Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-14
LANES O. pURFF.


\ We understand that this gentleman
who has been river reporter on the Ava
lancne since that paper was revived after
1.-THE war is about to sever or has already
severed his connection with IL Not
kbeing advised of the reasons winch have
] induced this separation after such long
and harmonious connection, the less SAID
by us perhaps the better. If we we're to
suggest the old adage that !" rats desert a
sinking ship it might be construed INTO
4 business reflection, and produce an
other wall like that which went up this
morning. So, we will none of that, as it
might induce our cold-blooded neighbor
to deny again the soft impeachment OF
rapidly thinning readers" We pre-
sumo. therefore, that it was purely
business leave-taking, it being under
stood that Mr.. Duff is candidate for
the Office Of County Register, with fair
prospects, though subject, of course, to
nomination by the Democratic County
Convention. As an dHache of the Ava
lanche, no one could have been more as
siduous. or toiled harder for the success
of that paper. 1t never was in a
strait that his shoulder was not applied
to the wheel; and it must have
been something peculiar to cause him to
retire. as had been the case with the
original founder of the paper, TO which
he had chung through good and i'll re-
port, because of his strong attachment
for that which he had contributed to es-
tablish and sustain. 1t may be said of
Mr. Durff that he is keen, active par
tisan-an ineessant worker in the cause
of Democracy-but he has asked nothing
heretofore but a place in the Board of
Aldermen. TO which he had no difficulty
in mounting-a station he has filed with
unexampIed industry and to the entire
satisfaction of his constituents, who re-
elected him with increased ease over a
very popular competitor He is can
didate now for County Register, an Office
of fair emoluments. and for which he has
every requisite qualification. of one
thing his competitors may be assured
be viii use his dearest energies to secure
the nomination, which will be tanta-
mount to an election, He has been de-
voted to the advancement OF the Demo
cratic party, and has repeatedly perfected
maneGvers and carried measures that
tended TO its success of which others
considered themselves the projectors and
prime movers. He has been content 10
let others enjoy the honors, but his means
have been freely used to push forward
the party column, and his activity has
been displayed wherever necessary to
cover a weak point He helped 10 get
Sears out of the way, to ba succeeded by
Boughner; he was instrumental In con
Gliding the entby which Senter
became the conservative candidate for
Governor; and many times his active
energies have been at work, resulting in
the common good, when others had not
imagined he had been anywhere around.
His activity 10 the Seventh Ward can
meyer be forgotten, where be worked for
the cause even at the peril Of his life,
when Radcalism was in the ascendant,
and the Democratic forces we're hurled
against its ranks IN their strongest holds.
At the late election he was untiring, and
the sweep made in the Third Ward, de-
terminiHg the event. was mainly the re-
suit of his unfaiiing resources and un-
firing activity. Should he be nominated
and elected he will make an ener-
getic and Industrious officer. His bust !
ness qualifications are Of a high order, and !
his party are under many obligations for
his sacrifices and efforts in its behalf |
He has always been fair, even if a hard |
fighter, and his political opponents adj /
init that be has taken no advantage Of /
them in times gone by, to diminish their
respect, if he did contribute to their de-
feat when they had contemplated sue
cess We have said thus much Of an old /
newspaper man, who has stepped out Of
the treadmill routine of that daily drudg- /
cry, and Of one who in his sphere has
contributed greatly to the success Of the
Democracy. IL he shall obtain the nom
nation, and we see no present indica-
ton why he should not obtain Il. his
SUCCESS need not be considered at all
problematical