The Portland daily press., 1899-02-03
GEN. EAeAN's EMOTIONAL rNsAN-

As bearing on 1en Eagan's claim that
he was emotionally insane when he gave
his testimony before the War Commits
sion, made 30 by Gen. Miles evidence
before the commission and his interviews
with newspapers, the New York Evening
Post publishes the following letter to a
prominent citizen OF New York, who
complained as long go as last July that
the commissary department was not
doing its duty.
"War Department,
ONCE Commissary Of Subsistence,
Washington, July 26, 1898.
Sir; Only today, In fact this minute,
have seen your dIabo.ioal, infamous.
| cardalous. false, libellous letter ad.
dressed. for ons do not propose to
let any liar. whatever his position or
whatever society he may belong to. to
ESQ ape the just censure that all right
minded people will heap upon him wren
he Is proved to be scandal-monger. a
viliher, and fslsifer. This Is bad
enough In itself. but when IL goes so far
as TO accuse some Of the most honorable
men In the army or out OF 1t, and allege
that they are corrupt, rs you have done
your status or standing and the society
you belong to can prove no excuse what.
ever. You must bear the consequences,
and mean you shall.
lin denouncng your letter as tissue
OF falsehoods, In oeuouncing you as liar
an unmitigated and infamous liar, one
| who stirs up the whole country with bis
lies and brings misery and woe TO the
relatives OF soldiers at the front by his
lies, who quotes his position as - to
give himself character and to sustain his
| lies, merely deserves the greater censure.
| demand from you an apology for your
letter, though will willingly await the
investigation which you suggest, but
| II you do not cause that Investigation TO
be made. AMI you do not apologize for
your Infamous falsehoods, ! shall bring
suit against you IL New York, and prove
what | now charge you to be.
Il wish TO add th,t II you were my
age should make 1t my business Il
| personally wraak upon you the chastise'
Ipent you deserve, for l do not believe
there is within the oonfiues of this coun
try today any body else so low and vile a;
man who -wepld make such infamousl,
| false charges against men who are doinp
| the'H best, doing 1t successfully, doing II
4 better than you ever saw done, bette
than you would admit If you saw and
knew it.
You say among other things, to make
your statement lear out the ssmblance OF
truth to convince and worry the wife, the
sister, the brother, the mother, and tn
fat her of the man at the front, that In
one case n Lieutenant Colonel wrote tC
me that he has had nothing but bareback
and bacon since he has been brfore Santi
ago l defy you to produce the letter
containing this statement, and II you do,
l will prove the statement to be an IN
mitigated falsehood and hold the officer
responsible, The proper criticism OF al
officer does not justify fslsehoods of who'll
cloth
my anger and Indignation Is (sic) be
cause of the distress wantonly lin my
lopinion solely for notoriety for yourself
given by you to relatives of soldiers a
the 'front.' and your contemplate effort &c
take away the regulations of men thu
laohets of whose shoes you are not fit II
tie
| 'CHAS. =. EAGAN.
"Comnissary General of Su 5sisteuce.
1t Is asserted that the Judge Advocate
in the recent court martial had this lettel
in his possession but failed to produce II
for some reason. The letter corresponds
rs to scurrility and utilization very close
ly with Eagan's testimony before the com
missioners. lie appears to have been quit,
as emotionally insane in July as In Jan
uary.