St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-24
HIT HARD BY MaovEAGF.
Patrick Egan Has the Floor for a
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Patrick Egan Has the Floor for a
Few Remarks. $50
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 23.-Gen.W Wayne
MacVeagh tonight sent out the follow
ing letter: iE
80 the Hon. Patrick Egan-Dear Sir:
L am glad to see that you intend at last
even after line years-to reply to the
attacks upon your character, but l am
my attacks, and this falSeh0od leads me
to fear that you may repeat ths
other falsehOod that my statement
that your appointment was All
insult to Chilli, was intended as a
reflection upon you because you we've
born in Ireland. Because if you will
abandon these two sheer and absolute
falsehoodS, l give you the fullest liberty
to abuse ME to any extent or say any
thing about me you choose. For what
you say of me cannot possibly do me the
east harm, and would really be, to my
mind, kind of eulogy of me.
las uIniShed in my speech at Coop
er Union the exact dates when Mr.. Reld
and the Tribune made their very serious
and reDeated attacks upon your charac-
ter, you will, | trust. see how necessary
it is for you to treat them as his attacks.
iot dltu W duSWcI hiiti
and not me, and If you answer
him satisfactorily. you need not
bother about me, and yOu must pardon
me for saying l never even heard of
you till the Tribune gave me the in
formation, and have neither desire nor
reason to think i'll 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, | will accept your justification
with pleasure, but | must continue to
think you were rather tardy in so grave
and precious matter.
And then to abandon the false pre-
tense that my objection to you was be-
cause you are an Irishman. You see
that pretense is childish as we'll as
false, for L am good deal of an Irish
man myself, as we'll as cOun-
cilor, though l regret to say, with
out pride, of the Hibernian society
OF this city, while some of my
best friends have been Irishinen. My
sole object was because Mr.. Reid and
the Tribune said you were not an hon.
no matter where he was born. If that
accusation is not true, then l have no
objection whatever to you.
after all you may say, you must
confess you had justified people in
forming a very unfayorabie judgment
OF you. You remained sileat/so far as
l ever heard for nine long years under
MI. Reid'S statements in the Tribune
that you were sham patriot and that
you could give no satisfactory eXplana-
ton of what you had done with $780,
900 which had been intrusted to your
care for the Irish cause. And then. SO
far as l know, you remained silent
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 Gillian capital was urgently need
ed;' and, far worse, that you had once
fled to avoid arrest and trial on a very
serious criminal CHARGE
You meekly Endorsed all these
charges, and, to my amazement, yOn
graced Mr.. Reid's porch a week ago adj
vocating his election to the vice presi,
dency, though, to my mind. practically
contesSing the truth of his accusations
OF you. On the next evening [ there
fore felt at perfect liberty to call your
appointment all insult to Chilli. 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 coun-
try are these:
Are the accusations of Mr.. Reid in
the Tribune against you true? If they
were not true. why did you wait so long
before 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 Mr.. Reid
and the Tribune told me about you.
''If you can give me satisfactory an
swers to these three questions / have
asked you, you will be completely vim.
dictated, but nothing else will be, be-
lieve me, of any real service to you.
"WAYNE MACVEAGH."
Philadelnhia Pa Oct % 1909