Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-08-28
A SHORT REVIEW.

The political contest now being
waged In California presents to a DID,
interested spectator some very remark
able views. The whole contest Is mar
rowed down to a choice Of members Of
the Legislature, which Is to meet next
Winter, and whose first duty 1t will
be to elect q successor to Hon. Eugene
Casserly In the United States Senate.
Last year we had a campaign In Ne
yada which was nearly as personal a.
the one now progressing in California,
but with this difference, that the con-
test was made strictly within party
lines, no candidate rating his strength
sufficient to go outside thereof. The
same system Of partisan dictation was
pursued which Is now being attempted
in our neighboring State, the same
classes Of men and means employed
which are now charged against the
regular Republican organization in
San Francisco ard Sacramento. The
same appeals to partisan loyalty, and
the same denunclations Of wavering
allegiance or tendency to independ-
ence were made and Illuminated, aud
the whlppins-in process was never
more completely .%vindicated as the sur
est means of success than In the re-
suit. Money aud promises were freely
made, and the terrors Of excommunt-
cation portrayed in vigorous language
by certain partisan journals. The re-
suit was success.
In California there are now five
prominent candidates for n seat In the
United States Senate. On the Demo-
cratic side Eugene Casserly, tpresent
incumbent) and Judge Wallace. On
the Republican side, John b. FELTON,
and Geo. e. Gorham. Outside Of both
these regular organizations the pres
ent Governor Of the State has taken
his stand and will endeavor to get
himself elected. We say outside both
these parties. This is not strictly true.
In Sacramento It is true ; In Nevada
county 1t Is not. In the former the
Republican nominees are said to be
unfriendly to the Governors aspira-
lions. Therefore q bolt was organ
lied which Is formidable and promises
the defeat Of the Republican nominees.
In the latter the Republican nominees
are favorable to the election OF Dir.
Booth. The convention was controlled
by his friends. There Is, therefore,
no need OF n bolt in Nevada county.
and none will occur. The contest
there will DO strictly partisan. In
San Francisco the Republican Conven-
ton nominated men for the legislature
~nfriendly to Mr.. Booths desires, or
t least unpledged to vote In his favor.
His friends claim that these nominees
are controlled by the Central Pacific
Railroad, a corporation which Is said
to be u~nfriendly to the success Of Mr..
Booth, and upon this theory have
called another convention under the
title Of "Anti-M Monopoly" and noml-
mated legislative candidates pledged to
vote Mr.. Booth into the Senate. AL
over the State we fluid the came condi-
ton of affairs. Democrats go quietly
forward and make their nominations,
generally anti-railroad men, while the
Republican party Il agitated from
center to circumference by personal
strife and discussion. 1t
appears to us, who are not In the
heat Of the strife but In the character
OF audience, r calmly looking over
the whole field and weighing both the
character Of tho contest and the per-
sonnet Of the dlsputants, that undue
prominence Il given to the Senatorial
contest. If the Central Pacific Rail-
road, or any other corporation, 10
oppressive or extortionate In Its deal
iugs or charges, the legislature has the
power to correct the evils, and the
question whether the nominees are for
Booth, Gorham OF FELTON,, Is II OF
minor Importance. If the question Of
monopoly Is to be the great dividing
line between parties in the immediate
future. and as alleged by Gov. Booth
and his friends, California Republican
ism means to-day servility to the rail-
road interests, It would seem proper
that in Nevada county for instance the
Republican nominees should abrogate
a name which classes them with OPP
pressors Of tho people. Those parti-
sanS who still cling to the organization
and advocate Booths cause, are in a
most anomalous position. Their in
terests and those Of Republicans else
where las interpreted by Gov. Booth
and the Sacramento Unionh are antag-
onistic. The Republican party In
California tssy the independently Is
committed to the interests aud con-
trolled by the instruments Of mon
opoly. All Republicans who train
with the party are thus stigmatized In
Sacramento. Why should they not
be in Nevada county? The party IL
the same everywhere, and Its platform
In Nevada county Is Identical In spirit
with that In sacramento.
We have not time or space to follow
this contest farther, but arc constrained
to say that to us 1t looks more like per-
sonal strife than patriotic rebellion,
more like a weakness for loaves and
fishes than a bolt on questions Of prin-
ciple. Governor Booth was In this
State last Fall. He made several
speeches, in which allegiance to the
Republican party was strenuously
urged. But he had q friend who was
a prominent candidate ut the time, and
was making his fight strictly upon par