Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-06-13
PASSING STRANGE.

The call of the Executive committee
of Shelby county, for grand mass meet
ing of the Democracy at the Exchange
Building in this city on the 10th instant,
is published elsewhere. We regret that
the Committee coupled the sending of
delegates to the State Convention at
Nashville with the selection of delegates
TO a District Convention TO nominate
candidate for the Fifteenth Circuit Court
To our apprehensions it would have been
better if the Committee had confined
their recommendations to calling sim
pie mass meeting to send delegates to
Nashville. When the mass meet
ing assembled it could then have
taken steps for calling a nomin-
ating Convention for the Fifteenth
Circuit. In mass meeting, the Democ-
racv of Shelby could say to the Democ-
racy of Fayette and Upton, that unless
their strength were united on the man,
defeat was probable; and that in order TO
secure unity of purpose there should be
a fairly organized convention to put IN
the field the man on whom all could
unite. They could fix the day for such
contention, and appoint different dele
ration from that to 90 to Nashville and
represent them. In this way there would
be no danger of clashing Iri-any partie-
ular. We are not without hope that this
course will yet be pursued. Daily Sun,
June II.
1t is indeed strange that some people,
and even editors, are possessed of so lit
lie Of what is commonly called common
sense. 1t is this that wins victories on
die battlefield, at the ballot-box, that
constitutes the best statesmen of the
land. that enables one to plant and cul-
tivate a successful crop from the
earth: that makes our frst-class mer-
chants, lawyers and doctors, and, in fact,
nothing practical can be accomplished
without IT, And we are sorry to observe
in the above article, taken from the Sun,
the absence Of the display of that ia
Guilty which is so much required in Civ
ing advice to the public. Almost any
one of the community may mount the
tripod and essay to furnish, free gratis,
their opinion, upon important steps to
be taken for the peoples good, and with
unseasoned pen, conceive ill-gotten
ideas which must fall siill-born and rot
npon the hands of the impractical editor.
Now the Executive Committee of this
county recommend to the delegates who
shall 20 from the counties of Shelby,
Upton and Fayette to Nashville on
the 18th of next month to nominate
Supreme Judges, to meet and agree at
the same time upon the candidates for
the Judgeship of the Fifteenth Judicial
Circuit and the Attorney General of the
same This was thought proper, in order
to save the trouble and expense of two
conventions when one might do the bust
ness as well. This idea, however, seems
never to have entered the impenetrable
Uranium of our contemporary Of the Sun.
As to the mass meeting which shall
assemble here on the Goth, callinga Con-
vention Of the entire district, it is abb
surd and ridiculous to think of such
thing. This recommendation is the bust
ness properof the Executive Committee,
which it has discharged with the best in
tentions and the most thorough good
sense. The objections thus urged are
scarcely entitled TO consideration from
us, being so transparent for want Of rea-
son and common sense. In view of the
premises we are altogether opposed to
"a simple mass meeting" as recon-
mended by the Sun.