Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-20
THE aCRuTCHYn o
The Boys Meet az Cochran Hall
Last Night, with the ThermOme-
Ter IS IN the GAsIight.

THE "CRUTCHY" CLUB
The Boys Meet at Cochran Hall
Last Might, with the ThermOme-
Ter 9S IN h GasIight.
Exactly one hundred and ffty-6ve per.
sons, including about forty negroes and
fifty Democrats, appeared at Cochran
Hall last night, according to the careful
count OF heads made by our statistical
reporter. Those who we're present suf-
fered martyrdom, as from the brow Of
each swift streams Of perspiration al
down beneath the intense heat engen-
dered by a badly ventilated hall and by
a number of gas-jets, including the ora
tors Of the evening. The speakers ad-
vertised to be present were Charles Kor-
trecht, G. P. NJ. Turner, Harry Hill and
Patrick Mulvihill. When time was called
!. Harry Hill was absent as was also Patrick
/ Mulvihill, for some reason unexplained
to the audience. 1t is usual in variety
shows to apologize for the non.appear-
ance Of advertised performers, and either
I to state that owing to a misconnection
on the railroad the train failed to arrive
5 on time, or that the new arrivals were
? indisposed and unable to appear, but
: would do so on the next occasion. The
= stage was occupied by Vice President
Gronauer, a Federal o~fice-holder with a
8 bald dome of thought; Mr.. Kregle,
president of the German Casino Club,
who also sports a bald front, ard a
couple of colored gentlemen, not bald,
; who made up the platform scene, with
v the addition of a newspaper reporter,
a who sat in his shirt-sleeves and wore o
lead.pencil back of each ear.
u After some preliminarysmstters of no
N Importance we're disposed Of, Mr.. Chas
Kortrecht, a well-known chaneery law
yer of established Radical faith and
II predictions, was introduced as the frs.
= speaker.
H FIRST GUN,
Mr.. Kortrecht is well known in thi.
: city as an able chancery lawyer, who haI
!, been here a number of years. He is q
respected citizen, and is not eithe.
silently or publicly ostracized on &C
count of his politics, as our friend VIM
NJ. Randolph would have it. He hs.
even figured in literature, having re
Gently had a novel, entitled Life
Promise to Pay" dedicated to him b!
its talented authoress, Miss Conway. Nj
Kortrecht, true to his New Englan.
an birthplace, has remained a steadlas
he Republican and hater Of Democracy
,us especially Southern Democracy. Hi
nd speech last night reminded our r.
III. porter of many of his efforts at tn
Ie. bar of the Chancery Court, an argumel
Of destitute of oratory and cut down to
1bt plain, statement Of facts, or suppose
Gu facts, as appeared on the record. He
Oh. no such orator as Brutus was, and h
plain unvarnished talk failed 10 cres
any enthusiasm among the audienc
y He joined issue with and demurred
the st. Louis Convention platform, al
Of sought to introduce parol testimony ID
.cy OWN to contradict the record, sou
DIS thing not permitted in Chancery pre-
+ tics. de attempted to be humorous al
satirical with reference to the LEDG.
and and Appeal, but humor and irony a
ers, not in Col. Kortrecht's composition
the is entirely destitute of those arts Of OF
28T tory, but he can make a plain, INV
nished statement in good style. Duri
3 the progress Of his prosy and tiresoI
Il speech the Colonel emphasized his ass
I'm tons by shaking his head. To many
nj would seem as if he Endorsed all he 81
and as if the world Endorsed it,
when the world knows Col. Kortrech
ton, style of oratory as well as does our
porter it will become convinced Il
Of when the Colonel shakes his head The
the is nothing in it,
lass THE SECOND GUN.
ons. At the close of the above speech 10
yells arose for farmer, the ~scalp-tak
nd who has taken the scalps Of Barbc
nd Lewis, Ed Shaw and other leading Ra
ar cal lights many a time and oft on Den
+ cratic platforms. We feel very 10th
comment upon Turner speech, becaI
am, we have always been friendly to him
a journalistic way when his vagar
fans were non.political. he gave the LEDG
nat a turning over in response to seve
humorous paragraphs published conce
ms ing him. In yesterdays LEDGER
nk, called him G. Post Mortem Turner, a
Pps did so logically. He died a Democrat, y
Il politically dead for q time, a politi,
~coroner's inquest had to sit on him
De- order to identity the remains, and of
ohs' long elaboration it was discovered u
he was either a Radical or a " VIII
Is-It." he denied last night that he '
ever a Democrat or a Republican,
was a Wing alb initio, and would be
fnem. Our young and voluble irie
talked loud and long in his usual Cri
Ill n..4 .t-lo u noya a hriaf olraI