The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-08-24
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
NEW YORK. Aug. I7lh.

NEW York. Aug. I7,h.
Aessrs. Editors:
1t Will not be Improbable to-day to
take a survey of some of the work which
has been done by Democratic House.
and few Of the transactions of the Dem
Ocratic candidate for the Presidency.
The mere statement that tn e appropria,
tons have been reduced more than six
ty-four millions Of dollars below the es-
Inmates Of the Administration, does not
in itself, convey much idea CT econom
because this might easily have been
done without due regard to the efficiency
of the public service. But when it is
known that evary department can be
thoroughly conducted apon the smaller
amount, and when it is considered that,
without any just cause or necessity, the
heads of the various departments en-
deavored to increase the amounts placed
in their hands twenty-five millions of
dollars beyond what was used by them
last year, we see by which party
THE NATIONS INTERESTS
are best considered. When, moreover,
it is demonstrated that much greater
| saving would have been made, but for
the opposition of Republican majority
in the Senate; and that it was only that
no injury might be wrought to the coun
try by sudden stopping of the machinery
in any department, that the Democratic
House yielded, in some degree, to the
eXorbitant demands of the Senate, we
can plainly see the advantages that will
accrue to the country by placing all the
branches of th9 government il the hands
of the Democratic party.
But the good work accomplished has
not been confined to the cutting down
of unnecessary expenditures in the gov
errment prOrer; it has exposed and
to fnality many gross and odious
frauds by which the people hare been
impoverished even more than by exces-
sive taxation. 1t mas brought to the bar
of justice many Of the dishonorable
men who, in places of trust and author
ity, perverted the power entrusted to
them. Many more it has presented be-
fore tka tribunal of public opinion, and,
upon the evidence adduced, has succeed
ed in arrest ting their career of iufamy
and shame
The same kind of work has
GOVERNOR TILDEN
been doing in New York. Mainly by
retrenchmeut in our Canal expenditures
has he effected a reduction of the State
Tax of about II per cent. he bill for
ordinary repairs on the Canals he has
made less than it was by more than four
hundred thousand d)llars; and the ap-
preparations for extraordinary repairs,
which in former years had amounted to
two millions of dollars, he has ezsin-
guished, knowing that this money was
not required fer the purposes alleged
In other departments has he carried on
tue same system, until the taxes of the
State are altogether reduced to about
one-half of what they were under former
administrations.
We have known whatit is to be bound
hand and foot in Rings. By tlese we
have been
PLUSDERED, ROBBED, INsUL7ED,
until we seemed to be without power 10
help ourselves. They are now, how
ever, broken, and we are free. The !
Tweed Ring was demolished by our
Governor before he accepted public of
fee; the Canal Ring has realized the !
same fate since he mas exercised the ]
control Of our executive The thieves |
and peUurers which composed them |
have been scattered to the ends of the |
EARTH or confined in the prisons of our
State. In the zenith of their power did |
our Democratic candidate attack these
Rings, and when everybody was disposed |
to look upon the undertaking as a fool |
hardy enterprise. He however paid no
regard to eught but the public good, and |
in the end came of the conqueror.
These being the facts, we cannot |
wonder that the people feel confidence /
in bes!owing upon this man and upon
this party to regulate the nations
course. They know that upon the issue
of this campaign depends the settlement
of the question whether corruption,
vanaIi = and crime of every kind shall |
hold the future of the nation in its
hand and bring upon it utter ruin; or
whether purity, honesty and integrity
shall take the helm, and steer it to the !
haven of security and honor. We in
this State know our Governor, and in
him we trust; and we are continually |
receiving pleasing indications that the
other sections of the Union are not
blind to the advantages Of placing him
in the Presidential chair The whole
COUNTRY is tired of proceeding On its