The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-25
EGAS RELIES TO MACvEAGH.
The AuGwump's Abuse Met by SINH
larry Vigorous Language.

NEW 1oEg, Oct 2i-Pssrsck Egan. minister
to Chile, today made pEbiie his reply 10 the re-
cent speech Of Wayne AaeVeagh, rejecting on
Egan's character and official fitness In is Egan
says IN part:
perceive by the daily press that at g meeting
n Cooper Union, under the auspices OF the
Democratic Club, of New York. a renegade rom
your party, As you are said 20 De from your peo-
pie and creed, you attempt 10 paliate your
spos.acy by undertaking 20 do that when
the London Tins failed to acc0nplis h-to
besmear the Irish good name. With the a1ro-t-
nsss OF a police court pettifogger you, under the
prs.sxt of referring 10 something that somebody
else said. assaii me frat as swin1ier woo
failed 70 account for large fund placed
in his charge. second-You say, Is was
was appointed what the charge. were, and that
be hEd fed the country TO avoid arrest al 1 TRIAL
on very serious criminal charges Ihlrd-foa
fugitive from criminal justice" TO which
you pleased 70 add that you
were greatly surprised and 1Isgusted tn find
such man selected 70 represent the country II
high diplomatic post, and you not only as
eftsd that my appointment twas an insult TO
Chile" but that you also considered il ian in-
su't TO every seii-respecting lf.shInan IN the
| should treat those and other coarse, cow
erdly iusult-, coming. as they do. from one OF
the last stragglers Of the retrea;ing know
them in the Republican party, with
the same contempt that / have shown for
ali attacks in the English and American British
press, were II not that they were spoken al q
meeting az which figured as vice presidents
such names az 7. r. GiIroy, william R. Grace, J.
j. o Donoghue, John CTimmins aud Others.
ana that il is reported that your
words were received with loud cheering. / am
convinced that IN the entire ranks OF the Re
publican party there could not be found sln-
gle man VINO would make upon the
character OF any IrishA American so wanton.
foul and unfouudsd attack as you have
made npon me, bus II such one could be
found and he should under similar clrcum-
stances assstl in Ike manner IN my presence
any Of the gentlemen have named above, will
ssmp.y say there woui not be in New York
city any hall sufficiently large to contain him
and me- ! would publicly oring him to ORDER,
ard either he or I should leave the building.
In your great desire to assan me you have
been forced. perceive, 10 fall back entirely
upon my connection with the Irish movement
in Ireland. To the Irish here and IN the Old
land my course of coaduct in that connection
needs no yincicatIou.
Then Egan goes on TO say that for the !nfor-
nation OF his American friends he quotes from
the report of the auditors OF the land league
fund a: his Resignation as treasurer, in which
they certify that eysry item 10 FULLY
and satisfactorily vouched and bear
testimony to the systematic and busiuesslke
manner in which the accounts were kept by
Egan. secondly, there never formal
charge made against lin by the English govern
ment, the only criminal charges" being those
made by hostile press, based upon the Pigott
forge,ies. Those were fully Investigated by
the Paruell TfH7es committee in lsSS-S9 with a
well-known result The London Times lost by
this transaction, says Mr.. Egan, in dam
ages and costs the enormous sum
OF f2l6,0oo sterling. Three months later
Macdonald, the principal eiockholder OF the
Times, died from worrying. and for two years
the thunderer paid no dividend. With regard
10 being a sham patriot and fugitive
from criminal justice, Mr.. Egan leaves
the first part OF the charge to the
judgment of his irish-American fellow citizens,
and to the second part pleads guilty of
being e fugitive in the same way as
were Thomas Adds Emmett, Richard Ogborman
and many Others, and is sincerely proud OF it.
lie calls attention to TACT that within a
short time after his arrival in this country he
was elected president of the Irish Ma
tional League of America, during his
term of Office sent to Ireland
$4,000, and that from Ireland WAS
forwarded to him in 1888 present of q costly
silver service, companed by q dattering ad-
dress, signed by Parneil, Mccarthy, Dsvitt,
Dillon and others. Egan concludes:
In contra -distincton TO your Mugwump
opinions permit me in conclusion 10
quote the sentiments expressed by
President Harrison upon the Irish love
OF native land. which you consider sucn grave
oifense against ''crirnnai justice" In address,
ing a delegation of lrish-Amelicsns, he said:
lyon are Americans, Irish Americans, and
though you have given the concentrated 10y
atty OF your honest Irish hearts to the starry
have not forgotten, and you ought
not to forget, to rsvere and vensrate the land
of your birth. That II sprig of
green was found upon the bloody jacket
Ridger The flag died for was his flag and the
green only memory and inspiration.