Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-24
THE POLITICAL X

How They Acted and What They Did
Not Do for the Independent
VOters-Let Us Have
Peace.
1t Is reported currently upon the
streets that the Nationals have had a
very stormy time of it. Some weeks
ago they appointed Hosea Townsend,
a. I. Lacey aud others a committee to
confer with the Republicans for the pur.
pose Of selecting q ticket for August.
This committee has had frequent con.
Ie%renees with Eaton, Shaw, Kennedy
and others, but they were unable to
agree till Friday night, when the follow.
log ticket was presented by them:
For chancellor, W. NJ. Smith.
For circuit judge. Charles Kortrecht,
For probate judge, J. o. Pierce.
For criminal judge, ]. E. Bigelow.
For sheriff, James W. Anderson.
For county trustee, s. s. Garrett.
For attorney general Criminal Court,
I. D. Eldridge.
For attorney general Bartlett Court,
F. 7. Csssels.
For clerk Bartlett Court, George B.
Fleece.
For clerk Criminal Court, A. J..
Vaughan.
For clerk County Court, W. B. Wal.
drau.
For county register, VIM. Horgan.
This slate was not approved by the
campaign committee who 30 Endorsed it,
and when it was presented to the cen.
trail club, which had met in the hope Of
finding that everything had been salts.
factorily arranged between the Nationals
and Republicans, their disappointment
was unspeakable. As 1901 as the read
ing Of the report was concluded, they
saw from the political character of the
candidates that they had been dupsd,
betrayed, sold, for Horgan aud Fleece
were the only ones upon whom the ticket
belonging to the National party that had
not been selected and placed there by
Lacey and the Republicans.
Mr.. Anderson being a member Of the
central club could not, under their pub
lished resolutions about a month since,
become a candidate for any office at the
hands of the party. Under that resolu
ton, which he himself introduced, he
was rendered ineligible, and that resolu
ton is still in force, and stands unre-
pealed to day. To be sure, an attempt
to undo or rescind it has since been
made and carried in the club, but a very
sensible and unAspiring member, who
had ne AK to grind" after showing to
the committee the disafectiou which
would ensue from its rescission among
those who we're members and had re
signed their places in the committee in
the expectation Of becoming candidates
before the party, had the action of the
committee resembling or repeating that
resolution reconsidered, so that ii is still
in force. Mr.. Anderson then could not
become a candidate before the party.
This being the case, people will ask
how happened it that he was placed upon
the ticket for sheriff? II the National
party could not itself place him there,
there is but one alternative, and that is
that the Republican party or its repre-
SentativeS must have done 30. And the
fact is they did do SO. They we'll knew
that they could not elect Mr.. Garrett to
the Office Of sheriff, aud next to Garrett
Anderson was their mau. Why be was
their man each can conjecture for him.
self. Our informant is also entitled to
guess for himself, aRd needs but one
chance to guess the true cause, which he
will shortly make public. He believes
that he can also gusss tho reasons that
induced the parties to the conference to
put on the ticket the name of Mr.. Cren.
shaw, They are business like" in his
opinion. As to Mr.. Waldran and Mr..
Vaughan both are very popular and very
strong men, aud would make competent
and we'll qualified officers. 1t is to be
hoped that neither of them has any
cause for exclsiming, Save me from
my friends"
But Notwithstanding the strength of
M upon toe ticket thus presented,
it as a whole did not satisfy. The Ma.
tiOnals had no security that those select.
ed outside the party, aud not pro-
nouncsd Republicans, heartily in.
dorsed the National platform, or
the resolutions appended to it at
the Cochran Hall ou the 9th Of April.
Besides this they, as a party, had but
two representatives on the slate thus
made for them. Hence their disappoint.
ment on reading the report; but this was
nothing to their indignation when, on be-
ing informed by the Republicans that
they we're required to F." swallow" the
ticket as a whole, without the right to OBJ.
ject or to make the change of a single
name, for if they presumed to do this
the whole thing had to be referred back
to the Republican committee for their