The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-04-03
A GSOD SELECTION.
Editor Patrick waloh Appointed Success
sOr to Colqultt in the Senate.

Editor Patrick Waloh Appointed Success
sor to Colquitt in the Senate.
AUGUSTA, Ga, April 2.-Patrick
Walsh, editor Of the Augusta Chronicle,
has been appointed UniAd States sena
tor TO fill the vacancy caused by the
death Of Senator A. H. Colquitt. Fol-
lowing is the correspondence:
Patrick Walsh.
II have appointed you to fill the va
cancy in the United States Senate
caused by the death of Hon. Alfred FL.
Colquitt. Send messenger to the CAPT
tol Tomorrow to receive your commits
sion. (Signed) W. j. NoRrHEN.
Governor.
ITO his excellency. W. j. Northen,
governor, Atlanta, Ga: 1 have the
honor to acknowledge the receipt of
your dispatch appointing me to
fill the vacancy in the United
States Senate caused by the death of
Hon. Alfred Fl. Colquitt.
II accept the appointment as the
highest honor that can be conferred
upon me appreciate the responsibility
that the trust imposes, and will en-
deavor, by faithful discharge of duty,
to merit your confidence and the ap-
proval Of my fellow citizens of Georgia.
Every measure OF reform pledged by the
national Democratic party will receive
my cordial support
"(Signed) PATRICK WALSH"
The appointment of Patrick Walsh as
United States Senator meets with un-
qualified approval in Georgia. Ever
since it was made, kilograms have
poured in upon Mr.. Walsh from every
section, among them being congratu-
lations from Secretary Hoke Smith,
Senator Gordon, ex-senator Jos. R.
Brown, Speaker Crisp, Senator David B.
Hill, and tho Georgia Congressman,
Governor Peck. OF Wisconsin,; Gen. T.
t. Eckert, Judge Emory Speer, John
Vanhorn, OF New York; Clark Howell,
and many prominent newspaper men all
over the country.
10 night mass meeting was held at
the opera house and addressed by
prominent citizens, and complimentary
resolutions were passed indorsing the
appointment The enthusiasm and
unanimity Of the demonstration was q
tribute OF which any man might be
proud.
Patrick Walsh was born in limerick,
Ireland, January l, 1S40. His father
and family came to America and settled
III OudIlcbLOu Ill 1913. lie became an
apprentice in the Charleston News Of
flee at the age of 10, and afterwards be-
came journeYman printer. He set
type at night and attended school dur
ing the day. In 1859 he went to George
town %. g. College, but returned home
when South Carolina seeded from the
Union and entered the Meagher Guards,
attached to the First regiment OF North
Carolina rifle militia, doing duty on
Sullivan's Island. When this company
disbanded he removed to Augusta in
1862, and, his parents being dependent
upon his labor, he entered the Constitu-
tionalist office as type setter.
In 1868 he became city editor; in 1866
Southern agent OF the New York Asso-
ciated Press; in 1867 business manager
of the Augusta Chronicle, and in 1873,
in partnership with Mr.. Gregg Wright,
bought the paper. In 1877 the Consti-
tn tionalist was consolidated with the
Chronicle
Mr.. Walsh Is now president and pro-
prletor of the Chronicle, which is the
oldest and one OF the most substantial
newspapers in the South. He has served
in the Legislature and several times has
been delegate to State and national
conventions. He has served on the ma
tlonal Democratic executive committee
ami was com missioner -at-large of the
Worlds Fair. He is vigorous writer
and an earnest and forceful speaker