The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-20
M'VEAGH IN NEW YORK.
RBID'S PAPER ACCUSED OF MIS-
REPRESENTING HIM.

al AO4VoE4dA Z W Alh IN Jne GlSnb OF
ObiectinG to Egan's Appointment
on Account of His Nationality-He
Replies That the Tribune Had Shown
Egan Up as Dishonest and Un-
worthy Man.
NEW YORK, Oct. 19-Cooper Union was
crowded tonight with people anxious to
hear Wayne MacVeagh. The meeting was
held under the auspices OF the Democratic
Club of New York city. ~ would have
resisted the entreaties of my friends TO
speak tonight" Mr.. MacVeagh said, 'if
had thought for a moment that the splendid
energy metropolitan Journalism now dis
plays would have presented to the
people of this city full aud accurate
reports Of the speech, felt it my duty to
make to my townsmen of Philadelphia last
Saturday night To that speech desire 60
add nothing, and from it / desire to take
nothing away. Then. too, 1 would
much prefer, If spoke at all at the home
of the present candidate of the Republican
party for the vice presidency, 20 speak in
favor of his election, for / have been priv
ileged these very many years TO call my
self a friend of Mr.. Reid and to enjoy under
other roofs the same generous hospitality
he is now dispensing at Ophir
Farm. And yet this morning the
Tribune, newspaper have
been reading all my life, causes me some
embarf asSment in speaking as kindly as
would either of Mr. Reid or of it, for it
arraigns me for ob1ecting TO the appoint
ment Of Mr.. Egan as our minister TO Chile
and dishonesty attempts TO pervert what l
said into an attack on Mr.. Egan because of
HIS nationality. Now Mr.. Reid and the
tribune both know very well that l
objected TO such an appointment,
not because Mr.. Egan was an
Irishman, but because Mr. Reid and the
Tribune had persuaded me that he was a
dishonest aud unworthy man, and this
leads me 60 the principal object have in
the canvass. 1t is to persuade intelligent
and self respecting men that the Republican
party has so radically changed its stand
policies Of legislation as TO merit
the phrase which .now
deliberately apply to 1t, that Of revolu-
tionary party engaged IN overturning the
most valuable and sacred traditions OF our
public life. and unless checked it is sure 60
lead, in my Judgment, to the destruction of
all respect for what Is undoubtedly one of
the most important safeguards Nsof our
Christian civllization-the right Of private
property"
THE FORCE BILL.
OF the force bin Mr.. MacVeagh said:
MANY earnest and honest members of the
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.
It is true that the defeat Of the former
force bill by MIR. Blaine and his
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led many to suppose that it could not be
so necessary as they had thought, but there
was a strong sentiment still existing in its
favor, which was only dispelled by the ex-
perience Of the country under four years of
the wise and conservative administration
of Mr.. Cleveland. At the close of that
administration all sensible men admitted
that the substantial and industrial interests
of the country were perfectly safe in the
hands Of the Democratic party. Thence
forward it was recognized that the force
bill was far too high price to pay for any
benefit it was likely to secure. 1t was
not, however, until the Lodge bill
disclosed in its full enormity what
such a proposition involved that the plain
people made up their minds that they would
not have it, nor anything resembling it, for
they then discovered that il involved an alb
solute reversal of the underlying principles
of our liberties. that of local self-govern-
ment In the matter Of elections. II In such
q matter the people cannot be trusted, no.
body can be trusted. Heretofore the peo-
pie have most successfully managed
that matter for themselves by allowing
each political party in each election district
to elect one inspector and the dominant
political party to elect the judges, but the
force bill would provide that the circuit
court judges of the United States. only
eighteen in number, should take
away from the people the right of
conducting their own elections and
the persons designated by them to
discharge that most grave and important
function, on the proper discharge of which
all functions Of free government depend.
1t is not only that such measures involve
vast expense to the taxpayers. but
it is that it destroys at one blow
the very principle on which we
must rely If we are to continue
to be republic; that is, trusting the peo-
pie in their different election districts to con-
duct their own elections, and if there Is not
sufficient virtue to be found there 1t is not
likely to be found in the appointees of POI
litical party, whether held in judicial office
or any other, and the deadly blow
thus dealt at the popular confidence
in our national judiciary would result in
permanent injury. All respect for cleo
tions would be destroyed, all confidence in
the pretended result reached at the polls
would disappear and presidential election
must result in q very brief time In resort
to force by one party or the other believing
itself to have been defrauded Of its rights.
QUAY TOUCHED UP.
OF Mr.. Quay, Mr.. MacVeagh says: 'I
have no personal reason TO speak Of Mr..
Quay otherwise than kindly, but even his
most ardent admirers will not pretend that
he has furnished any evidence whatever of
capacity to deal with the problems of poll
tics in other than what is popularity called
the most practical manner and it is not
going very far to say that he was selected
by the leaders Of the Republican party in
1883 to manage their canvass, because he
was known not to be burdeued
with political scruples. Having made
such selection Of chief, they next fur
missed him with what such men generally
call the sinews of war-that is, Immense
sums of money. to be expended by him
without accountability to anybody, and fu
such ways as he thought most likely to
secure tho results his employers desired.
He even overpaid them, for he secured the
appointment of Mr.. Wanamaker, one OF
the chief collecting agents OF the convass