Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-11-06

Mr.. NEWTON BOOTH having seen
fit to set himself up for critic and
a very unsparing and merciless one,
a. that and having been Wanted by
the Sacramento Union as a very mar.
vellous person in the light of attain
ments and weightiness of brain, it is
to be expected that his opponents
will not hesitate to be severe in any
analysis they may choose to make OF
him and his qualifications and so it
comes, not alone in partlzan sense,
but q social and critical one, quite
as a matter of course, that the San
Francisco Examiner and other jour
nails who would prefer some one else
to Mr.. Booth as their representative
in the Senate, comment upon him in
such fashion as follows. We quote
from the Examiner of the Sd inst:
1t is surprising that since Governor
Booth is credited by his organ with
knowing more law than the majority of
LAWYERS he never cut any figure while ct
the bar: but, on the contrary, was dis
NAL failure. Mr.. Booth, as we under
stand, began his life i'll California as
LAWYER. and, finding he could not earn
his salt in that profession, abandoned II
for merchandise: but, even here, as we
are Informed, he was not personally
success. So true is this, that he gave
over merchandising in Sacramento and
returned to the backwoods, whence he
came. in Indiana, and made another eff
fort TO follow the law. But after two
wears he found he did not know enough
law even for Terre Haute. and then he
returned to Sacramento and resumedthe
business of a grocery, provision and
" Risky dea,er-a very honorable calling,
no doubt, but not one in which a nan
OF such rare and pre-eminent intellectual
gifts would engage, if he could find his
profit in such congenial occupation as
the law. Mr. Booth may know more
law than the majority of lawyers. but
he seems to have put his knowledge to
small account. not placed it where It
would do the most good to himself or
to the State, or 70 any one else. Al
though it is legal maxim that Ignorance
of the law excuses no one in It's viola
ton, vet there is usually no moral blame
attached to those who innocentlv infringe
its provisions; but Governor Booth as
sumes to be more profoundly versed in
law than most men. and he cannot ask
the indulgence Of the public for having
an unconstitutional act increasing his
paw. and afterwards accepted this illegal
increase. His act in that case is totally
on any legal or moral
ground. and be is liable to the State of
California for every dollar he extracted
from the State treasury, under color OF
the statute 10 which We have referred.
This is the cold law, as well as the strict
OF that question. The Gov
ernor is in a corner in this matter, from
which We can see no possible retreat for
him with dignity or credit.
As lawyer Governor Booth. Iotwith-
standing the eztravagant claims Of his
champion. has proved Il most complete
failure. He did not succeed even as
lawyer. But IN another field,
wherein higher pretensions Were put
forth for him, he is proved to be 4 super
fetal imitator. His Grafton before the
State Grange at San Jose was shown by
a correspondent OF this paper to be a
from Ijt0odhN d CiGIiR'
Weekly, a noxious sheet that we hardly
suspected the Governor would touch
with toncs; but We are compelled to be-
!ieye that many of his ideas, social,
economical, and political, are either
taken from or find expression in that
vehicle of destructive and demoralizing
sentiments. But apart from this sin OF
pla sarism. so clearly proven, the Gov
arnor does not possess the ability to
wrestle in debate with the able statesmen
IN the Federal Senate. He may be a
ornate, effective declaImer; one
who repeats by rote a carefully prepared
speech. the result of months of laborious
reading and judicious selection from va
rious sources, gems culled from Spencer,
Swedenborg, Stephen Pearl Andrews,
Andrew Jackson Davis, and Woodruff |
md Clatiin. but what would he do on !
he floor OF the Senate in the midst of |
exciting discussions on novel questions |
# State? He made no mark whatever
IL the California State Senate. and |
would not be remembered except for his
7otes in favor of Subsidy. He was a
nature man then. who nigh. have given
roof of that marvellous ability and
now claimed for him; but he
hone there with very feeble light.
And now, in pursuance of this
-ein of criticism We feel assured, by
bo tona of the foraooinr in repeat-