The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-10-26
WHAT IS GRANTIsm p
a True Dsfinition of the Odious,
Corrupt and DisgracefuI
System.

From speech Of Governor Charles s May Of Michigan
at Cleveland.
FELLOW CITIZENS: What is Grantism
this new word ia our politics It Is
a word Of baleful import-a word Of
shame, word Of National humjlia zion
1t Is Wcrd that means thas under this
Administration every department of our
GoVernmant has been disgraced and dis
hon0red. Do l speak toe strongly 2
Look at the record-the plaiR but dam
ming record which ell men know. l said
disgraced in every department. Was l
got right What o1e has escaped !?
The State Department, the great foreign
department Of the Government, has been
disgraced under this Administration by
thu displacement of Charles Sumner and
the elevation Of Simon Cameron; by the
appointment and retention Of public
swiudlsrs as the representatives of our
country at foreign courts; by wasteful
and criminal extravaganza, in ro5bing
the treasury for the benefit the camp
followers of the party.
The Treasury, that great department
organized by the genius of Alexander
Hamilton, and once presided oyer By
statesmen like Albert Gallatiu and that
mon p Chase, has been dishOnored and
disgraced by Boutwell, and Richardson.
The navy, first organized by the pure
patriot, George CADET, under Washing
ION, and in more recent times adorned
under the administration of Polk by the
eminent and cultured historian, Ban
croft-th navy, which carries the flag
to. every sea, and whic has Numbered
4 Ihorfv in
this great department., under Grant, has
been intrusted 10 the dishonest hands of
man who is thought by a great major
ity of his fellow citizens, upoa good evil
dsncs, to be no better than s public
robber!
And the War Department what shall
1 say of that? The great department
which, with the navy, ami more than
the navy, holds the honor aud safety OF
the country in its hands-the depart
ment organized by Henry Knox, Of raw
dictionary fame, and since filed By
Marshall, Monroe, Cass, Marcy and Stan
ton-thIs great departm snt has at last
come 10 be held by man mean enough
and base enough to reach out his hand
FROM his luxurious palace in Washing
ton and rob the poor common soldiers
en- cur bleak Western frontier at their
mess tables, rob them of their Tations,
the poor privates whose protection and
comfort ought to have been dear to him
What mere There Is the Postmaster
GeneTalship with Cressw0ll ana It's
| frauds,and the Interior Department with
Delano and his public infamy, and there
| is the y-Gsnoralship, that great
law Office of the Government, given iGto
the weak hands eff mao like Williams
-" Landaulet Williams" as be Is called
the man who connived at fraud, and
rode about in a carriage stolen from the
Government This was Grants choice
of 9 successor for PInekney and Writ
ard Evarts And more than this, he
sent the name of the Same Williams TO
the Senate to fl the exalted and spOtless
Office of Chief Justice of the United
States To that had it come at last,
under Grant-Williams as successor to
John Jay an1 John Marshall and Sal
mon P Chase.
And during all this dreary and dis
graceful chapter in our political istory
Gen. Grant has steadily stood by these
recreant public officials giving them
his confidence and protection, while he
has just as steadily frowned upon and
turned out honest men.