Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-08-11
CALIFORNIA poLTKRs.

selves more clearly. One would sup
pose. indeed, from the attention paid
to 1t, that the selection Of United
States Senator was the only object Of
the election. The good government
Of the State seems to be subordinated
entirely to the personal contest be-
tween three or four prominent con-
testants for the Senatorial seat, and
the tone Of the local press Is exceeding
ly rancorous and personal. There are
three prominent organizations now at
work: The Republican proper. COM
posed Of strict ~partlsans, and generally
considered. or ut least claimed by the
opposition, to be under the influence
and control Of the Central Pacific
Railroad Company. The Democrats.
who are quito firmly united, and
claiming to be antl-monopoly, seem
to be working with a will for the re-
turn Of Casserly. Then there are the
Independents, whose platform Is anti
monopoly. whose elements are mainly
dissatisfied Republicans, and whose
object, averred everywhere, Is restric-
ton Of the Influence and power Of tho
Central Pacific, and more especially
the election Of Governor Booth to sue
coed Senator Casserly. This triangu-
lar contest Is engendering much bitter
ness. The Independents tso-calledl are
almost wholly scceders or boilers from
the Republican party democrats have
no Interest In the election of Boo,hh
and wherever the Republican County
Conventions have failed to nominate
for the Legislature men who were not
known as favorable to the aspirations
Of Mr.. Booth. an independent organl-
zatlon in his interest has Immediately
sprung up. In some cases the action
Of the regular Republican Conventions
has been anticipated, an independent
party organized, and legislators nomi-
mated previous. to the meeting Of the
regular Convention. The result will
probably be to re-elect Senator Cas-
serly.
Ono or two Of our State cotcmpora-
ries. claiming to be not only Republican
but strictly partisan. have lately been
commenting mvorably upon the Booth
or Independent movement In Califor.
mia, and implicitly ~countenanced and
supported the holt. We have nothing
to say regarding the candidates for
Senator In California. What we pro-
pose to discuss In a few words Is tho
principle involved in the Independent
movement for Booth. 1t must first be
acknowledged that It Is q bolt from the
Republican party. 1t Is claimed BY
the boilers, as we term them, that the
regular organization Is controlled by
corruptionists, that honest electors
cannot obtain through the party the
nomination Of men who represent
their views; that the whole party
machinery Il controlled by the Central
Pacific Railroad, and that the leaders
and manipulators Of the Republican
organization in California are corrupt.
unpatriotlc and unreliable. These
claims being made, It Is said to be the
duty Of honest men to refuse to act
with the Republican party longer. In
other words, the boiling Republicans
claim that voting Is question Of con-
science and Of Judgment, not Of party
fealty or partisan bias. With this all
true men agree. Last year. however,
a bolt was made from the Republican
party. The claims set up BY the boilers
were Identical with those now made
In favor OF Booth In California. 1t was
claimed by these dissatisfied ones that
snch men as Butler, Pomeroy, Harlan,
Ames, Carpenter, ColfaN, Sargent,
Cameron, Stewart and Patterson con-
trolled the Republican party, con.
trolled the Administration Of President
Grant, and to perpetuate their power
and influence, were bent upon his re-
nomination and reelection. It was
further claimed that these men were
not true Republicans; that they were
corrupt and unreliable ; that they
did not represent the principles Of the
party, and that In the judgment Of
these boilers = new Organization Wa.
necessary. The result was the en-
dor.ement OF the Administration In
the reelection Of Gen. Grant by an
overwhelming majority. In that con-
test. as In the n now being waged in
California, the question was one OF
men, not principles. The principles
OF the Republican party were set forth
emphatically at Cincinnati. They are
similarly adopted as the platform OF
the Independents in California.
What We want to say Is this: One OF
IL contemporaries condemns In n
column Liberal Republicans and In
another implicitly, ifnot openly, favors
California boilers. II it was wrong TO
bolt from the Republican party last
year. 1t Is so now. Its principles re-
main the same. Ifit was traitorous to
nominate and attempt to elect Horace
Greeley by an independent movement,
It l. equally so to use the same means
Ia attempting to secure the election OF
Booth. II after all, conscience and
judgment are to govern electors, In
lieu Of partisan prejudice, why con.
denim the Liberal Republicans? Last
year. the contemporary referred to,
claimed that the Republican party could
correct all evils inside the organization;
that no other way was legitimate ;
that boiling was reprehensible, and
the formation Of a new Republican Or
g,nization a political crime. This yesr
81. .ora ;ournal. while welcoming the