The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-06-08
The Republican Race Course

Beiknap scandal and other corrupt ex.
posures are kicked out of the vay as
very nothingneFs. They mean success.
and do not intend that even base human
irallties, as Illustrated in the numerous
otiicial yillainies brought to light. shall be
converted into stumbIicg blocks to i'm
Tede their march to another presidential
success They are divided, however, in
to three sections, each under adr oft lead
ership, and hopeful of victory. Let US
lock at these factions.
Bristow heads a corps Of determined re-
formers who have thrown to the breeze a
banner bearing tins devico Purify the
Government Down with the thieves!"
This proclamation has defeat write up
on its face. It is an unmistakeable ad-
mission that the Government has been
terribly prostituted to wicked purposes
under Republican rule; that it needs in
slant and thorough publication, and that
the ring-thieves and official corruptiop
lists must be driven out of the political
temple. All this being palpable, no peo-
pie, not even respectable Republicans,
should be so blind to high public inter
est as to support candidate whose par
ty gave birth to such cata logue of I'M
paralleled official malfeasance as that of
which the Republican party has been pre-
ven guilty. No The reformation needed
by the government is not that which
Radlcalism can give it. Public affairs
have loudly demanded retrenchment, but
no move in this direction was made, until
The Democrats undertook to unearth the
rottenness of Federal management. The
country asked fora fish and received SER
pent asked for food and got stone, This
Is the Republicanism under whosebanner
Brlstow would hoodwink the people and
become President. Republicanism can
not be trusted. 1t is too weak to reform
abuses; it is too sectional and vindictive
to favor lust reconstruction; too oligar>
chial to he entrusted with the high Of
fees of State management Briatow
is tair-minded, honorable man, but his
political partnership is 30 tainted, so
foul, that his integrity would never be
able to leaven the mass on the contrary,
If elected, like Sampson, he would soon
be shoru of bis strength, and be at the
mercy Of reasonable trickstcrs.
The secon faction is led by Blaiue.-
lie and his retaIners propose principally
"tO make sharp, aggressive fight on TIL
Southern question" In other words, to
ignore party corrupt ion and infane the
public mind of the North with the resur
Tected bitterness of war-times, and thus
reopen the chasm, sectionalism, and bid
its fiery heat once more arouse inter-
State hate. Upon a tidal wave of revived
sectional hostility Blaine aspires to be
lifted into the Presidential Chair 1t
will be a dark day, indeed, when such
character as he has shown himself to be
shall become the executive officer of the
country. Under his maligu rule, peace
ful reconstruction would be substituted
by that condition which the sword alone
is intended to invoke. His elevation
would lead to the re establishment of
reign Of terror similar to that which ours
ed the South Immediately after the war
His Statesmanship Is so full of sectional
venom that it's corrosiveness would be
the death of iraternal unity between the
States. May the country never feel the
anaconda-folds Of his notorious hatred
of the South. Civil liberty under mis-
nursing would be changed into a spite
full termentor-would tease and fret I'M
to WEAKNESS all the forbearance and pa
triotIsm that the South could possibly
command.
The other faction, under the guidance
of Conkling, is the ofiee-h oiders' wing
1t is strong and determ ined, and has the
immen sc patronage of Grant throughout
all the departments OF the Government
This influence has permeated everv South.
ern State, and no doubt packed eonven-
tons with faithfully do the bidding of
,Conkling.
Let all these factions do their level best
10 place the strongest representative tick
ct in the Geld, bur the National Demo
cratic party will show at each step in the
progress of its campaign that the true
character end aim of the ruling spirits
in the Republican ranks have been, are
now, aud wi] be TO prostitute the Gov
eminent to the personal ambition of a
few close-corporation cerruptionists.-
Blaine and his trnsty followers have been
weighed in just balances by the people
and found wanting IN true devotion to
the best interests of the nation. Conk-
ing may strut before the country in the
gay colors of the proud peacock and de-
mzn3 that the army Of Oaice-hOiders
should support him, as he is the liDeai
REPRESENTATIVE Of Simon pure Grantism,
but against aim, too, is written verdict
Of uuftness
In short, the Essstcr resolves itself into
.h;s. Eve ~ interest os every section
has been surfeited unto nausea with the
.ie,.ed Weaknesses of the present Ad-
ninistration. The country must have
raIief from the pressure of the leaden
ha,d of m;srule. Let Democracy strip
;,se,e 70 r a hand-'o hond fight with the
pe,a,liean cohorts. The issue is ac-
nsrted ard eRery inch Of the ground
mast be contested.
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