Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-12-13

puullCdiiS anu OSuIOCtNtsi put VIC ALdC
pendents seem to have no thought for
any but Governor Booth. 1t is strange
that a party owing its very existence to
| the desire Of the people to correct certain
alleged abuses, should select as It's stand
ard bearer land will have none other,)
pledge breaker, and salary-grabber, as
Booth stands convicted of being. But
the truth of the matter is, that while pro-
Tossing a desire for reform, those in lead
ership in the new party have commenced
their career by acts which should carry
condemnation to any party guilty OF per-
mittng them to be practieed. 1t began
with the canvass, when Booths hench
men in Sierra county DISTINGUISHED anti
Booth Republicans by exacting pledge
of legislative candidates, to which all as
pirants were compelled to subscribe, or
be ruled out of the primaries of the dom
inant party. This high-handed proceed
ing on the part of a few men drest in
little brief authority" awolIe a storm of
popular indignation which put an effect
ual stop to any more attempts to bind and
gag men through the medium of county
committees. But although similar at
| tempts to force Booth upon the party as
a Senatorial candidate were not made in
other quarters, yet the action was defend
ed $50 far as it was capable of deiense,)
by the Booth organs, which further in
sisted that the Republican legislative
nominees should be pledged to Booth in
all counties where conventions we're held.
This pernicious advice was followed in
some of the counties where the Sacra-
mento Union had large circulation and
presumably large influence, but the re-
suits were most fatal to those by whom
it was done. The people were not dispos-
ed to be the mere tools of set of time |
serving politicians and repudiated the
bargain an toto. In some of the strong
est Republican counties the Booth legis-
tive tickets went by the board, and Dem
ocrats and Independents returned in their
stead. Yet with a sublimity of impu-
dence unpa ralleled, the Dolly Warden or
gans claim the election of these Inde-
pendent tickets as so much evidence of
the popularity of their pet.
The political course of Mr.. Booth, taxi
en- throughout, shows nothing but mass
of black ingratitude toward those by
whom he was first brought into political
prominence sufficient to connect his name
with Senatorial honors. Two years ago
Booth was taken up by the Republicans |
of California as their candidate for Gov
ernor. There were many who, for their
first choice preferred others. These were
overruled by the convention, and yield
ing cheerfully to the will Of the majority,
the friends of Selby and the other candi-
dates gave to Booth and his associates a
hearty support which carried the party
years Mr.. Booth is found arrayed in open
hostility to the men by whose united eff |
forts he had been placed in tho guberna- !
torial chair, and welding the influence
given him by bis exalted position in be-
half of those by whom his election had
beer stubbornly opposed. Had he chos-
en- to make his fight for the Senatorship
within the ranks of the Republican par
ty, using only honorable means to com
pass his wish, he could not have been de-
feated. Bnt failing to drive the party at
once to his support he sought to effect its
destruction. 1t would be fitting rebule
to him if, when the legislative session
closes he finds he has played the traitor
to no purpose, and is as far from the
has forfeited every claim upon Republic
an support be ever had, and, in dealing
with him, the Republicans of the Legis-
ture should act upon the principle that
an open, honest enemy is better than a
treacherous renegade. The few Repub
licans elect who were pledged to his sup
port, should not hold those pledges bind
ing since he has renounced his allegiance
tu the party of which he was thought to
be a member at the time those pledges
were given; he has absolvcd them by
his own act. He is entitled to no consid-
GRAFTON whatever at the hands of Repub-
lican mem bers, but is to be treated rather
as one who, having once broken faith, it
would be the height of stupid folly to
trust again. The system of bargaining
by which the Assembly was organized in
the Dolly Warden, or Booth interest,
shows how much regard for our interests
these model reformers really have at
heart. Howe, the only Democrat elect
ed from San Francisco, votes for Estee,
and is rewarded by the Dollys With the
position of Speaker pro TEN. The El
Dorado delegation have an axe of their
own to grind, in the shape of having the
State assume the payment of a hundred
thousand dollars of their county debt
They are promised that the Dollys shall
vote for their bill, and Booth sign it, if
they keep themselves free from the Dem
ocratic caucus which would interfere with
I the programme of the Dollys for orgagi-
J zation.
1t is somewhat difficult to determine, at
present, what the final result of the SEN