tion has been steadily growing in my
mind that the general tendency of the
Republican party was not only inimical
to the best interests of the country, but
unless checked was sure to result in
making the poor poorer and the rich
more selfish and corrupt and less patli-
otic.
1T thus appears from
Mr. Mac veaghs Own Assertions,
first, that he has an intense adherence
of dishonest men; second, that he has
absolute confidence in the integrity of
Judge Gresham, both as man and as a
judge, and third, that he has left the
Republican party because it is not good
enough for him.
''In these circumstances it is thought
important to call the attention of the
country to the text of decision rem
dered by Judge Gresham on July %,
1856, in the case of William T. Carter
against the city of Ottawa. This was a
case in which Carter, through Wayne,
| MacVeagh as his attorney, brought an
action against the city of Ottawa, ILL.,, to
recover $4,000, the face value of 40
bondsissued by that city and owned by
| Carter, on which payment had been re-
| fused because the Supreme Court of the
| United States had declared the bonds il
| legal, and because it was held that Car
| ter was not an innocent holder of the
| bonds. On the trial of the case, as will
be seen from the text of Judge Gre
| sham's decision, the circumstances under
which Carter became possessed of the
bonds were as follows:
ssMrs. Louisa Mather, connection by
| marriage of Franklin MacVeagh, Wayne
| MacVeaghs brother, was the original
owner of the bonds. Mrs. Mather con-
suited Franklin MacV9agh as to how she
! might be able to recover on them.
Franklin MacVeagh placed Mrs. Mathers S
agent, l.. I'll. Eames, in connection with
| Wayne MacV Veagh, and Eames. retained
| Wayne MacVeagh as Mrs. Mather's coun-
sci with full power to proceed as seemed
| to him best to collect on the bonds from
the city of Ottawa. MacVeagh did not
| bring an action against the municipality
| in Mrs. Mather's name. Instead he sent
| for William L. Carter, a wealthy client
of his, for whom he had made numerous
| investments, and to whom he then sus-
tanned the relation of an attorney and
general legal adviser
/ NVacVaaUl, Told Carter
that the municipality was able to pay its
debts, and would pay the bonds on
maturity, emitting, so far as the evidence
shows, to say anything about their
validity having been impeached by the
| courts He sold the bonds to Carter, re-
ceiving for them $4,000, their face value.
| Then when the bonds fell due and pay
ment on them was refused, MacVeagh
brought an action in Carter's name
against the municipality, claiming Carter
| to be an innocent holder. The money he
had received from Carter for the bonds
he did not deliver to Mrs. Mather, but
retained it in his possession during the
| pendency of the action.
s.Judge Gresham decided that Mac
v eaSn knew I1dU Vic JULIUS WClO IiOeeol,
that he conveyed them to Carter with
this knowledge, that he acted in that
transaction as Carriers adviser and at
| torneyr that his claim that he was not
Carter's counsel in the matter was false
and secret intention;' that his reten-
ton of the money, instead of remitting
it to Mrs. Mather, clearly disclosed a
purpose to return it to Garter unless he
could recover of the city of Ottawa; that
ANY other theory would make Mr.. Mac
Veagh unnindful of this duty to Mrs.
Mather as her attorney and that for
these reasons he was not an innocent
holder of the bonds.
s'In other words, Judge Gresham,
whom Mr.. MacVeagh admits to be all
| that Judge should be declares effectual-
lv that Mr. MacVeagh entered into an
unlawful conspiracy to obtain $50, 900
from the city of Ottawa to which lie
| knew he was not entitled and in view OF
Mr.. Macy eagh's declaration that he so
greatly abhors dishonest man it is
deemed important to inquire in the light
of this decision what he thinks OF him
SELF
| Appended to the Republican National
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