Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-18
WALSH AND HIS PARTY.

1 OAAAAASo "A. Wv olol has ISluTuGu
the east after being present when
Judge Parker was notified Of his nom
nation at Esopus, N. Y. Mr.. Walsh,
apparently, has caused the eastern
managers some little anxiety since he
was turned out of the national secre-
taryship after having served in that
capacity during the two Bryan cam
paigns. Editor Woodson has taken the
job and the party has, since Bryan was
defeated the second time, switched al
most entirely. From a silver fight it
emerges an anti-silver party and after
spending years talking against the
trusts it accepts help from the trusts
and the richest of the Wall street
gang" 1t was wont to revile. Thus
1t. is probable that when Mr. Walsh
arrived in New York he was regarded
with no lite anxiety by the men who
have in past years depended upon him
for the middle west and who have now
turned him down.
Mr.. Walsh, returning from the east,
gives out an interview to the effect
that he considers Judge Parker eau
tious, conservative, shrewd man. He
says he thinks the speech of accept
ance was masterpiece. Had Mr..
Walsh left this last unsaid his words
would have been received with more re
spect than when they endorse as a
masterpiece the weak speech made by
the Esopus candidate. Not only do
the republican papers unite in CRITICS.
ing it for it's lack of strength but the
democratic press is disappointed in the
weakness the candidate has shown.
His remarks were illogical and value
less as far as the campaign is concern
ed
Charles A. Walsh, four and eight
years ago, made record for himself
as an unsuccessful political prophet.
Mr. Walsh, be it said, is a good fell
low and all that, but he has been
known to allow his enthusiasm to get
the better of him, as for instance, on
election day four years ago this fall.
That day he arrived home from Chica-
go to cast his vote and to reporter
for the Courier he gave figures that
made the reporters hair stand on end.
Everything was to be democratic, said
Mr. WaisiI.s < illinois WAS as sure as
Texas, Kansas was simply an addition
Ito Missouri, New York was democratic
Just as sure as day was lighter than
night, and when the reporter timidly
mentioned Colorado the laugh he got
from the secretary of the national dem
ocratic committee was heard half a
block and bored a hole right into the
heart of the young Journalist.
But it didn't come true.
Nevertheless Mr. Walsh now says
that he thinks it is unwise for the ma
tional committee to concede any state
to the republicans. And he says this
right after a statement that the east
ern wing of his party is doing wrong
when it passes up" the Bryanites and
allows the papers of the east to call
them free silver maniacs," "crazy
men" and the like.
Reading between the lines in the two
interviews given out by Mr.. Walsh
one at New York and the other in this
city-it is not hard to see shat the
Ottumwan is still trifie sore because
of the utter disregard the eastern dem.
ocrats have for the silver idea. Mr.
Walsh knows enough about the west
ern democrats to know that a great
many of them are still friends and ad.
mirers of Bryan. Though the demo.
cratic party might have kept still about
silver and thus held in the party many
of the Bryanites it has burned the
bridges behind it by the action of the
fasteners and no one knows this more
than Charles A. Walsh.