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Show NEWTON BOOTH. Numerous Eastern papers come to us laden with editorial items on the lately elected Senator for the long term from California . And evidently those papers speak of the man from his reputation. We never met Xew-ton Xew-ton Bootn but once, and then the impression im-pression made was extremely favorable, favor-able, as it was when we met Lelaud Stanford. But in a recent trip to San Francisco we learned Eomething about Booth from one of his political poli-tical opponents which will bear repeating. re-peating. Over twenty years ago Sacramento Sac-ramento was a small town. It then had for citizens a number of men whose names are since widely known. Several of them were close student, but nil, except one, used to spend their evenings in the manner that characterized most young men in that loose time. The single excep. tion was Newton Booth. Said our friend :l "You could find Booth at night, when hia day comrades were at cards, or worse employed, poring over somo classic work, thinking, reading, studying ; and now see him!" This conversation occurred throe days before his election as Senator. Sen-ator. The gentleman, who uttered the information, went to Sacramento to defeat his election as U. S. Senator, being a political opponent; yet, there is strong reason to believe, he would rejoice at Booth's elevation to the highest office in the nation; which he if never likely to fill. |
