Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-05
EGAN MOST EMPHATIC
in His Declaration That the Mug
wumps, Democrats and British
HAVE ALL UNITED TO DO HIN UP.
BIS Faith in the Pe-, lection of President
Harrison Is mistaken.
WHY THE BRITISH ARE EVER RESPECTED

NEW YORK, Now AT one of the most
enthusiastic Republican meetings of the
campaign, this evening, held at Cooper
Union, Patrick Egan, Minister to Chile,
spoke as follows:
My first duty is TO thank your honorable
committee for the honor it has done me in
inviting me to preside at this important
meeting, and the second is to thank you for
the very cordial American welcome which
you have extended to me here this evening
"a welcome of which any man IN this great
nation might feel justly proud. presume
nay, know-that the reason why have
been selected for this honor is the tact that
am singled out by the un-American Mug
wumpS and by the pro- British section
which, by the way, is the ruling section-of
The Democratic press ana party. as the butt
of ali their bile ard venom against those of
the Irish race who will not tamely
bend their necks to the yoke of the Demo
cratic party. L have dared to form tor my
self an independent opinion in American
politics. without consulting the Democratic
bosses, and, Eere:ore, at any and every
cost must be downed, even if it necessl-
tates the calling up of their last reserve IN
the person of Mr.. Grover Cleveland's part
ner, Wayne MacVeagh, to do it.
Mugwumps in Line With London.
From the first day that my name was men
toned for the Chilean mission the Mug
wump and the Democratic pross, with some
few honorable exceptions, kept time with
the London Times in assailing me. In Chile,
while Loyalty endeavoring TO uphold the
national honor, / was treacherously at
tackled from the rear by those people. and
but for the thoroughly American stand
ma 'ntained by President Harrison, Mr..
Blaine, Secretary Tracy and the other men,
berS of the Cabinet American prestige and
American honor would have suffered a de-
teat from which they would have taken
many long years to recover.
The reason why the English flag is so
much respected throughout the world-out-
side of Ireland-is the fact that the humblest
Englishman abroad can feel that if he be un-
justly deprived of his liberty, If his rights be
unjustly invaded, or his person uniustly
assailed, he has the whole force of the Brit
iSh Empire at his back and that the British
navy, if within hail, will be ready to
promptly demand, and, if necessary,
promptly exact. satisfaction.
In referring to the unfortunate affairs of
the assault upon the sailors of the Baltimore
in Valparaiso, now so happily and honor
ably arranged between Chile and the United
states, an officer high in command in the
English navy said to the commander OF one
OF our ships on that coast that if a similar
assault should be committed upon his men
he would promptly settle the matter at the
muzzles OF his guns and make all the expla-
nations to his Govern ment afterward. Why
cannot Americans act in this way? Simply
because there are so many unconverted
cOpperleads, ever watchful and ever ready
TO take the part of any foreign foe against
their own country, that a howl would at
once be raised for the head of the officer
who should dare to do so.
Not Mistaken in the President.
felt and l feel as an American that the
glorious flag of this republic should wave at
least as proudly as the standard of England,
and that every American citizen and every
American interest in a foreign land should
be at least as secure as those of any other
nation in the world. L thought too that
that these were the sentiments
of the Republican party and of its standard
bearer, President Harrison, and found that
l was not mistaken.
! therefore adopted the course that have
pursued in Chile and L am proud to come
before yOu, my fellow citizens, tonight, and
to be able to say that my every act and
every word in that connection met with the
lnQ qualified approval of such representa-
tives of American patriotism as President
Harrison and James q. Blaine, and with the
appreciation of the entire Republican press
and party.
1t is unnecessary to say to you that the
object OF this meeting is to impress not only
Of this great city and upon the country at
large the advisability-nay, the necessity
Of cooperating, by every legitimate means,
in securing the reelection OF the man VIII o,
or the past four years, has given to this Re-
public one of the most brilliant, the most
manly, the most honorable and the most
practically American administrations it has
aver enjoyed since the days of Washington
President Harrison.