The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1869-12-25
EsoEiticaI questions Answered.

A correspondent, writing from SedAlia,
Mo, under recent date, asked the able and
talented editor of the unerriug Cincinnati
Enquirer the following questions:
/. What is the difference between the
Radical majorities in 1868 and 1869 in
Ohio ?
, In how many and il what States have
the Radicals n majority
g. In how many and in which of the Sc
ceded States are military governors placed :?
Also, how many of the same are represented
in Congress- by Southern men, and how
many and which ones are not at all repre-
sented
4 i the doctrine of reputation advo-
Gated by the leaders Of the Democratic
Farty
5. Do any of the Radical leaders favor
paying the bondholder greenbacks, and, if
so, who are they?
g. Which party ID urging a return to spe-
Gle payments What Democratic leaders
favor it, if any, and what will be the result
if such re turn is effected?
These questions have been discussed. both
pro and CON- by both parties in our city, and
your decision uTOn tbs same will be read
with interest Please answer them as early
as possible. Very truly, A DEMOCRAT
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS.
Promptly the above questions were an
swered as follows
l. The Republican majority on the State
tickets, in Ohio, in October, 1868, was H.
S73 In November Grant, for President
had Al 100 majority In 1869 the majority
for Hayes, over Mr. Pendleton, was 400
This was Republican loss Of $4,000 from
1893 CE a IL
preceding State election 1t was, with one
exception, the smallest Republican majority
that was ever given in Ohio. Inc exception
was in 1867, when We had the advantage,
directly, Of the negro snhrage question, sub
mitted tn the popu IT vote 10 the shape Of
proposed amendment 20 the State Constitu
ton.
3 There are thirty seven States in the
Union. Of these New York, New jersey,
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, California
and Oregon are thoroughly Democratic The
Radicals were badly beaten, on their own
grounds, at the last elections in Virginia,
Tennessee, Louisiana and Georgia This
makes eleven Of the thirty seven that have
pronounced against them. In Indiana the
Democrats had 600 majority on Congress
in 1868, although they lost the Governor,
Mr. Hendricks, by a small majority. Ii an
election was to be held now the Democrats
would carry it handsomely. In Connecticut
the Republican Governor mad but five hun
dred majority. At the last election in Hi
uois the Democrats carried a majority Of the
members of the Constitutional Convention
In Missouri and in Western Virginia the
Democrats are in a large majority but, ow-
ing TO forcible disfranchisement. those States,
for the present, are against them. In all
the Southern States they will have maiori-
ty as soon as the coercion Of the bayOnet is
removed.
3. 1T present there are two States gov
erncd directly by the military power, viz
Mississippi and fexas. All the Southern
States are represented, or pretendedly so,
save those above mentioned and Virginia
and Georgia AS to the kind of men who
represent them, they are nearly all carpet.
baggers from the North, or SoutberR men
who have sold out to power since the conclu.
sion Of the war. There are few real genu-
/ inc Southern men now in Congress.
| /. The doctrine of repudation is only adj
vocated by the Democracy in this way
/ They are in favor of paying the debt as
agreed to pay it-ive-t twenties in green
/ backs and the ten1forties in gold hut if the
bondholders repudiate this contract, they
are In favor Of the utter reputation Of the
debt, principal and interest. They are alsC
generally In favor of paying no interest un'
til the bonds are taxed as other property /,
taxed.
5. Senator's Morton, Sherman and other
Western Republicans, and Benjamin E
Butler, Of the House, favor the payment 0
the bonds in groenbacks but they connec
it with a prOYiso-or at least Sherman anC
Morton do-that renders it a sham. Th'
greenbacks, before the payment is made, arr
to be made equal to gold, and no new issu'
is to be made for that purpose. Practically
as our correspondent understands the term
there are no greenback Republican leaders
6. 1t is the Republican party mainl.,
which is urging forced return to speci
payment There are no Democratic leader
that we know Of that are in favor Of it. Ih
effect Of the measure would be to add % pc
cent to the public and private indebtedness
of the country, and make the payment c
taxes far more difficult, while it dimiuishe
the resources of the people in the same pro
portion. 1t would carry bankI uptcy to to
commercial and destitution to the laborin
classes