The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-05-04
POLITICAL NOTES.

IHE committee TO investigate Missis-
sippi is composed of Boutwell,, Oglesby
and Cameron, republicans, and Bayard
and M'Donald, democrats. A one
sided affair.
A PROPOSITION is before the senate to
pay Pinchback for the severe labor of
lOunging around the lobbies while Nor
ton was trying to get a scat for him.
Pinchback's time is valuable.
THE expose of Grant by the New
York World in the publication of the
Ford letter is confirmation strong as
proof of holy writ, that the president is
as bad as the company he keeps.
DIR. MUD, who set Wilkes Booths
shattered leg while he was still a fugi-
tive, has been elected to the Maryland
legislature but being chosen as a repub-
lican and not a democrat, no fierce howl
rends the air.
LOUIS BLANC, in his speech at Paris
on Sunday, commended American
statesmen for their exertiOns to restore
good feeling between the north and south.
M. Blanca should read few of MOrton's,
Blaine's and BOutwelPs speeches.
WHENEVER, of late, the telegraph
fails to bring to hand some new present
ment against the honor and integrity of
Gen. Babcock, then it may be safely in
| ferred that the wires are not in good
working Chicago Tribune.
TIE Chicago Inter-Ocean speaks of the
story connecting Mr.. Blaine's name
with the transaction in Arkansas railroad
bonds as " an anonymous SANDER" But
it is not anonymous. 1t has the name
of Mr. Harrison, of indianapolis, as it's
endorser, and he is a gentleman whose
word is as good as his bond, where he is
knOwn.-CjH. Commercial.
THERE was such positive evidence
against BabcOck bfOre the grand jury that
one of the members sought a personal
friend of the president, and told him
that unless the president at once ignored
Gen. BabcOck, he would be badly
smirchcd, as the evidence was over
whelming against his late private secre-
| tary, and this connection must involve
! Grant.
! THE disgrace of BabcOck and his COM
| paniOns is but a logical sequence of Grant
| ISM. The president himself is morally re-
| spOnsible for the present humiliation of
| his secretaries, ministers, and cabinet.
He set them an example in nepotism,
| gift-taking, and personal greed, which
! they but too readily and closely followed.
% BabcOckism" is only another aPpella-
tive for Grantism.-N 7. Express.
The logged stubbornness with which
| Grant sticks to a mistake is a prominent
characteristic. One of the egregiOus
! plumbers of his executive career was his
! failure to veto the increased salary bill,
| including his own. Though consistent
in vetoing the bill to reduce his own
salary, it marks him dOUbly the worst
case of lost opportunity" that ever
figured in American politics. The presi-
dent and all his set are desperately d" on
the make. "-NaSbUjAe american.
A VAST amount of additional cOrrup
ton in Secretary RObesOn's department
is reported by telegraph from San Fran
cisco. The officers who have heen run
ming the Mare Island navy-yard, taking
advantage of the remOteness from the
seat of government, have gone, appar
emily, into all leugths of crOOkedness
Senator Sargent is charged with lending
a helping hand to these marine knaves
and Robson himself seems not to have
been entirely ignorant of what has beer
going on.
On the whole, Mr.. Morton's home pa
por concludes that the republican party
is " the only untainted party" (phew
an ounce of civet, good apOthecary y
and that it will be in vain for the rebel
Iion-exhaIing, negTO-murdering demo
Gratis to attempt to deceive the peopl,
by any cutlery of republican corruption.
This is quite in the line of MOrton's owl
celebrated remark about the best civil
service in the world, when the then un
detected croOked-whisky lOyalists APP
plauded so acknowledgement Re
publican.
In the course of some remarksOn Gen
Grant, the Boston Post says: 1" No mil
itary renOwn can be kept clear who's
possessOr does not hesitate to hawk /
about the streets, even after it has beef
r crowned with the highest civic hOnOrs
in the company of the McDonalds anC
I Shepherds, who have been the boon com
paniOns of mis- official recreation. Thi
| thing has now gone so low that, insteat
: of piling up their angry resentmen
against it, the American people are dis
| posed to endure the shame in silenc
t and keep the fact as a warming 70
l future political history"
E THE Albany Argus on the call for
reform conference: " The conference
: in the nature of a moral protest agains
| the degradation and dishOnOr of the re
i publican party. It is the signal gun fC
D a great moral revolt. 1t is the dete1
. mined assertion of the right ola culture
conscience to rule in the affairs of gov
u ernments and peoples. This call is n
: doubt designed primarily to affect result
J in the republican national convention
y There are doubtless many republican
J who have not given up the hope of wasl
t ing the filth from the standard of til
party, and of Kidding themselves fOrevt
of the bloody shirt While, Therefore
it is primarily a republican mOvemer
+ it is at the same time a strong attesta
i ton that the democracy have made Il
+ unwarranted criticism upon republica
= management.
t ADMITTING, because it cannot evad
j. it, that the republicans must be held II
b sponsible for the reekibg official CORFU
e tions of the last ten years, Harper
e Weekly says the alternative proposed {
= the ascendanCy of the democratic part
5 is only contemplate" And yet 1t hs
!. long been a good old-fashiOned custom !
: this country, when one party RENAME
q so long in power as to become corrupt
a to resort to the alternative of substitu
q ing a change. No matter what part
e should succeed the corrupt party of t
D day, it would be sure to be called the den
= Ocratic party, under whatever name
f should assume. Revived war prejudice
+ should not interfere with the needh
< civil service reforms of peace. No part
= could be more dangerous to the pocket
S and peace of American taxpayers jus
, now than the republican party. If tn
e country does not now badly need
+ change of party control, it never di
5 and never will.
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