People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-07-15
A Small Editors Errors.

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In this mornings issue of the
Chronice, the editor, Patrick Walsh.
in narrow manner, undertakes tc
criticise Messrs. Ellington and Branch
and the Omaha convention.
The evidence is plain that he has
not read the platform, and he shoots
his harmless gun off with stupid
powder.
Mr.. Walsh charges Branch and
Ellington as being ''the satellites OF
Tom Watson, and without COM
handing qualities Of any kind, men
who would do to harangue a sub
Alliance in Columbia or McDufie
county, but would never be put for
ward at any time as shining lights.
even at home"
will compare Messrs. Branch and
Ellington-their mental powers and
records with that of Statesman
Walsh. The two former have never
hid out in time of danger; nor have
they ever represented a corporation
that was conceived in fraud and op-
Grated in robbery; nor have they
ever had an indignation meeting held
to condemn their treachery to a fell
low citizen; nor have their acts been
repudiated by two State conven-
tons; nor have they ever been
rocked off the National executive
committee; nor have they betrayed
a lifelong friend, life Walsh, to secure
the nomination of a so-called reform
party for the mayoralty-and Walsh's
treachery was so patent that Black:
with his one hundred committee, re-
pudiated him. Nor did they ever
turn their powers Of mind to destroy
a corporation that they had governed
because they were kicked out, as
Walsh did in the Augusta and Sum
merville Railroad monopoly. Mr.
Walsh has been and is the abject
political slave of Bullock's solicitor,
so much so that he told him after the
Gordon and Bacon campaign, ''that
if he would go home and behave
himself he would give him what all
Irishmen loved "Home Rule; )" but
unfortunately, he hasn't home rule
at present. Walsh wished to run for
senator, but was deferred from doing
so on account of his reducing the
pay of the men who operated the
Augusta and Summerville Railroad
to liquidate the damages recovered
for injuring the passengers. He
mulcted the laborers for the benefit
of the stockholders. How did he
recently treat his printers? Like
Reid did his. Grady called Walsh a
statesman in derision. Perhaps he
would do to harangue Tammany
audience in the cutters of New York
with more effect than Branch or
Ellington could speak to sub
Alliance in Georgia, as Walsh would
be with his proper associates, for he
has affiliated with that crowd his life
long, when it did not cost his pocket
dollar. A man who reflects upon
any man or men, who never per-
formed public duty when life and
country were in danger, advertises
his stupidity and insolence, and
should receive no mercy from the
public. Walsh, from 1860 to 1871,
was virtually hid out, and no one
heard of him as the defender or as
redeemer of this section. | have
known Patrick Walsh for years, and
| could never discover that he was a
man of any mental power, or that he
was a possessor of literary attain
ments; and this opinion was often
endorsed by the lamented Gregg
Wright. Ellington and Branch, men
tally, are his superiors; but not his
equals in political cunning that leads
to failure; nor are they smart
enough to commned means Of relief
to-day and condemn them to-mor-
row.
| would advise Walsh to read the
Omaha platform land not the supple
mentary resolution) over again to
find that the force bill and the tariff
are treated of in their broadest
sense, which is too lucid for the
finite mind of Statesman Walsh.
I will say in behalf of the Peo-
ple's Party that we do not invite the
sympathy of Mr.. Walsh.
Walsh's criticism meets with our
contempt and his praise invites our
Indignation, as he can't be fair or just
if he tried to be.
JAMES BARRETT.
Augusta, Ca, July 6.