Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-11-27

Bartlett. Coming from q less high
spirited organ than the Enterprise
we should say that the tone of it!
leading editorial article of yesterday
was whine. It is as if bad tiding.
had reached it from the seat of war
as if they who knew Mr.. Booths
fight the best, despaired of his sue
cess. Hear him:
| Were the members of the Legislature
in fact what they are in theory, public
servants. there would not be moment S
hesitation in their action. Republicans
and Democrats alike would lay aside
party pr.jndices and vote for Booth, as
| the practically unanimous choice Of the
people. But there is little hope of any
| such obedience to popular sentiment. 1t
is rather to be apprehended that the
course of the California Legislature will
still further Illustrate the evils of which
| all good citizens are beginning to COM
plain; that our rulers are no longer
amenabie to public opinion, but consider
themselves n governing class separate
from the masses, empowered by a little
brief authority to exercise their individ-
ual wills and arbitrarily dominate the
peoples wishes; and that party bases
and the differing arguments of the cor
porations will WELD a stronger irfuence
than the impartial sentiment of the com
munity and the voices of the toiling
thousands throughout the land.
This looks as If somebody in the
Booth interest had been canvas>ing
the incoming Legislature, only to
come to the conclusion that Mr.
Booth cause is lost. Coming from
u less courageous source than the
Enterprise we should say that the
following was an appeal to the mer-
cifulness of the partisans whom Mr.. |
Booth has heretofore So loftily defed |
and SO supercilliously snubbed. |
Says our orny-hantled neighbor:
Members of either or both parties
wouil have ample reason for joining |
with the Independents to elect Booth, |
for by SO doing they wouii only obey the |
wishes of majority of their constit-
Uencies: but We fail to discover any just
ifcation OF their binding together to de
feat him Mr.. Booth is o Republican in
all that constituted the glory Of that
party in its palny days. while his oppo-
sition to monopolies and advocacy of re-
'orms comprise the bulk of Democratic
political staples.
What 4 vestal virgin Booth is. to
be sure! He filters out vice and
moral and political cussedness like a
iitnlus paper, and absorbs the virtues
Of political creeds like q blotting
pad, And yet, after all this, a line
Or two Of toothsome rhetoric restores
9ur lnercurial friends courage, and
Ie expresses brief, cheerful hope
hat these conspirators will not SIC
,eed:-Ana yet again lse is not quite
ssured Of success, and in this
hanged mood he launches NO upon
hose who may succeed in depriving
he United States Senate Of the pres !
nee of this spotless ard beatiied .
'pblicist. Anticipating the worst
hat is coniured up to fright our
;eighbor's overweight imagination
Ed believing that Newton Booths
is destined to illustrate
he folly and weakness of Dolly Var
Ienism in California and the help
essness of the Granger movementin /
Nevada, and believing the enthusi- ]
site Editor of the Enterprise to be
ute as much in earnest as he pro- l
esses to be, we can see no other |
curse left to him TO pursue but to :
ccept and act upon the advice con-
nned in the peroration Of an elo-
Hent Tennessee Congressman and r
fire tie resurrection gun and pre-
ipitate the catastrophe of Nature. "
GOODMAN having abandoned the a
ED to the gifted wag who does the >