The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-06-14
BOOTH AND THE RE-
PUBLICAN PARTY.

Efforts have been made by those WIN
were not prepared to believe that Governor
Booth intended to leave the Republican
party. to create the impression that he is not
in sympathy with the boiling movement,
his local organ, the Union, has taken the
pains to disabuse the public mind in this
regard In its issue of Saturday, referring
to the Sacramento bolt, it said
ave are assured upon excellent authority
that the Governor does not disapprove, but
in fact favors it, and believes that the cir
cumstances justify the movement in this
county that the circumstances justify the
people who could not find expression
through the organization, and they have
the right to create other organizations and
that be sees nothing in this declaration of
principles and objects but what's perfectly
consistent with the platform of 1871"
The Republican party can do without
Newton Booth, butiiappearances are worth
anything he cannot do without the Repub-
lican party. The position he now holds he
owes entirely to the party he has repudia-
ted. During his whole term he has srunk
from fulfilling his duties to the party, and
has On ali occasions shown himself in sym
patty with the soreheads who now constitute
his only followers. lie went out of the
State rather than assist in the last on
gressional canvass. He shirked attendance
at the Republican meeting held to ratlfy
the election of the present Mayor of Sacrs-
meLto. When the boiling faction put up
McCleery against Adams he sympathized
heartily with the boilers, and refused to
stir in behalf of the regular Republican
candidate. In all these cases the Re
publican candidates were elected with
out bis aid and despite his opposition. 1t
was then kn~wn TO all well informed per-
sons that his Republcauism went no furth-
er than regard FIR his cwn interests, and
that he Was prepared to enter into any pol
iticai combination that would help him in
his Intrigue for the Senatorship, but it was
thought that common sense at least would
have caused him to keep secret his treach-
erous and selfish intentions uotl he had
formed some alliance capable of rendering
him independent
He has lett the party now, but he has
failed to connect with any other living or
ganization. As the primaries on Saturday
showed, the influence of the billing clique
amounts to nothing. Its following has
been dwin ling during the past three years,
and it is doubtful whether it can to-day
muster three hundred votes in tie city
1t matters very little whether Booth thinks
the circumstances justify the movement,
for 1t is clear as day the panty does not
share in the opinion. The Democrats re-
pndiate the advances and coquetrles of the
Booth faction, and decline altogether to be
cajoed into an alliance The masses of
the Republican party are justly indignant
at tho mingled shamelessness and perfdy
exhibited by Booth in his elaring breach
Of faith to the people, and 10 his hardy
recklessness of public opinion. In leaving
the organization to which he owes every
thing, and which he has repaid only by de-
ceit and ingratiiude, he rids the party of a
source OF humiliation, and definitely seals
his own political fate -Sacramento Re ord