Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1875-05-22
ruR INDEPENDENT LuMINARY.

the INDEPENDENr LUMINARY.
Senator Booth came over to Califor-
mia from the East q few days since and
took up quarters in San Francisco. He
did not sven stop . noticeable time in
Sacramento. We read Of no vast crowds
assembled 10 welcome homo the cham
pion Of Dolly vSrdsnism from his arss
service In tho United States Senate.
A few personal friends, q ssrensds, the
usual crowd in the streets on such CO
casions, . spssch-of which more bore
sfter-and the welcome" terminated.
The idol Of the California Independents;
the man whom many good Republicans
set up two years ago set up in their &C.
TEEN and honored a. far better than the
party which had honored him. comes
back 10 the presence Of his constituents.
Well. what record has no thus far
nader II 10 not lengthy n resplsnd-
emit. He voted in the interest Of San
Fnncisco and Sacramento sugar reiners
against the reciprocity treaty with the
Sandwich Islands. and he voted with
another Independent, Andrew johnson.
against the Louisiana resolutions. Only
this and nothing more. We believe he
made q speech In the Senate. Yet 1t has
not thus far electrified tho Nation.
Governor Booth comes back hare. IL
Ii said. TO assums the leadership and d.
rect the movements Of the Independent
faction Of California electors. He does
this regardless that the Independent
movement Of two years since, was-h No
except tho single fact that no was elected
to the Senate-s conspicuous failure.
On second thought wo mako no ezeep-
ticns to our statement. It accomplished
nothing which II promised. and REFORM
ed the civil service Of tho State by
raising taIos and placing thieves In Of
acc 10 collect them.
But, o. va remarked. Mr.. Booth made
Q speech on the night Of his arrival in
San Francisco. We have read that e.
fort carefully. Al reported in the San
Francisco journals. II Ia . weak ell
fort; IL Is d~smagogio; ii is absurdly ego
t~istical, and vain and silly in Its con
illusions. Il asserts in one breath that
national questions arc involved in the
next campaign. and again that such
questions have nothing to do with the
contest. II says that tho railroad runs
the State and the banks control the city
government; therefore, vote the Dolly
Warden ticket. whyi Havo tho Dollies In
California proven themselves moro holy
than other orsanizationsl Have
they accomplished a single N
Of tho reforms they promisedl Have
they not rather been proved incompetent,
untrustworthy and powerloss' The
campaign two years ago WA almost
wholly personal. II had for its objec-
tive points: First-the election Of Booth
70 the United States Senate. Second
the "cinching " Of tho Central Pacific
Railroad Company. In the FIRST. IL sue
eesdsd. In the second. Il failed. Had
the case been reversed, both might have
been benefits 10 the public. A IL Is,
ita success waa its greatest failure.
Those are our sentiments, and NO do
not mince language in expressing them.
Senator Booth comes over TO Cali.
fornia with tho avowed purpose OF con-
spring and aiding TO defeat the
Republican party in that State. That
party placed him on the road to tho eI-
Allied Office he now holds. II took him
from his grocery and made him Governor
Of. great State. He betrayed the party
and impeaehed his character for verac-
ity by his own public acts and utter
anecs. Ho now m back nom
Washington. . member Of no national
party, 70 defeat the n which dragged
him from obsourity. Assuming in one
breath that the election in California
this Fall will have no national import
ancs. no in the next declares IL full Of
import to our national destiny. There