The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-25
EGAN BREAKS LOOSE.
He Replies to the Speech of Wayne Macveigh
and Howis Loud snd Long.

He Replies to the Speech of Wayne Macveigh
aud Howis Loud and Long.
NEW York, Oct. 24-Patrick Egan
minister to Chilli. today made public his
reply to the recent speech of Wayne Nc
Weigh rejecting on his (Egan's) character
and official capacity. In it Egan says In
part:
~ perceive by the daily press that at
meeting in Cooper union under the au-~
spices OF the Democratic club of New York
renegade from your party as you are said
10 be from your people and cresd-y on al
tempt to palliate your aposiacy by under
! taking to do that which the London Times
failed 10 accomplishing besmirch my good
name with the adroitness of police court
peJtifogger, you, under pretext Of referring
TO something that some body else said as
sail me first, as 'swindler' who failed TO
account for large trust fund placed in mis-
CHARGE"
Second you say, it was well known at
Washington when be was appointed, what
the charges were, and that he had fed
the country to avoid arrest and trial on
very serious criminal charge
"Third, you describe me as sham patriot
and fugitive from criminal justice To
which YOU are pleased to add that you
1 were greatly SurpTlStu &nu 0lSRQSLeQ TO
| find that such man was selected to re-
present the country in q high diplomatic
post, and that you not only reassert in
your statement that my appointment was
an insult to Chili;' but that YOU also con-
sidereG it an insult TO yourself
las respected citizen OF the United
States | should treat these coarse aud
cowardly insults coming as they do from
one of the last stragglers Of the retiring
| IN tv-n n I'M vUh ~ nd rio
! for them in the Republican party, with the
same contempt have shown for all acts in
| the English and American pro-Bri,ish
press, were it not that they were spoken
at meeting at which figured as vice presi-
dents such names as Il, K. Gilroy, William
Il. Grace, j. j. O'Donoghue, d. CrimniiDs
and othere. and that it is reported that
your words were received with loud cheer
| ing. ! am convinced that IN the entire
ranks OF the Republican party there could
| not be found single man who
| would make upon the character Of
any American so wanton, foul and
unfounded an attack as you have
made upon me, but if such one could be
| found and he should under similar cir
cumstances assail in like manner in
my presence any of the gentlemen l have
named above, l will simply say there
would not be in New York city any hall
sufficiently large to contain him and me,
| as would publicly bring him to order and
either he or | should leave the building.
In your great desire TO assatl me you were
| forced, / perceive to fall back entirely
upon my connection with the Irish move
ment in Ireland. To the Irish race here
and in the old land my courss of conduct
| in that connection needs no veudicatIon.n
| Egan then goes on to say for the nfcrma-
ton of his American freud he quotes from
the report of the auditors OF the Land
League Fund, at the time of his resignation
as treasurer, In which they certify that
every item was fully and satisfactorily
vouchad for and bear testimony to the
systematic and business like manner in
which the accounts we're kept by Egan
| Secondly there was never o formal
charge made against him by the English
government, the only criminal charges,
being those msde by hostile press, based
upon the PiEott forgeries These were
! fully investigated by the Parneil- Times
committee in 1850 with the well known
result. The London Times lost by this
| transaction, says Mr.. Egan, in costs. the
enormous sum Of e216, 900 sterling. Three
| months later Macdonald, principal of the
Times, died from worrying and for two
years the Thunderer paid no dividends.
| With regard to being q sham patriot and
9 fugitive from criminal justice, Mr.. Egan
leaves the first part of the charge to the
| judgment of his Irish-American fellow citi-
zens, and to the second part pleads guilty
of being fugitive in the same way as were
Thomas Adds, Emmet, Richard O'Gorman
and many others. who are proud of having
done So He calls attention TO the fact that
within q short time after his arrival in this
country he was elected president of the
Irish National League of America, which
during his term of Office, sent to Ireland
$3.50, 600, and that from Ireland there was
/ forwarded him in 1888 present consisting
of costly service of silver, accompanied
/ by flattering address, signed by Parnell,
MCCARTHY. Dayitt. Dillon and others.
1 In contradistinction to your mugwump
opinion, says Mr. Egsn, permit me in con-
clusion to quote the sentiments expressed
/ by President Harrison upon Irish love Of