Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-21


unable to cope with the honest tchite
yeomanry of the county for all time to
come. -L- 9N
To the Citizens of shelby County.
The Democratic Executive Committee
of Shelby county, in the faithful dis
charge Of their duty, again address you,
to impress upon you the necessity OF en-
ergetic action at the judicial election,
which is now so near at hand. For few
DAYS our friends were paralyzed by the
report that the Legislature had deter
mined to pass an act of postponement,
THAT the election of Judges in this county
might be deferred until August, when the
election of Supreme Judges of the State
is to take place. Happily, the report
was premature, or if the intention was
entertained, upon reflection il was ADAM
doned, and there will be no interruption
to prevent a glorious triumph Of Demo
cratic freemen on the 26th inst.
Insidious efforts are being assiduously
made to draw off yonr allegiance from
the cause ofyonr country, as represented
by the regular Democratic nominees,
and rally you to the flag of Radical am
bition and "no-party selhshness, under
the hypocritical guise of Independent
candidates. Men, who are rank with
the fetid odors OF Radicalism, have the
unblushing effrontery to assure you that
they never have been partisans, and
have always sought to support the best
men for office, uninfuenced by any party
predilections whatever These very men
contributed all in their power TO dis
franchise you and keep you enthralled
that they and their party might revel in
the spoils Of which they might at will
plumber disarmed people Associated
with these are mongrel crew whose APP
petite for Office impels them to strike
hands with besotted ignorance and the
incarnation of Radicalism, that thereby
they may steal into station which they
never could obtain by fair and manly
competition. We urge you to be upon
your guard against the wiles and treach-
ery OF these time-serying office-seekers,
who after the election will have the OPP
portunity of emulating the fate ofJudas-
Every art is employed by the adherents
of this mongrel ticket to invoke the
prejudices and stir up the jealousies OF
the several nationalities comprising our
body politic-ceasing to remember that
every naturalized citizen has foregone all
allegiance to the government of his fore
fathers, that he may be justly entitled to
the protection of this Whosoever would
foment these absurd jealousies and pro-
mote ill-feeling between those whose
birthplace was in foreign lands and
those who ars
Native here. and to the manner born"
are public enemies, and should be re-
garded as assassins Of peace and pros
perity and the amenities of private life.
There can be nothing more odious than
the frothy demagogue who is forever dis
filling his noxious poisons in the ear of
the tayeign-born- stimulating his pas
sions and pointing TO wrongs that have
no existence. And then, too, he wraps
his srm around the neck of laAof, and !
while pretending to be his devoted friend
ellis his mind with diScontent and piles !
up mountains of imaginary wrongs. We
implore our people 10 turn q deaf gar TO
these common detFactors and slanderfFs, /
who are inspired solely By their own ag- |
rrandizement and utterly selfish aspira-
tops.
1t has been rumored that the Radicals
contemplate forming a thorough Radical /
ticket, in which event what will become !
of Ayres; and Hanson, and MRigiAill, |
and al Who seek, the alliance of negroes,
and scalawags that they |
may steal into ofiice2 IL would be but just
retribntion 10 leave them like seareerows
in cornfeld, as a warning to all depFe-
dators and plundeFeFs. But we do not
expect any such Improvement in Radi- I
cal morals as a straight-out ticket No; /
they will affiliate with the most abject 1
and elamorous to subserve their purpose,
and find IN such instruments as they \
have picked mp the very tools to prolong
the lite of their organization, which with.
out such pabalum would soep perish OF
inanition
In caRvassing the merits Of the Demo
cratic and the mongrel tickets, we cannot
peFnaise wherein the latter in single
instance presents superiority or even /
equality with the former, IN placing
them side by side is not the infsrioritY Of
the piebald, moDgrei ticket the most
striking? And upon this inferiority is (
superimposed the fact that men who
aspire to the high judicial functions Of
our courts have skunk from their old
party associations and friends in the
vain hope of enlisting ignorance and
lawlessaess under their banner in suffi-
Gent strength 10 yin the victory. They
make their own ayarice Of office para
mount % everything else, and would
fasten Radlsslism on the country eter
nally, rather nlas fosego the remote
of acquiring Judicial position,
through means that honorable mea With 7
patriotic pulses throbbing in their
bosoias, Soald hold in scorn and con-
tempt
New York has just given rs proud
example for imitation She mas rQiled I
up an unprecedented majority for the
Democratic judicial nominees for the
State and city, Notwithstanding Radical
is,g sought to borrow strength from an 4
sdmiration for the Grant adj
shsYing in fact that no
l.. III. faA