Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-28
4" COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR sHAD-
nWs BEFORE."

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aud Conservative voters OF Shelby
county thoroughly Democratic to the
core" it is likely that the demands OF the
Bourbons will be so incorporating that
Conservative citizens will be compelled
to stand Observation-Disclosures, 18th.
We are not aware of any persist
ent or combined effort to accom-
plish the above purpose in a Bour-
bon or ultra Democratic sense and
hope that no demands will be made
to cause Conservative citizens to
stand aloof. The expression Dem
ocratic to the core originated in
the late municipal canvass and is
not likely to cut any figure in the
political contests just ahead of us.
There is certainly no reason to seri-
ously apprehend that the small
Bourbon element proper will cap:
ture or attempt to dictate to the
immense Conservative majority Of
Shelby county, which expressed
itself so emphatically at the last two
general elections. We hope that
our cotemporary, which has rem
dered such signal service in behalf
of reform and the true interests Of
the people, will not in exercising its
p~rerogative as an Independent jour
nal stand aloof merely for the sake
of doing so or recede from the
high ground taken two years
ago, and upon which for the
time at least the daily press Of
Memphis was united. The issues
before the people have not mate
rally changed. The situation is
about the same, except chat Con-
sentative Democracy has won many
triumphs, not in Tennessee alone,
but in various States of the Union.
The ~rottenness of the Radical party
has been probed, if not all uncoy-
cred its venality and utter lack Of
principle have been exposed, and il
all the good elements of the coun-
try will but combine the centennial
year will close with a victory in the
Presidential election that will as.
sure the world that we are capable
of self-government and that abuses
of ofice-holders can always be
quietly corrected at the ballot-box.
As to our local affairs, we feel con.
fdent that the people who carried
the August and November elections
of 1874 will rally again under thu
organization which remains intac,
and elect the public servants o
their choice. The Democratic anC
Conservative Committee has called
a county convention to meet mex
Monday. The committee will re
sign and a new one he appointed
Every ward and district is ex
pected to be fairly represented
Those who voluntarily absen
themselves should be the last t
find fault The Avalanche seem
to think that this convention an,
the canTasseg to follow will be i
the hands Of party managers Thi
is true In q restricted sense. 50 ia
as an executive committee is meant
The people have been duly notife
that they are requested to meet an
select a new committee, which the
Wilde, unless the old one Ia induce
to continue. This is an open an
fair proposition, which the LEDGE
heartily indorses. The call is ma,
broad and general in aecordan
with the liberal spirit Of the NOV
ment under which so much was a
plished to fraternize the elemen
Of the commonwealth in the SUI
mer of 1874. We see no reason
condemn the good work done the
Let the spirit Of that admiral
movement prevail and all will
well.