The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-15
AS TO BOLTERS.


ing to the political Technology gen.
orally in vogue to speak Of the news
papers and Individuals who refuse to
support the platform and the nominees
Of the Chicago convention as boilers,
that term cannot be applied in the
sense in which the common people I'M
derstand it. AS defined by the lexi-
graphers, to bolt is to refuse to sup
port the nominees of a party with
which one has been connected, and in
this sense probable majority of the
Democrats Of the United States are
boilers today. Another meaning, here
tofore considered identical with that
is ito break away from ones party"
And in this sense these Democrats are
en- away from their party" in any proper
sense Of the term. The man who has
been a Democrat all his life, who was
a Democrat four years ago, when he
Cleveland was elected, who was q
Democrat a month ago when the state
convention of Minnesota declared in
the most unequpivocal and uncompro-
missing terms for the existing monetary
system, has certainly not ceased to be
a Democrat because he has not fol-
lowed the swift and sudden reversal Of
these political positions accomplished
by the Populist admixture in the Chi
cago convention.
There may be question raised today
as to what is orthodox Democratic doc
trine on the financial issue. We hold
it to be the doctrine which the party
has held from the days of Jefferson
and Jackson down through the days Of
Tilden to the present time. We are
aware that there are men who are de-
votedly attached to the party and who
claim to be also today loyal Democrats,
who think that the free coinage Of sill
yer at the ratio of 16 to 1 by the United
States alone Is Immediately feasible
and eminently desirable. We do not
claim that these men have ceased to be
Democrats because they disagree with
US on this one issue. We hold it equal
ly fairly established that those who
choose to stand by the party's doctrine
of the past do not cease to be Demo-
Gratis because a certain number Of in
dividuals at Chicago have chosen to re-
verse that platform. And we hold
moreover, that the remainder of the
which Is quite as Objectionable as the
currency plank, aid which is derived
directly from Populistic sources, is
even a greater departure from Democ-
racy, and demands a sterner resist
ance; not by those who wish to bolt,
but by those who desire to remain
steadfast in their party ties Conse-
quently, the seventy-five or more
newspapers which have already de-
clared that the Chicago platform and
nominees do not represent their ideas
Of Democracy, and most of which insist
upon a convention and q ticket that
will answer these requirements, are
certainly not boilers in the secondary
sense Of the term. They have not
broken away from their party. They
do not desire to do so. They purpose,
through whatever sacrifice and rebuke
it may bring with It, to remain Demo-
Gratis in name and in deed.
Pnrfa ne TIM hest 4voo opd ;1I,,rtr,
ton Of the real bolter is the New York
Sun. This paper, while professedly
Democratic in politics, has been bolt
er from the Democratic faith for the
last twelve years. 1t has not acted
with the party and its assumption of
the Democratic name has beer. for eff
feet rather than an earnest OF its 10y
atty. 1t must not be forgotten that the
Sun supported Ben Butler for presi-
dent, really in the interest of Mr..
Blaine, and certainly to the detriment
Of the Democratic cause Butler was
no Democrat, but sort of bridge
that passed from the greenbacker of
the past to the Populist of the present.
The Sun has opposed and vilified Mr..
Cleveland from the beginning to the
end Of his political career; anu while
we have no doubt that in Some in
stances it was sincere, we are just as
well persuaded that in others it was
quite willing to sacrifice Democratic