Marion County IN Archives History - Letters .....Waters, Richard G. Letter To Ireland's Freeman's Journal September 22, 1885
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Letter From Richard G. Waters written to Freeman's Journal

Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser Tues Sep 22, 1885
             America and Ireland
           To The Editor of The Freeman
                           115 Clonliffe road, Dublin
    Dear Sir--The manifestation of our people in the mass
meetings which have been held in the United States, and
especially that of Indianapolis, at which the Hon Thomas
A. Hendricks, Vice-President of the United States, spoke
in support of Mr. Parnell and our right to legislative
independence, affords us a striking proof of the growth
not alone of Irish-American but also of American feeling
in behalf of our cause. My late father, Dr. John Charles
Waters, was for a number of years living in Indianapolis,
and the publication of the subjoined letter from a distin-
guished American stateman who filled the high position of
of Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury, will
not be uninteresting at the present juncture, as showing
the feeling which has grown up not a lone for individual
Irishmen but, as evidenced in the Indianapolis resolutions,
also for Ireland herself:--
                         Treasury Department, Washington,
                                    July 28th, 1882
Dr. John C. Waters, Indianapolis--
   I have written to several gentlemen of prominence in
the party at home urging your name for a place on the 
Legislative ticket, and I think that you can get one. I do
not know but that it would be best for you to go as joint
representative, but of that you can judge best. I have no
doubt of our electing our full ticket. I wish you would
call upon my son Harry, and also upon Mr. Ramsdell. Harry
will introduce you to some of his friends.--Yours truly,
                                     John C. New

   From this it will be seen that not alone did this
gentleman urge my late father's candidature for the Legis-
lature, but wrote and worked himself in his behalf, as may
be seen by reading his letter. That year the Republican
party was not successful--neither was my late father. The
county which he would have been called upon to represent
was Manori County, which bears the same position to Indian-
apolis, where these important resolutions were passed, that
the county Dublin does to this city. There are many in
Ireland who remember Dr. Waters still, and while it is not
for me to state anything beyond mere facts there are 
those who will easily recognise that the wonderful change
of feeling in behalf of Ireland throughout the United
States has been manifested in many ways by both the
Republican party and the Democratic party. The English
Government gave my dead parent a hard bed in Kilmainham
Jail eighteen years ago, while a member of the American
Government, as instanced by the letter of the Hon John
C. New, were anxious to pay him all honour.--Yours
faithfully,    
                                Richard G. Waters

[Richard G. Waters moved from Ireland to Philadelphia, PA in 1889 and died there 
on Jan 25, 1893. His father John C. had moved to the U.S. much earlier and lived 
much of his time in Indianapolis, IN]

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