The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-07-31
Conservative District Meetings
Voters, Win Eou Read This

In order to have we'll attended coun>
ty convention, on the I5sh of August,
and one that will reflect the viii of the
conservative voters Of this county, it is
all important to have district meetings
either on the 9th of August-eIect:on
day-as proposed in some districts, or
on the Sth Of August, as we have fire.
queutly urged in these columns. Tor
reasons which it is not DOW necessary TO
rehearse, we think it better for the voters
of the 9th civil district to hold their
meeting on the Sth.
We cannot have a convention that will
give the necessary satisfaction, unless all,
or nearly all, parts of the county are
represented By good delegations au-
thorized to speak for their respective
districts, And if the people of this coun-
ty are conservative and opposed to such
measures as the radicals would force by
law, they must rise in their might and
inaugurate such measures in their dis
trict meetings as win ensure harmonious
action in the county convention on the
18th of August.
We cannot, it seems, repeat it too often
that the convention is for the purpose of
nominating a candidate for the legislature,
and to select delegates to represent the
county in the Senatorial and Floaterial
conventions, which assemble in jackson
on the lst day of September; in the Cons
gressionaI convention which assemblies in
Bolivar on the Stb day Of September, and
in the gubernational convention which
assemblies in Nashville en- the 18th of
August.
How important, therefore: it is for the
people to make an earnest movement in
the various districts that will give spirit
to conservative organization, little res
Election will enable US to lcresee We
urge upon those men who claim to be
anti radical, yet never take any interest
in politics, the Importance of every mans
help in this contest. Don't stand back
and abuse the corruption of political rar
ties, the usurpation of the radicals and
the Encouragement of the conservatives
in "packed" conventions, which results
in the selection cf unacceptable candi-
dates and the success of the radicals
when, perhaps, by your presence you
could inspire a spirit of fair dealing and
prevent unworthy men from manipula-
ing, the convention in the interest of as
pirants that will prove unacceptable to
the people Now, in action on your part is
what the radicals most heartily desire, If
you will not 90 with them. You are
contributing every day to their success
that you devote to abusing conventions
and do not suggest better mode to place
only one candidate in the field to defeat
them.
Those good and quite citizens, that
have taken no interest, or at least no
part, in politics since the war, would do
we'll to take lively interest in the con-
servative meeting of their districts when
held, and see that the best men are sent
as delegates to the county convention on
the 18th day of August. The men who
come up from the districts will, in al
probability, constitute the material from
which the delegates TO all the other con-
ventions are TO be selected. SO the fail,
ure on the part of single district to take
proper step to be represented may prov
IN a measure, disastrous to the conserva-
tives, for in such districts there may be
men whose counsels would be of great
value in the deliberations Of popular
convention.
| How gladly would the oppressed white
| people Of South Carolina and Louisiana
embrace such an opportunity as you have
to clear their States of negro fanatics and
carpet-baggers The governments o.
| those States have become, as you vel
know, a national disgrace, and taxation
am cunts almost to confseation, and yet
you propose By your apathy and your
non>inclination to take the leas, iuteres
| in politics to let Tennessee drift in the
me direction. Whatever may have
been your motive in the past, in your de
termination to have nothing to do with
politics or it may be, with elections, i
you wish Tennessee to escape the fate o
those Southern States, in which negroes
aud their white alice, exercise such crpe
oppression as to cause thousands of the
best citizens to emigrate, you will awake
from your iethagy and assist the conser
vatiye masses in their efforts, by thor.
ough organization, to retain the govern
ment of Tennessee in the hands of whit,
men yes white men, for nearly every
prominent negro in the State, who hal
expressed himself Iublioly, is in favor 0
such measures as the civil rights bill
and surely you good quite citizens VIII,
have been in the habit of letting ether
people DO all tbe political work viii no
hold back now, in the face of such unrea
sonable demands, on the part Of the ne
groes aud their white abettors, who, i
possible, are worse than their dusky as
sociates. We beseech you to take sucl
action as viii show that you have thu
spirit to protest, at least against the de-
mands Of thos who have never fniled tt
despoil State IN which they have Sc
cured a footing
The total number of white voters il
Tennessee is f92, 1873, and the total mum
ber'of eolored voters is SO, 94l, difference
in favor of the former Of 1872, 1877. How
foolish it is for the black man to arraJ
himself in opposition to the white man.