The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-05-11
CURRENT OPINION.

sleeping mice over the election OF Mudd
to the Maryland senate.
THIS country may be said to be suffer
ing just now from triple combination
of disorders-Belknapery, Grantism, and
Babcockypop.
WE should think the president would
get tired of having his blunders defended
on the ground of his ignorance. Yet
this is the staple argument of his apollo
gists.-AIbany argus.
IT appears that the radical managers
spent $4,000 of public money to elect
their candidates in New York in 1872.
They call such an election a "free ex-
preston of the popular will"
DENoUNCING the rotten secret service,
the New York Express declares that the
Democratic representatives of the people
owe to themselves and their constituents
the eXtirpatiOn of this foul blot on the
good name of the country.
New YORK TRIBUNE: Perhaps it will
not hurt Mr.. Blaine any, but there is a
growing suspicion that he is working a
little too hard for nomination. There
are good many people who believe he
ought at least to allow the Office to meet
him half way.
THE manner in which the notorious
Billings recently obtained his appoint
ment as United States district Judge of
Louisiana is to be investigated. 1t is
charged that he paid $45. 900 for "infu-
ence, and gOOdly portion of the money
went into Babcock's pocket.
THE beginning of true reform is with
the people themselves. When they prac-
tice as a rule the sale of legislative and
judicial offices to the highest bidder
those rich enough and base enough to
pay the mOst-they must reasonably ex-
peCt that their representatives will in
turn sell them.-Sdn Francisco Post
HAD Thomas Jefferson or John Adams
applied thousands of dollars of a secret
service fund, appropriated to aid the adj
ministratiOn of justice, to control cleo
tions in which they were candidates for
reelection to the presidency, they would
have been impeached, deposed, and gone
into history as infamOus.-Ph Philadelphia
Times.
WHEN Grant speaks of salary of $780,
600 being little enough for the " respon-
sibility and dignity of the position of
president, he naturally provOkes the re-
Election that his immediate predecessors
maintained the responsibility and dignity
of the position much better than he has
done, although neither received but $25,-
600 a year in a time when the cost of
living was much higher than it has been
since.
The snUb administered by Grant to
the republican senate, in his veto of the
salary bill, must amuse that body very
much. He tells the senator's, point blank,
that he knows better than they do " the
wishes and judgment of the great major
ity of those who indirectly pay all the
salaries and other expenses of the gov
eminent" Perhaps he does; but he has
certainly given very few indications of
such knowledge in the past.
Upon testimony which it is impossi-
BILE to discredit, and which it would
seem to be equally impossible to impeach,
Gen. Grant has been squarely convicted
of robbing the peoples treasury to cor
ruPt the people with their stolen money
"a heinOus Offense in morals and a high
crime against the laws, of which, as chief
magistrate of great nation of people, he
took the highest of human obligations to
obey, execute and defend. = Omaha
Herald.
HOWEVER the United States senate
may finally determine the question of its
jurisdiction in the Belknap impeach-
ment trial, it was iIl-advised for Mr..
Belknap to plead a lack of jurisdiction.
He is disgraced before his own people
now, and, if innocent, the only OppOrtu-
| nifty afforded him for vindicatiOn is in
this very impeachment trial against
which he has so foolishly protested
Chicago Tribune.
THE organs of the other side are in
high glee ever the fact that seven OF the
appointees of the present house have
| been discharged for cause. This is taken
as a sign of great corruption in the
democracy. 1t is the opposite. Under
democratic authority bad men are made
to retire as fast as they are found out.
Under republican sway they are kept in
office in defiance of public sentiment and
petted until the very last, and are then
dismissed with friendly pats on their
shoulders, with letters of vindicatiOn in
their pockets.-Troy Press.
IT is a commendable caution that
Grant displays when he speaks of those
who indirectly pay the salaries and
other expenses of the government" 1t
is indirectly" that the people pay, and
i it is fortunate for Grant and his admin
istratiOn they do. Had they been called
upon to pay directly during the first
| four years of Grants administration they
would have had so clear a conception of
the extravaganza and corruption going
on that there would have been quite as
violent objection to a second term as
| there has been to a third.
THE ex-attorney-generalisin a fair way
to come to grief in more ways than one.
Evidence has been given before one of
the house committees that, while United
States attorney general, Mr.. Williams
aided in procuring surveying contract
worth $4,000 for party who had stip-
ulated to pay former law partner of MIR.
Williams the sum of $4,000. Mr.. Will
liams appears to have been a party to the
contract, and personally present when it
was made The money was paid then in
part. In other words, the attorney-gen-
eral of the United States helped to have
n surveying contract awarded, not upon
merit, but in consideration of the pay
ment of large sum of money to his per
sonal Reconsideration.
In referring to the Davenport inward
ness, the Hartford Times says: g. If the
administration was really DESTROYS to pre-
vent fraud what an excellent opportuni-
tv was afforded nearer home. Philadel-
| phia is VIGOROUSLY, the worst city in the
union in respect to intimidation, violence
and fraud in elections. That city is vir-
| tually under the rule of rowdies and bull
| lies for days before an election, and on
election day radical repeaters aud hired
bummers, under protection of the parti-
san police, have full swing. There is
| not much doubt that if Philadelphia was
left to a free expression an anti-radical
majority would be assured. But fraud,
intimidation and violence do their work,
and the Quaker city is always good for
| 10000 radical majority, and if the cOun-