Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-12-27
municipal Democratic Ticket
FOR MAYOR,
TEmpEsr IN A TEAPOT.

Jefferson street Bushphacker, that some
thing was mighty" wrong with cur
County Executive Committee. Daily
we are lifted up to the topmost hight OF
expectation by observing our neighbor
how he draws his falchion and rushes
madly into the fray against the Demo-
cratic Committee. What q scene ne
does create We would suppose the
little puny thing would be annihilated BY
the ponderous blows be administers
But no, the gentlemen who compose this
Committee are not at all disturbed in
mind, but go about the business of the
party in q way that should make small
journalists feel their insignificance.
How ridiculous for the Avalanche now
to attempt to dictate to the Democratic
party, au organization it not long since
proclaimed dead, and that, too, for ITS
own vile partisan purposes. 1t the Com
mittee appointed to act for this county
should do wrong, we still cannot recog-
Mise the right of this Liberal sheet to
chastise it at pleasure. 1t would be, no
doubt, to the interest of some to disrupt
entirely the time-honored old party that
has preserved it's name through the
storm Of four years battle. Bat sincere,
honest and intelligent gentlemen cannot
be driven from the line of duty they
know to be right, and that, too, by the
opposition of newspaper known
to be governed by its whims and
its prejudices. The fact is, that the
committee is scting in the interest Of
ring, and that ring the great Democratic
party Of this county, that will soon
sweep negro worshippers and Radicals
before It. If the truth could be got at,
perhaps it might be found that o.; this
noise was kicked up for the reason that
some old fossil politician is not made
the choice of the party for Mayor, who
subscribes to the negro platform of the
Avalanche The County Committee did
right in calling q convention of the party
to nominate q candidate for Mayor. We
have no city Executive Committee, and
there not being one, it is the duty of the
County Executive Committee to see that
organization of the party is kept perfect.
If there was no County Committee, il
would be the duty Of the District Execu-
tive Committee to act in the mattsr, the
fact having properly been brought to their
attention. 1t may be true that in some
of the wards of the city there are indie
pendent candidates for Aldermen, but
that is not reason why we should not
have Convention to nominate csndi-
date for Mayor, who is to run all over the
city; aud the party will generally stand
by the nominees, even in the wards for
the small offices to be filed by the voters
of each. There may be an exception now
and then, as there should be, as. for in
stance. in the Second Ward, where q can
didate is put forward for Alderman, who
is to-day under indictment for bribery
in Office heretofore. We proclaim
it, il need be, from the housetops, that
such an one should not again be elected
to Office until be has been completely
cleansed from the suspicion of the al
LEGGED crime. The member Of the
Executive Committee did right in sign
ing cali for some one else in the ward
to become q candidate. The people will
applaud his honest intentions, aud the
party will doubtless stand by bis. and the
suggestions Of others. The reason why
the ExesAiive Committee Of this county
has not deemed it proper to call Con-
vention together to nominate candidates
for the Chauctaor's position, and that
of common law Judge, is that those Off
ces are only to continue for two months,
when BY the late enacted law of the Leg
islature, they are abolished, and the
new election for Judges take place.
As there was TO be no contest over the
two Offices that, under the new law.
would exist only two months, the Com
mitles thought il uniuportsnt that nomi-
nations should be made to I'LL the vscsn-
oies. Twas wise in not calling the pso-
nile together matter about which every
one felt little concern. No. tits o pre-
text merely to fly at the Democratic