Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-11-30
THE CALIFORNIA sENATORsHlP.


The Legislature whose duty it will b,
to select a successor in the United State.
Senate to Mr.. Eugene Casserly. meets i,
Sacramento tomorrow. A few word.
relative to the importance Of the result
of this Senatorial struggle are in order
Nominally. this is a contest between
Newton Booth, representing a sense Of
popular resentment against certain real
or imaginary wrong doings of the Cen
trail Pacific Railway Company, and the
Apologists for that corporation. This
states their case as strongly as the Booth
ties have any reason to ask at the hands
Of an opponent.) The real struggle, as
conducted by Mr.. Booth and his sup
porters is to demolish all party influence
and party machinery in politics, and
transfer the political power of the coun-
try to that urholy alliance existing be-
tween the Western Union Telegraph
Company and Certain newspapers, said
alliance being known Under the name of
the Associated Press The outlines cf
this conspiracy are plain enough The
mos. powerful monopoly on the Cont
nent is the Western Union Telegraph
Company. 1t has complete and utter
monopoly of the news of the day. It
keeps itself frorn assault by any inttuen-
.ial or widely circulated papers by making
I'll sucl. papers sharers in this news
monopoly Naturally SO powerful and
far PREACHING corporation as this, seeks
political power for itself. Its first en-
deavor, in moving to that end is to I'M
dern,ine all existing, recognized political
parties and party leaders A broad lint |
at Che nature Of the means employed III |
thus perver:ins public opinion and de- !
raolisEilS the characters of public men /
is presented when we refer to the fact |
that one SimoIton, . partner in the San |
Francisco Ba'lettR is the Associated |
Press Agent in New York. This disrep-
utable person handles all the news of /
the country. Without single exception |
that we know Of, the entire Associated |
Press are arrayeJ against all organized |
party action. They have made their
saost conspicuous fight against the Re
publican party because that party is the !
i:ominent political organization of the
Las. year they made losing /
fight against the party, as such Since
hen they have changed their tactics and
stacked its most prominent individual
members; and after having erected the
Credit Mob:lier investigations into an
Indictment OF the party, and got the peo-
be 10 believe that the increase Of Salary
Oil was deliberate theft, and an
vowed Republican defiance OF pub
ic morals AMI public opinion -
.artirg from these false hypothesis.
hey pan,lered in California, to hue and
y of their own making, and Booths
is some 0; the spawn of this
hameless journalistic adultery. The
isht, then, is for the integrity OF parties
IS against the caprice OF rich, Srasping,
press monopoly. The
hing TO be sustained is the faith ot the
,eople in the political fabric of the
as represented by the two great
parties. The principle to be
observed is a wise and genuine conserv-
tisni- The common enc:ny is that AFRO
ant r.onopolist of the peoples informa
ion, that fai;Lless custodian OF public
har..c:er. the Associated Press.