Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-09-02
SOMETHING OF THE POLITICAL.
SITUATION IN CALIFORNIA.

IN tuese cOiumnS, at any time, coult
have any effect upon the political af
fairs of California, it is quite certain
that it is now too late for decisiv,
Influences to result from what VI.
may say upon that pulling subject
and although We make no pretenss
of desire to hide our prejudice:
and preferences SO far as the more
prominent questions involved in
the pending election are concerned,
still we think we are not wholly in
competent to treat of the situation
there from the philosophical and
critical standpoint.
The most remarkable phase OF the
California political situation is in
the attitude of what is known as the
Independent Press of that State.
Ever since the great war of the Re
beilion forced the said Independent
Press to take sides in behalf of the
Republican party and thus its mem
beers acquired sort of tacit right to
counsel with that party there has been
more or less successful effort sus-
tanned by the Sacramento Union and
the San Francisco Bulletin and Morn
I'M Cal to dictate the course of nol-
tiles in general and that Of the Re
publican party in particular. The
community of interests which reach
es from the Springfield Republican
on the north to the Louisville Cour-
ier-.you-nal on the south, and from
Whitelaw Ried on the east to J. Ken
yon Fitch on the west, is stimulated
and kept intact by the terms and ad-
yantages of the Associated Press,
and has oftentimes exhibited an i'm
patience Of submitting to the disci-
pine ard regularly expressed pur-
poses of the Republican party and
SO it has happened that each individ-
ual member of the self styled Inde-
pendent Press has at one time and
another, " bolted the formal decis-
ions of the said party and striven to
turn the tide of public affairs into .
channel of its own selection. In the
East it is the arrogance of petted
and spoiled Bohemi. which thus sets
itself up, with supercillious air. as
the superior of partisan politics !
while the animus of the California
contingent of this Independent
brotherhood would rccHi 10 grow out
Of sordid lust Of power for the
sake of influence in the circles where
money and business favors are to be
had. Bohemia, with Sam Bowies,
Horace White, Henry Watterson,
Geo. Alfred Townsend, Whitelaw
Ried ct ID geaaas onaae, undertook in
their amazing and brilliant impu-
dence to name q candidate for and
consummate the election of nomi-
nee to, the Presidency Of the United
States. In California the Bulletin
and Union venture no further than
TO attempt to dictate the election of
Governors and Senators in Congress.
They support the nominees Of the
National Republican Conventions in
order that their hold upon the State
may be sustained. |;
Il IS the unmistakablc spirit Of
this independent Press. everywhere,
70 dacry and belittle political parties
and men who are prominent in po- .
litical circles. Certain businesses
which could not exist without a
stable and effective government are ;
petsel and fondIed and fattered into A.;
the notion that they themselves are
Of more Importance than the fabric ,
IF government itself. This is the ,
iordid view as sustained By the
nj n and Eulietin. These are In 5
me sense commercial papers ; and &
I is they who have sought, not with s
ut success, to array the mercantile c
against the other clements of the a