The Portland daily press., 1873-06-20
Our Next Governor.

Hor, Nelson Dingley Jr. of Lewiston, the
successful competitor for the nomination at
Bangor yesterday, is very well known to the
citizens of Maine. Although still young
man, he has been prominently before the pub
lie in various positions of honor and truss but
chiefly as the manager and editor of one OF
the leading journals Of the State
Mr.. Dingley was born in ID Irham in 1888,
entered college at Wa,erville in 1851 and re-
manned until the spring of 1853, when he en-
tered Dartmouth, graduating in 1850. he
studied law and was admitted to the bar IN
1885, In September of that year, he became
connected with the Lewiston journal as CO.
proprietor and editor and in 1851 as sole pro-
prietor, In the newspaper business, he has
made a success. A sagacious, clear headed
business m IN and careful and though full edi-
tor, avoiding violent extremes in opinion,
he has made his paper very powerful as well
profitable. He publishes an evening paper,
daily with moderate circulation and week
ly paper having the largest circulation of any
political weekly in the State.
Mr.. Dingley has been identified with every
reform and advance movement of the period
bat always in a conservative way. Among
other things he has been consistent and
constant temperance advocate and possesses
the full confidence of all temperance men in
the State. This fact has been the chief
cause of opposition to him in his candidacy
but thai opposition rises largely from mis-
apprehension as to his views, purposes and
habits of thought on this question. In point
of fact, Mr.. Dingley has never been radical
on this subject. A firm believer in the mer-
its of the prohibitory principle, he favors leg
islation such as public opinion will sustain
and would never approve nor encourage ex-
travagant laws which affront the popular sem
timent. He has for years been of the utmost
service both to the Republican party and to
the Temperance cause, by REFRESHING the va
carries of the extremists, which threatened to
seriously injure the party and to utterly de-
stroy the cause, by provoking such an upris-
bound, all temperance legislation from the
statute books. So much respect have these
radical persons had for his sincerity and wis
dom, that they have followed sensible advice
and suggestions from him which, from any
other source, they would have contemptu-
ously rejected.
Mr.. Dngley as Governor, may be relied up
on to discOuntenance all rash, ill-considered
and hasty attempts to force the legislative
stream above the popular fountain. His rec
concentrations will be made with care and
thought, rpened by his long and critical OBJ
servation of men and things from Journals
tic standpoint. He is firm enough to veto
any unwise and il[digested legislation and
may be relied upon as a check upon the pos
sible eccentricities of our oolons of the Senate
and House.
Above all he is an honest man and his face
will be firmly set against all frauds, corrup-
tions and malfeasances of high or low degree.
Mr.. Dingley was not our first choice. We
frankly and positively stated our preference
for that noble old Roman, Judge Kent. The
Convention has decided the matter adversely
TO our views and we acquiesce cheerfully in
the result. Our preference for Judge Kent
implied no hostility to Mr.. Dingley, to whom
we have always attempted to be just and for
whom we have had occasion, even in the
heat of the contest, to say many good words.
Finally, we may congratulate the people
that we are to have Governor so satisfac-
tory, on the whole and one at whose hands
the State will suffer no dctriment. He is dis
Greet, sensible, conservatively progressive,
honest and able. He will make safe and
good Governor