Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-18
WEDNESDAY. April Is, 1883
The Boilers.

But are they the boilers, the WISE
CAMERON Republicans q? We have been
inclined TO recognize them as the regu-
lars: but we can't do so without their
consent ANDREW JOHNSON said once
that he didn't like any man who was
more for him than he was for himself
And we shall govern ourselves by that
dictum. The BlSineites are entitled
70 the control of tho Republican
marty in this State. We have
no doubt, whether that control ought to
be based upon the popularity of Mr..
BLAINE as compared with that Of Mr..
SHERMAN. or upon the relative strength
amongst the white Republican voters OF
the MALONE and anti-MAHoNR factions.
Nevertheless, if the latter faction choose
10 play second fiddle to the former 1t IS
not for the Democrats to protest Our
duty is to put down either faction or
both.
We were led into making these re-
marks by the following paragraph IN the
Washington letter in the Alexandra Ga
-cttc OF Monday.
Representative Yost, who was pres
sent At the 'kickeIs conference in Rich
mond last Saturday night, says there
were no secret proceedings atthe confer
ence. and that 1t might as well have been
a public meeting. He says all that was
done was the approval Of short address
that viii be issued, and determination
that district conventions to elect dele
gates 10 Chicago should be held where
ever the Republicans deemed it proper
10 hold them, as they would certainly do
in his and in the Norfolk districts. -
The "short address WAS what we de-
scribed it to be yesterday. 1t Was tame,
indeed. The old man in the fable did
not try at first to ascertain what virtue
there was in stones; but he did try in
due time. The kickers, after complain
ing for years of MAHONE's methods, meet
and complain again. Such remedy for
their wrongs is no remedy at all. II
hard words could have killed off MALONE
his political career would have ended
wears ago. Fire is hot, but it Was not
dsagreeable to the tabled salamander,
however it may be to the genuine one.
So political "hot water" is MALONE Is
native element He cares not if it be
seven-times heated water 50 1t Is nothing
but water. He laughs TO scorn such tao
tics. And yet here are gentlemen who
ought TO know him and his methods,
who instead of proceeding to act as II
they were confident of the justice OF
their cause, content themselves with pro-
tests. Instead of calling at once a con.
vention in every congressional district,
they go home without doing anything
at all, and after he gets home Mr.. Ios1
gravely says that there will certainly be
conventions held in two districts-tht
Second and Tenth
Think of thst-a convention IN two
districts out Of ten and the anti-MA-
HONE delegates to Chicago from these
two districts to compete not only with
the four delegates-at-large to be sent by
the MALONE Convention, but the twenty
delegates sent by MALONE from the ter
districts. Twenty-four MALONE dele
gates and four anti-MAHoNE delegates
Whose policy is this What figure
these four delegates will cut in Chicago
contrssted as their appearance will be
with the confident and defiant or con
temptuous manner OF the twenty-fouI
MALONE delegates headed by the chair
man of the Republican State Contra
Committee.
Shall we be told that the Blaineite
desire to appear in the Petersburg Con
vention ? Alas for this hope on thei
part. that convention will be so hedgeC
round by pledges to be taken and pro
misses to be made that not Rlaineite vii
be able to go into it unless he renounce
his kicking propensities before he enters
No. There is nothing Tor the Blame
ties TO do but to elect BLAINE delegates
in every district. They must necessarily
contest the seats of all the delegates ex
cept the delegates-at-large. II Dir
BLArNE is willing TO accept nomination
by acclamation, as Mr.. DEPEw, Mr.
REID, and so many others of his closes
friends seem 10 think he will be, the fac
will be known before the Chicago Con
vention is organized, and the BLAINl
delegation from Virginia will be ad
mitted.
Finally. if the Blaineites will not hell
themselves, they must be content Il
figure rs "bolteTs.
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