Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1913-04-05
Represented the Old North state
in the United states
senate.
His statue Will Stand i'm Heart
of Augustus New Civic
Center.
WAS NATIVE OF The GREEN isle

o of the few non-military
horoes of the South will be honoreu
within a short time by the CITY
Hrgusta Ga. Patrick Walsh, VINO
saryed the South as a private cltlzen,
sunporting his father, mother anu anu
ststers and older brothers tamllles
while the latter we're in the Con
federate service, will hav monu-
,nent raised to his memory by tne
oitizens of Augusta. Work has al
ready been begun to place tne nlonu
ment in Barrett Plaza, In the near
OF the new civic center IN tnat clty'
The monument is heroic SIG
bronze statue, of which george l.
brewster is the sculptor. For lIs
conception, its execution IN uetah'
and lis likeness to the man 1t com
memorates it has been highly praised
by critical friends of Mr.. Walsh.
Patrick Walsh, once United States
senator. Mayor of Augusta, news
paner proprietor and publisher, Irish
natriot and tariff reformer, is con-
sldered by Southerners one OF the
most powerful factors in the work oil
the new South. AS a man OF peace
as a mediator, he spent his whole
life in mitigating the burdens OF the
South after the war, and securing
for il Justice from the North. With
Henry w. Grady, who sounded the
keynote of the new South, he worked
uptiringly as a friend and compa-
triot to revivify the exhausted South
and to renew the broken bonds be-
and tho rpGf nj
the country. During his life the
was fifty-nine years old at the time
OF his death in 1890 Patrick walsh
was the friend and co-worker OF
every Democratic leader since the
war. Alexander Stevens was his close
personal friend, as was Samuel j.
Randall. He toured the South with
Hill in 1892 when the latter was an
aspirant for the Presidential nomina-
tion. He was the first man to advo-
cate persistently the nomination OF
Grover Cleveland for the Presidency
when the latter was Governor OF
New York, and in 1896 he worked
earnestly for the nomination and
election of William Jennings Bryan,
who was his intimate friend.
Born in ireland in 1S40, Patrick
Walsh came to Charleston, S. c.,
with his parents in September, 1897.
He began life as a printers devil.
Whatever schooling he got was
gained by his own endeavors. Be-
fore the war he attended George
town College, paying his way with
money saved while learning the
printers trade. When war broke
out he returned to Charleston and
with Capt. Simonds organized COM
pany in which he was elected First
Lieutenant. They we're stationed at
Castle Pinckney, but when his two
brothers entered the Confederate
army he had to resign to aid his par
ents, his sisters and his brothers
families. To do this he worked as
a printer on the Charleston News
and Courier. After the war he
moved to Augusta, Ca, as journey
man printer on the Augusta Con-
stitutionalist Il was not long be-
fore he became a reporter and
shortly after city editor of the
paper.
In 1866 he became editor of the
Chronicle, which he subsequently
owned jointly with Gregg Wright,
then a we'll known Southern pub
licist Mr.. Walsh was also asso-
ciated with Father Ryan. the poet
priest, in the publication of the Ban
ner of the South. It was in Augusta
that he married Ann Isabelle McDon-
aid, belle of the old South, who
survives him. She was true help
mate in all his struggles and as
pirations, and is loved and honored
today in the city and State that were
the scene of his labors. When the
Associated Press organized its busi-
ness in the South, Walsh was made
General Manager for the South, and
became a very close friend of Will
lam Henry Smith, for many years
President of the association. He be-
came General Manager and Treas
urer of the Southern Associated
Press when that organization formed
an alliance with the Western Asso-
ciated Prss and the United Press and
subdivided the field of news gather
ing. This alliance lasted but a short
while, and when the split came
Walsh and a coterie OF Southern
newspaper owners who were a power
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the United Press, comprising at that
time most OF the big New York and
New England papers. He often said
he was willing TO SOW and let others
reap. In 1881 he met with financial
reyerses in Wall street, but recouped
his fortunes somewhat in Augusta
real estate, and Stunned Wall street
forever afterward.
In 1894. on the death OF Senator
Colquitt, he was appointed United
States Senator 10 fill the unexpired
term by Gov. Northen, though Walsh
earnestly advocated the appointment
OF another. He is the only Catholic
who ever held that office in Georgia.
Patrick Walsh was at all times the
champion OF the Industrial South and
carried on the work which Henry