The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-12-07
The Republican Conspiracy.


No doubt any longer exists that the
head men of the Republican party pro-
pose to defeat the will of the people ex-
pressed at the ballot box on the 7th of
November. We predicted that this
would come to pass long before the cleo.
ton, and it required no great foresight to
see that the party which has rioted in
power so long, dismantled State govern
ments, broken down constitutional bar
riers, and trampIed upon the rights dear
est to the people, would die hard With
them it is not question Of law whether
Tilden was elected or not, although ad-
herring In some degrees to the forms of
law. 1t Is question only of brute force
If satisfied that the people ere oVeraWed
and will submit they will find pretexts
for retaining power Tygants and usur-
pers can always give plausible excuses
for encToachments upon popular rights.
If South Carolina, Florida and Leuisi-
ana were all to be counted for Tilden
they would insist on throwing out these
rebel States" by military force. 1t has
not been their intention at any time to
surrender possession of the government.
These States, however, are 20 be counted
for Hayes. The South Carolina Board of
Court. which is composed of respectable,
fair-minded Republicans, two whites and
one cOlOred member, issued certificates
to the Hayes electors and to a d aiority
of Republicans for the Legislature, and
then adjourned sine die. They threw out
enough Dem ocratic counties 20 count the
State Repu blican. Such revolutionary pro-
eeedings are relied upon to elevate a man
into Oh 9 Presidential chair who, if he
gets it, may feel, as some one has said
as if he bad received stolen property.
Let Bayes once be inaugurated and it
will be done peaceabiy if at all, and the
Republican perty will go a step further
they vail attempt to territorialize
enough OF the Southern States to secure
them permanent possession of this ma
tiOnal government Florida will Of
course be counted for Hayes. In Louisi-
ana they are counting such parishes as
give Republican majorties first, and will
not permit enough Democratic maiorities
to come in to make an Offset The re
turns must be made by the 9th of De-
cember. They will fight for time until
then and shO" a Republican majority.
Meanwhile the Radical papers are trying
to alarm the people by talking of new
rebellion" to divert attention from their
real purposes. The Associated Press is
lending all it's vast power to the DISSENT
nation of false and prejudieial views.
We get only one side of the question,
usually, from that source Grant has
never admitted once that Tilden was
elected. He was firm when others
quailed, and said he knew Hayes was
elected, and since then he has done
everything to make it So He acts as
the President of party and not of the
whole American people. Although his
tine expires on the fourth of March and
he will become plain Mr.. Grant, with
no more legal authority than any other
private citizen, he has announced that if
Hayes is elected be will see to it that be
lie inaugurated. This is the meaning of
an army at Washington Sherman, af-
ter being snHbbed and kicked and push ed
aside for an occasional CLEAN of con-
stIiutional idea is trying to reinstate
| himself by utterances that are unworthy
of hinL He must be in his dotage, or
else going mad, If correctly reported
Fearing that the Democratic House meV
have semeth ing to do with the result the
leading papers of the party are arguing
that the House has no power; that the
Senate decides who shall be President,
and that any other attempt will be rebel
lion. This old word is still relied upon
to brighten the Northern Democrats as
well as Republicans, and we do not
know that the calculation very far
misses the mark. Should a protracted
hitch occur Grant may step in and as
sumo the role of dictator, The North
ern Democrats would make lots of noise,
but that would be ALL The South would
be the last part of the Union to take a
part in any difficulty. So there will not
be an war or bI odshed, or serious dis
turbaRbe OF any kind. The controlling
elements OF the country care more for
ease, luxury, display and m oney than
for constitu tional liberty, ukd We may
see the republic die without struggle