Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-07-13
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One OF our exchanges, in connection
with the pending State debt case, has
revised and sent on its rounds again a
false charge that the American de.
nounced Judge Williams for granting
the fat upon the funding bill. This
is simply not true. Itwas stated, and
truly, that Judge Williams, by his po-
litical course in the canvass, and in
the boilers convention, had shown
himself to be very decidedly preju-
diced, but no charge of dishonest mo-
tives has ever been made by the Amer
lean against Judge Williams or any
other Judge"
The above we clip from the Daily
American of June 18th. So many of
the papers Of the State have criticised
and condemned the course of the
American, that we do not know to
which one it alludes. But in order
that the American may be set entire
ly right on the question we will quote
few Of its kind references to Judge
Williams. In an article of May 25th,
the issue which published the bill it
says
THE speculative and political in.
terests of which appeared at its in
ception in Nashville, or watched over
its begetting about the street corners,
the completion of the incubation in
Memphis, the alleged search for a
Chancellor or Judge, the earnest
thought said to have been INDUCED
in, to see if some other could not be
found, the reference to Williams as
last resort, the mysterious holding the
bill from the 10th, on which the fat
was granted, until the 24th, on which
it was filed, the prompt short sales of
bonds on the 10th and 2lst, all form
an important illustrative chapter to
90 with the charges of interested mo-
tives, which make up the body Of this
singular bill Of particulars.
Again in the same issue, in speak
ing of the bill, it says
His fat. Of itself mixture of
nonsense and smattering of law and
judicial opinion misapplied, is fair
key to the character and purpose of
the bill"
And then again In its issue of May
9th. it speaks Of its official act as
speaking a falsehood, as follows:
The short bill and fat of Jack
Williams persists in a falsehoOd,
which regulators have been singing
In the ears Of the people.
And in its issue of the 18th, the
Judge is complimented as follows,
speaking of this same official act
IF Jack Williams means to say that
he is contrary, and his judicial opin-
ion against that Of any other jurist
constitutes contrarity we may accept
his statement, but we have never
heard the most ardent praise of Jack
Williams intimate that his opinion is
judicial opinion"
On the 10Th Of May the Judge is
remembered 10 the following elegant
English:
1.-THE theme Of Inextinguishable
laughter among the lawyers just now
is Jack Williams fat. A prominent
lawyer the other day said that it was
at least MS own. Ia this VIC think
that Jack is done injustice the non
sense init and the lack of legal kbowl-4
edge are unquestionably the property
of Jack, but there is a genuine Marks
Favor about the demagogery in it, not
that Jack couldn't have provided that
too, but simply that he didn't"
These are samples Of its refined re-
ferenee 10 the judge, and it was tie |
signal for a number of the little fell |
lows in the country that it controls to
join in the chorus. 1t is nonsense now
for the American to try the crawfsh-
ing policy about it. The fact is its
course was 30 unreasonable and i'm |
proper tbatnot only the impartial press |
but the people in mass were forced 10 |
notice it, and to vindicate the Judge |
and TO condemn the papers that we're |
pouring out their "vials of wrath on |
him. That's what is now the matter
the trump did not win, and they |
want TO get clear Of it.
Whether Judge Williams is good or
bad authority on judicial questions,
we will tell you what will happen, ii /
The courts decide this great question
Of right and justice against the people,
they will call a convention next year
aud 70 organize the judiciary, and |
they will put only on the bench suoh |
men as have opinions like Judge vii. |
liams on this question. Hawkins and |
his brother judges Of the BrOwnloW
regime tried their littlo game of de- |
spelling the people Of their right off
suffrage, but convention was called
by an outraged people and they were
wiped out, and it will be 80 again If
necessary. The people rule yot awhile
and they do not iHtend TO be sold or
given away either, by the legislature
Or the courts; and you can carry the
news to Hiram"