The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-07-12
THE COURSE OF THE TIDE.
Drift of the Press.

The Detroit Tribune isn't any kind of
an organ. 1t persists in making just
such indiscreet admissions as this !.
Grant has committed some asts as
President which are simply indefensible,
and we shall not attemp to defend them"
The Richmond Inquirer declares that
nothing can check the advance Of the
great popular tideithat set in in favor of
MIR. Greeley. Matters have gone too far,
and he is no longer the lesser evil with
the vast majority, but the chief good
They have already taken him to their
hearts, and he is the peoples only hero
The Boston Times thus announces its
Intention to support the Liberal Ticket
Our watchword during the present cam;
paign, will be Greeley and Brown. They
represent the future and not the past of
the country. With their election the
bitterness and hatreds engendered by the
civil war, will be buried, and once more
clasping hands the freedmen of the land
will march forward together to their glO-
rious destiny. The record of tie Repub-
lican party is a glorious one, and we be~
ieve its spirit is perpetuated in the prin-
eiples enumerated at Cincinnati, and
represented by Greeley and Brown.
The Rockford iii } Journal, declaring
its determination from the start to sup
port Grant, and expressing it's conviction
now that Greeley and Brown viii be
elected, swings into the Reform ranks
with this declaration with this state
Of facts. and in harmony with our own
convictions of duty as an independent
journalist, we gladly hang cur banner on
the outer wall" aud shall labor Jealous
ly to make the man our choice, Horace
Greeley, the Sage of Chappaqua, the next
President Of the United States.
The Philadelphia Press (Forney) in>
sists that "if the fortunes of Grant and
Hartranft be iudissoIubly linked togeth-
er, both must fail, in spite of fate and the
Cammeron faction"
Discussing the prospects in Illinois. the
St Louis Times says: Judging from
all we can see and hear, we shall be very
much disappointed if Illinois does not
repudiate Oglesby and Grant in Novem-
Der by fully 20 600 majority"
In an able article upon the ".Philoso-
ply of the Coalition" the Missouri Re
publican discusses the concessions and
advances Of both the Liberals and Demo-
Gratis, and halls the spirit in which they
are made as the first substantial promise
of resunion of ali sections. In conclu-
/ sion it says: This cheerful promise of
a future in which there shall be no war
memories and penalties, and in which the
people may re-unite for common triumph
constitutes the moral strength of the eca-
lition: and il Is Horace Greeleys charac-
ter as a representative of this generous
sediment that makes him the most form
liable antagonist that could be brought
into the field against Grant"
Of the Boston Daily Press, the Spring
field Republican records:
The Greeley Republicans have at last
a daily "organ" at Boston. The Times
yesterday formally announces that its
watchword will heneeforth be Greeley
and Brown. The Liberal and Reform
movement now has a generous represen'
tation among the press Of BOston-the
daily Herald, Iedependent the morning
Post, Democratic; and the evening Times
Republican. The Grant papers are the
Advertiser, the Journal, the TraceNer, the
Globe and the Transcript, though the
latter paper Is somewhat shaky and IN.
certain. On the score of circulation the
Greeley paper shave by far disadvantage,
the Herald alone printing larger edition
than those Of all the Grant papers put to.
gether