Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-01

IunICIAL CONVENTIONS.

Why do not those persons SO inlmica
TO the holding of Convention to noml
nate candidates for Judges of the Su
rreme Court make some exertion t.
stop the local Conventions to nominat
candidates for Chancellors, Circui
Judges, and Attorney Generals? One o
these calls strikes our eye at this mo
ment. In Knox county, where to east
the consciences of fastidious individual
who abhor the name Of Democracy the
opponents of Radicalism call themselves
1.-THE Conservative Union Party" they
intend to select candidates through &
Convention. In the Press and Herald
of the 2sth, we find the following very
shocking announcement:
CALL FOR A JUDICIAL CONTENTION.
The Executive Committee of the Con-
servatiye Union Party of Knox county,
desiring to place in judicial positions
eminent lawyers, who are guided by a
written Constitution, rather than by
the higher law of partisan politics,
hereby call Convention Of the Conser-
NATIVES of Knox county, to meet in the
city Of Knoxville, on Monday, July 4th,
1870, for the purpose of nominating can
didates for Chancellor of the Second Dis
trict, Judge and Attorney General of the
Third Circuit, and County Judge OF
Knox county.
The Executive Committee request
thar each ward and civil district in Knox
county send one delegate to the Convex
ton.
The Executive Committee further sug-
gest to the. Conservative voters of the
different counties composing the Chan
Gerry District and the Judicial Circuit,
that they send one delegate from each
and every civil district in their respec-
tive counties, to meet the delegates from
Knox county in said convention for the
purpose of nominating Judge and At
torney General of this Circuit, and
Chancellor of this District The basis
of representation of each county to be
fixed by the convention when assembled.
The Executive Committee further re-
commend to the opponents OF Radical
ism in the several counties in the Chan
Gerry District and Judicial Circuit, that
they, at as early day as possible, Sc
lect the delegates in accordance with
the recommendation of this committee.
In behalf of the Conservative Union
citizens of Knox county.
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
We have copied this to show those
gentlemen who have been led astray by
designing individuals and persuaded to
think that the Executive Committee Of
this county have exceeded their proper
prerogatives, that Executive Committees
have something else to do beside calling
meetings which other citizens have just
as much right and authority to do ac-
cording to the ethics of those wise teach
ers in their day and generation. The
Executive Committee of Knox calls a
Judicial Convention to assemble on a
certain day. and points out its object.
1t names the officers TO be nominated,
and prescribes the number Of delegates,
rtSlIlctiDE iutul W OilC AiOhh tsSiy "oiN
and civil district 1t also suggests to
the Conservative voters of the other
counties composing the Chancery Dis
trict and the Judicial Circuit to be gov
erned similarly and do the same thing.
Now all this is but q history Of the &C.
ton Of our own Executive Committee,
that has not sought to exceed its powers
but has done its best to be vigilant and
efficient. Its studious effort has been to
usurp nothing, if such a thing were pos
sible, but to discharge every duty with
true fidelity and unswayed by any selfish
feeling. Had it done less it would not
have deserved the confidence Of our
party, and it was not to be effected, to
accomplish more than the moderate sue.
cass that crowned its labOrs.