Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1866-02-21
The Gubcrnatorial Question at Home
and Abroad.

The GubernatoriaI Question at Home
and Abroad.
While the loyal men Of P~ennsylvani;
are looking among the prominent gentle
men III their own ranks for a candidate
for Governor, i. must not be forgotten
that our friends in other States have either
selected candidates for Governor, or, like
ourselves, says the Telegraph, are actively
preparing to do SO. In Connecticut. a
convention Of loyal men made a nomina-
ton for Governor on the first ballot, the
candidate selected having been a soldier
from civil life during the rebellion. Maj.
Gen. Hawley is now the standard bearer
of the Union men of Connecticut, and
will, without a doubt, be elected Governor
of that State. In Rhode Island, a very
active canvass is being made for the Cub
ernatorial nomination. The friends Of
Maj. Gen. Burnside are sansuine Of his
nomination, and well they may be, a:
while that distinguished soldier is now en-.
gagged in Pennsylvania constructing a rail.
road in the oil regions, his friends, the
people of his native State, Rhode Island
are preparing to elect him Governor there
Of. In other States, where State0fiCers
are to be canvasSed for, We notice that the
general voice of the loyal press unmis
takably indicates the nomination of sol.
diers. 1t is no: strange, therefore, in the
midst Of such an influence and occupying
4 most prominent position among all ihe
great States of the Union, that the loyal
people Of Pennsylvania should also yield
to the same Just purpose of nominating a
soldier as a candidate for Governor. AL
ready, in Pennsylvania, the instruction CT
delegates indicates the nomination, by the
Union men, Of a soldier for Governor
Lancaster, Chester, Cumberland, Perry,
and a large number of other counties, have
instructed in favor of General
it being safe to assert that for the
ballot, General Geary has delegates
enough secured to make his nomination
in the forthcoming Union State Conven-
ton. These facts make the nomination
Of Maj. Gen. John W. Geary, as the
Union candidate for Governor of Penn
sylvania, beyond the peradventure of a
doubt. Indeed, his most sanguine friends
insist that the spirit of harmony which
now prevades the Union organization, will
induce the withdrawal of all the other
candidates, in acknowledgment OF Geary's
superior strength, and that his unanimous
nomination will be effected on the first
ballot. II this be true, the motives which
promp. it are worthy Of the men aud the
of our glorious Organization.
These simultaneous movements of the
men in the different States, for the
recognition of their claims by the nomi-
nation Of soldiers for responsible offices,
speak well for the national organization in
the future. By thus bestowiag high hon
o-s on the defenders of the Union, the
neorlp inAiro.p the intpnso fnnlinu of do
votion with which they cling to the fed
eral compact. 1t is the the Illustration
Of the old Jacksonian sentiment that the
Union must and shall be preserved-the
fuifllment Of Republican pledges that
those who perillcd their lives to defend
the life of the Government, should, if
surviving the fearful conflict, be invested
with its authority and crowned with its
honors.