Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-06-24


this quite as much impotence as those
who are so "precipitate" could standf
Who says we are confused2 Has ne q
right to usurp all the talking IN the
Democratic church? Did he make him
self conspicuous as Democrat before
during, or since the war? What are his
antecedents as a Democrat' =
''Upon what meat doth this our Cesar feed
That he hath grown so greatr
Is the milk-and-water course of the
Banner, determined on nothing but its
own selfimportance, calculated to in
spire hope and confidence in the Demo-
cratic party. on whose success rests the
only alternative to RadicalismS Within
less than two months Of an important
election, that would-be leader inculcates
say-pothing, do-nothing policy; and
when we speak out and advise Conven-
ton, and expect 10 have it, we are called
preeipitate" by this polished petit
maitre consumed with its own digni6ed
selfimportance. We take mo- counsel
from such source, aud unless the De
mocracy desire to encounter disaster,
they will not be swayed or persuaded by
any such political charlatan. In the
fullness of the arrogance, which is its
characteristic, it struts into the arena
and pays its courteous attention to the
Western Division, and more especially
to the Democracy of Memphis. Ii says:
The whole trouble has just simply
grown out Of the endeavor OF a few EN-.
bryo statesmen, aspiring to political
leadership-before the people were quite
ready to be led-to anticipate an express
sion of the popular will at the ballot-box,
by directing, through a Democratic
Executive Committee of Shelby" what
ever that isl, State Democratic Con-
vention," to be held at Nashville, TO
nominate candidates for the Supreme
Benchl OF course it was predestined to
fall still-born, as any movement seeking
TO give TO the election of a Supreme
Bench partisan cast at that time, or
any other time, was foreordained to fall.
The bare suggestion was in itself suffi-
Gent to have defeated State Judicial
Convention, if such had ever. been Sc
riously contemplated.
By this time the Banner has probably
discovered that the State Convention
by meeting Of the barin
on the Supreme Court at
and seconded by the Democratic
Executive Committee of Shelby county,
has not fallen still-born, as it most
earnestly desired and doubtless sought
to inculcate. Its intimation that
the movement was inaugurated Ito
give to the election of a Supreme
Bench a partisan cast, shows the reck-
lessness of the Banner, and its specious
mode of assailing the party with which 1T
pretends to assimilate What does it
mean by "a partisan cast? Has IT in
is mind eye Radical whom it desires
10 see elected, and who, without con-
gention, might be elected? 1t seems so
from the tactics it recommends. We
want no Radical ON the Bench, and know
no Radical on whom we would confer the
srmine of the Supreme Bench. Wewan
Judges who will construe constitutions
md laws in strict Difference to what is
tight, and that is beyond the reach Of a
Radical when party considerations inter-
rene. We warn our people not to be
nisled BY the Banner-the skin is too
narrow to conceal the ears 1t has an
TX to grind, and would make the whole
Democratic party subserve its selfish
ness. The fling at " the Democratic Elk
,cutiye Committee of Shelby is too con
emptibIe to merit retort, and its gratu-
tous remark about " few embryo states
men utterly untrue in the connection,
md unjnstifable in one who seeks the
Of Democratic principles
and the elevation through them Of Dem
Dcratic men.