The Portland daily press., 1866-04-25
Who shall be Governor ?
ANOTHER CANDIDATE FOR THE REPUBLICAN
f NOMINATION..

ANOTHER CANDIDATE FOR THE REPUBLICAN
mi4 NOMINATION.
To the Editor Of the Press
Among the names frequently mentioned in
connection with the Governor question, is
that of Hon. JOHN ]. PERRY, Of Oxford. At
the Republican State Convention held In PORT
land in 1862, with but small comparative effort
on the part of his friends, Gen. Perry receiv-
cd nearly two hundred votes, largely leading
all other candidates except Gov Coburn, who
was nominated by only one majority. The
next year, to bring in the Jameson Demo-
Gratis, Douglas Democrat, in the person of
Hon. Samuel Cony, was nominated, and has
Now, in all fairness the nominee should come
from Western Maine and be taken from the
"Old Guard" ii.f'
The same reasons that favored the nomina-
tion of Gen. Perry, in 1852, with additional
ones, now exist. A man of large experience
in pubhclanairs is almost indispensable to the
welfare Of the State. Gen. Perry is just the
man. He has been three times elected to the
House, two years member of the Senate
one year Clerk of the House, four years
member Of Congress, and two years member
of the Executive Council.
In all these responsible positions he has
"served his country to the entire satisfaction
of his constituents. When in Congress his
published speeches were text books of the
geat Union party all over the country in the
great Presidential campaigns of 1856 and
1860; and SO well satisfied were the people
been reelected at the end of each of his terms
had he not positively declined. During the two
years he served in the Executive Council lin
1868 and 1s64) he was chairman of the COM
mittee on military affairs and audited the
large files of military accounts presented
against the State, and by applying to them his
well known habits Of rigid economy, saved to
the State thousands of dollars.
We want man for Governor who is prac-
teal economist, and who has the honesty and
courage to carry his ideas into effect. The
question of finance will be for years to come
the great question in the administration of
our State Government. Gen. Perry's faithful
and efficient services in the past, are the best
guarantees of what he would do were he plac-
ed in the Executive chair. It..t
In 1852, Oxford county, with the exception
of two or three votes. gave him, in the State
convention, a unanimous vote, backed up by
large majority of the delegates from Cumber-
land and Andreseoggin; and should he allow
his name to go into the next State conven-
tion, 1 believe he would receive generous
support from these localities, and also from
other parts of the State. t
Gen. Perry is gentleman of conceded abil-
ity, frank, generous, and true as steel to his
friends. Left entirely upon bis own resources
in early life. he toiled and labored with his
own hands for an education, and by his indus
try, economy and perseverance has acquired
competence. His sympathies have always
been with the people, and they in turn have
expressed their confidence in him by giving
him large majorities whenever he has been a
candidate for their suffrages. He was one of
the first in Maine to break away from the dis
honesty and proslaveryism of the Democratic
party in 1925, and while thousands who
have since come into our ranks had not then
the moral courage to do it, he boldly led off in
the great political revolution which resulted in
the organization of the Republican party of
Name. Ever since, with an unfaltering step
IN sunshine and in storm, he has been true to
the great principles of freedom and loyal to
MS government and country.
+ Yours truly, Vox PoPULI.
Androscoggin, April IA, 1866.