The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1892-10-25
In HIS OWN DEFENSE
Esan Replies to the Attack Made Upon
Him by MaCYeash.
NOT ASHAMED OF HIS ACTS
His Past Record. He Says. VIII
Stand the Test-His Con-
nection With Ire
lands Cause.

NEW YORK, Oct. 2i.-Patrick Egan, min
lister TO Chill, to-day made public his reply
10 the recent speech Of Wayne MacNeagh
rejecting OH Egan's character and official
fitness. In il Egan says in part: IL per-
ceive by the daily press tina, at u meeting
in Cooper Union. under the aupices OF the
Democratic club Of New York. q renegade
from your party-you are said To he from
your people and creed-you attempt to
palliate your npostacy by undertaking to
do that which tho London Times failed to
accomplish--to besmrch my good name.
With tho adroitness Of police court
pettifoggcr you. under pre,cxi of referring
TO something that somebody else said. as
sail me. first, as a swindlcr who failed TO
account for a large trust fund placed in
his charge; second, you say, 1t was well
known at Washington when he was APP
pointed what the charges were. and that
he had fed the country TO avoid arrest
and trial on very serious criminal charges
"Third-You describe me as a sham
patrio, and fugitive from criminal JUS
ticc,' to which you are pleased to add that
you were greatly surprised aud disgnsted
TO find such man selected To represent
the country in high diplomatic post and
that you not only reasscrtcd your state
men, that my appointment was an insult
10 Chilli but that you also considered IL
an insult to every self-respccting Irish
man in the United States
Il should treat these coarse and cow
ardly insults. coming as they do from one
of tho last stragglcrs of the rcircating
'knownothinCs, who find there Is no place
for them in the republican party. with the
same contempt l have shown for all
attacks in the English and American pro-
British press, were II not thnt they were
spoken at a meeting at which figured as
vice presidents such names as L. L.
Gilroy, William X. Grace. J. j.
O'Donoghue, John ID. Crimmns and others,
and that IL is reported that your words
we're received with loud cheering. l am
convinced that i'm the entire ranks OF the
republican party there could not he found
q single man who would make upon the
character of any Irish-American SO wan
ton. foul and unfoundcd an attack as
you have made upon me. but If such a one
could be found and he should under simi-
lar circumstances assnil me in a like
manner In my presence, or of the gentle
men have named above, ] will
simply say there would not be in
New York city any hall sufficiently
large to contain him and me.
1 would publicly bring him to order and
either he or should leave tho building.
In YOUR great desire 10 nssail mo you
have been forced, I perceive. to fall back
entirely upon my connection with the
Irish movement in Ireland. To the Irish
race here and in the old land my course Of
conduct in that connection needs no win.
tlicatiou.,
Epan then goes on TO say that for the
information of his American friends he
quotes from the rcport of the auditors of
the land league fund at ,b, time of his
resignation ns its treasurer, In which they
certify that every item WAS fully and sat-
isfactorily youched. and bear testimony TO
tho sys,omatic and busiucsslik. manner
in which the accounts were kept by Eyan.
Secondly. ,bere was never N formal
charge made arains, him by the Eng
liar coycrnnep, nnd tho only ..crim.
mai charyrs', b,ing those mad.
nv bostiI, prcss based upon
tho p,uo,, forperies. Those we're
fully ;nycs,;ga,eJ by tho parnel,.
Times commi,tcc In 1888 40 with the well.
known rca,,I, ..Thc London Times LOST by
This tr,n.actiop.n saws Mr.. Eyau. .in
J,n,,ros and costs die cuor,no,,s sum os
ro,s mO s,crli,y Tbrco n,n,bs later
MncDop.,d tho principal of the Times.
died from worryiuu and for two wears the
s,hupdcrcr, maid no dividend"
With r,yard 20 bc,np n sham patrio, and
fugitive from criminal Justice. Mr.. Ernn
leaves tho ,ir., mar, ~ ,h. charge tn the
iud,mep, of his Irish American felluy.
ci,;,cns and ,o tho second mart MEAD.
cu;i,y he,n, 4, fu,i,i,e il, ,he same way ,s
wor. Themes sJJis Emmett. Richnr,
O,c:o,man md ,,,,v o,brrs. and il sin.
,ts,,tio,, ,n ,l, F,,t that xvi.bip N sInr,