Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-08-17
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST II. 1892.
Boilers.

In every party there are dissatisfied as
pirants to Office who have so exalted an
opinion OF their own abilities that they
are ready upon the slightest plausible pre-
text to renounee their allegiance 20 the
party OF which they have claimed TO be
members. However. they bolt notIn the
interest OF their friends. nor of some man
OF extraordinary talents. but in their own
interest. The "cankers" of long peace
have eaten away their party ties. They
are blinded by ambition and selfishness.
They know not that their neighbors
looked upon them as disturbers of the
harmony OF their party long before
they announced their purpose to act
with the opposite party. But do not sup
pose for one moment that these boilers
will remain in the opposite party If their
services are to 20 unrewarded. Not they.
They would as lief belong to the party to
which they originally professed to con-
sider their allegiance due il they are TO
have no Office bestowed upon them as
recognition of their influence with the
people. In word. boilers are boilers by
nature, and never tire of boiling. They
see themselves not as others soc them but
in glass that causes them to appear TO
themselves so differently from their fell
low-partisans that not even the boilers
themselves can recognize their real condi-
ton OF appearance.
Governor BUCHANAN, of Tennessee, has
turned up as one of these boilers. He
failed to secure the nomination OF the De-
mocrAtic party tor Governor. and so an
aounces himself as an independent oandi-
date for that Office. He asks the votes of
all citizens regardless of past party atfilia-
tions. He bases his candidacy upon several
allegations. First, that he has been called
upon by.a majority of 1.-The rank and file
TO run, or, in other words, that he is the
pet Of the masses but not Of the leaders of
the Democratic party, and wishes to show
his strength at the ballot-box; second,
that heand his friends have been badly
treated by the county and State conven-
tions of the Democratic party; third that
berepresents true Jeffersonian Democracy;
and fourth, the most amusing of his rea-
sons, that the Democratic State convention
which refused to nominate him renounced
The true principles OF Democracy as set
forth in former platforms.
Governor BUCHANAN speaks not for him.
self only, but for good many boilers
when he announces as q reason for boiling
that tue State convention. which refused
to nominate him, thereby renowned the
true principles of Democracy. Haven't
YOU in your neighborhood one or more of
these chronic boilers, who hold them
selves to be the representatives of the true
principles of Democracy. and regard all
other Democrats-all Democrats not in
search of ofiice-as bound in duty to sup
port them for Office, in or out of the regu-
lar organization OF the Democratic party 2
But did YOU or your neighbors ever expect
from these office-seekers any consistency
of political conduct? Isn't the boiler,
whether in Virginia or Tennessee, a born
bolter?
Now, then, We good voters OF Virginia,
zee TO il that you do not leave the Demo-
oolters and 60 about making anti-Demo-
cratic speeches based upon the fact that
the convention which failed TO set you up
for lucrative or honorable Office did there
by renounce the true principles of De-
mocracy! For. as we have said, the bolter
always bolts in his own interest. let him
give what reason he may for not yielding
ready obedience 10 the will of the people
rs expressed in aud through the regular
party organizations of the Democrats.
Vhen follow not the bolter-
"For be IL understood,
He left bis party for his psrtys goOd.'