Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-10-28
WAYNE srvEAGH SPEAKS.
He scoRrs THE DssrnuorIvR TESDsN
oiEs OF THE REpuDLIcAN Party.


He ScoREs THE DEsrRuorIvB TENpsN
oaEs OF THE REpuDLIcAN Party.
Coopef Union was crowded with
people anxious to hear Wayne Mac
Yeagh.
81 would have resisted the en-.
treaties OF my friends to speak to,
night Mr.. MacVeagh said, ''if l had
supposed for moment that the
splendid energy metropolitan journal
ism Eow displays would present to
the people of this city full and &c.
curate report of the speech 1 felt it
my duty to make to my townsmen of
Philadelphia last Saturday night. To
that speech l desire to add nothing
and from it desire to take nothing
away. Then, too, l would much pro
fer, if l spoke at tho home Of the
present candidate Of the Republican
party for the vice-presidency, to
speak in favor of his election, for I
have been privileged these many
years to call myself the friend of Mr..
Reid, and to enjoy hnder other roofs
tho same generous hospitality he lis
now dispensing at Ophir Farm.
"And yet this mornings Tribune. q
newspaper I have been reading all
my life, causes mo some embarrnss-
ment in speaking rs kindly MS
would wish either of Mr.. Reid or of
it, for it arraigns me for directing 10
the appointment of Mr.. Egan rs our
Minister to Ohili, and dishonesty ut
tempts to peryert what I said to IN
attack of Mr.. Egan because of his na-
tionality. Now, Mr.. Reid and the
Tribune both know very we'll that
objected to such an appointment, not
because Mr. Egan was an Irishman,
but because Mr. Reid and tho Tri-
bune had persuaded Inc TINT he was
a dishonest and unworthy man. And
this leads me to the principal object
l have in the canvass, which is to
persuade intelligent and self-respect-
ing men that the Republican party
has SO radically changed it's stand
ards Of public action and its policies
of Legislation as TO merit thespraise
which l now deliberately apply to4it
that OF revolutionary party, en-.
gagged in overturning the most valua-
bic and sacred traditions of our pub
lie life; asd unless checked, is sure to
lead, i'll my Judgment, to the de,
strnction of nll respect for whnt is
undoubtedly one of The most import.
ant safeguards of our Christian civil.
ization-the right of private prop
erty."
OF the forco bill Mr.. Macveagb
said: "NIany earnest and honest
members of tho Republican party
formerly cherished the belief that
some steps ought to be taken by the
National Government to protect the
right of suffrage which that party
had given to the colored voters of
the South. 1t is true that the de
feat of the former force bill by Mr..
Blaihe and his supporters in the
House of Representatives led many
to suppose that it could not be SO
necessary as they had thought, but
there was strong sentiment still OK
isting in its favor which was only
dispelled by the experience of the
country under the four years of wise
and conservative administration un-
der Mr.. Cleveland. At the close of
that administration all sensible men
admitted that the substantial and in.
dustrial interests of the country were
perfectly safe in the hands of the
Democratic party, and thenceforward
it was recognized that force bill
was far too high a price to pay for
any benefits it was likely to secure.
"1t was not, however, until the
Lodge bill disclosed in its full enor.
unity what such proposition involv-