The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-01-18
FOUR NEW sKNAroRs.

FOUR NEW SENATOR'S.
The Republicans in Missouri, Penn
sylvania, New York and Illinois have
nominated their candidates for the
United States Senate, aud this secures
the election of the persons nominated.
MIR. Roscoe Conkling, New York; Mr..
Charles D. Drake, Missouri; Mr.. ST.
mon Cameron, of Pennsylvania, and
Mr.. Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois, are
the gentleman who have been nomina-
ted.
Mr.. Conkling resides in Utica. The
opposing candidates were the Hon. Ira
Harris, the incumbent, and Judge Noah
Davis Of Albion, Orleans County. Mr..
Conkling is a son of the Hon. Aurelean
Conkling, late U. s. District Judge, and
vas never, we believe, candidate for
any Office until 1858, when he was cho-
sen to represent the Oneida District in
Congress. He was reelected in 1850
but run out in 1852. Last Fall, he was
for the fifth time, candidate, and was
again, after a most spirited canvass
elected. He is growing man-there
is reason to hope that there is real
craftsmanship in the man.
Mr.. Charles D. Drake, whom the
Republicans of Missouri have nomina-
ted and will elect to the United States
Senate, was, before 1860 one Of the fore
most lawyers of the State, and the au-
thor of an excellent treatise on the
'Law of Practice" He was Douglas
democrat; but in 1851 he became the
leader of the Unionists of Missouri.
Mr.. Drake is ready debater, thoro-
ughly acquainted with parliamentary
rules; and we do not doubt that we will
take high and prominent place in the
Sentate. M
Simon Cameron is the choice Of the
Pennsylvania Legislature. He was born
in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and
lefte an orphan when only nine years of
age. He educated himself while pur-
suing the employment of printer, and
at the age of twenty-five edited and
published a Democratic journal in
Washington, D. C. In 1882 he estab-
lished the MiddletowD Bank of Penn
sylvsnia, and, giving much attention to
railroad and mining interests, became
very wealthy. He has held no import
ant public Office save that of U. S. Sen
atof, whichihe has already filled twice,
being elected in ls45 and serving until
1s49, and again in 1857, serving until
1851, when he resigned his place in the
Senate te become Secretary Of War iu
Mr. Lincoln's cabinet He was spoken
of for the Presidency in 1860, and re-
ceived the vote of PENNSYLVANIA on the
first ballot of the Chicago Republican
Convention of that year. While in the
Cabinet he was an early and outspoken
advocate of the policy of arming the
slaves. He was not, however, psrticu-
larly successful in his administration of
the War Department, and, after less
than years service, resigned, accept
ing the mission to Russia.
OLIVER P. MORTON, War Governor of
Indiana from 1860 to 1866, honors its
State by becoming its Senator. He
has never been in Congress, and first
became prominent by the remarkable
energy and ability which he displayed
by his canvass of Indiana in 1860, when
Republican candidate for Lieutenant
Governor. Indiana has since been Sc
curley Republican. Governor Morton
administered the affairs of the State,
dnring the war, with great frmness,
vigor and ability. lie was reelected
in 1854.
Hon. Lyman Trumbull, present Sen
ator from Illinois, is one of the foremost
Statesmen of the country, and his re-
election will be national benefit He
was re-nominated in the Republican
caucus last Monday by acclamation.