Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-08-27
RAMBLING PREDICTIONS.

We think IL can easily 10 Pie"'''N
that Judge Chase will run as the cand'"
date of what acme are endeavoring now
TO form) the Liberal party in the next
Presidential canvass. His Solomon SON
in.law from Rhode Island. Senator
soraeue, was no doubt through the South
srn country eudeavoring to lay plans by
which the. Judge might secure the vote
of this section in the next contest.
What he accomplished can be discov-
cred in the outcropping since the cleo
ton in this State Of the Liberal organ
ization, which our Nashville cotem'
porary denies as being the third
marty, That as it may be, for we
must confess to be unable to the
task of finding the preeisa relation OF
the iqnus tatmus editors who cant ex-
actly tell whether they are themselves or
somebody else at all times. 1t is one
thing very certain that our Nashville
neighbor has great aversion to be con-
sidered last or as belonging TO the latest
organized party. The thing to be afraid
of we cannot discover. The young thing
NAV be too young to leave its mother,
and in that event it would be proper tor
the eosling to remain under the wing OF
the old goose. it's mother. II Chase is not
at the head of this late Liberal move
in Tepnessee, then there is nothing IN
signs. II was all our friends could do in
the last contest TO persuade the editor OF
the Avalanche from running Chase with
bis Universal Suffrage organ. against the
entire field, and 1t is hardly supPesible
that he has 80 soon gotten over his
malady. Then, Judge Chase's platform
is the same as that of the Liberal party
universal suffrage and universal amnesty
We would, however, suggest TO this aspi-
rant for the next vacancy OF tresldept,
TO keep his son-in-law at home, and tied
TO his daughters apron string, or the
Southern Liberals may receive new
disgust for New England impudence and
ignorance.
We have not had the pleasure Of a very
iutimAie acquaintance with the high
order of talent from this favored region
of great moral ideas; but If Sprague ia
not jackass, then we are not acquainted
with the animal He paid our city
visit during last spring, being here osten'
sibly to attend the Commercial Conven-
ton, but really to further the ends OF
Judge Chase, his father-in-lsw. His
extraordinary Efforts in the way OF
speeches delivered before the Convention,
and at another time before u large as
sembly Of people, were exceedingly
scboolboyish work, aud showed the
material which composed the Liberal
party TO be made up of the meanest stuh'
Chase had evident designs on the Demo-
cratic ticket ia the late Presidential can
vass, but being such vile Black Repnb-
lican. his friends could hardly presume TO
bring him forward on white man's plat
form. Ii has been considered since, and
found important to form new party ex-
pressly Tor this ambitious designer, who
must at any cost be made candidate fer
the next Presidency. The Liberal party,
now 10 a state of political incubation, is
being set on, and will be hstched out by
Judge Chase at the proper time, fall
Hedged for the occasion.
The South can never be made 10 fall
into the train Of such man. and time
serving editors might just as well cease
their blowa6cations. We wonld say to
these impotent gentlemen, jast wait for
the Democratic wagon, and then We viii
al fska a ride