Litchfield enquirer., 1865-01-26
THE CONVENTIONS.

The call for the Union State Convention will be found above. We presume those for the Congressional, Senatorial, &c., for this dis. trict will soon follow. We regard it as fore gone conclusion that WILLIAM A. BUcKINe- HAM will be enthusiastically and unanimously nominated for Governor of the State, and as certainly elected. We are aware that his per sonal wishes lead him worry strongly to seek re- lief from the honorable but responsible and arduous duties of the Executive, but we do not believe he will feel at liberty to oppose them to the universal wish of the people flat he should continue in the office he 30 worthily fills until the war for tue Union is brought to de- cided and honorable close.
 It would be great misfortune to the State if it should be deprived at this time of the able and experienced officers who now hold the va rious important and responsible positions in the gift of the people and of the Executive.- In every department of our State Government there is system and order and usefulness that has been gained by our happy policy of retain ing the services of those who have served us and the State well during the period in which we have been engaged in ightiug the rebellion i; and it would be far from wise, now that We have reached, as we trust, the last year of the war, that we should lose the benefit we have desired. and shall desire more than ever the coming year, hy putting new mer in positions of trust aud usefulness now 30 well occupied This. we believe, is the almost universal senti- ment of thepeople of this County.
 This sentiment also extends, so far as we can learn, in very marked and hearty degree, with regard to the re nomination of our present member of Congress from this district Our Representative, Hon. JOHN H. HUBBARD. who completes his term of service on the 4th of March, has very ably and acceptaby filled the office to which the people so spontaneously called him two years ago. He has not been talkins member, but a scorking one, as is most characteristic of him. Diligent in his attend ance in the House, rarely or never absent from
 
 vote, and always voting right, his still greater worth to the district has been in the constant care, prompt attention and acts of sympathy and kindness he has bestowed upon our brave boys in the army, and particularly upon those who were sick aud wounded and dying in the hospitals around Washington, who most needed and appreciated his watchtu attention and un' stinted aid It is not as q mere matter of com. pliment then. that the people of this district desire Mir. Hubbards re nomination, but they desiss it as matter of appreciation aad ap. probation of his past services, and because shey feel that they cannot commit the interests of the district into purer, more devoted and more trustworthy hands. And we believe bis course will receive most fattering and triun,. plant endorsement by the people at the polls in April
 Perhaps it is as yet too early to speak of the Senatorial and Probate Conventions. In this distl jet, the 18th, the regular succession which has obtained for the past fifteen or stwenty years, with but one break brings the nomina- ton to the town of Torrington, but we under stand that the friends of Senator HcDGE are anxious to secure his services to the distric, for another term, and if he consents to run ss,gf such be the wish of the district. we shall be very glad ts support him. Ih the 10th dis trict Senator GIDpINes having ''gone up high sr'' among the mountains of Montana, the con- test for Senatorial honors is open to some en- terprising Union man who desires the honor oi beating the badly beaten A. s. Hill, and whom the district desires 10 represent them. We un. derstand that the town of Warren claims the privilege of naming the candidate this Spring, but we have not learned the candidates name. Ia the l7th district, the Union men are very desirous of presenting once more the name of AsAHzL A. HoreHKIss for the Senate, but it as very doubtful whether he can be prevailed upon to run again. If he does not, we predict lively times in the Senatorial Convention. for eand'datss are always as plenty in that district e hlackberries.
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 men will be put forward. and that the offices ;n sgiR of the people will be tenderea to ,hosa
 NAo,dsserps them, not those who seek them. EbssAak thsa shly vii, taspsesls sssify .as.s