The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-10-25
EGAN IN REPLY
Tho Gentieman From chm Jumps on
WAYNE MMCYengh.

NEW YORK, Oct, @.--Patrlck Egan, min
lister to Chill. to-day made pu bio his reply
to the recent speech OF Wayne MaoVeagh
rejecting on Epnn's character and official
fitness. In it Egan says. in pat: II per
ceive by the daily press that at a meeting in
Cooper Union under the auspicss Of the
democf attic clubs Of New York. you, a rem
esade from your party, as you are said to
DO from your people and creed. you attempt
to ~ralliate your apostacy by undertaking TO
do that which the London Times failed to
aocomplish--to besmiroh my good name.
With the adroitness OF u police court petit
fogeer, you, under pretext OF refe ring to
something that some body else said, assail
me, first. as a 'scoundrel,' who failed to 40.
count for a large trust fund placed in
his charge Second, you say it was
we'll known at Washington when he was
appointed what the charges were, aud that
he had fled the country to avoid arrest and
trial ON a very serious criminal charge
Third, you describe me as a sham patriot
and a fugitive from criminal Justice TO
which you are pleased to add that you were
greatly surprised and Disguised to End such
a man selected to represent the country in
a high diplomatic post. and that you not
only reasserted your statement that my ap-
pointment was an insult to Chile but that
you also considered it an insult to every
self-respecting Irishman in the United
States
II should treat those coarse md cowardly
insults, coming as they do from one of the
last s%tragglers Of the retreating know-noth-
ings, who find there ia no place for them in
the republican party, with the same con-
tempt I have shown for all attacks in the
English and American pro British press.
were it not that they we're spoken at a meet
ing at which figured rs vice presidents such
names as L. i. Gilroy, VIM. II. Grace, j. j.
O'Donoghue. John d. Cfimmins and 9TH
ers, and that it ia reported that your words
we're received with loud cheering. am
convinced that in the entire ranks of the
republican party there could not be found
a single man who would make upon the
character of any Irish American 80 wanton,
foul and %unfounded an attack. as
you nave made upon me, but
if such one could be iound
stances, assail in like manner in my pres
ence any of the gentlemen have named
above. / will simply say there woald not be
in New York CITY any hall sufficiently large
to contain him and me. l would publicly
bring him to order and either he or | should
leave the building. In your great desire to
assail me. you have been forced, / perceive.
to fall back entirely upon my connection
with the Irish movement in Ireland. To
the Irish race here and in the old land, my
course in that connection needs no vlndi-
cation"
& l. uEh AV kCCo oA w ony " ehV AAASA tAu
ton OF his American friends he quotes
from the report of the auditors of the land
league Juno concerning his resignation as
treasurer, in which they certify that every
item is fully and satisfactorily vouohed,
and bears testimony to the systematic and
sine like name in which the accounts
we're kept by Egan. Secondly, there was
never a formal charge made against hin
by the English government, the only crimi-
nal charges being those made by a hostile
press, based upon the Plgott forReries, and
those were fully investigated by the Par
we'll known result.
1.-THE London Times lost by this transac-
tion,' says MIR. Eaan, lin damages and
costs the enormous sum of 4216, 900 sterling.
Three months later Macdonald, principal
owner of the Times, died from worrying,
and for two years the thunderer paid no
dividend"
With regard to being a sham patriot and
a fugitive from criminal justice. Mr.. Egan
leaves the first part of the charge to the
judgment of his Irish-American fellow
citizens, and to the second part pleads
guilty of being a fugitive in the same way
as were Thomas Adds Emmett, Richard
O'Gorman and many others, n is sin
cerely proud of having done SO. He calls
attention to the fact that within a sho 3
time after his arrival in this country he was
elected president of the IRISH National
aSnGaC IA luce WhASh. Ill LAO tVt In
of Office. sent to Ireland $3.50, 600. and that
from Ireland was forwarded to him in 1883
a present of a costly service of silver, ac-
by n catering address, signed
by Parnell, MCCARTHY. Davitt, Dillon and
others.
In contra-distinction to your mugwump
says Mr.. Egan. permit me in
conclusion to quote the sentiments express
ed BY President Harrison upon the Irish
love of native land. which you consider
such a grave offence against criminal
JUSTICE In addressing II delegation of
Irish-Americans he said, You are Ameri-
cans, Irish-Americans, and though YOU
have given the concentrated loyalty of your
honest hearts to the starry flag and your
adopted country, you have not forgotten,
and you ought not forget, to revere and
the land of your birth. What if a
spri9 of green was found upon the bloody
jacket of a union soldier who lay dead on
Mission Ridge? The flag he died for was
his flag, and the green only a memory and
Inspiration r.