The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-02-05

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prove bure, missing 9he issues vi tie
present to fight his own lost battles oVar
| again His election to the senate will
&C least get hlh out of local p litics.
Thus Tennessee has followed the exam
pie OF the young lady who married AN
! importdnate suitLr to get rid CT him.
CNasAUiHe Union and american
The political classification of the
general assembly IS ninety two Demo-
Gratis and eight Republicans. Mr. john
sons strength was composed of the
united Republican element and forty~
four DemOc ats Ii thus appears that
he was upported-including Mr. Gall
loway-by for,y-ive Democrats, or only
one less than halt the total number in
both houses. We fud q good deal of
significance in these figures, because it
has been charged that Mr.. johnson j.
not a Democrat, aud the Union and
american dues not propose to supp ort for
office any man whom 1t does not know
to be sound in that political faith. En-
phatichlly as we condemned his course
IN 1872, we have never been brought 20
believe that his purpose was to 90 be-
yond the pale of the harty. As we sup
ported him for ithe senate in 1869, on
the ground that he could be IF the most
rerYice to Tennessee there, so, now
that another Democratic Legislature
admitted to be thor, ughly representative
of the peOple-has fixed upon him for
the senatorial succession, we see no rea>
son why his great talents and expert
eDce should not be made available. The
time Is eminently pTnpitions to such a
change in our representation at WASH
ingtOn, and Mr.. johnson will luke his
! n
that will call for all the resources of
broad, comprehensive sta esmanshiP.
lf he should meet the confident antici-
patiuns IF those who have followed his
pOlit cal fortunes with such answering
devotion since the war, the so. called
breach in the Democratic PARTY will be
speedily healed. We hope for the best
CCiacinnati Gazette
And so Andy Iohason has been
elect ID Senator, AMI from Tennessee !
Who, ten years age, would have thought
such thing possible And the gener~
al comment of Republicans is, We'll,
he will make things lively in the Sem
ate" Who, seven years ago would
haze thought this would have been the
FIRST utterInce Of Republicans on hear.
inS that his Accidental Exec Iency was
going back to Washington
People evidently forget good deal in
seven years. 1t is on.Y eight years ago
that n demand for the impeachment
of the newlY-elect9d Senator was going
up from one one cod Of the cJu ntry TO
the other.
Cincinnati, Enquirer.
The election OF tx, President johnson
to the Senate is unqueStionAbly pu bile
! 10 haa Of
, stealing, which fact constitutes IL most
excellent character for mao who has
held official position almost cOnsecu
lively fUrty~seven years. lie has un>
questioned ability. The Republican par
Y will not deny this, Tor 1t made him
Vice President lie has an indepen>
dence and tenacity # purpose which
would be difficult TO IL aJch. With an
experience of ten years in the House OF
, Repres entatlyes six years In the Sem
! ate; more than three years in the Pres
| idency always active, energetic, helh5-
: erent; with some old accounts TO adjust
with the Republican party, and possess
D sed of both the inclination and ability
: to adjust them with an aggrcssiveDess
{ which nearly three score years AMI ten
? have not tanned, and which some of those
years have stimulated, ex President m
Z probably the most interesting, aud possi-
bly, the most conspicuous figure in the
next United States Senate. Like Caesar
t in Gaul, be may make it lively for the
, boys"
) The stately gentlemen of the United
D States Senate will be about : much de-
5 lighted when Andy Johnson steps into
their midst ii some waggish fellow
/ had meundered through the hall sprink>
ling cow itch" here and thsre on the
backs of Senatorial uecks
Andy will be there when Grant is inn
peached.
When Andy Johnson sticks that long
nose of his Into the United States Sem
ate then the trouble will begin.
$ Jackson IVhig and Tribune
, In the successful candidate we baye
a man of national reputation, of acknuw
lodged power; of whom it can be said
J. that be entered upon the discharge OF
{ his Presidential carer by refusing "a
} bribe, and whose name is without stain
: in this respect Ills election also UNI
L fes the Democratic party IN Tennessee,
; and renders iS simply Invincible, 30
long as it practices common pTudenc.
and honesty. 1t also demonstrates to
the world that the bitter memories OF
: the war are fading out of the Popular
n mind anu that the Democratic party of
; this State is willing to let the dead past
bury i;s deal.
, Nashville Banner.
. The result can have no other effect
: than 10 heal the dIscords of the recent
: past, and guantee immunity frUin S,ieBa-
tIUns that might have ensued but for
p, tins lortuitUus conclusion Abroad the
/ effect Will be stIlI more Significant in a
i national party sense. lt puts forward,
: at u M when the ami R&dIcal cause
, OF the whole country NEST needs it, as
{ represe ntatIve of the spirit Of Teuues~
= see Democracy, natiOnalIsm that must,
, with rIngIEg emphasis, belle insInua
tiOus from desperate political enemies,
that sectional hate Is the ruling passion
: and eternal inspiration Of the d0miHaDS
sentiment OF our State Beyond the
limits of Tennessee the Democratic sens
rIment was FrU2ertiOnateiy more pro-
! nounced ia favor OF the election Of dr.
t johnson. The tone OF the Democratic
press everywhere, north and south OF US,
indicated this apparently enough.
NeU York Herald