The Placer herald., 1873-12-27
OUR SENATOR.

Throughout the nation honest hearts are
made glad ,and California true reformers ex-
ult over the sweeping positive and substantial
triumph achieved by the grand reform party
of this State, last Saturday, by the election
of Hon Newton Booth to represent US for
six years from the 4th of March, 1875, in
the high councils of our National Senate.
While the popular heart of our nation, and
every honest pulsation of our own State
throbs with pleasure over this signal victory,
we feel to rejoice with them; not, he it un-
derstood, because the particular candidate,
Newton Booth, was the successful aspr-
ant, but because bis election gives renewed
assurance that we shall sooner reap the bene
fits of that reform in our nation for which
we have 80 ardently and persistently been
struggling, and because it is the triumph of
a new party which promises peace. prosper
ity and equal justice to all. While our
whole heart has from the first been enlisted
in the cause, we have been enthusiastic for
the success of no particular individual for
this position. We labored earnestly to send
men to the Legislature from our county
who would truly and faithfully represent the
desires of the mass of their constituents.
We exacted of them no pledges to any men.
But knowing well our men we trusted in
them, and right nobly have they proved
themselves worthy of that trust. We
fought earnestly for the the election of
sound Representatives who would vote for
none but reliable, anti-monopoly, anti-sub-
sidy, trustworthy cand late for United
States Senator. Booth, we know pos
sesses these essential attributes. What
more can we ask? We know many of our
readers would have been pleased if the choice
had fallen on an Independent, of Demo-
cratic auteccdents But suppose it had,
we could have asked no more at his hands,
nor could we have had any greater claims
on him; nor could we have expected him to
accomplish any more. Booth, as an Inde-
pendent, has promised in all he does to
faithfully represent the sentiment of that
party, and an Independent who had been
Democrat could have done no more.
This triumph of the Independents is as a
knife at the heart-strings of monopolies, and
a terrible blow to scheming corruptionists
And while these evil influences stagger and
grow pale from the blow thus hurled in
their faces, a new impulse is given; new life
iustilled into the Grand Movement of Re-
form, and everywhere honest and oppressed
souls appeal from the depth of their humili-
alton to their leaders to behold the example
cf California. Verify this State has set a
worthy example to the nation, an example
which every State will, from tie happy re-
suits, be proud to follow. In 1873 Cali
iornia arose in her might, burst the bands
that corruption sought to fasten upon her,
| overpowered tyranncal and monied mon
ster, sealed with shame the mouths of i'm.
pudent demagogues, and to-day stands forth
with renewed freshness and vigor; and with
corruption beneath her feet, cries out to her
sister States, "Behold what honest men
have done for me!' 1873 may be marked
as the commencement of an eventful epoch
in the political history of our nation, for i,
is the actions of this year that shall settle
the troubled question; shall Caesa,
or the people rule? Verify we say
the people yet rule; their government is yet
in their hands, and Newton Booth is their
servant May he, in his more exalted po-
stion, continue worthy of the confidence o.
those who placed him there, is our sire
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