The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-06-25
The Political outlook.

We copy aud endorse the following article
from the Augusta (Ga } constitutionalista as
a sagacious view of the political field, and
for the sound principles and policy it ad
vocatcs
The times are full of promise for Demo
cratic victory in the fall elections and in the
Presidential campaign of 1872, if there be no
rupture in our ranks and no lodging of ftrue
principles. Radicalism can no longer de-
pend for succor upon the old, played out
shibboleth left on hand by the rebellion" !"
and even "Ku-Klux out RACES" real or as
sumed, are wofully in the vocative. The
vitality recently exhibited by what was
jeeringly called the dead Democracy" has
given the Republican organs first class fit
ofhorrors, while the efforts made by Con-
gress to bolster up their sinking cause, by
unnatural and despotic edicts, only serve to
startle the people from a long continued de-
lusion ard make them burn to vindicate
their liberties before it is too late. The re-
markable developments in the New York
election have caused the Radical journals to
put their thinking caps on; but, thus far,
they can suggest very little consolation for
the great disaster which has fallen upon their
party The Sun (snake in the gress RadicaI
districts Of New York the Democrats car
ried, in the judicial election, twenty -four, so
great was the revolution in the rural districts
The San continues:
of course it is not to be presumed that
the Democrats will be able to maintain their
supremancy in all of the tWenty-foHr dis
tricts at the election next November. But
the vote Just cast shows that it will require
a desperate struggle for the Republicans to
wrest more than five or six of them out of
the hands Of the Democracy, thus leaving to
that party a decisive prepOnderance in the
delegation from this State in the next Con
gress.
The Times is equally lugubrious. 1t is
fairly staggered with the liveliness of that
corpse, the ''dead Democracy" and frantical-
ly entreats Congress to do something to stay
the onset Of the party of constitutional hber-
ty 1t says:
What is the Republican party doing to in
trench itself against the coming assault AL
most nothing Congress seems 20 be uncon-
S'tlOuS OI tic lLlDGuuiuS OdISCI, VI II IL Is
conscious, it is strangely Indifferent to it
The controlling necessity of the hour is &C
ton. We must have policy, and such a
policy as will satisfy the great mass Of the
party, and nationalize it. This cannot be
accomplished until the last vestise Of the re-
construction business is finally disposed of by
Congress, and every State is fully restored to
its normal Federal relations. 1t seems
amazing that the Republican leaders in
| Congress do not recognize this fact, and
make an end of all necessary work IN that
| direction, before we enter the impending
political campaign. They have dallied toe
! long with other work which they have taken
in hand, and have thereby embarrassed and
damaged the party all over the country.
When Congress has TO be appealed to fol
salvation, the case is desperate one indeed
The Times adds:
The Delaware and Kentucky elections will
come in August; those of Maine, Vermont
and California in September, and the rest o.
the State elections will take place In October
and November. 1t may safely be asserted
that upon the result of those elections vii
depend the success of the Republican policy
and that the future destiny of the party, no
| only in 1872, but for many years to come
will be largely affected. The entire lower
branch of the Fcrty-second Congress is tt
be chosen, and subsequently twenty-ont
| United States Senators are to be elected BY
| the Legislatures of the several States. Thes'
facts invest the political action which may
be taken during the next six months with al
Importance which cannot be oVer-estimated
While apathy, distintegratiOn, apprehen
sion and bewilderment have taken posses
sion of the Radicals, the Democracy nearly
everywhere are enthusiastic, compact, san
guine and collected 1t is this rapid anC
portentous combination en- naasse of th
Democratic elem ents that so startles on
enemies, and no artifee will remain unem