The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-04-20
POLITICAL POINTS.

confirmed Joseph It. Bennett as district
police commissioner. By his own con-
aession, Bennett received $4,000 of the
Pacific Mail "swag."
THE New York Herald now thinks the
democracy stands one hundred and sew
enty-twO electoral votes, compared to one
hundred and sixty-two for the republi-
cans, in the presidential contest.
AT the Hampton soldiers home, late
ly, Gen. Martindale, in talking to the
boys in blue, spoke kindly of the
confederate soldiers, and the veterans
cheered the sentiment. Every time a
thing of this kind occurs, 1t ruins whole
speech for Mr.. Morton.
BEN HILL has written a letter in which
he denounces as a liar the author of a
pamphlet being circulated under the
frank of General John A. Logan, of Hi
nOis. 1t gives a grossly garblcd report
of his speech in answer to Blaine, and is
as infamous in spirit as intent.
PRESIDENT STONE, of the Mississippi
who has been made governor by
the resignation of Ames, is described as
a conservative gentleman. Six years
senator and high-tOned gentleman, he
would scOrn to pardon negro raper for
PO5ubO3 DIG GIlC4 4AC 1911 y a oO1A law VI
Pen Butler.
'ENATOR BAYARD being one of the two
democrats placed on the senate COM
mittee to investigate the state of Missis-
sippi, confidence is expressed in Wash
ington that he will prove able to defeat
any attempt of its chairman, Boutwell,,
to adopt MOrton's tactics for converting
the testimony into bloody shirt material.
CHICAGO TINES Belknap's $4,000
looks sickly by the side of the little pre-
sent of 81 100000 that Robson made to
Jay Cooke & Co. out of the Public treas
ury. To compare the two together
would be like comparing a sneak-thief to
a successful safe-blOwer. And yet, as is
generally the case, the sneak-thief in this
instance is getting all the punishment.
The white RAIDS, having none but them
selves with few eXceptiOns) in the con-
ventiOn, carried off all the demonstrating
thirty-one out of the forty places of
honor and trust, such as they were, in
the organization of the republican party,
though when it has come to voting here
tofore, the relative strength of the two
elements in the party has been about as
follows: White, one; cOlOred, five hum
dred.'
1T is not, of course, justifable," says
Geo. VIM. Curtis, " that the late rebels
should undertake to lecture loyal men
upon disagreement" So be it then,
of course, a late rebel who passed along
Mr.. Curtis front yard, and saw a bur
glar breaking into Mr.. Curtis windows,
would not be justifiable in sounding
the alarm, and so preventing the pillage
of Mr.. Curtis property Petersburg
IndeC.
GEN. CUSTER, in his examination be-
fore the Clymer committee, very plainly
showed why it was that army officers,
cOgnizant of abuses on the frontier, sealed
their mouths. Their communications,
as Custer suggests, would have been pi-
geOn-holed and the officers deprived of
their commissions. The stealing in the
war department appears to have been as
systematically planned and as skiilfully
| executed as that of the whisky ring.
CARL SCHURz, in the st. Louis West
liche Post, in a criticism on recent inves
| legations, and a review of Grants adj
ministratiOn, says: "The band is well
| arranged. Wherever three or four
| scoundrels were gathered together in
| Grants name, there he was in the midst
| of them, in the person of Il brother
| brOther-in-law, cousin, or friend. Nc
custOmhouse OF whisky TingcOuld divide
its plumber without the devil being pre-
sent to cry halvesy The ubiquitous As
modeus, as Murphy in New York or as
Casey in New Orleans, filled his fathOm
less pockets, and wherever the white
house cast its shadow brother OrviI OF
| brOther-in-law Dent came forth out o.
it with extended palms. If Shepherd
and BabcOck could make their hundreds
of thousands out of the district ring, anC
Belknap scarcely less out of single de
partment, how shall we estimate the prob
able total sum ground out of the tOilin;
citizens and taxpayers of the COuntr!
during eight long years, by the well-or
ganized band created by thatnepOtism 0
the white house which has thrown tn
chief patronage of the administrator
into their dirty hands"
THERE is a remarkable decline in on
trade with Sheffield, the imports fror
that city have been only five hundre
and eighty-fiye thousand dollars in tn
first quarter of this year, against tw
million two hundred and seventy-fv
thousand dollars in that of 1873. 1t
: natural, says the New York Tribune, /
view of this startling change that a greg
Sheffield concern could contemplat
transferring its machinery and bushes
, to this country.
THE negroes III attendance at til
| Nashville ColOred convention cOmBlai
that they have been and are ignored b
their white tellOw-radicals, and we thin
justly. The jackson Clarion, for il
stance, announces that in the assignmer
of hOnOrs by the republican cOnventiO
of Mississippi the roll stands thus:
ELECTORAL TICKET.
White Rads.......... 7 COlOTed.................
, DELEGATES TO CINCINNATI.
White Rads..........12 COlOred ........ .........
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
White Rads..........12 COlOred......... ........
Total white
Total cOlOred RAIDS ....-....
e The HON. MONTGOMERY BLAIR, ha,
I ing been nominated for president
=, ! the United States by the friends of l.
a Dor, in New York, has written a lett,
, declining the honor, and assuring II
I friends that the very issue they seek I
1 make in the presidential canvass is OF
: sought to be made by the great body
n the democratic party, and that if the
3 will rally with them it will be easy
T bring back the government to its cOnst
tutiOnal mOOrings, reform its admin
v tration, reduce taxation and expend
r ture, state, national and municipal, III
r fetter industry, and cut loose fro
r the parasiticaI classes who now cling
5 the government and make use of it
# prey upon the industries of the people.
Il DURING the past eight or ten years I
intelligent man has had good reason I
! doubt the source of republican victorie
{ Unfortunately liberal use of money
Il elections will determine the result of an
u doubtful contest in favor of the cand
n dates or the party which has the none
= to pay and the disposition to pay
: Just now the newspapers abound in T
: liable testimony as to the manner