Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-12-31
Who are the Boilers !

anybody. Who they all are, individually,
is not positively certain, inaSmuch as GER
tam Of those whose names originally ap-
peared as Of that faction, rcpudiate the
SANDER. We know enough of them, how
ever, by the published accounts of their
acts, to know that for them to assume to
reprcScn: the Intelligent masses" and
disintcrcsted political purity, is outra-
Scous impudence, and nothing less. In
this inquiring article, the Union calls the
late County Convention 1.-THE ComStock
Convention" and goes on, without
single fact as basis, to charge that the
primary elections of that city were con-
trolled by Comstock money and carried
BY fraud. Now, those primary elections
took place on Wednesday, the 23d inst,
and the County Convention did not as
Scmble until the Monday following.
Here were five days for the Union to have
made this discovery and have denounced
the fraud. Why was that paper silent on
subject upon which it i now so loud
mouthed and indignant: Was it not be-
cause one of its proprictorS was cand'-
date for the State Partnership, and its edi-
tor Il chronic aspirans for scat in Con-
gress Did they not keep their peace
and leave the people to slumbcr over this
frightful volcano of fraud and corrup-
ton" until it was aSccrtaincd to a dead
moral certainty that Mr.. Church had "no
more show than Chinaman," and Poor
Toms a-cold:" No: single breath had
ever been whispered against the fairness Of
any of the proceedings, upto the time the
committee appointed by the Convention
had made their nominations. Everything
was admitted to have been fairly and
>quarely conducted, until those immortal
saints and angels clothed in white, Quig-
ley, Quinlan X Co., representing all the
wealth, intelligence, purity and patriotism
of the county, found that they had not
control of affairs, and that the other
twenty-five members had the Gnparal-
lelcd lmpudence to differ IN sentiment
from that immaculate eight. Then up
rose those patriots, and with them rose
all the intelligence, and Loyalty, and dis
interested zeal for the public welfare,
and scorn of the public pap, and all the
hopes Of Church, Fitch, BroSnan, ct al.
Solcnnly and Indignantly they rose and
stalkcd from that hall, shaking the dust
thereof from their feet, and leaving behind
them the guiltyand corrupt three-fourths to
work out their own hclliSh designs. Hor-
ribLc aictw' What a git up and git was
there my countrymen! No bolt of Divine
wrath rent the Heavens and Smote that
Court House, and Mount Davidson ut
tcrly refused to roll down and squash that
ConventionIinto an awe-inspirins Bologna.
Everything went on as if nothing had
happened, and the Convention concluded
its labors in manner and form as other
bodies similarly constituted generally do
under republican form Of government.
These eight sore headed scraphs went
down among their afflicted and diSap-
pointed patrons, and they sat down with
each other in the ashes and took pots
herds and scratched themselves withal,
after the manner of Eiphaz, the Teman-
tie, and the other sympathizers with Job
of wore. The sound of the lamentations
went up on the frosty air and drew around
the scene of woe, the lame the halt and the
blind, and the CopperheadS, and all they
that had been watching for chance to
defeat the Constitution, and they mingled
their cries and their groans till the sound
thereof drew crowd Of outsiders, who
came to see who was murdered. This
they called mighty mass of tax-paying
citizens repudiating the startling acts of a
conclave."
That is the whole story told in plain,
unvarnished phrase. The Union asks
"who are the bolters:" That paper
knows exactly who they are, and if it
really desires to cnlightcn its readers, and
adorn its columns, let it hoist at the head
of those columns the names of the leaders
of that movement, and especially of its
orators, and write beneath this Legend
These are they whom the people are ex-
pccted to honor; these are our models Of
political purity these are the BoLTERs.