Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-15
THE RADICAL TICKET.

The Radicals met yesterday at the
Exposition building and nominated
full county ticket. The convention was
altogether very tame, and was pretty
nearly, if not quite, cut and dried
affair. The delegates were mostly col
pred and the best speeches made were
nv colored men. If these colered men
would assert their manhood by drawing
the lines a little closer and kicking over
board their white masters, they would
command much more respect and at the
same time increase their own posslbili-
ties of usefulness. There is no denying
the fact that Shaw, Esquire Thompson,
Swan, Rankin, Phillips, Pope, Gwynn,
Thomas, Kennedy and other men of the
colored race, making slight allowances
for education and training, are much
ADLER speakers and politicians than W..
]. Smith, Thomas Eldridge, L, E. Dyer,
Andrew Davis and other radical whites
who figured yesterday. Why the negroes
who do the voting and the drudgery OF
the Republican party in Shelby county
let half dozen white men lead them by
the nose is more tLan any outsider can
understand. If left to themselves the
negroes would have put forth a stronger
ticket than the one offered. 1t is about
as weak list of nine men as the
most enthusiastic Bartlettite could have
desired. A heavy bid was made for the
Irish vote, but it will not win. They are
weak brethren, except perhaps young
Pat Winters, clever boy, WHO'S manip'
nlated by older politicians. Our Irish
friends are not for the civil rights bill,
and no ward politician carries them in
his pocket. They cannot be bought,
traded off or seriously divided. The
strength and glory Of the Irish nation
has been its integrity and unity. Null
vihill is an artful politician, who seeks
to divide the Irish for a personal pur-
pose. Davis has fallen into the hands OF
the Philistines and taken up arms
against his couRtrymen. Alas, that we
should have to say it Of one who should
be the earnest champion Of Erin q
honor. But the allurements Of Office
were too much for him, and he went
over, body and soul, to the civil
rights platform. His influence hereafter
must be exerted to secure the admission
of colOred children to the Market street
schoolhouse and to all the public
schools of the city. Farewell, brother
Davis; you have dug the grave of your
political death so deep that no TRUMP OF
fame or plaudits Of countrymen will eve,
disturb the sod. Garrett, nominated
for Sheriff, and Patterson, for Trustee
are both Federal office-holders, but wan
something better Without Office O
some kind it is very uncertain wher
they would finally settle Both are cor
sidered clever fellows by their persons
friends, but neither one can carry an
strength outside. Of the strictest part
limits. They will get the colored vo;
solid, and possibly two or three hui
bred white votes. They are consister
Republicans, and the only ones on tn
ticket. They are like many others: afte
Office and using the negro and the civ
rights bill as rounds in the ladder whic
reaches toward the goal Of their hope
Had they lived South they would ha,
been secessionists and Bourbon Dem,
Gratis, or Old Line Wings Of the stricte
sect. No one else on the ticket is worth
of special mention, though their nam,
all appear in the local column. Ye
there is one we might name as sinkir
beneath contempt, one for whom vel
few words in the English language we
made; a nondescript, apitiful object, Il
proud to work, bat not ashamed to 81