Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-28

S0pOsONs
John j. Duffy, acting City Treasurer,
has fled the additional fifty thousand
dollars bond, which increases the Treas
urer's bond to one hundred aud fifty
thousand dollars: This is right; all per-
sons having charge of public moneys
should give sufficient bond.
The Radicals howl because the Quo
rum Court appointed all the judges and
clerks for the August election from the
Conservative ranks, and failed to APP
point Radical negro or white man.
The judges and clerks appointed are
good men, and will make correctreturns.
Mr.. Wilkeson, Plymouth church man
and intimate friend of Mesdames Wood
hull, Anthony, Ballard, Tilton and other
reelovers, said to these ladies that the
Beecher exposure would knock the Life
of Christ higher than kite" Thank
goodness Memphis has but few such
Cu6eTlul NHElSlldnss
The white boys who always fight with
the colored troops in the General Coun-
Gil are either resigning or are being de-
clared ineligible for good cause. The
little vetoist will soon be without his
squad who always defeated the two'thirds
vote on the second and final passage of
important ordinances.
Lieut.. A. W. Greeley, Inspecting OFF
Ger U. S. Signal Service, visited the
Cotton Exchange to-day. Lieut.. Gree
ley had satisfactory interview with
officers of the Cotton Exchange touch
ing the extension of the Signal Service
to the cotton districts, which will in ell
probability be carried out by the de-
intendent.
While the General Council are con-
sidering the ordinance prohibiting fire
men from taking any part in elections,
let the Council also prohibit all city Off
cials, Aldermen, Councilmen, etc., from
doing likewise. If one has no right to
take part in elections, neither has the
other. What sauce for the goose should
be sauce for the gander.
Memphis dogs have to be muzzled,
yet even this does not, it seems, render
human life secure. Recently Texas
dog wagged his tail at the approach of
his master, and in so doing knocked an
oil lamp off the table, setting the house
on fire and burning to death two chill
dren. This proves that to insure per-
feet security Memphis dogs should wear
two muzzles, and each properly located.
The sensible white Radicals have
given up the fight for the August cleo
tons. The blowing chaps yet hold out.
1t is amusing to hear the Irish Radical
nominees excuse themselves from the
civil rights issue when they are talking
to white men. Poor fellows, they know
by experience how difficult it is FOR an
Irishman to become a political turn
coat" even for the sake of Office, but
they will find it more difficult to make
"turncoats " of their countrymen.
Did it ever strike the Irish voters OF
Memphis that when Davis and Mulvihill
advocate the cause of the negro party
they become opposed and antagonistic
to the best interests of the white labor
ing man2 The success Of the negro
ticket and party means here as in South
Carolina and Louisiana, that the negroes
will rule and white laborers will have to
migrate to other points for work We
are for the white laborer as against the
negro laborer.
The news boys yesterday offered for
sale an extra purportiDg to be con-
fession by Il. Ward Beecher Abelard,
and for so doing the police arrested the
boys. By what legal authority the police
did this is not clear, nor can it be made
clear, we opine. The extra was un-
true, but if newsboys can be arrested for
selling untrue news, it can be done every
day, because the journals almost daily
contain something not supported by
fact, which is discovered afterward and
then corrected. The police could, under
the same stretch of power, arrest editors,
proprietors and all employed at news
paper offices.
In the published reports of the secret
debates in the Federal Convention in
1887, for the purpose of establishing a
Constitution, it was gravely asserted by
Mr.. Gerry that it should be the chief
object to keep demagogues and corrupt
men out of office, and this sentiment
was indorsed by such old fogies as Mad
ison, King, Pinckney, Wilson, Ran
dolph, George Washington, Rutledge,
Hamilton, Ellsworth, Franklin, Butler
and other delegates Demagogues and
corrupt men exist now as then, and our
chief object should be to defeat them in