Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-23

OUR very wise and venerable CO.
temporary of the Nashville Banner
has kindly taken the affairs of West
Tennessee on his brawny shoulders.
We thank him for it; though, living
at the hub, it is no more than his duty
to enlighten fully all the entangled
and benighted regions around. Our
commendatOry notices of General
Quarles and Others he regards
as making confusion worse con-
founded;" and thus puts forth
the explanations and sage coun-
sells of craftsmanship in relation to
the /" Judicial dilemma" He says:
Our friends of the precipitste Democ-
racy Of Memphis seem to have steamed
themselves into a distressiDgly confused
state of uncertainty over the judicial
election to take place in August. The
whole trouble has just simply grown out
OF the endeavor of a few embryo states
men, aspiring to political leadership-be-
fore the people were quite ready to be
led-to anticipate an expression of the
popular will at the ballOt-bOx, by direct
ing, through a democratic Executive
COMMITTEES OF Shelby" whatever that Isl
a Estate Democratic Convention" te be
held at Nashville, to nominate candidates
for the Supreme Benchl Ofcourse it was
pre-destined TO fall still born, as any
movement seeking TO give to the cleo
ton of q Supreme Bench a partisan
cast at that time, or any other time,
was fOreOrdained to fall. The bare
suggestion was, in itself, sufficient to
have defeated a State Judicial COnven-
ton, if such had ever been seriously con-
templated. But to make confusion worse
~cOnfOunded, one of our partisan cOntem-
poraries at Memphis, in generous emula-
JlOn of other partisan cotempOraries,
strips a champion for the g~ubernatOrial
race, bids him shy his castor into the
ring, and stakes the entire national repu-
tation and war record of the Northern
Democracy upon his muscle, and pro-
poses, here in mid summer, 3 enter up
on two heated canvssses at one and the
same time, when the last one could not
possibly be decided untIl next winter.
Under these circumstances we are not at
all surprised at the conclusion arrived at,
lin a lucid intervall, by our friends of the
Memphis Ledger, in the following para
graph:
. tits apparent 10 the eye OF the most casual
observer that Our friends are in a total state
Of d~isorganization for the judicial election.
TO come of on the irst Thursday in August.
No two can agree as to the time when the
convention in Nashville should m~eet-even
those who are convinced Of the importance
Of such an assemblage. ave have before US
the resolutions adopted ut "a mass meeting Of
the citizens of Fayette county a few days
since, in which u rs proposed to send dele
gates to Vile on the 7th of July-fonr
earlier than thu time suggested by the
lawyers meeting at Jackson, and soon amer
agreed to by the Executive Committee Ofthe
county in behalf Of the Democracy. There
can be no honor In leading in this matter,
and unless we can harmOnize ON the time
for holdiss the convention il must result in
a nascO.
The APPEAL is wen more respondent
the prospect of this inevitable iascO,
but suggests the only sensible remedy
can possibly now meet the emergen-
cy-being precisely the suggestion put
forth by the Banaer in Sundays issue.
APPEAL saysi
The proposed convention at Nashville, to
make nominations for the Supreme Court,
seems 10 meet with no great favor, and
II Is doubted whether any viii be held, Prob
ably this district will be able without il TO
agree on It's own candidates, and all three
agree 20 support such candidates a. may be-
severally. selected by each We expect with |
Will enable us TO name the two candidates
most in1avor with the people OF West Ten- |
nessee.
Well, now, that's philosophy. The 9TH
er divisions of the State would hardly de-
sire to dictate to West Tennessee, and
there could be no objection TO separate
conventions, II in no OF her less
unpopular method, names may be agreed
upon which are TO be submitted TO the
people. There is but one movement in
West Tennessee or in any other quarter |
of the State against which the popular pro-
test road be decided and almost staiUer-
sal, and that is any proposition for parti-
san nominations looking to a partisan ju-
diciary-an idea, in itself, repElsiye to
every sober, intelligent and rejecting