The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-05-18
POLITICAL NOTES.

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REMARKS one of the respectable !"
republican newspapers The question
is before the people, whether the whisky
rings are able to manage the republican
party" Patrick Henry said that we
must Judge the future by the past.
Combined with the other rings, they
have always managed it heretofore
St. Louis Times.
The orders of President Grant forbid
ding the transfer of original records from
the various departments to the investi-
eating committees seems to be a part of
his old game to Obstruct inquiry. A
significant fact Is, that the order was
given Just previous to the arrangements
for an investigation into New Orleans
crOokedness, in which Casey and his
friends may probably be involved.
The fact that the notorious frauds
upon the ballOt-box in Philadelphia were
not purified" by the Grant-Davenport
system with secret service money was due
to the other fact that Philadelphia was a
republican city and these two facts ex-
tract all the g true inwardness" from the
claim of Grants apologists that the
Grant-Dayenport steal was a doing of
- - $1,000 e5OS-- NOAAAOs
THE Massachusetts, republican conven-
ton not only failed to adopt the usual
regulation beslObbering the administra-
ton with praise, but the speakers were
careful to avoid saying anything which
could be tortured into an Endorsement of
the administration, while some of them
gave it very sharp thrCsts. Grantism is
completely "played out" in the old Bay
state.
THEunblushing impudence with which
the organs assume that the increased re-
publican vote in New York in 1872 is
evidence OF the merit of Johnny Daven-
ports scheme and justifes the sacrifice of
the secret service fund is almost sublime.
The fair presumption is when such a
change was wrought, bysuch hands that a
fraud has been committed, and the facts
bear out the presumption. It was to
change the result in New York, not to
purify the election, that Grant unlaw-
fully furnished and Johnny unlawfuIly
used the secret service fund.
IT was Grant who stirred up these as
saults on corruption, as we learn from
the Cincinnati Times, and it is he who
deserves credit for such advantages as
may accrue from them. Who can doubt
II L<OOA az LILO ICClOCu dCLlOu against
SecOr Robertson. Look how he fell
upon Schenck, two or three years after
he found out all about the Emma mine
losses in London. Look at the remark
able way in which he assisted in the ex-
posture and prosecution of Babcock dur
ing the st. Louis whisky trials Look
at his heightened course in the Belknap
business, when he sent him a letter re-
GREETING his resignation.-N. Y. Sun.
THE alleged frauds in the treasury de-
partment begin to loom up with startling
significance not so much because of the
sums claimed to have been misapproPri-
ated, as on account of the painful uncer-
tainty whether anybody really can tell
how much was misapprOpriated. If she
story of Prender and Richardson is trust
worthy there was quite as much loose
ness as fraud in the transactions by which
currency certified as Cancelled was saved
from destruction and put where it would
do coed to hungry republican officials.
1t will be very unpleasant to learn, as we
possibly may when the matter is thor
Oughly sifted, that the national debt is
larger than has been supposed.
THERE are but two great divisions
among electors. On the one hand, the
partisans of the administration are ar
Tayed, sustaining it blindly and reck-
lessly. These are opposed, on the other
hand, by patriots who have widely diff
| fered in the past, but who are to-day an
lmated by the same common purpose of
! etfecting thorough and radical change
in the conduct of the federal govern
ment. We need brotherly kindness,
| where now all is prescription and viru-
! lent hate. We need frugal habits, where
now we have profigacy and thoughtless
waste. We need scientific craftsmanship,
instead of crude and chaotic quackery
Albany Argus.
THE coiored depOsitors who hold little
books of deposit, labeled "Freedman's
Bank" are now assured by ex-Pestmas-
ter General Creswen that they will real.
ize on the money committed to the keep.
ing of their piOus republican friends the
large amount of forty dollars out OF
every one hundred dollars deposited
The colored brother may deveutfy wish
| to handle that other hard earned sixty
dollars, but the money will not be forth.
coming. The "gTeat party of freedom
etc." which claims to be the ark of safety
for the African, is bankrupted to the ex
tent that it does not pay but forty per cent
of money Borrowed" It is the Israel
ties borrowing" from the Egyptians
There is no repayment.-CouTier- Jour
nal
PERHAPS it is only natural that ex-Gov
Ames should avail himself of the chance
| to get even with his late rebelliOus sub
| iects in Mississippi. After leading him
very uncomfortable life Of it for several
| years, they have finished by fairly put.
ting him out of doors. It isn't in human
nature to relish that sort of treatment
But the fact that he has these personal
| grievances would seem to detract from his
value as a witness probably the cause
of truth and justice would not have suf
fered if Mr.. BOutwelPs cOmmitte had al
| lowed the ex-governor to take his way
unsummoned toward fresh minnesota
fields and pastures new. At any rate, il
is to be hoped they will compare and
correct his testimony with that of les,
biased witnesses.-Springfield Republic
can.
The California republicans say thai
"the republican party must not rely or
the glorious record of the past, but dea1
with other questions, chief among which
is reform in the civil service and extirpa
ton of the spOils systems" They might
have added that it is under a republican
administration and the republican party
that the character of the civil service ha,
been debased and that the spoils of the
system has fourished luxuriantly that
the party which irresponsible for the evils
is incapable of removing them that
although it is admitted by republicans
| that reform is necessary, the republican
| party has done nothing to bring about re-
form; that it is controlled by the ele.
ment which is most in need of purifica.
ton, and that reform can only be secured
by turning out the party under which
| since the advent of the Grant admins
tration, the state of affairs has constant
ly grown worse and the need of reform