, 1874-01-23
The Sole Anti-11onopoly Senator'S
How lie Fought Ills
Eight.
The Quarrel with Stanford-.-
Making a New Ju-
dietary.
Reformation Now, or Revolution
Hereafter"


From Cur 0scn Correspondent.
WAsHtsoros, Jan, Is, 1874.
No man in the country at present is regarded
with more curiosity and expectancy than Gov
Newton Booth, OF California, the only Senator
perfectly independent Of party in the Union, and
tL.t TOO. at d time when two-thirds Of the rot.
ing people have abandoned both parties, and
wait for something formative which shall meet
the issues Of today. / have been collecting
come facts about him from persons interiorl5
acquainted with the man and his objects.
THE MAN 70 LooK At.
Booth is man Of Ight-brown hair, and goatee
Of similar color, with very sincere speech, q
countenance with moral force, but no blandncss,
and a mixed mercantile and literary disposition,
His literary qualities and style are illustrated in
the leading article in the Overland Monthly for
May, 1870, entitled IS Rufus A. Lockwood" It
appears to b7 biographical paper, and it shows
masculine power to measure men, and to tell a
real story with the grace End interest Of a psy-
Geological ske1ch-
As Booth vert frnn Indiana to California to
practice Law, the sketch Of Lockwood also ap-
pe.rs to be an Indiana-Ca1ifornia sketch. Lock-
wood seems to laTs been man OF mental
int1epidity and good lawyer, with passion for
gambling; and Booth makes of him lis interest
ing figure rs any Of Bret Harte's more tinted
froatiersmen Of pigment.
The mercantile ho1Ee to which Dir. Booth be-
came attachea by the decease Of s relative is
eituated IN Sacramento, with. branch in San
Francisco aud the Governor, vino is i bachelor,
has grown up side By side with Stanford, Hunt
iuston, hopkins, and the Crockers, with the
Mills Brothers. =nd other miliio:aires who cen
troll the Pacific Coast.
HIS ISclTEAESr.
Satisfied with his competence which il smple,
Booth has the power. unknown on the Pacific
side, Of Wishing no more, except to be employed
His toSns1nen whom hayo named are among
the wealth1est men in the world Five or six Of
them conceived the scheme of tho Central Pa
cidc Railroad, and grew inordinately rich out Of
tho Government bounty awarded to it; while the
Mills Brothers. whom he has seen very poor.
hare been powerful enough to organize all the
forces Of society against the patioaal currency,
and successfully fight it oil the coast.
i State which received in the beginning so
many fine business iutellects, and had such re-
sources, WIS bound, in the unequal line Of devel-
opment, to illustrate the extremist contrasts OF
personal SUCCESS. Without any criminal Intentions
upon their fellow~citizens, few-score persons
ka7e puEhed so far ahead that they control
every product and every form OF exchange in
California THE railroad line, which was ex-
pectel, as Government contribution, to be Tor
the benefit to all, has not only failed to give the
public relief from former expressions. but has
bccoms the most consolidated monopoly OF all,
and. like tho venous and arterial system in msn,
the supply Of blood itself has been
,coerrad mt nv half = do7eo pnrr1o
go that California must pay ta1 on
every pulsation. the powerful phyeica
creatures who handle all this transportation, e1-
p-ess. exchange. cereals, metals. wool. hides;
Oh the Coest, and who have sort of common
irterdepeudence and league against outsiders,
Eaye never known how to understand Newton
Ecoth.
H1s cCssEDSEss.
He was never seeking to be let into their
poo!s. Ee did not show the careeriug na:li1e
hicil the ricl, on the Coast develops, work
ing up to high-pressure ali the while. He had
no love Of display, and was plain and cool:
and they you'd have desRi5sed :I}5 his liter
altogether Bohemian and feminine, but TINT he
was always practical, and Ind steadily-growing
in his circle, amongst his tuwnsmen,
in the Leg gi,llture, and dral}y throughout the
State.
These novel capacities for TINT Coast made
tins man Little Of study; but, Ike most of
tIle1n, he was Republican, IN good Standing,
a:,d AIE. Stanford aud the rest were TOO surewd
to quarrel With mans temperament.
In the most democratic eoclety, however, it,
ordinate wealth In inordinate use makes its cor
t, oller despotlc. Glutted with obeisance pride,
and the love Of imperial domination, there may
be little difference between the modem merchant
aCd the King. In such state OF society, the
jealous monopotist might see dawning Rienzi
ia his business-acqualntan 3: and, therefore, in
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