The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-10-20
M'VEAGH IN NEW YORK.
SPEAKS AT COOPER UNION TO SIX
THOUSAND PEOPLE.

THOUSAND PEOPLE.
Answers the Tribunals Arratsnment
for His Objections to Min
lister Egan.
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-Cooper Union
was never crowded to a greater extent
than it was tonight on the occasion
Of the democratic mass meeting. AS
soon as the doors were opened at 7
o'clock, the crowd poured in, and by
7:30 six Thousand persons were within
hearing of the speakers voices. The
audience was respective one of New
Yorks best citizens. 1t was an enthu-
siastic meeting and the democratic
club, under whose auspices the meeting
was held, can congratulate themselves
on the result.
Wayne McVeagh, formerly attorney
general of the United States in the cabi-
net of Preside Garfield was the speaker
OF the evening. He arrived in the city
late in the afternoon and was driven at
once to the Fifth avenue hotel. A COM
mittee from the democratic club waited
upon him and escorted him to the hall.
The meeting was called to order short
ly after 8 O'Clock and Hon. Jno H. V.
Arnold was announced as chairman of
the meeting. Mr.. Arnold spoke briefly,
and then introduced Hon. Wayne Nc
Veagh. AS Mr.. McVeagh stepped for
ward the vast audience rose in unison
and greeted the speaker with rousing
cheers.
Mr.. MacVeagh was in spledid voice
He was frequently applauded and at the
close of his speech, received an ovation
such as is seldom given to public
speaker. He spoke as follows: "No
body has ever suggested, believe, that
am given to avoiding responsibility for
my own acts; but my presence here to
night Is due exclusively to my yielding
to my own wishes to the persuasion and
persistency of the friends of Mr.. Mac
Crane Coke, reinforced as he was by some
of the gentlemen yon see around me; but
would have resisted their entreaty to the
last if had supposed for moment
that the splendid energy metropolitan
journalism now displays would have
|; presented to the people of this city full
! and accurate report of the speech l fell
! it was my duty to make to my townsmer
0 of Philadelphia last Saturday night Tt
5 that speech l desire to ado nothing and
from l desire to take nothing away
4 Then too, would much prefer if
s spoke at all at the home of the presen
candidate of the republican party for th'
. vice presidency to speak in favor o
. his election for l have been privi
legged there many years to cal
s myself the friend of Mr. Reid and to en-
4 JOY under other roofs the same generou
+ + hospitality he Is now dispensing a
!. Ophir Farm. And yet this morning
Tribune, a newspaper l have been read
. ing all my life, causes me some embar
rassment in speaking as kindly as woul
II either of Mr.. Reid or of it, for it al
e raigns me for objecting to the appoint
3 ment of Mr.. Egan as our minister t
n n Chilli, and disingeniously attempts to PEI
r : vert what l said into attack o
N Mr.. Egan because of his nationality
Now, Mr. Reid and the Iribu,
both knew very we'll that objected I
such an appointment, not because M
Egan was an IrisLman, but because Nj
Il Reid and the Tribune had persuaded II
iii that he was dishonest and unworty ma
u l desire, therefore, upon the express a
co thority of Mr.. Reid and the Tribune n
20 only to reassert my statement that b
in appointment was an insult to Chill, b,
MS | desire now to add that it was al
'r- an insult to every self respectir
Irishman in the United State
Mr. Reid and the Tribune as lor
n ago as its issue of March 13, 1873
had fixed in my mind the belief tn
Mr. ouin1lor bou fail
10 to account, as the Tribune charged, f
a very large trust fund placed in +
charge, and it added these signifce
ID words: The Irish are peculiar peop1
70 and easily led by sham patriots {
st- this authority, formed my opinion
ON Mr.. Egan, and was greatly surprise
zen and disgusted to find such a man selet
co., OF ed to represent the country in hi!
rye diplomatic post.
'le- The Tribune was evidently equal
&c disgusted, for on September Q, 1e9
I'm in it advised me that he ought to be
$50 called, that he certainly would be r
,di- called and saying: "A new Americ
uo,ee representative at Chilli is urgen
piu pS. needed
1gs, So found my i'll opinion of !
tsl Egan strengthened bnt it was not ,
Na ol til December 6, 1891, that the Tri61
In. informed me that it was we'll known
lro- Washington when he was appointed w
W. the charges against him were and tt
,ra- na he had fled the country to avoid arrest q
md trial on a very serious criminal char.
,nts Now, gentlemen, just think of passi
alta over the heads of the thousands of ca
ona ~ BILE and honest republicans of Irish bir
against whose honor no word has e
been breathed, to select for great hon
0. the only Irishman whom Mr.. Reid {
-. the Tribune have ever pillored before
ng a world as a sham patriot and fugit
the from criminal Justice. The remainde
nds MIR. MacVeagh's speech was devo
No to the issues of the CAMPAIGN. which
has hoe fu,lv d;soucsad in b;o pbiIadeIr