The Portland daily press., 1869-07-19

POLITICAL matters in the Bay State are
summed up by q correspondent Of the Hart
ford Post in this way: .t sft w
/ There are six men who are talked of in
connection with the Republican nomination
for Governor, and they are as follows: Gov
ernor Cladin, Congressman Henry l.. Dawes
OF Pittsfeld, Speaker Harvey Jewell of Bos-
ton, ex- Congressman Alexander 81. Rice of
Boston, DIR. George B. Loring of Salem, and
Judge Robert G. Pitman of New Bedford. If
Governor Claflin decides that he would pre-
fer the governorship to taking Mr.. Boutwelps
place in Congress, neither Dawes, Jewell or
Rice viii be pushed against him in the con-
vention. And unless the next two months
develops very strong feeling of dissatisfac-
tion with Governor Claims administration,
/ think he will be elected to take the COVER
norship, and that the question will be settled
in that way. II he is not candidate, then
the contest for the nomination will be
warm one, and it is impossible to predict
how 1t will be settled. Either Dawes, Jewell
or Rice would be very acceptable to the party
in the State, and the public reputation
and standing of each of them is so good
that it would be hard for delegates to
vote against either one of them.-
Judge Pitman viii be urged by the ultra pro-
hibitionists, the men who run the State alli-
snee, and who devoutly believe that the only
true way of managing the temperance ques-
tion is by prohibition. But the Republican
part will not nominate him, for the RepubIi-
cans, as body, viii not indorse any candidate
on that platform. DR.. Loring has been work
ing for the nomination ever since he left the
Democratic party on the eve of the Presiden-
tial election in 1854, and he has about him
many elements of strength. He Is popular
with the agriculturalists, for he is fancy
farmer on large scale and is closely identified
with the agricultural interests OF the state by
his position in the New England Agricultural
Socieay, and by his frequent addresses at cat
lie shows and State and county fairs. There
is scarcely town in the State where he has
not stood upon a platform, discussing upon
politics, agriculture or patriotism. he Is per-
fectly at home at flag raisings, fairs, teachers
institutes and school exhibitions and soldiers
monument dedieations, and probably no other
public man in the State Is known by so many
as he. He tried hard for the nomination for
governor last year, and when he couldn't get
| II, wanted the lieutenant-gogernorship. Fail
ing to get either, he went home tand worked
hard for Butler, and laid his plans for the
years campaign. DR.: Loring would make a
GOOD governor, but he has sought the Office so
| long, so earnestly and sc unblushingly that a
good many think he ought net to have it at
all. To make Loring governor and Ben But
Ter Henry Wilson's successor in the United
States Senate is plan which is very quietly
and vigorously pushed in different parts Of
the State, and If that programme can be car
ried out they will both feel that it was protia-
| BILE to come out from the Democratic minority
| in Massachusetts,. The doctor and the gener-
| al are good managers and organizers, for tney
| learned their trade in the Democratic party,
but think that they will find that they have
undertaken a trife too much for TINS year.