Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-10-27
TIE 1RIsR-AMERIoAN vOrE.

One Of the most brazen frauds of the
campaign is the attempt of the Repub-
lican managers 20 make capital out OF
Hon. WAYNE MAcVEAGH's reply to
EGAN's attack upon him, by showing
EGAN forward on WHITELAw REDS
porch to accuse Mr.. MAcVEAGH and
the Democratic party Of attacking him
(EGAN) because he is an lrishman. II
more false and absurd charge than
this was ever made we have not heard OF
it. Mr.. MAoVEAGH made no charges.
He simply repeated the charges against
EGAN made By REID from whose resi-
dence EGAN spoke in advocacy OF
REDS election-charges that EGAN has
not yet answered.
On March 18th, 1888. Mr.. REID said
IN the Tribune that Mr.. EGAN had not
answered Lady FLORENCE DIxIE'S
charge that there was discrepancy OF
sl9O. 600 in his accounts. He intimated
that on account of this discrepancy
EGAN had fled to America, and con-
cluded thus:
10 is a pity he should come so far and
! have nothing satisfactory 70 say when he
! reaches here. The collection OF Irish pa
triOts in this country is getting large, aud
/ if Mr.. Parnell comes over next month with
several of his colleagues il will be imposing
l s@ufNv fe
object of this combined descent on Amer
| icsl Is there 10 be a grand revival at
tempted OF the dropping interest IN irish
AFFAIRS and a new fund called for2 II so,
will the masses of the American-Irish con-
tribute lust as freely 70 the new fund as
thev did 10 the old, in spite Of the undis-
PEELED doubt about where good deal OF
the money in the first hes gone! Possibly;
the Irish are peculiar people, ana easily
led by sham patriots.
Only last year the Tribune insisted
that "a new representative at the Chill
can capital is urgently needed"
Later its London CORES ondent wired
and the Tribune printed the charge that
Mr.. EGAN mad fed the country Eng
land to avoid arrest and trial on d very
serious criminal charge"
A vast majority OF Irish-American
citizens are Democrats and it has not
been Mr. MAcVEAGH nor any Demo
crat nor anybody but WHITELAw REID
who has attacked EGAN, "because he is
an Irlshman." Mr.. Reds opinion Of
Irish-American citizens was thus given
in the Tribune OF December Is, 1883:
Perhaps one OF these days American
/ Congressman and other officials will
awaken to the sense that this is an Anerl-
can Government and that there As a vote
! still stronger than the irish vote in which
/ il becomes them TO take little interest.
/ The Irish influence in questions Of an IN
/ ternatiOual character is directly hostile TO
I the United States, and il is one of the most
| serious dangers against which we have TO
provide.
Again, he said that the faction in
power in this country was devoted ex-
cIusively to ireland and to Irish assas-
sins"
Aud again:
The plain truth is that where the real or
supposed interests OF ireland are con-
! cer6ed, a large and noisy faction Of the
uaturalized irish IN the United States are
disloyaI il not treacher0us TO the adopted
country 10 which they have sworn fidelity;
but politicians and newspapers are afraid
/ 10 say so.
And yet to-day REID is trying, with
the aid OF BLAINE's appointee, namely,
EGAN, to capture what he calls "the
Irish vote" through the utterances of a
man who has never replied, as an hon
est man certainly would, to Reds
charge that he was not only "a sham
patriot" but deiaulter.