Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-14
nrR LOCAL ELECTIONS.

The election for county officers comes
off next Saturday week. II would be
well if our friends would bear in mind
this important matter, and govern them
selves accordingly. There is yet some
work TO be done in order to defeat the
Radicals who are slipping and sliding
round through the community with the
stealth of cat after its prey. 1t is alto
gether desirable that our people should
have in the county offices men of their
own choice, and who are in harmony
with the feeling and interest OF the great
body of citizens. We have had Radical
otfce-hoIders, Radical peculation, and
heavy taxesin consequence, long enough.
It would be well to make change, If
lint for short time. Let us have new
men. with at least the faint blush Of
honesty men who have not learned all
the arts OF swindling generally ac-
ouired by those who have held
official position for q long time.
The weight of or slavedom has been ex-
tremely wearisome and hard to bear.
The chance for escape has fortunately
fallen to our lot, and bow short-sighted
will il be if every one Of our former
masters are not consigned to Oblivion By
being turned out of their ill-deserved
nIaces. Never before have the Demo
Gratis of Shelby county been so fortunate
in the selection of ticket 70 hll the
Office of Sheriff and the various clerk
ships. Gen. Marcus j. Wright has before
received the countenance of the good
people of this community, having dis
charged the duties of Clerk Of the Com
mon Law Court previous to the war, to
which he had been elected over very
popular competitor. He is energetic.
intelligent, and fully capable Of making
the best Sheriff that this people have had
for 10 these many years. His Radical
opponent is possessed with all ma
tive Yankees shrewdness, and Is pull
ing all ibe wires that might effect q
reelection. But Curry will not be
Sheriff for the nexi four years, for one
simple reason, and that is. he will not
receive votes enough. The time has
passed when such as be can hold the
registration strings Of this county, and
with bride and bit drive our people
whittier it pleases them. The home re-
sources having failed, we shall expect
this same Radical to 90 out in the high
ways and by-ways Of Mississippi and
Alabama, as he has been known to
do before. and collect up the negroes
from the cotton fields. to make them
yoters in Tennessee elections. We viii
grant all this and more, aud still this
anxious expectant must certainly look
forward to defeat Our people should re-
member that this man is some Of the
scum thrown upon Us by the war who
gloried in hearing the clank Of onr
chains when Brownlow delighted to fet
ter the people with his malignity. He
now has the efroniery 10 ask honest. in
tellicsut men Of the county to support
him under the heaps Of insult and op
preston cast upon them. Has the
wretch no blush Of shameg Can h
persuade himself that We would nurs'
such viper in our bosoms9 lie
the time only come round. and see hoV
much We have forgotten Of the past fe'
wears. The gentlemen running for tn
diaerrnt clerkships. whose names ap
near az the head osour coiuDns, are vel
fitted in every respect to discharge 'h
du,;,s of rbeir several stations Shout
he ueapIc Sc proper 70 elevate them 8
~ ofsccs We yarn Democrats Agains
Mating iheir trna "a the promises an'
speecbes Of Radical oteeseekers' som