Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1878-06-06
THE NOMINEE.
Andrew II. Dill, of Union, the
Candidate for Governor.

Andrew II. Dill, the Democratic
candidate for Governor, is A. years
old, and resides at Lewisburg, Un-
ion county. He is n Marylander,
and the son Of a Methodist preacher,
Rev. Henry q. Dill, who sent the
boy to the Methodist schools ut Car
Isle. Young Dill entered the Dick
inSon Seminary in lS49,, graduated
i'll 1852, and then went into the jun
Tor class of the college, whence he
grad uated with honorS in 1850. He
taught school light after leaving
college, being located in Frederick
county, Maryland, and reading law
in the Office of James Lynch, Fred.
erick city. He was admitted to the
Frederick bar in 1853, but became
practitioner in Columbia county,
this state. An office was opened in
Gettysburg, but the young lawyer
Vas disposed to do as bis father had
done before him, wander about. So
after a six months stay he joined
his uncle, Isiah Dill. at Huntsville,
Alabama. In April, 1860, he came
back 20 Pennsylvania, and settled ip
Lew;Sourg, Union county, there
practicing law. During the emer-
gency of 1862 and 1863 he served as
First Lieutenant of Company f,
Twenty-eighth Regiment, PennSyl
Yania Militia. After the war in
1865, he became i member of the
firm OF Billmyer, Dill Il Co., boat
buiflers, at Lewisburg. In 1869 he
was nominated by the Democrats
for the House Of Representatives for
the counties Of Lycoming, Union
and Snyder, composing the Seven
teenth, a Republican district. He
was elected and took his seat Janua-
~ /, 1870. In the fall OF 1870 he was
elected 10 the Senate from the same
district for three years, and has since
remained in that body.
Senator Dill was opposed by a
very strong man upon his entry into
the political field. In the Senatorial
contest of 1870 ex-senator Johnson,
OF Lycoming, ran against hilG, but
he not only Oyercame the RepuOli-
can majority, but was elected by
nearly l 200. At the expiration OF
his term, in 1878, he was again unan-
iIno usly nominated i'll the new dis
trict composed OF Union, Snyder,
Perry and Northumberland, and DR..
WagOnseller, Of Snyder, was nomin-
ated by the Republicans, NOtwith-
st anding the popularity of Wagon
Sesler in his own county-that gave
him nearly / 100 majo!lty-Dill was
reelected by some thirty votes. in
the Senate he ranked second only to
Wallace as parliamentary leader,
and, without ever assuming the lead
ership, he gravitated TO the front
rank of his party in the Legislature,
just as water finds its level. At the
close of his second term, in 1876, he
wished to retire, but was compelled
to accept third nomination. The
district had been changed by taking
Perry from it, thus increasing the
Republican majority over 100. and
the sharp party lines of a Presiden-
tIal contest made the battle appar-
emily more than doubtful. He ac-
tepted the nomination, however, and
and DR.. Wagonseller, his old COM
pet itor, was again nominated but
II the face of the intensified nation
al conflict, he was again elected by
over 200 majority, and has two years
set TO serve in the Senate. Able in
debate, sagacious in council, unob-
truslve to fault and blameless in
repute, the nomination of his party
Tor the Office OF United States Sena-
tor, last March, was but just tri-
butte to one of the most respected
and meritorious representatives of
liberal and progressive Democracy.
But at the election in the two houses
March q, 1877, Don Cameron re-
ceived 146 votes and Senator Dill 93,
Messrs. Hester Clymer, a. G.
Curtin and John Jackson receiving
one Democratic vote each. During
the present session Of the Legisla-
t1re Dill has been the recognized
leader Of the Democratic side in the
Senate.