The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-10-12
CAMPAIGN rExFs.
The Truth About the Republican
Party
- srsLsN FRoM sErFLERs.

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LAND sTSLEN FROM SETTLERS.
To total number of acres Of public
land bestowed IN iand grants bg Repub-
lican Congresses is 296 600 600; the total
area given away Is 294, 758 square NILE,
larger area than that of Maine, NeA
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,.
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York.
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Mary land, Uuio ani Indiana ,mbiaesl
The tntal area of all these States is onIr
256 200 sqOase miles.
WHAT AR. waEELER's RAILROADS HAVE
GOT.
The bonds Issued TO Pacific railroads
by Repnblieta Congresses wh5ah are
now uutstaudisg amount to SCI 623 ,5I2
aud the aDo1n5 OF interest patti by the
United States, aiIO wing for repaF5DcuI
by transportation of mails, ETC., anoun,
to $25 Ill ,0t3.
FOUR THOUSAND MILLIONS SPENT BY~GRANT.
From March 4, 1859, to June 80, 1861
or II years, the entire net ordinary ex-
penses OF The Government we're Sl,5SI.-
7O6, 80; from June 80. 1851, to June 30
1873, or fourteen years, they amounted
exclusive of the public dept, to So .22O,-
25O, ,759. The net ordinary expenses j..
the ten years of peace since 1855, ar,
s., ,034, ,233.4l2. The tota' expenditure,
of the ak years OF President Gra0t
admins .ratiOa, eudng with June 81
1875, S400S, ABS, ,46l
CHRISTIAN STATESMAN.
Gen. o. o. Howard, a Republiea.
still in good stan IinE, WAS proved b,
investigation TO have abstracted iron tn
appropriations for the Freedmens Bu
reau, OI which he was che head, 500
O0O Tor Howard University, Of wnlch .
was also the head; To have sold universIt]~
LAM improperly, acd taken churct
bonds III payment; 60 have compelle,
the use OF BRICK In the University ouh4
InSs, Manufactured by Company ia
wnIoh hs was stock b JiJer. 60 nav,
paid UuC OF bu5eu funds over SiO,000
aid Ia building nIs " Washington caureo.
taaing church bonds IN paymenj, whIU...
were returned IN uIs accounts a. cast
aud to have made sIm lar advances Q
like security VU tue 7. NJ. &. 4. Of NJ asi'
ingtun
THE FACTS AB1Ur SOUTH CA5aLINA.
The properly vAluatIOls In Soutu CIR
I'm. auoIuteL IN 1859 20 $4yU, ,UUU.UUy
III 1870. iJ was SIGU.UJJ UUJ, q -eoiI.,
Vi b per CENT tue tax levy amOun,
IN Io6J to S5UU,OOU IN 1873, 10 -, ,7UU
OUO, an-Iuc: ease OF uearIy $40 par ce..
the legislative expenses amourtel
lo0U " s4U,UOJ; Ia 1913, to Szyi ,OUg
an increase VI nearry TOO per cent
wsT A. WHEELER ON BRIBERY
The Republican House preceding IT,
urssant one, di covered that po--i,n,
thd Pacific Mail million extended
bribery, went into the hands of the a.
siStanU donrkeepar AMI an rhsr empl ye
TIE Investigating Committee stated m.
they would recOmn snd no action IN the
case, aS BON had resigned Fhe ASST
tant door keeper was, hose, Z, keat a.
the pa7-colI during the recess of nine
months, and at the opening of the oeA
COaqress he was nomIaat. for coo
eper by William A Wheeler, th.
Republi an candidate for Wee Presiden
VINO voted for him in coumou with b
Republican colleagues.
THE GENERAL ORDER N, POLY.
The NeV York Custom House ha.
been one Of thu chief bureu US of c .rru -
ton under the GranI administration
Tn syst@m Of warrbnrsiuE Goods whicn
had been 10 vogue for years and given en-
tire satisfaction to New York merchaEts,
was changed, in 1870 anc an extprtionate
monopoly given to one Of President
Grants pratege This monopoly was
obtained through the President and his
Secretaries, e aboock aud Porter Char
yes imposed By this firm of Lsat Il
Stocking, sometimes amOuatej to more
than the freight on the same goods from
Liverpool to New York Their profits
from these extlrtIens we're estimated a.
high as S3O0, ,00J year, iu gold. Stewart.
Dodge, AMI other emf, ent merchants.
protested in win. Under Coiiector
Murphy many other abu,es grew up
Horace Greeley and other witnesses
showed, before the Investigating Com
m.ttee, that the Custom House patronage
was used to control the Republican party.
Public mitigation compelled Murphv's
resignation, but the President wrote him
iulsone letter of compliment.