The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-02-13

were made dOubtfully but every
one positively made and that too
by a Governor of Tennessee, } we
repeat we are mortified to find
that there is not one single ne,0 fact con-
tanned in said Message.
1t is a matter of the deepest hui
initiation that we are compelled
to admit that after the exciting,
positive charges of the Governor,
Of fraud and corruption, that
when called on for the evidence
he produces not one single new
fact. If our readers will get this
Message they will find that what
we have stated about it is literally
true.
The charges in the first Message
are ten in number, as TO each one
Of which the Governor says ''it APP
pears" but when called OH for the
proof he utterly fails to state
new fact or to sustain his charges.
He says Isl, that appropriations
were refused unless the members
were paid to make them. This is
the gravest charge that could be
made against a Legislator, a charge
of corruption in office, of perjury
in violating his oath, of treachery
to his constituents. And yet there
is nothing in the Governors re-
ply to the joint resolution that
shows anything paid to any mem
Der, and so of each Of the ten
charges.
The Message, in answer to the
joint resolution asking for evil
dence and facts, instead of Civ
ing some new fact, quotes from
dispositions taken by a committee
of investigation of the Legisla-
ture in 1867 and which had been
published in the journal of the
Senate Of that year, and had been
before the State and people for
ten years. 1t had been Investigate
ed by the Legislature Of 1867. 1t
referred alone to two little pieces
Of projected roads, known as the
Knoxville & Kentucky and the
Knoxville IL Charleston roads.
This whole matter has also been
judicially before the Supreme
Court of Tennessee and there set
tied by decree, so that the pre-
teaded facts are not new. 3 They
have once been investigated by
the Legislature and the Cover
nor does not complain that the
investigation was not thorough.
They have been published for ten
years. They have been before the
Supreme Court and settled. The
only other thing in the Message
besides these quotations from
dispositions is a question from a
protest of a man named Waters
which is also published in the
journals of 1S6S-69. This protest
gives no facts, states no now evil
dence but is like puerile efusion
ofah excited school boy. Itspeaks
Of rings" of "hideous proper
tons" Of funny voices" Of ''peO-
pie crushed by a tornado" Of
"striding with majestic pomp,' of
"a luIl in the Storm" of sad re-
flections," then the "hideous pro-
portions grew opposition to
his behests was certain destruc-
tion," ''his arts were manifold, his
satellites were legion, worship
pers in every corner" Charity
requires that we conclude that
Mr.. Waters had mania potu,
and in his delirium saw the Devil
with his ogle eyes and his legion
Of little devils, and his raw head
and bloody bones. Where the
tornado" came from or who bu-
ried all the people that were
crushed" or whether they are yet
buried does not appear"
1t was a horrible thing, for this
tornado" to "crush" to "destruc-
ton" the people," and for this
wicked Devil and his "Iegions Of
satellites" in all their hideous
proportions" with rings" on their
fingers and rings, on their toes,
"crushing' with majestic pomp'
the people" to obstruction"
We have searched the history of
this State for these lost "people, "
but, alas, nc trace is left. Their
"puny voices were hushed forev-
er in this wreck Of matter and
crush of worlds. But all joking
aside, is it not a matter of pro-
found humiliation that such
stuff should have found a place in
Governors Message? and that
too in a Message where every
Tennesseean had Il right to be-
lieve solid facts would appear
The State debt is grave ques-