The Placer herald., 1871-07-22
Booth and Haight.

no1, WHO, tlat Cau ulNCst ulIilScu OF pOnticAi
prejudice, can hesitate as to his choice.
With the people it makes but little difference
as to what the governors name is but it does
make vast difference as to what his princi
pies, honesty and character is. 1t is a truth
that has taken possession of and fastened
itself upon the minds of all honest men that
this contest is between the people and the
leagued money-mongers and monopolists Of
the State. These leagued capitalists and
their paid lobbyists always work through
tools--weak men, who can be influenced or
directly bought to do their nefarious work
against the people and for their masters and
owners. These leagued monied monsters,
with the Central Pacific managers and its
four newspapers made early arrangements
to CONTROL both political State Conventions
and thus secure their official tools, no mat
ter which political party won the election.
The Democratic Convention was called first,
and the chances of its nominees being elected
being ten times as great as the other, all
their energies and means were bent to the
securing of a majority of the Delegates in
that body, whether by election, appointment
or direct purchase This effort of the cor
rupt set was at once discovered by the
Democratic press of the State, and exposed
to the public, and in this exposure we were
warmly aided by the Sacramento Union.
The contest in our primaries and county con-
vcntons became warm between the real men
of the people and the monopoly sharks. In
this fight, the better class of Republicans all
over the State felt deep interest in our
success over the monopoly, and assisted us
with their moral influence, many of them
pledging themselves to vote for Hight if we
could secure his nomination over the COM
bined robbers. The result proved our
strength before the, people and the convention
was overwhelmingly for Haght and against
all monopolists, public plunderers and schemes
of robbery. That convention laid down
platform that meets with the approval Of nine
tenths of all honest men in the State, and
nominated Gov. Haight by acclamation, and
filled out the entire State ticket with Smen Of
the same mettle, principles and honesty.
Seperate the villainous plunderers, the mere
political place hunters and their tools from
the real people of the State to-day, and OF
the honest voters left Governor Haighi
| would receive four-fifths Of their votes lie
is the peoples man, the man who has been
tried in the fire of political corruption,
tempted, threatened, fattered and coaxed b,
.urns, and who has came out as pure as gold,
only refined and rendered more highly cs-
teemed by the great honest masses of the
State. He is pure, honest, manly, open
hearted Statesman one who snatched the
people four years ago from the vile Gorham
railroad lobbyists, and has borne our State
government through all his term to honor,
economy and a proud position among our
sister States. Against Haght we have
Newton Booth, pretended anti-subsidy
nan--an eleventh hour convert 10 the doc
tries fought for and won for the people by
Haight. Mr.. Booth has been subsidyisi
and Chinese monger up to the latest houl
of his political record. lie is weak man,
one without stability, frmness or the power
of originality, one who can never be trusted
to stand up against the monied and corrupt
hosts that will be brought to bear on his
administration. When in the Senate from
Sacramento, he proved himself incapable as
a legislator and without the discernment to
distinguish between just and unjust, vicious
and righteous, unconstitutional and const-
tutional Legislation, or, if he did, he was
nearly always on the wrong side. One
instance of Mr.. Booths weakness on cor
upton we will give:
In 1868 the railroad company applied to
the Legislature for grant of $40, 900 per
mile out of the State Treasury, as aid in the
construction of the road, for the first fifty
miles, making the total sum of $500, 900, in
coin. This bill, Mr.. Booth not only voted
for, but warmly advocated on the floor OF
the Senate. The bill passed, but it was 70
clearly unconstitutional, that the company
never undertook to enforce its provisions;
and it WAS also 20 clearly iniqutous, anC
intended to rob the State Treasury of a hall
4 million of dollars, in coin, that no man
should ever support its advocate, Mr.. Booth,
for Governo:. In this great struggle be-
tween the people and the monied thieves of
the State, it would seem that no honest
man could for a moment hesitate TO cast his
vote for H1ght. Haght has been the
bridge that has carried the people safely over
The stream of yawuing corruption for the
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