Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-09-23
Democratic Nominees.
DOCTORS DIFFER.

As we nave aircou1 ihuicatcuf -.
wrongs referred to cannot now be obyi-
ated unless by inficting greater ones, IN
the election Of Radicals Besides, it is
too late to talk of reforming system
after we have aceeded to the system, to
its legitimate results, the nomination OF
candidates Our objection is more. to
the mode than to the men that mode has
designated Having made no objection
to the late mass meeting as mode OF
selecting delegates, we conceive that we
are bound in good faith to abide the log
zeal consequences which that mode OF
selecting delegates imposed 1t appears
10 us to be out of order to kick ont OF
the traces after nominations have been
made. But hereafter we mean to oppose
all party machinery by which minorities
may be enabled to control majorities-a
fe,o rule the mnny---in the Democratic
party. Will the Appeal join us in this
reform Sun.
Hints and insinuations have from time
to time been thrown out through the cob
umns of the Appeal and Sun that un-
fairness characterized the late mass
meeting of the Democracy of this county.
If such was the case, we we're unable to
discover it at the time, and have not
since been furnished with the facts that
show the least coloring in that respect
As to the reforms in the party machinery
alluded to in this mornings Sun, we
would learn Of our contemporary what it
is he proposes to suggest for the future
whereby the few may not control the
many, as he intimates was the case. We
have tasked our brain for the last twelve
months, during the frequent canvasses
that our State and county have been
compelled to go through, to find some
better modes of selecting delegates than
by ward and district primary meetings,
or by the people in mass meeting assem-
bled. Both these ways of getting at the
wish of the majority are Of great an
tiquity in the history Of parties in this
county, and as yet nothing better has
been invented by which we may, as an
organization be saved from the greater
evil-defeat. We are, however, open to
the conviction Of any plan that may hush
the slightest whisper Of discomfort, and
will join our two neighbors, if such can
be found, in recommending it to the
Democratic voters of this State and
county. We have no other opinion than
that the will of the majority was enacted
in the late Conventions and being d.
rectly with the people, twas easy to ascer-
tain in what direction the current moved
The Appeal went so far yesterday as to
throw out the insinuation that the Con-
gressional delegation from this county
to jackson was packed, when two Of the
editors of that paper. NJ. Heating and
L. j. Dupre-were of the number that
went 10 the Convention. II may be so,
and the influence of the Appeal,
to a great extent, was the cause.
But the charges come in exceeding bad
taste from that quarter, unless it be that
our contemporary is disposed to make a
clean confession of his sins to the pub
lie. We think it hardly probable that
any unfairness was done; if so, the peo-
pie themselves are the responsible par
ties. What think the public2 Could
such men as John T. Stratton, John Far
rington, John Wilkerson, W. H. Cherry,
L. Woodbridge, A. II. Douglass, II. l..
Priddy, NJ. Magevney, p. NJ Winters
w. II. Carroll, f. Rayner, !. G. Harris,
James Coleman, P. J. Mallon, Thomas
MofFet. VIM Cannon, ]. NJ. Pendergast
J. H. Bate, II. Cayce Young, I. A.
Nelson. n. Hill, Sam II. Jones
John Brown, b. T. Reeves, W. II.
Rhea. W. S. Cooper. W. o. WOodson,
NJ. d. L. Stewart, Thomas r. Smith,
r. B. Ken, J. NJ Heating, W. +. Sim
mons. Ed. Carroll, c. S. Collins and l..
J. Dupre be packed in the interest Of
any one man2 II is indeed a reflection
upon the-e gentlemen in their heightened
and independent manner Of thought and
action. II these arc not representative
men Of our county, then our knowledge
of this people is all wrong. We take IT
upon ourselves, and viii at any time
make good the assertion, that all such
insinuations against the character Of
these gentlemen. and Of the mass meet
ing Of Democrats that appointed them,
Is false in every particular. and
only reflects apon the source from
which it proceeds. 1t Is not
remarkable to men Of sense that
Shelby county should have voted as
a unit in the late Conventions. when all
the other counties were a unit against