The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-24
MACvRAaH JUMPS ON EaAN.
He Anticipates Reply to His Recent



He Anticipates Reply to His Recent
Speech.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 23.-The following
letter was handed to the Associated Press
this evening:
o the Hon. Patrick Eodn;
DEAR SRI am glad TO see that you intend q,
at last, even after nine years, to reply TO
the attacks upon your character. but am
sorry TO see that you persist in calling them my
attacks; and this falsehood leads me to fear
that you may repeat the other fasehood, that
my statement that your appointment was an
insult to Chile, WAS intended as a reflection on
you because you were born Ireland. Now IL
you will abandon these two sheer and
absolute falsehoods 1 give you full liberty to
ABUSE me to the fullest extent or say anything
about me you choose, for what you say of me
cannot possibly do me the least HARM and
would really be, to my mind a kind OF euogy
OF me. AS | furnished IN my speech at Cooper
Irt0une made their very serious and repeated
attacks upon your character, you will | trust
see now necessary it is for you to treat them as
MS attacks, not mlns, and to answer
him and not me. And If you answer
him satisfactorily you need not bother
about me as you must pardon me for saying
ever ever heard Of you until the Tribune gave me
the information, and have neither desire nor
reason to think Ill of you except as due TO the
1r6~neS denunciation OF you. IL you
can convict Mr.. Reid and The Tribune
OF falsshood in making them, I will
accept your justification with pleasure.
But must continue to think you were rather
tardy in so grave and serious q matter. And
then do abandon the false pretense that my OBJ
You You see that PretenSo is childish as well as
q an fFIsnman an myself a! t0'3 we'll 01si "a
without nav nf the HiharD eociarv ~ this
city, while some of the best friends Of my life
have been Irishmen. MY objection TO you was
solely because Mr. Reid and the Tribune said
you were not an honest man, and don't like n
dishonest man, no matter where he is born. IL
that accusation Is untrue. then have no OBJ
lection whatever to you. Whatever you may
say now, you must confess you had justified the
people in forming very unfavorabe judgment
OF you. You remained silent SO far as ever
heard, for nine long years under Mr.. Reid'5
statement in the Tribune that you we're a
sham patriot" and that you could give no
satisfactory explanation Of what you had done
with $4,000, which had been ntrused TO your
care for the Irish cause. And then so far as
know, you remained silent twelve long months
under additional attacks upon you in tho 7Yib-
u1e, saying you were sure to be recalled, and
that "a new American representative at the
Chilean capital wars urgently needed, " and, far
worse, that you had once fed TO avoid arrest
and trial on a very serious criminal charge. ="
Now, all the Irishmen | know and
esteem, and there are very many OF
them, IL so attacked would have
called Mr.. Reid and the Tribune TO prompt and
stern account, requiring them either to prove
their charges or 20 retract them. But you,
alas, did neither. On the contrary, you meekly
endured all these charges and, to my amaze
ment, you appeared on Mr.. Reid's porch week
ago advocating his election to the vice presi-
dency, thus, to my mind, practically coufeSsinR
the truth of his accusation against you. on
the next evening therefore felt perfect lib.
erty to call your appointment an insult 20
Chile. WAYNE MACVEAGH.