The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-11-04
MACVEAGH ON EGAN.
The Former Only Quoted the New York
Tribuue's Opinion.

The Former Only Quoted the New Yorl
Tribune's Opinion.
Some of the republican papers are try
ing to make it appear that Wayne Mac
Neagh was sadly ''done up" by Pat Egan
They ought to prove it by the following
TO the Hon. Patrick Egan-Dear Sir
| am glad to see that you intend at last
even after nine years-to reply to the
attacks upon your character, but | am
sorry that you persist in calling them my
attacks, and this falsehood leads me to
fear that you may repeat the other false
hood that my statement that your ap.
pointment was an insult to Chill, was in
tended as a reflection upon you because
you were born in Ireland. Because if
you will abandon these two sheer and
absolute ~falsehoods. ! give you the full.
lest liberty to abuse me to any extent or
say anything about me you choose. For
what you say of me cannot possibility do
me the least harm. and would really be
to my mind, a kind of eulogy of me.
"As ] furnished IN my speech at Coop
er Union the exact dates when Mr.. Reid
and the Tribune made their very serious
and repeated attacks upon your charac-
ter. you will, | trust. see how necessary
it is for you to treat them as his attacks.
not mine, and to answer him and not me;
and if you answer him satisfactorily you
need not bother about me: and you must
pardon me for saying | never even heard
of you till the Tribune gave me the in
formation, and have neither desire nor
reason to think Ill of you except what is
due TO the Tribune ~denunciation of you.
If you can convict Mr.. Reid and the
Tribune OF falsehood in making them, l
will accept your justification with pleas
ire, but | must continue to think you
we're rather tardy in so grave and precious
a matter.
And then abandon the false p~retense
that my objection to you was because
you are an Irishman. You see that pre-
tense is childish MS well as false. for |
am a good deal of an Irishman myself,
as we'll as a councillor, though | regret
to say, without pride, OF the Hibernian
society of this city. while some of my
best friends have been Irishmen. My
sole object was because Mr.. Reid and the
Tribune said you were not an honest
man. and | dislike a dishonest man no
matter where he was born. If hat ac-
cusatiOn is not true, then | have no OBJ
lection whatever to you.
After all you may say you must con
TESS you had justified people in forming
a very unfavorable judgment of you.
You remained silent, so far as | ever
heard, for nine long years under Mr..
Reid's statements in the Tribune that
you were a sham patriot and that you
could give no satisfactory explanation of
what you had done with $4,000 which
had been intrusted to your care for the
Irish cause. And then. so far as | know.
you remained quiet twelve long months
under the additional attacks upon you
in the Tribune saying that you were
sure to be recalled, and that a new
American representative at the CHILEAN
capital was urgently needed and, far
worse, that you had once fled to avoid
arrest and trial on a very serious Grim
inal charge
you meekly Endorsed all these charges
and. to my ~amazement, you graced Mr..
Reds porch a week ago advocating his
election to the vice-presidency, though,
to my mind. practically confessing the
truth of his accusations of you On
the next evening therefore felt at per
feet liberty to call your appointment an
insult to Chill. So you see. Mr.. Egan,
it does not at all matter what opinion
you entertain of me, or what you say
about me. The only questions which
can interest the country are these:
Are the accusation of Mr.. Reid in the
Tribune against you true? If they were
not true. why did you wait SD long be-.
fore refuting them: And why do you
divert your attack from the real source
of your troubles to me. whose only Of
Tense is that of believing what MI. Reid
and the Tribune told me about you.
If you can give me satisfactory an
swers to these three questions l have
asked you. you will be completely vim
dicated, but nothing else will be, be-
lieve me, or any real service to you.
WAYNE MACVEACH."
Philadelphia, Pa. Oct. D.. 1892.