The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-07-13
The Great Reformer's Response to
3 Serensde by Five Thou.
sand People.

ALBANY, June 29th,-The serenads TO
Governor Tildeu tonight by the Jaokse-
mans Wss q great success. Not less
than i've thousand citizens surrounded
the executive mansion. Many private
residences were illuminated aud decor.
eted with flags and Chinese lanterns.
The Argus building was illuminated and
decorated with flags, presenting Q brill
liant and effective appearance. Long be.
fore the band, which preceded the Jack.
sonisns and the long procession which
followed them, reached the mansion poo-
pie had gathered about the grounds, and
when the procession reached the soaus
nearly every available spot Was occupied.
Large numbers entered 10 congratulate
the Governor, and as soon IS he could
release himself from these, be stepped
out on the porch, and addressed she con-
course as follows:
Gentlemen of the Jackson corps-I
thank you for this manifestation of your
kindness. 1 do not forget that last year
you enrolled me among you as an honor
ary member. l regard with pleasure
and With pride your excellent training
and discipline as a military body. 1
recognize among you many representa-
tives of the workingmen of Albany, and
when l say workingnen, l do not forget
that IN our country the number who live
upon the income of what they have &C
cumulated or inherited, is extremely
small, and that nearly every citizen of
our vast Republic lives on the product
of his daily toll. In Ameri3a We are
nearly all Workingnlen. Therefore, the
interest and prosperity of that class may
almost be said to be the interest and
prosperity Of the country. Applause No
country, gentlemen, that the sun ever
shone on has had so many blessings as
our own. Stretching from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, and from the great lakes of
the north to the gulf of Mexico, with q
genial climate, with fertile soils, with
every natural and artificial facility for
travel and transportation, with all the
arts and industries of old civilization
planted and iourishing amid the bound
less natural wealth of a virgin continent,
we ought to be to-day the most prosper
cus, the most happy and contented peo-
pie in the world. But what Is our actual
condition? All business is depressed, !,
every industry is languishing, labor Is
! without employment, and the wolf is at
the door of nearly every home in the
land, g8unt and hungry. Applause.
/ the last Ii years since the war the earn
ings Of labor and income of capital have
been consumed or wasted in govern
ment expenditures. The taxes drawn
| from the people of the United States
have been larger than the net earnings
of the entire forty-four millions. These
taxes have increased In a short period
fourfold, and the influence is felt upon
| every home in our broad land. What
next, do we find in the public administra-
tion eVeryWhere2 Abuses, peculstions,
fruad asd corruption, until we are al
most becoming ashamed of the institu-
tions of our country and instead of hold
ing them up as example for the imitation
Of the oppressed people of other countries
we are cOnfessing them IS q scandal in
the eyes of mankind. What else do we
fpd7 We find the ofice-hOlding class
have become so numerous, powerful and
unsorupulous that they assume 10 con.
troll elections, and if people are indiffsr-
ent or at all equally divided are able to
exert a corrupt influence sufficient %
perpetuate their own power ct last. We
are reaching the worst condition Of coun.
tries Of the old world. The government
no longer exists for the people, the pee
pie exist for the government. Our cen
tennial product Is the evils, license, and
wrongs 20 escape which our ancestors
abandoned their homes in the old world
sad planted themselves In the wilderness.
Now l ask what is the remedy for these
public evils, for this private distress, for
this disorder in business which carries
suffering into every household7 A voice
In the crowd. "The election of Tilden.
ApplsUse.l It is comprised in one
word "Reform" m"-reform of public ad.
ministration. Cheersj Upon this sub.
jeet there is a difference Of opinion. One
class say elect nominees of the party uR-
der which these evils have grown up by
means Of the Office holding class which is
interested in perpetuating these abuses;
that is one opinion. There is another
opinion and that opinion demands a
change change in the administration
do not intend TO argue the question. l
intend to simply state it. and leave it 10
your judgement and the judgement of the
people. | am heartily with you in ac
ton. 1 am happy to meet you tonight. !
trust shall have an opportunity of see
ing you hereafter. Again thanking you
for your kind attention, bid you good
evening"
The band then played several airs, and
the JacksOnians, after filing past the
Governor and shaking hands with him,
left the grounds, but the crowd remained,
and constant stream of citizens pass
ed the Governor, paying their respects to
HIM.