The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-04-16
~ Reading Matter on all Four Pages.
The Republican Candidate for Governor.

The Republican Candidate for Governor
d Who shall be the next Governor of Maine,
is a question which is beginning to be dis
cussed by the people and the pre- in the diff
ferent sections of the State; and we are hap
py to observe that the general drift of opinion
indicates that the nominee of the Union par
" will be citizen of Portland, admirably
qualified for the position, and who enjoys in
an eminent degree the confidence and respect
of our people.
since the election, in 1854, of Hon. Anson
T. Morrill,, the executive chair has been filed
either by gentlemen residing in the valley of
the Kennebec or in the eastern part of the
State, and it is now very properly conceded,
we believe on all hands, that its next incum-
bent should be resident of the west. If we
do not greatly err, this understanding obtains
the more cordially from the fact that it is now
almost universally believed that this section
will present to the convention as its candidate
a gentleman so capable and deserving as the
Hon. SAMUEL E. SPRING.
! Several of the leading Republican papers in
the eastern part of the State have declared
for MI. Spring very emphatically, and, we
think, upon solid grounds; and, unless our
information Is at fault, he will receive nearly
the entire support of that section. In this
part of the State, where he is better known
by the people, he will be sustained with at
least equal unanimity. l- Ha.uo Hl
This opinion is strengthened by the fact
that several gentlemen in this portion Of the
State, towards whom as candidates of con-
spicuous and undoubted merit, the public at
tention has been directed (among whom may
be mentioned the Hon, Nathan Dane, of Al
fredl, are understood to be firm supporters Of
the nomination of Mr.. Spring. aH q
To those who have had opportunity to know
Mr.. Spring, as we have, in the private walks
citizen, his frank and unassuming manners,
his enterprise and public spirit, his lively in
terest in the welfare of his native State, and
| his earnest support of all measures tending to
| develope the resources, increase the wealth
and promote the prosperity of her people of
| all sections, his generous and nevcr-ceasing
gifts in aid of charitable and philanthropic OBJ
jects, and his unstinted contributions from an
ever-open purse in support of the war, and es-
pecially for the comfort and relief of our
soldiers, whether in the field, in the hospitals
or at their homes, will address arguments
more forcible and eloquent than any we can
| offer in behalf of his nomination and election.
But Mr.. Spring is not unknown to the people
| of this State of other sections. His honora-
BILE and useful service as Representative and
Senator in the Legislature, his constant ad-
herence and devoted fidelity to the principles
| of Republcanism, and his earnest and un-
finching support of the true men who have
stood in defence of those principles; his words
| Of cheer and confidence and courage, in the
darkest hours of the war, when such words
were SO necessary to the maintenance of the
GOOD CAUSE land which was the half battle
that true men fought against disloyal men at
home, while our brave soldiers were fighting
| whole ones against rebels in the feld,-have
endeared him to the loyal and patriotic people
Of the east and of the west, and viii account
for the unanimity and zeal with which they
| appear disposed to rally around him as their
standard-bearer in THE CAMPAIGN OF 1865.