St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-20
REID AND EGAN.
They Receive Red Roast From
Wayne MacVeagh.

wayne MacVeagh.
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-Cooper Union
was never crowded to a greater extent
than 1t was tonight Oh the occasion of
the Democratic mass meeting. As soon
as the doors were open at Z a crowd
poured in, and by 1880 5000 per-
sons were within hearing of the
speakers voice. The audience was
representative one of New York'S best
citizens. 1t was an enthu ,iastic meet
ing. and the Democratic club under
whose auspices the meeting was held
can congratulate themselves on the re-
suit. Wayne MacVeagh, formerly at
torney general in the cabinet OF Presi-
dent Garfield, was the speaker OF the
evening.
President Arnold introduced the
speaker. AS Mr.. MacVeagh stepped for
ward on the platform the vast audience
rose in unison and greeted him with
rousing cheers that lasted for fully five
minutes. Mr.. MacVeagh was IN splendid
voice, and from the first sentence it was
plainly TO be seen that he and his hear
ers were in perfect harmony with one
another He was frequently applauded,
and at the close of his speech received
an ovation such as seldom is given to
public speaker. Mr.. Mac eagh began
his speech by saying:
Nobody has ever suggested, | be-
ileye, that l am given to avoiding
responsibility for my own acts;
is due exclusively to my yield
ing my own wishes to the persuasion and
persistency of the friends of McGrane
Cox, reinforced, as he was by some of
the gentlemen you see around me. But
would have resisted their entreaty to
speak if | had suspected TIE splendid
metropolitan journalism would have
presented to the people of this city
full and accurate copy of the speech 1
1elt 1t my duty to make to my townsmen
of Philadelphia last Saturday night.
10 that speech desire to add moth
ing, and from it desire to take nothing
away. Then. too, would much prefer,
II | spoke at all at the home of the pres
emf candidate, for the Republican vice
presidency 10 speak iD favor of his cleo
ton, for have been privileged these
very many years to call myself the
friend of Mr.. Reid. and TO enjoy under
his roof the same generous hospitality
he is now dispensing at Ophir Farm.
And yet this mornings Tribune,
a newspaper L have been reading all my
life, causes me some embarrassment in
speaking as kindly as L would wish of
Mr.. Reid, for it arraigns me for object
ing 10 the appointment of Mr.. Egan as
our minister to Chill, and dishonesty
attempts to pervert what | said into an
attack OH MIR. Egan because of his ma
tionality.
Now. Mr.. Reid and the Tribune both
know very well that | objected to such
III appointment not because Mr.. Egar
was an lrlShman, but because MIR. Reid
and the Tribune had persuaded me
hn Il irl,@
man. l desire, therefore, upon the eX-
press authority of Mir. Reid and the
Tribune, not only TO reassert my state =
ment that his appointment was an in
suit to Chill, but L desire now to add
that 1t was also an insult to every self
respecting Irishman in the .UniTed
States.
Mr.. Reid and the Tribune, as,long ago
as Its issue of March 10. 1888, had fixed
i'll my mind the belief that Mr. Egan
was swindler, having failed to ac-
count, as the Tribune charged. for a
very large trust fund placed in his
charge, and it added these significant
words: The Irish are peculiar peo-
pie, ana easily led by sham PATRIOTS
ION this authority formed my opin-
ION of Mr.. Egan. and | was greatly sur
prlsed and Disguised 10 find such man
selected TO represent the country iu a
diplomatic trust. The Tribune was
equally disguised, for on Sept. 6. 1891
it advised me that he ought to
be recalled: that he certainly
would be recalled, and said:
A new American representative at
Chill is urgently needed So | found
my ill opinion of MIR. Egan strength
ened, but it was not until Dec 6, 1891.
that the Tribune informed me that it
was well known at Washington when
he was appointed what the charges
against him were, and that he had fled
the country to avoid arrest and trial Oh
serious charge.
Now, gentlemen, why must the pres
ident think OF passing over the heads of