The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-24
DANEING THE SKY BLUES"

MIR: Jesse NOrment, editor ofthe
Bolivar Bulletin, who was nominated
by the convention at Bolivar last
Saturday a candidate for the state
senate, is n very cleYer and intel
ligent gentleman, but politically he
Is affected by some remarkable
partisan crankness. lie is a enthu
siastie exponent Of the "Hardeman
County iuUa," and in his speech of
acceptance the other day he boasted
that "four years ago we buried the
Fussellites face fOrmOst, and the
more they snatch the nearer home
they will get. This time we intend
to bury the republicans the same
way" AS Jesse has gone into the
professional political undertaking
business he is at liberty to bury the
republicans in any way his bIIlliant
fancy may suggest, but if his success
i'm burying the ''sky blues" and
starting them on the road TO hell
is TO be taken as an earnest Of his
sepulchral exploits in the future it
may we'll he doubt whether he
will crown his funereal efforts with a
luminous wreath of victory. If the
state credit democrats, whom he
calls FussellItes, have been buried
eternally out of sight and cOnsign>
ed to the hell which he is pleased to
call their future home, it may be
proper to inquire why 1t is that the
mere mention Of a "sky blue" demo
crat throws Jesse and the politicians
of his ilk into horrible convulsionsS
It might also be we'll if our friend
would relapse from the state of ex-
element and eXultation, caused by
q political nomination, sufficiently
long to remember that the democrats
which he claims TO have entombed in
the bowels of perdition, have the
singular habit of appearing serene
ly as worthy and reputable citizens,
who are accorded by all that are not
utterly blinded by prejudice, the re-
spect and esteem due to men who had
the courage to stand by their hOuest
convictions in the face of overwhelm;
ing opposition. Happily. it may be
assumed that MIR. Norment is not
the recognized mouth-peice of the
democratic party in Tennessee, and
that the party leaders are not silly
enough to boast that they have damn
Oh the Fusselhtes to he'll.
The editor of the Banner is never
SO well satisfied as when he is pitch
ing into a democrat, and as that is
his only source of comfort, being
himself without political convictions
we are loath to interfere with his
sport. But the truth compels us to
say that the editor of the Bolivar
Bulletin did not use the language
imputed to him. He did say that
four years ago the Democrats buried |
"Fusselhsm'' and "Green backism'' |
face foremost, so that the more they
scratched the nesrer home they
would get, and did not say the |
"Fussellites" and "Greenbackers"
were buried face foremost. We I'M
agine the Banner will recognize the
difference between burying the
cause, and that of buryng the indi- !
yiduals who ADVOCATED that cause. |
When we came to speak of the Fus-
sellites and Greenbackers, we said |
they differed, honestly, with the
party upon the State
debt question, but that the state
debt had been settled, that the dit-
ferenees DO longer existed, and that
they were as good democrats as the
speaker. We congratulated the
Democrats present, upon the fact
that the Democratic party was united