Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-09-18
h EVENING NEWS.
DorEN, i, Eal,.r and Proprietor.
THE NEW PARTY MOVEMENT IN
CALIFORNIA.

The proposition Of the Sacramento
Union that a State Central COMMITTEES
be formed by the opposition, does not
seem to meet with general favor
among those journals which have sup
ported Mr.. Booth, and several Of the
newly elected opposition Legislators
have expressed the opinion that a
movement In the direction indicated
by the UnfoA at the present time,
would not only jeopardize the chances
of Mr.. Booth In tho Senatorial contest.
but would result In q general failure.
1t Is claimed, aud with good reason,
that the formation Of = new party at
this juncture in California, separate
and distinct from the present State or
g~anizatlons. would compel those who
were elected on the anti-mouopoly
platform and who supported the bolt
ing nominees, simply for the tempora-
ry purpose Of beating the railroad
element and aiding Mr. Booth, to take
n positive and final stand outside Of
and In opposition to their former party
organizations, and that the result
would be that many would hesitate
and refuse to do 90, thereby weaken
ing the force Of the movement and i'm
perilling Its ultimate success. It Is
also suggested that should . new party
be formed with \ State Central Com
mittee and the other working machin.
cry Of a party organization, those
Republicans and Democrats elected as
such, both hold oser Senators and new
ly elected Assemblymen would be pre-
cluded by the Organization Of a new
party from supporting Mr.. Booth for
the S%enatorship, although favoring his
aspirations. This Is q very sensible
view of the case. Mr.. Booth still claims
to be a Republican. 1t Is alleged
by many Of his friends that the recent
bolt In California which he organized
and led to victory was simply a tenn
porary expedient, to curtnil the power
Of the railroad company and elect in-
dependent men to the State Legisla-
ture. That 1t was not the ultimate in
tent OF the new movement to finally
abandon existing party organizations,
and that the exigency once met and
success achieved, each elector should
consider himself free to return aud act
with the party to which he formerly
belonged, and which, In fact, he Lad
but temporarily and for a specific OBJ
ject abandoned. In this view Of the
ease It would be madness at the pres
ent time for the adherents Of Mr..
Booth to form a third party for per-
manent purposes. 1t would defeat
without doubt one OF the ultimate OBJ
jects of the moveinent-the election OF
Governor Booth to the United States
Senate ; and give his opponents u clear
field and good reasons for animadver-
sion. The Issues which have divided
the Republican and to some extent the
Democratic party In California, SAVIOR
too much Of a personal character-are
too largely local In their application
and hinge too greatly n n mans
success to become national, and the At.
tempt to form a national party FROM
the germ Of opposition to monopoly
rule, recently manifested In California,
will result like many other and sim.
liar efforts. in failure to accomplish
the object desired aud political ostra.
cism and loss OF influence to the lead.
ers of tho movement. The Republi-
can party is not dead In California.
1t was a revolt against Its organiza-
tion and not against its platform which
gave success to the opposition in the
late election. The duty Of Republican
reformers Is to change the former II
possible and thus give effect to the lat.
ter. Until this becomes impossible,
and the masses so believe, n new party
will have little hope OF success.