The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-05-03
lFrom the New York SUM-
Grant Cannot Carry Ten States.

Grant Cannot Carry Ten States,
Among the many loose and inaccurate
statements in his Cooper Institute speech,
would receive tie electoral votes Of TWEEN
ty eight Of the thirty-seven States. We
venture to say that Mr. Wilson, in his
I hours of calm reflection and wAen not
under the Intoxicating stimulus ola shout.
ing throng of ofhceholders, does not be-
iieye anything of the kind but on the con-
trary has the grayest apprehensions that
! Grant viii be about the worst beaten
candidate that ever ran for the Presi-
| dency.
The latest elections show that in New
/ England the Republican party, even
counting as portion of its strength the
/ Liberal element, bod New Hampshire
/ aud Connecuticut certainly, and perhaps
/ Rhode Island, by the frailest tenure.
J The change of a thousand votes in each
/ Of the two first n"med States would
/ sweep their Observation-Disclosures quite
/ away. Does any well Informed puIiti-
can doubt that there are twice one thous
and Liberal Republicans in each of those
/ States?
Combining the survey of the field to
! the former free States, be must be blind
who does lot see that three of the largest
Of them are sure to 90 heavily against
Grant One needs to be only moderately
acquainted with the public men and the
interior politics Of New York, Pennsvl-
vania, and Illinois to know that the ma
iorites they Will cast against Graut in
! November viii scarcely find parallel in
their history. a large number Of the emf
nent statesmen who founded, built up, and
carried forward the Republican party
[ therein are, with a corresponding proper
ton of the subordinate leaders and the
rank and file, heartily IN accord with the
Cincinnati movement. The sentiment in
Ohio and Indiana, the two other great
States of he Worth and West, is not at
present quite so pronounced against
Grant as it is in the three Just named.
Bat no one questions that Indiana will
vote against him, though probably Ohio
must be left a while longer in the column
Of doubtful States.
How stands the case in regard t. the
other free States? The Republican MAJ
jority in New Jersey viii be crushed out
between the upper and neither millstOnes
Of New \ ork and Pennsylvania The
Republicans hold all the States in the
North west, excepting Michigan and
Iowa, by a slender thread which q breath
of opposition In their ranks Will break In
all Of them the Liberal cause Is steadily
advancing, and there is scarcely a doubt
that November viii find them arrayed
against Grant Brigadier General Nye
formerly Of the Madison county train
bands, no longer dominates Nevada
while California and Oregon Will be as
sure for the Cincinnati nominee, if he be
+, | arraptoI -, %, y orb
and Illinois
in brief, we do not believe Senator
Wilson can lay his hand upon his heart
and count upon his fingers more thar
seven Of the former free States which ht
feels at all sure viii 60 for Grant
We now turn to the form er slave States
These were once the fruitful vineyards o
the Republican party. Bnt the profli
gate carpet-baE rulers have cut up anC
scattered to the winds the last hope o
another crop of Republican victories IL
all the field which sire ches from tn
: Potomac and the Ohio to the Gulf TIL
upper tier Of those States were never un
/ der strict Republican regime OF tn
ten reconstructed ccmmOnWealths lyin.
below this tier, North Carolina, Georgia
] Florida, Alabama, Texas, and Tennessee
] have, one after another, lapsed from Re-
publican rule, while Grants Iutermedd
ling in the local politics of Louisiana an,
Arkansas has arraved both those State
: against him. There are left then, onl,
? South Carolina and Mississippi Tn
honest masses of the Palmetto Stl+e vii
rise in November ard expel the swarm o
C rnet-bag locusts who have deyoure
every green thing within their border:
But GRAFT may possibly save from til
general wreck Mississ ppi the old HON
>. Of Jefferson Davis
a We trust Senator Wilson will revise hi
t figures ere he makes another predictio
from the platform OF the Cooper Inst
y tUte