Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-09-02

Bulletin to be found adyocatiul
Selby as against the Unions man
Booth, in 1871. They come together
now, upon a common platform il
favor of Newton Booth. And now
while the temptation is strong te
philosopEise upon the causes which
enable the Bulletin and Union to
sustain their sordid character year
by year even by persistent belittle-
ing of our most trusted and capable
public men, space and the drift of
what we would say, impel us to pass
on to consideration Of the candi-
dacy which these two papers are
urging upon the voters of California.
It seems strange, at first blush,
that this persistent effort at awaken
ing a distrust of the prominent
figures upon the political stage
should find sympathy and co-opera-
ton in Governor Booth. But we
must remember first, that Booth is
one of the fraternity to whose pre-
judices these papers have lent the
force of their faction stimulating
efforts; and, moreover, that in all
the places in life where Mr.. Booth
has appeared prominent he has stood
out selfishly, and all aloof from his
fellows. He sells rum, and holds
his head high above popular de-
pravities; he was bred a lawyer and
budded into fnical literary dabbler;
he knows the subtle humbugs of the
times. ana yet is led and used by the
pretenders and misers of the press;
and plagarising Lord Bulwer's prig
gish attitude, he is literary man
among merchants and a merchant
among literary men. Who is there,
indeed, amongst those who have re-
garded Booth at all critically but
has thought i. out in the rough, if |
he has not indeed put his feeling |
into q definite form of expression,
that somehow as common people are
wont to say, he has an air of being
above his business, ever and always,
that is to say, his relations to his
party are reflection of his relations
to his store; his relations to politics
are of a piece with his relations to
the general thing of trade; and main
tanning the same relationship to
literature as to the sale of family
groceries-holding himself coldly
apart from gentle Bohemia as from
he retailing OF beans and beeswax-
md still showing a very decided |
appetite fer the reputation of being 1
scholar, and entertaininga contem-
1orAneous greed for the profits on
,od fish and molasses. This is the {
sort of man to do as Mr.. Booth did
10 at Platt's Hall, emit a speech
with the platitudes OF
he papers which support him and
never uttering one word of protest
against the arrogant and aggressive ,
Press whose persistent perversions
IF the true functions of journalism is
2ne of the most offensive peculiar
ties, as it is the most supercllllous
tyranny, of the times. He is the ex-
Donent and mouthpiece Of this
-;csarism of daily letters, this Pacific
,uttrees es the associated Press
monopoly. What is there about
his un-Califorpian Californian to
ntitle him to the ardent support
nd spontaneous admiration Of the
,eople?
As if commenting upon such 1
,ress as we have had under consider
ton, Whipple, in his essay on
: Stupid Conservatism and Nialig-
,ant Reform" says: Vital moder-
ton is villa: is wanted; a moder- ;,
ton which discerns the essential :.
elations OF things, and acts III accor-
ance with its insight; "a moderation {
gLich is not synonymous with COM a