The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-25
EeAN REPLIES TO MAC vsAaH.

He Denies All the Charges Made
Against His Honesty and Patriotism.
NEW YORK. Oct. PA letter from Pat
rick Egan, the American minister to Chile,
In reply to Wayne MacVesgh, has been fur
nished to the Associated Press from the re-
publican headquarters. It says:
sn-I perceive by the daily press that at a
meeting held in Cooper Union under the au-
spices Of the democratic club Of New York, YOU
. renegade from your party. as you are sad TO
be from your people and creed, at
tempt to palliate your apostasy by undertaking
20 do that which the London Times with
its battalion Of testimony, chief among
which was the notorious Pigott, failed to &C
complish, TO besmirch nv good name. With
she adroitness of police court pettifOgger you,
under pretsxt OF referring to something that
somebody else said, assal me, first, as q
''swindler" who failed TO account for q very
large trust fund placed in his CHARGE second,
you say, 1T was well known at Washington
when he was appointed what the charges were,
and that he had fed the country to avoid arrest
and trial on a very serious criminal charge
third you describe me as "a sham
patriot and fugitive from criminal justice" to
which you are pleased to add that you we're
'greatly surprised and disguised to find such a
man selected TO represent the country in q high
diplomatic post, " and that you not only reas
serted your statement that "my appointment
was an insult to Chile but you considered It
also an insult to every selt-resDecting freshman
in the United States. l should treat those coarse
and cowardly insults, coming as they do from
one of the last stragRlers of the retreatug know
nothings who fnd that there is no
place for them In the Republican, party with
the same contempt that have shown for such
attacks made in the English and American
press were it not they we're spoken at meeting
ct which figured as vice presidents 7. f.
Giroy, William r. Grace, J. j. O'DOnohue,
John D. Crimmins, John g. Sheehan and Others
and that IL is reported that your words were re-
ceived with loud cheering l would neither
DO surprised nor annoyed that you
should launch Out into those ignorant
calumnies, on the contrary, under ordinary
circumstances, l should feel greatly enter
tained, but am amazed and panied to think
that the Gilroys, Grace's. O'Donohue's, Cum
minis and Sheehans should have meanly sat in
Cooper Union and patiently listened Co you. In
your great desire to assail me you have been
found, perceive, to fall back entirely upon my
connection with the national movement in Ire
land. To the Irish race here and in the old land
my course of conduct in that connection needs
no vindicRtion. To my maleigners on either
side Of the Atlantic make no explanations. In
my connection with Irish affairs there was not
one single act that would take back, not one
that have to apologize for.
THE LAND LEAGUE FUND.
MIR. Egan then SAYS that the land league
fund, OF which he was treasurer, amounted
TO 81, 250, 600; that he increased the amount
Of original contributions by S23, 600 interest
and profit on investments; that when he
retired from the treasurership the auditors
OF the league, of whom John Dillon
was one, certified to the correctness
of his vouchers and added compliment to
their certificate; that there never was
formal criminal charge made or a warrant
made OF issued against him in England;
that the only charges against him were
made by a hostile press, based on the Lon
don Times Pigott forgeries. which resulted
80 disastrously to the Times; that he rests
the question of his being "a sham patriot"
with his Irish-Americen fellow citizens;
that he was at one time a fugitive from
criminal justice In the same sense that EN-
met, Mitchell and Others were; that since
his coming to America he served two years
as president of the Irish National League,
during which time be forwarded to Ireland
S36000O; and that the lesguers in Ireland
presented to him costly silver service and
fiattering address. He concluded by quot
ing Presidedt Harrison's address 20 dele
cation of Irish Americans in which be COM
mended them for the love of the country OF
their birth, while faithful to the land of
their adoption.