The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-30
Colonel Blanton Dunean's Party.

Colonel Blanton Dunean's Party.
In some regards, says the Louisville
Ledger, Colonel Blanton Duncan party
is the biggest conundrum that was ever
submitted to the guessing facilities of the
universal Yankee nation-but It must not
be even surmise that because it is a huge
cOnundrum. therefore, II is huge party.
The conundrum is not suggested BIZ the
size of che party. There is no difficulty
in the world IL taking its dimensions, at
least not to those skilled in fractions, bat
it is entirely with regard TO the object
the party has in view, its mission, and its
destiny. We do no violence, we presume,
to truth, by calling the party Blanton
Dunean's party, and this apnears all
the more reasonable since Colonel Dun
can so far, has betrayed all the expenses
incident to birth. nursing, clothing, and
schooling, and we have all confidence that
he will continue to act fathers part
purchase its winding~sheet, aad de FRAY
all the funeral expenses when it finally
kicks the bucket and takes its place with
the useless trumpcry of past age Still,
the cOnundrum presents itself and f Col.
BIanton Duncan can not explain, will he
be so kind as to call in the magicians, as
trologers, and sore crers, AID let them try
/ their hand at it? 1t is quite possible
| that his magicians, astrolOgers, and sor-
rers will have to give 1t up and back
/ down, and tell the Colonel til re is nos n
man upon the earth who can guess the
/ conundrum, and delicatelY insinuate that
such conundIums ought not to be asked
| BE this rs it may, there stands the con-
undrum What is the object, the mis-
sion, and the destiny of Colonel BIantoa
! Arnao-is frbo-o
claim that Colonel Duncan has no party;
that so far what is innocently called a
party S only a few old wheels belts, and
thingunmegiss, thrown together for the
purpose OF mountaineering "a party, pro-
Yiding the raw material can be obtained
upoo anything like fair terms. bat we in.
cline to the opinion that Col Duncan has
n carty. just now it is LAYING around
promiseuously and loose. l. needs to be
gathered up, put on platform, and set
aoOing. This accomplished, belligerent
rights will be conc dod, and it can be set
up and knocked down during the cam
paign for the recreation Of thnse who do
not object to cruelty TO animals. Admit
ting the fact that the party exists, the
conundrum again recurs, which the mag
icians, astrologers, and sorcerers of the
party have not guessed-Whati is Colonel
Duncan going to do with his party2 Is
it to be an Alabama cruising on the po-
litical high seas, compelling Greeley
whalers and Grant tugs to s4rike their
colors, while Col Duncan foot, all the
bills This can hardly be possible. The
craft that Col Duncan sails is too small
1t is possible that the Colonel, in the
. munifcence ofhis generosity, has created
! his arty as a sort of political infrmary
where, after the battle has been fought
the sick and lame, ard dying can find
J shelter, have their wounds dressed, and
be fed and pensioned. But this can hard.
! ly be the object which the generous Col.
onel has In view his little party beins
i composed chiefly of sorerheads, they vii
have little time to devote to the mishap.
of Others It is possible that the mission
!. of Colonel Dunean's party Is to elect
> Grant2
. This we know is Justify denied, no
: one Of the eight or ten persons who art
II to make the earth tremble like the tramy
- of an earthquake on the Sd Of SeptembeT
when they rush upon Louisville like AZ
- Alpine avalanche, but will assert roundl'
d that Grant is not their man, they don
!, take any Grant in theirn, and other de
!, elarations, equally emphatic, showin
that higher noble, sublImer, and NOR
patriotic motives than helping Gran
animates their bosoms Then it must b
= to defeat Greeley. And just here W
te have Colonel Blanton Duncan's party o.
Of the hip. This guess strikes it betweel
wind and water; the shell has explode
among gamers, marines, cooks sailor
m and officers, aud the cock pit of the shi
II is full of the wounded. Eureka "
o. have guessed it. just as easily as v
l arrrtd her-a IL = - II.
- ject of the bull on the track to stop In
locomotive-iust as easily as we coni
have guessed that if the bull persiste
70 in his foolish course, he would find him
N self spread over some ten or dozen rod
al square, very thin and an exceedinol
dead bull But Colonel Banton Dur
cans party, unfortunately, If its obie
Is to defeat Greedy but not to elect Graz
N is without any object and the magician
AZ astrol0gers and sorcerers were right
IN giving M the oOnundrum. Juct he
M we are met by the pFonunciamentO th
the great object of the Blantou Dunes
party is to preserve the Democratic pa
lie Il.
~ The Blanton Duncan party seems
have eouae to the conclusion that som
aie body has piloted the Democratic sh
upon the rocks; that several holes Ia
been knocked into its bottom, big enou
zas TO admit not only vast amount of wat
ars but such deepSsea monsters as Hora
so Greeley, Charles Sumner, Carl Sehu
n. T. Banks, and some millions of 9th
Liberal Republicans, and that Blant
e Duncan's party is now called upon
81 pump out the ship, stop the holes, thr'
icy the Liberal Republicans overheard, q
start cut on fresh vnyage-expecii