Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-09

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sassin Of one Of our country's purest and
greatest statesmen, but 20 the dastaxdly
party assassin. who is at present airing
his infamy and Haunting his mere,ricious
Accomplishments in the faces Of the peo-
pie of California. This creature Of cir
eumstance. this nondescript forced into
political obtrusiveness by the vet-nuIses
Of the late Sacramento ORION. is one Of
the most disgusting. ingrases and despic
able demscogues before the people.
With the humbleness of a Criah Heep.
combined with love of political gain
worthy Of . Boss Tweed. he imposed
himself upon the Republicans Of Cali
fornia four years ago. aud they made
him Governor. for q nomination then
WA the synonym for success After
providing places for his impecunious
hrnchmen on the ecore Of devotion to
party; after ousting Democratic notaries
and commissioners-the latter to give
reward to q few retsiners IN face If tie
fact that he Was pledged to abolish all
the useless commissioners created by his
predecessor; after starting out with the
demagogue's rhetorical hourishes about
reform and re:reuchmeut, and while his
words Of fealty to the party that elected
him were yet warm in Republican ears.
he was intriguing with treason-tsinted
politicians and psddling ont his wanton
Embellishments to tricksteTs who. I'M
fortunately. too often control caucusses
and send his class to the United States
Senate. True, he had solemnly pledged
himself to serve ont his Gnbernatorial
term and to not make his position a link
in the chain of Senatorial ambition.
Bnt what are promises to Newton Booth?
No more disgrsceful failure than
Booths has ev.r been known in the Z.
8. Senate. Without party. it vas
NO, to be expected that he would effect
much for his State. but his small circle
of ad,nirers-no such creature can have
hoped that he would cram for
one Set speech. but they were dissp-
pointed. They knew he had prepared
patchwork lecture or Sedenborg; that |
he had by . sort Of library absorption
fitted himself to deliver puerile society |
lec'nies to somnolent audiences. and |
they hoped for at least one literary
splurge from their bet. But he even
failed in that. No Sam Sesboush was
th-re to furnish the classical and ornnte
in tn. Grecian and Roman line. the Adj
iisnnian touches Of Albert Hart were
wanting; Greed Havmo nd was not pres
snt to supply the handmade Democratic
thunder; and the uuctious Tom Nozzler.
owing to circumstances beyond the Noz-
zler control. was not in re sadness to con-
trihnte to the wit department. Mr.
Booth, in brief. made q Senatorial
fzzle. A protested free trader, be IN
did the menials work by nd-
vocating tho protective interests of his
supporter Claud Spreckels and other
sugar monopolists. Senator Jones -onr
Jones-in an unanswerable speech
showed Up the trimmer in his saccharine
On the Louisiana reso-
lutinns this awkward dodser got both
sid-s of the political fence. suggesting
The Judge Baldwin joke in the Archy
case. which gave the Law to the North
and the niger to the South" +
Returning to q disappointed and dis
eusted constituency, this worker in
literary mosaics. this balcony ornament.
q short time since harangued a small
crowd in San Francisco, when, with the
peculiar to life Of political
harlotry. he endesvored to besmirch the l
party to which he is indebted for any
he has attained. His party.
of rejected camp followers and ,
of the two national
D rites, had no use for bridges-they
had no retreat to make. He, after the
Of his political congener. Andy
Johnson. was to be another Moses to
cad the people out o. the wilderness of
A splendid leader this ,
rxs for such straeglers as Deacon Fitch,
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