Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-25
EGAN STRIKES BACK
At MacVeagh in a Manly De.
nial of the Latter's Lately
Restated Charges.
THE FLOPPER is FLAYED
By the Irish-American Whose Love
of Fatherland He Secuted.
THE PROMISED LETTER GIVEN OUT
Without Change, Even if Mr.. NacVeagh
Eid Anticipate It
THE FLOPPER is FLAYED
THE PROMISED LETTER GIVEN OUT
Without Change, Even if Mr.. MacVeagh
Hid Anticipate It.
SOME HARD BLOWS FROM THE SHOULDER

SOME HARD BLOWS FROM THE SHoULDEF
NEW YORK, Oct 24-Minister Patrick
Egan has made his reply to the speech Of
Wayne MacVeagh in this city, which re.
fected on the character and official itnes.
of Mr.. Egan. The reply is in the form Of
an open letter addressed to Mr.. MacVeagh,
which he placed in the hands of the press
bureau of the National Republican Com.
mittee.
The statement that Mr. Egan would make
reply to Mr.. Macveagh's speech had the
effect of drawing from Mr.. MacVeagh an
open letter to Nh. Egan of a caustic nature,
which was published to-day. At the
Gllsey House this morning Minister Egan
said:
'Mr. MacVeagh acts like man with a
bad conscience and rs soon as the fact is
published that am to reply to his rascally
attack on me he rushes into print in an
open letter without waiting to see what L
would say in reply to his charges. His
tactics are those of police court lawyer,
and will not injure me-"
Mr.. Egan on His Own Letter.
Regarding his open letter, given here
with in full, Mr.. Egan said: "In my letter
have endeavored to show that all of Mr..
MacVeagh's charges are false. Without re-
sorting to personal abuse 1 attempt to show
and 1 think successfully-that Mr.. Mac
Veagh does not know what he is talking
about. Among the glaring inaccuracies of
Mr.. MacVeagh is bis repeated reference to
the fund that I handled, and which he
claims was never satisfactorily accounted
for. He puts the amount of that fund at
$780, 600, while as matter of fact it was
s, zoe, 900. That will give you some idea of
how little Mr. MacVeagh knows about a
matter on which he presumes to make q
public speech and print public letter.
Gas have said, every single one OF Mr..
MacVeagh's charges are false, and in my
open letter 1 prove them so by plain
statement of facts and arguments and not
by personal abuse. Mr.. MacVeagh cannot
escape the responsibility of his utterances
by saying that he got his information from
a paper of which Mr.. Reid, the present
candidate for Vice President, is the man.
aging editor. believe nv reply will be a
complete and effective refutation of all
MacVeagh's charges. Regarding Mr.. Mac
Veagh personally, 1 can only say what 1
have said before, that the Democrats are to
be pitied rather than congratulated upon
his entrance to their party"
Egan's Manly Disposal of Macveagh.
The following is the reply of Mr.. Egan
to the Cooper Union speech of Mr.. Mac
Veagh:
GILsEY HOUSE NEW YokK, Oct q, 1892
Mr.. Wayne Macveagh, Philadeluhia:
SRI perceive by the daily press that at a
meeting held in Cooper Union, under the
auspices OF the Democratic Club OF New
York, you, renegade from your party, as
you are said to be from your people and |
tacy by undertaking to do that which the |
London Times, with its battalion of testi- |
mony. chief among which was the notorious |
my good name. With tine adroitness of a |
police court pettyfogger you, under the pre- |
text OF referring to something that some |
body else said, assail me: First, as u "swin- |
dler' who "failed to account for very |
large trust fund placed in his CHARGE" sec |
ond, you say, sit was well known at Wash |
ing1on. when he he was M appointsad, p DIN d. what s the
try to avoid arrest and trial on a very seri- |
Gus criminal charges" third, you describe |
me as "a sham patriot and q fugitive from |
criminal justice" to which you are pleased |
to add that you were greatly surprised and |
disgusted to find such a man selected TO
represent the country in high diplomatic
post, and that you not only reasserted your
statement "that my appointment was an in
suit to Chile" but tnat you considered it
'also an insult to every selfrespecting |
lrishman in the United States"
Why Any Answer at All Is Made.
should treat those coarse and cowardly
insults, coming as they do from one of the
last stragglers of the resreating Know
Not rl,nf fipd hof hare &c
them in the Republican party. with the same
contempt that 1 have shown for all attacks
made in the English and American pro- |
British press, were it not that they were
spoken at q meeting at which figured as
Vice Presidents such names as T. F. Gilroy, |
d. Crlmmins, John c. Sheehan and others,
and that it is reported that your words were
received with loud cheering"
that you should launch ont into those ig-
norant calumnics on the contrary, under
circumstances, l should feel |
greatly entertained, but 1 am amazed and
panied to think that the Gilroys, the Graces,
the O'Donoghues, the CrimminS' and the
Sheehans should have meanly sat in Cooper
Union and patiently listened to you.
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 so
wanton, foul and unfounded an attack as |
you have made upon Inc. and if such II one
could be found, ana he should, under simi.
lar circumstances, assail, in a like manner,
in my presence, amy of the gentlemen
have named, will simply say that there
would not be in New York City any hall !
sufficiently large to contain him and me-
would publicly bring him to order and
either he or should leave the building.
How the Trust Fund Was Handled.
In your great desire to assail me YOU have |
been forced, perceive, to fall back entirely |
upon my connection with the national
in Ireland. To the Irish race
lere and in the old land, my course of con-
luct i'll that connection needs no yindica.
ion; TO my maiigner on either side of the
Atlantic l make no explanations. In my
entire connection with Irish affairs there \
was not one act that would take back not
,ne that have to apologize for.
For the information of. my American
r1en ds who may not be du courdn, with the
matters to which your slanderous attacks
'efer, wifi say, first: the 'very large trust
und" that You mention, and in connection
With which you dare to apply to me the
erm .'swiadler. was the Land League Fund.
SI9 to the end of lsS2, had the distinction |
If being the treasurer. Upon resigning the
,os1tion and turning over to my successor
he balance or the funds to the auditors, Mr. |
ohm Dillon, NJ. p, Rev Eugene Sheehy and
dr. NJ. Harris, NJ. T., in their joint report |
fter stating tho particulars OF the accounts |
afQ: I'VE certify that every item of said ex.
'enditure has been fully and satisfactorily
estimony to the systematic and strictly
usiness-like manner in which the accounts /
nd records Of said fund have been kept by
lr. Egan." In addition to the balance OF
he principal, turned over to my successors |
he sum or f4.400, Is shfllings-about $4,000
Thich had realized as interest and profits |
n Investments, while giving my whole
me Ior two years gratuitously to the