Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-12
HOW OUR DELEGATES JARED.

We met one or two Of the delegates !
yesterday who had just returned from
the Cincinnati Commercial Convention.
They speak in favorable terms OF the
convention and the treatment they re-
celved everywhere until they came this
side Of Louisville. They had been led
to believe that after paying their fare to
the convention over the various roads,
they would be returned free on certih-
cate from the secretary Of the convention
showing that they had been in attend
ance as delegates. The Louisville, Lex
ington and Cincinnati Short Line, which
is under liberal management, returned
these delegates free; but the conductor
on the Louisville and Nashville road col
lected full fare, and was quite peremptory
in his demands He stated to the Hon.
Jacob Thompson and Capt. j. ii. Bate,
both fully accredited delegates, that he
had no instructions on the subject.
These gentlemen, after some controversy,
paid full fare. The conductor, not con-
tent with this, took it upon himself to
inform the conductor over the middle
division of the road, that such passen-
gers were aboard. This conductor came
around in the middle Of the night and
aroused the two gentlemen mentioned,
and no Others, to demand their fare.
This, likewise, we believe, was paid.
The conductor over the lower section Of
the line being acquainted with the gen
tlemen, took the responsibility of pass
ing them free. 1t is needless for
Louisville to put up the paltry excuse
that this was a matter Of mere oversight,
or the fault of conductor. The out
rage came from higher source. 1t is
well known that a bitter controversy
has been going on between Louisville
and Cincinnati in regard TO the late
Green Line Excursion, in which Louis
Vile came out second best. We are not
at all interested in the discussion, though
our sympathies at first were with Louis
vile. Yet it must be admitted that the
press ofthat city manifested a bad spirit,
and that Cincinnati made captivating
impression on the Southern people of the
excursion, and at the late Convention
Louisville had the convention last year
and has no right to complain now. Alittl'
grain of magnanimity would have made
more friends than so much maignity
Collecting full fare from the returning
Cincinnati delegates is capable of bu
one construction; it is simply piece o
httleness and spite unworthy of am
railroad officials working in the interes
Of great southern city like Louisville
Had these delegates been returning from
Louisville convention we venture the
assertion that the conductors would have
been fully instructed TO pass them free
The delegates cannot fail to draw con
trast between the treatment received a
the hands Of this railroad company
working in the interest and rejecting the
spirit Of Louisville. and the humerou.
'courtesies showered on all Southern Wis
itors north Of Louisville. Cincinnati
hospitality could not by any possible in
vention be advertised more effectively
than by this comparison, until an ample
eeoloSy is officially rendered and the
money refunded to those delegates who
had TO pay fun fare both ways. Tbs
Southern delegates thus treated viii en-
terrain an honest resentment tOwar,
mos heretofore supposed to BE- the sou
ofliberslify and fairness