Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-11-12

It's all very we'll for the Union and
the other fiddlers for Newton Booth
to talk of him as if he were Saint
ed incarnation of Purity undergoing
. persecution for righteousness sake
by the goddess politicians and parti-
Fan organs of California. The
aforesaid goddess ones hare got some
thing con him"-and they are net
disposed to relent. His case is
somehow parallel to Smiler Colfax's
Smiler. you know, had been grin
ming his super-holiness into the eyes
of the depravel. until they caught
him trying to pass off his pinchbeck
lies for the Sunday-school truth;
and then they lit on him with that
gleefulness with which all hardened
sinners fall upon the PROSTATE car
clse of a fellow who has been setting
himself above them and decrying
them by the force of his over godly
smiles, and the extra conspicuity of
his psalm-singing morality, from the
higher seats of the synagogue. 1t is
the Oakland Transcript that bounces
the high smiling Newton thuswise:
The Sacramento Union indnlges in
a column of pettifogging attempt to
clear the skirts OF Governor Booth
from the back pay and salary meas
ure. The article reads very singu-
larly in the light of the previous
course of the Union on the same |
question when condemning the
President and Congressman for do
ing the same thing it now attempts
10 Justify the Governor in doing.
The Union heaped upon the head Of
General Grant Its anathemas without
stint for not vetoinS the Appropria-
lion bill of Congress, because it con-
aimed the clause increasing the sala-
v of the President and members of
Congress. and poured put its walls of
wrath with unsparing hand upon the
reads of Sargent, CoShlan and
for voting for the Appro-
,riation misunderstanding the
act that Mr.. Sargent opposed siren
,ously the Objectionable clause.
But now, how changed is the tone of
he Union. 1t says: 1t would
lot have been policy in Governor
5ooth to have vetoed the Code on ac-
'ount of this Objectionable feature"
And then goes on to justify the Gov
.rnor, because some previous Legis-
ature unconstitutionally increased
he Governors salary-thcugh we
ave no record of any Governor
lrawing the unconstitutional in
.rease, previous to the present Gov
rnor. This is the shamefulest pet
ifogging ever INDUCED in by re-
pectable journal. 1t says, 1.-The
ase of the Governors back pay and
alary was different from that of the
steal" We admit
hat it was different In the case of
congress, it was perfectly constltu-
ional; and more, the increased sala-
v amounts to 81 600 less than the
alary of Governor Booth per year.
n the case of the Governor, how
yer, he has drawn his back pay and
alary increase in the face and eyes
# the State Constitutional provision
such increase. Neither
AVE the duties of the Governor been
as claimed by the Union.
lie but performs the same duties
hat his predecessors performed, and
or which he takes from the Treasu-
y $4,000 more a year than they
rev. This whitewashing process
# the Uaion is too thin entirely-it
5 simply disgusting. 1t is nause-
,us dish for a Reform journal to
,lace to the mouths of its readers.
t would have been better by far to
ave remained silent, than to thus
tultify itself in order to excuse
vrong in its favorite-