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It VOL. NO. 40. NEW YORK, THURSPAY, OCTOBER 6, 1887. PRICE THREE CENTS.

Par Year, 81.00. THE BAY STATE PLEDGE. PLOTTERS AND BRIBERS, Republican Ringleaders and Rum selling Rascals Defeat Prohibition In Tennessee. jTOHN B. FINCH IS DEAD.

ieart Disease Carries Away the Great Leader pf the Prohibition Party and Good Templars. The doctors say I have difficulty of the heart, and occasionally I realize it; but I want to live until we get this rum devil wiped out of existence. We have 20 appointments now made for him to speak in our political campaign. Halls have been hired, and his name stands in huge letters upon hundreds of hills posted throughout the State. There is no man living that we know of who can fill his place.

If we are to have another Finch be must be raised up from the youuger generation. Sorrowfully, Fred F. Wheeler, Chairman State Prohibition Committee. voters were against it, and that the foreign-born vote was solidly against it. The liquor men are astonished at our strength.

They counted upou a much larger majority. There are counted for us twice as many votes as the liquor men estimated we would get two months ago. The indications are that the Prohibition vote is equal to a majority of the votes polled at former elections. I believe we have cast a majority of the legal votes. The liquor men regard the result With uneasiness, and the Prohibitionists are not discouraged.

Tbe Prohibitionists who were not sanguine before the election feci jubilant. The contest will be renewed for statutory Prohibition, either total or Local Option. The liquor men know that they have held the State only by the unstinted use of the thousands of money sent from the Northern States, and that they can hold it in future ouly by similar methods. was seen in his office in the Equitable building, by a Voice reporter, and said I am shocked at this news of Finchs sudden death. I knew him well, and regarded him as a very able man, although I differed absolutely from him in politics.

I had one long interview with him at my house in Cincinnati. We both worifed for one end, but he wanted a tied commonwealth, I a free one he proposed to work from above down, and I believed in stirring up from the bottom. He was very sanguine and ambitious, and beheved the Prohibition party would parallel the old Abolition party, rising on the ruins of the Republican party and assimilating the best elements of that party then ho expected to wield commanding influence in Prohibition councils, and eventually to become President of the United States. No, he never said that to me, but I believe it to be true. A thiug unlikely to be realised in the lifetime of a man of bis age! Oh, no, not very unlikely.

Although I differed with him politically, I believe that Finch, and men like him, are of great public service in clearing the political atmosphere. Finch I regard as having been a perfectly sincere man. As for changing political affiliations, a man is justilieu in doing that, when his views change. I should say nothing to impugn Finchs sincerity in that respect, for I myself am something of a political changeling. GEN.

FISKS TRIBUTE. Gen. Clinton B. Fisk said: I knew John B. Finch intimately.

He was a genuine, true man by far the strongest man on the political platform in any party in this country. He was a close student, a vigorous thinker, and an impressive, convincing speaker one of the fairest men in debate i ever saw. He was very careful of his statements, calm and considerate in his approaches to public utterance, but as resistless as a cyclone when aroused or challenged by his adversary. His debate with Dr. Dio Lewis on Prohibition, and his reply to D.

Bethune Duf-fleld in Detroit, are among the ablest of his addresses. I last saw him when in New York to attend the great Prohibition meeting in Cooper Institute in June lash They who heard him that evening in his argument unanswerable and logic irresistible will never forget the Cooper Union hour with John B. Finch. To tho Prohibition party the loss is measureless, as we view matters from our human point of view but Gods cause and Gods work goes oil, no matter how many workmen are buried. John B.

Finch in private life was genial, hearty and Christian-one of the purest-minded men I ever met The Good Templars will mourn his loss as almost irreparable. His PLACE CANNOT BE FILLED. Col. R. 8.

Cheves of Kentucky said This is a terrible blow to our cause. His place cannot be filled, for we have no man his equal as a speaker or organizer. The death of no man would send greater sorrow to the hearts of followers than this death of our leader and brother, John B. Finch. A PERJURED PARTY RENEWS ITS BROKEN PROMISE.

The Submission of a Constitutional Amendment Again Favored by the Republicans Unanimous Renomtnatlon of Ames and Brackett Moeting of the State Committee The Boston Ratification. Boston, (Jet. Special Correspondence .) The Republican State Convention met in Tremont Temple, Wednesday. Neither Dr. Burden, Chairman of the State Committee, nor Congressman Francis Rockwell, Permanent Chairman of the Convention, who made set speeches, had anything to say regarding Prohibition.

A letter was received from Henry T. Cheever, of Worcester, asking the Convention to take a positive stand in favor of Prohibition, but the Convention vas in no mood to trouble with the matter, and the letter wad referred to the Committee on Resolutions, which had adjourned several hours before. Gen. W. F.

Draper, of Hopedaie, reported the platform, which contained the following plank: Recognizing in intemperance the most fruitful source of pauperism, crime, corruption in politics and social degradation, we affirm our belief in the most thorough restriction of the liquor traffic and tho enforcement of law for its suppression. We approve the action of the last Legislature in enacting so many temperance statutes, and demand the continued enactment of progressive temper-ence measures as the policy of our party. We repeat the recommendation of last years Convention, as follows: Believing that this great public question now demands settlement, we favor tho submission to the people of an Amendment to our Constitution prohibiting the manufacture and sale ot alcoholic liquor to be used as a beverage. In order to have tins matter placed before the people, we call upon all those who are opposed to the political control of the grog-shops to unite with the Republican party in electing Senators and Representatives who will voto lor the submission of this Amendment. This seems like an almost flat-footed declaration.

Yet it is no stronger than the pledge of last year, which was trampled under foot by the Republican Governor ana Legislature. Rev. Dr. Miner has shown the falseness of the claim that the last Legislature passed so many temperance statutes. The truth is it did not pass one for which the liquor-dealers care a snap of the finger.

In the light of experience the Republican plank should read that the party will submit the Amendment and do other things if the into! saloon Republicans are not too numerous and aggressive for the Anti-Saloon Republicans. An effort was made to arouse some enthusiasm when this plank was read, but only a few of the delegates were disposed-to feel gratified. One delegate said: Thats a sound plank and another replied Thats just what it is all sound und nothing else. United States Senator Hoar moved the renomination of Governor Ames; and this faithless temperance mau was unanimously renominated. Then came the crowning evidence that the Republican party of Massachusetts, though it can mouth temperance promises, is not yet ready to perform practical deeds distasteful to the rumsellers.

Lieutenant-Governor J. Q. A. Brackett, against whom the temperance people have for years had grievances on account of his liquor record, was also unanimously renominated. And the significant thing was that ex-Scnator Haile of Springfield, who is counted by the Anti-Saloomsts as one of their men, made the nominating speech.

The other State officers were ail renominated with the exception of the Attorney-General. For that place Andrew J. Waterman of Pittsfield was choseu. The Prohibition State Committee had a meeting this afternoon. The sum of 81,000 was appropriated for the use of the Leoture Bureau, and $200 was donated to The Public Good, the Stat organ.

Much practical work for the campaign was outlined. Wm. H. Earle, candidate for Governor, will give his entire time to the work. Mrs.

E. Trask Hill has an appointment for nearly every night for this mouth. Organizer Geo. W. Penniman is to speak every night until tho close of the campaign.

Rev. F. B. Graves is at work in Worcester County, W. J.

Sliilli-day and Rev. A. W. Holt are in Suffolk County, and the Lecture Bureau is making dates for other speakers. The date of tho great ratification meeting in Music Hall, this city, is Oct.

17 not Oct. 16, as was erroneously stated in last weeks Voice. The New. Jersey Liquor Programme, The Liquor-Dealers Protective League of New Jersey, in its recent State Convention at Newark, defined its political purposes in the following words It Is the duty of every member of this League, likewise ol every man engaged in our business, to rally as one man and do everything in our power that is lawful to secure the nomination and election of only such persons to the State Legislature, ami to all other elective offioes, os are in sympathy with us our demands to secure Buch changes in the laws as will at least do justice to the saloonkeeper, even though he be a publican and sinner, ana that will not treat him os he is now treated, as an enemy of society, to be put on a par with the thief, the burglar, the brutal ravislieraud the Tils murderer. On tho other band, we declare it to the duty of thie League, and of all engaged in oui business to Btrike down with a heavy hand, in tin primary meeting, and at the polls, every candidate lor office, local, county, State and national, who is rot ready to pledge himself to aid us iu oui just demands.

The Sword and Shield New Editor Attacked. Jackson, Oct. 3. Special Dispatch .) i Lost Friday, John C. Carraway, City Marshal, who is a notorious saloon thug, attacked T.

D. Marshall, the new editor of The Sword and Shield, on account of an article which appeared in that paper the day before. Mr. Marshall is a small man, and his cowardly antagonist Is a powerful fellow. Marshall was severely wounded in the bead und face.

Strong suspicions have been entertained that Carraway assisted in the assassination of R. D. Gambrell. It is supposed that he used knuckles or some sharp weupon in his attack on Marshall, for such a wound as the one on Marshall's head oould not be made with the bare fist. The Bine and Gray.

H. T. Dunbab of Union, N. commanding the New York Corps of tho Prohibition Army of the Blue and the Gray, in Genera Order No. lust issued, announces that the subdivision of the State Into Divisions and Brigades wiil be accomplished as soon as practicable.

The commanders and members of the Headquarters Staff will be announced, in General Order No. 2, to be issued Oct, 10, Gen, Nsal Dow and the Grnnk Fin. The veteran at the groat Brooklyn Academy meeting, last week, wore the crquk pin CD the lapel of his coat. TWO SECRET LETTERS OF THE RE. PUBLICAN STATE CBAIR3IAK.

Instructions were Sent to the "True Be publicans of the State that They Must Defeat the Amendment in Order to Keep the Question in Polities and Divide the Demoeratio Party-Chairman Fussell Charges that Thousands of Fraudulent Totes were Cast by the Liquor-Dealers Fast Tennessee Gives about 10,000 Prohibition Majority Plans for the Future. McKenzie, Oct 1. Special Correspondence.) The official machinery of the Republican party of the State of Tennessee was used in Thursdays election to defeat the Prohibition Amendment The following letter, and the circular ac-companying it, prove this statement to be true Office Republican State Executive Com. John J. Littleton, Chairman.

Nashville, 188. Mr.J. W. Williams, J. P.

DearSib: I have been informed that you are a good Republican and a man of influence. I therefore send you some circular letters and I wish you would show them to our Republican friends and have them to all vote against the Amendment Be sure and not let any Democrat see them, and especially one that is an Anti. We must work for our party, and by defeating this Amendment we will defeat the Democratic party. By careful inquiry we find that three-fourths of the Democrats in the State are for the Amendment, and therefore it is necessary that we work hard to defeat them. Yours truly, John J.

Littleton, Chairman. This and tho circular letter alluded to was mailed to J. W. Williams, Gadsden, Tenn. J.

W. Smith, McKenzie, Tenn (A member of the National Committee Prohibition Party.) Enclosure. Office Republican State Executive Com. 1 John J. Littleton, Chairman.

Nashville, Sept. 20, 1887. TO THE REPUBLICANS. Fellow-Republicans and Friends: Now is our time to strike for supremacy of the State. On the 29th of this month every Republican will be called upon to vote for or against the Proposed Amendment to our Constitution.

Now it is the duty of every true Republican to look to the interest of his party and vote accordingly. The Democrats are divided on this question, and if we can defeat tho Amendment we can manage to keep the question in politics and thereby defeat the Democrats. If the Amendment should carry, the Democrats will again become a unit and our chances for electing a Governor next year are very poor. But if every true Republican will go to the polls and vote against it and keep it in politics, and split the Demoeratio party, in 1888 wo will be able to carry the Now, on the 29th, let every true Republican go to the polls and work against the Amendment. John J.

Littleton, Chairman. The above is a true copy. J. W. Smith, McKenzie, Tenn.

(A member of the National Committee Prohibition Pnrty.) Frauds Charged Chairman Fussell Claims a Majority of the Legal Votes Cast, Nashville, Oct 1. Special Dis. patch.) State Chairman J. H. Fussell expressed himself as follows to The Voice correspondent upon tho result of the Prohi.

bition election The majority against Prohibition on the face of the returns is apparently from 15,000 to 20,000. I smile at the question, Were there frauds The fraudulent votes cast, in my opinion, exceeded the Anti majority by at least one-half. TVe have no registration law, and repeating can be done with Impunity in favorable localities! Many citizens did not vote, yet this county gives an increased vote over that cost nt the last Gubernatorial election the most exciting ever held iu the State of 25 per cent. Shelby County (Memphis) increases its vote by 40 per and Rutherford County by 55 per cent. In these three countios tho liquor men made tremendous exertions, and the aggre- increase is 9, soo, fuirly representing at east 9,000 fraudulent votes.

This does not include any of the legal votes which were purchased. The same situation is shown by the returns from other strong liquor counties. We estimate that 75 per cent, of the American-born white voters were for the Amendment, that 80 per cent, of the colored i TERRIBLY 8 UDDEN END TO BIS BRILLIANT CAREER. (Coturning Monday Night After Speaking In Lynn, He Left the Train In the Poston Depot, Took a Few Steps, and Fell Dead The Remains Taken to Chicago Sorrowful Reception of the Dreadful Hews Feeling Expressions and Ten-rl der Reminiscences of His Co-Workers and Followers Memorial Services in New York, Brooklyn and Boston. Boston, Oct.

4. Special Dispatch.) John B. Finch, Chairman of the National Committee of the Prohibition party and head of the world-wide Order of Good Templars, fell dead last night a little after 11 oclock in the Eastern Depot of this city. He lectured at Lynn in the evening, but did not seem in his usual spirits. From Lynn he came direct to Boston.

Stepping from the car to the platform, he had not taken a dozen steps be- JOHN B. FINCH. fore he dropped. Medical Examiner Sted-man was summoned and pronounced his death to be the result of heart disease. His body was taken in charge by Messrs.

Brownell and Jas. H. Roberts. This morning telegrams were sent to Mr. Finchs family and friends in Evanston and Chicago.

A meeting of the State Committee of the Prohibition party will be called to take action, and the Grand Lodge of Good Templars will cooperate. Mr. Finch arrived in Boston from New York yesterday, and spent a por" tion of the day at Prohibition headquarters in Bromfiold street he seemed more quiet than usual. To-day the headquarters are draped in mourning. Memorial services will be held in the Peoples church, Sunday, Oct.

23, the day he was to have spoken there. Jas. H. Roberts will preside, and addresses will be made by Mr. Roberts, Benj.

R. Jewell, Secretary of the Massachusetts Total Abstincuce Society E. H. Clapp, M. TV.

of the Sons of Temperance, and others. He Was at nts Home Last Friday, in His Usual Health-His Home Life. Evanston, Oct. 4. Special Dispatch.) The news of the death of John B.

Finch fills this village, where his home is, with sorrow. In scores of families tears are shed. He returned here from Dakota, where he was making speeches in the County Prohibition campaigns, last Friday, and stayed with those he loved best for a day. Saturday ho left for the East. Although it was known that he was subject to heart disease, he was so splendid a specimen of physical manhood that his death is a shock to ail his friends here.

Before leaving bume he complained of pain in his head, but it did not seem to bo serious. Seven years ago Mr. Finch made his first publio appearance in the neighborhood of Chicago, speaking at the Lake Bluff Convo cation. He was then only 23, and ull marvelled at his eloquence. From that time on his place as one of the platform giants of the country was securo.

In the summer of 1383 he removed his home from Lincoln, to Evanston. He purchased a residence and furnished it in a very homelike way. He was most devoted to his family, though home hilt seldom companionable to his wife and a playmate to his boy. He leaves his fumily in comfortable circumstances, with the Evanston home, farm property in Nebraska, etc. Whenever he spoke in Evanston he was greeted with enthusiastic audiences He was a member of the Methodist church and in full sympathy with church work.

His remains will be brought to Chicngo. The funeral arrangements aro not complet- Chnlrxnnn Wheeler on the Loss to the Prohibitionists of This State. Albany, Oct. 4. Special Dispatch.) John B.

Finchs death is a stinging blow to the Prohibition party of the nation, and particularly of this State. He has been of immeasurable assistance to us in New York. No one speaker has been called for so often during the pending campuign. Every mail coming in at headquarters brings numerous repetitions of the application! Send Finch to us. In the campaign of 1884 ho worked and spoke and pluuued incessantly in New York; in 1835 he spent nearly a month in the State; last year we attended togother many Congressional Conventions throughout the State.

His duties of last year bore very hard upon liiih, and upon one ocension, more thuu a 1 yeur ugo, lie said to me: "Fred, old boy, some of these days I shall drop in my tracks. Like a Thunderbolt. Mauston, Oct. 4. Special Dispatch.) The news of Right Worthy Grand Templar Finchs death overwhelmed mo.

It is the severest blow the Order of Good Templars and the cause of temperance could possibly receive. No man living holds the place in the hearts of the Good Templars that this splendid leader occupies. This fatal news comes like a thunderbolt. I am so stunned that I dare not think of the consequences. His great ability and strict integrity, his warm, sympathetic heart, made up a combination that made him seem to us all more than friend or brother.

B. F. Parker, Right Worthy Grand Secretary of the R. W. G.

0. G. T. Sorrow In New York Reminiscences and Tributes of Fralse. A three or four-line notice in two daily papers was the only announcement publicly made last Tuesday in New York of John B.

Finchs death. The Voice, The Witness, the National Temperance Society and a few individual Prohibitionists received private advices, and the news was passed from mouth to mouth. Many Prohibitionists reading or bearing the report could not believe it to be true, and hurried to The Voice offioe to inquire. A sense of consternation, succeeded by profound grief, fell upon each. The Voice reporters have obtained the following interviews: bomb personal facts of much interest.

Chas. McCully, of the New York Weekly Tsfns jtoo id avia rtf 41ia vrAiihM mah I. reporter Mr. Finch has for a long time been afflicted with heart disease. He himself believed it originated inji strain produced by over-exercise in the gymnasium years ago.

Some years ago he had a severe attack in St. Louis and was reported dead and he had another in 1830, at the 5th Avenue Hotel, New York. This last was the most serious hfe had ever experienced and he did not expect to rally from it. His trouble was an affection of the valves of the heart, intensified by rheumatic fever, and on the occasion of the last years attack, be was almost killed by an overdose of medicine, having taken, instead of tincture of digitalis, fluid digitalis, which is 15 times asstrong. I have frequently slept with Mr.

Finch, and have heard the palpitation you might almost say the pounding of his heart. This pounding, together with a choking sensation, always came after ho had been making a speech, or bad been doing unusually severe work of any kind. I have no doubt, that the labor find worry of uniting the two branches of the Good Templars was largely instrumental in breaking Mr. Fiuch down. The work he did at Saratoga last May, carrying the union in the face of such obstacles, was an awful strain upon him.

And he never spared himself in detail work; he delivered full as many speeches as any other worker for the cause, and in addition conducted an enormous correspondence, with no outside help whatever. I believe his death was hastened by the fact that his strength was his weakness. He was naturally a poworful mau, and his labors were gigantic. Mr. Finch often said to me that he expected to die of heart disease.

Not long ago ho said I know the end must come soon, but Id like to carry the work a little farther. After his last years attack he told me that his mental agony at the thought that he had to leave his work (for during this attack be momentarily expected death) had been fully equal to the acute physical suffering he was experiencing. I dont know that I ought to say it, but it may not be improper, now that Mr. Finch is gone: he hud at all times a crowd of private pensioners and more or less worthy dependents hanging upon him. His private personal charity was extensive.

I have often seen him, after making a speech, go away from the town without waiting to be paid. Once, I remember; the committeeman came after him with the lecture fee. Mr. Finch refused to accept tlio money, saying to tile mail: Take it; youll need it in your work. He made proDably 87,000 to 18,000 a year from lectures, and had an income from property in Nebraska; but lie freely spent all tins, and also the personal savings he brought with him to Nebraska; whenever an appeal was made for the good cause his money was furthcoming, He saved little, and must have died comparatively poor.

Mr. Finchs homo life was peculiarly happy. His whole soul was wrapped up in his boy. He has said to me: One of the greatest sacrifices I havo to make is to be away from my wife and son, for bo was homo only a few times in the year, and then not for long. ABLEST AND BROADEST OF PROHIBITIONISTS.

John N. Stearns, Corresponding Secretary of tho National Temperance Society, one of Mr. Finchs warmest friends and must, active co-laborers in the Good Templar Order, spoke with deep feeling. I had become more attached to him, suid he, than to uny oilier man in this work. I regard bun as the ablest aud tho broadest man in the Prohibition movement in America.

His death is the heaviest blow that could fall upon the Good Templars, Mr. Finch looked upon the Good Templar Order as only a means to an end the overthrow of drink and the drink trnfflo. His especial plan was a course of study by the Good Templars of fundamental principles, similar to that embodied in tho Chautauqua idea. Ho planned and carried through, in the face of great obstacles, tho union of the American and Euglish branches of the Order accomplished last Kpring probably no otlior man in the world oould nave accomplished that. He had a wonderful power over men.

I do not know how the Order enn benr this blow, Tho succession will go to Scotland TV. IV. Trumbull of Glasgow, next in order to Finch, now becomes supreme bend of the Order. I liked John B. Finch ail the better bo-enuse he did not agree with me in nil tilings, Mr.

Finch believed in non-partisan Prohibition fights as a meuns of cultivating sentiment, though not relinquishing his belief in the importance of Prohibition party work. The National Temperance Society joins with all other temperance organizations in deploring his dentil. We have just re-stereotyped his vuluuble eleven lectures on Prohibition. AN OPPONENTS ESTIMATE OF FINCH. The well-known Demoeratio leader and anti-Prohibitionist, ex-Oovernor Geo.

Hoad-ly, of Ohio, now practicing law In New York, 10,000 Anti Majority The Prohibition Vote may Reach 120,000. Chattanooga, Tenn. Oct. 3. Special Dispatch.) Returns from 56 counties give the Antis a majority of 9,988, indicating a majority in the State of 15,000.

Official returns largely reduce the claims of the Prohibitionists. Their majority in East Tennessee, which on Friday night seemed to be 28,000, has dwindled to 10,000. The liquor voto correspondingly increases. The whiskey cause has won only by a combination of saloon-koepers, low whites, Negroes and politicians. The Demoeratio bosses are claiming the result as a victory of State Rights; the Republicans of the Hughes stripe attribute it to the application of their party lash to the Negroes.

Tho non-partisan temperance people are determined to carry the fight into the Legislature and demand the extension of the Four-Mile law to incorporated towns. The Prohibitionists avow their intention of nominating separate candidates if unable to secure roper nominations within the old parties. he logical result of the campaign will be the strengthening of the Prohibition party. Signs are plentiful that the sntoon will be flattered and courted by both old parties in Tenuessee. The heaviest vote ever cast was polled in the State on the Prohibition Amendment.

The vote for Prohibition probably reached 125,000. THE TILDEK PROGRAMME AGAIN. After Many Years of Silence, the New York Democrats Speak Their Sentiments, The New York Democratic State Convention, at Saratoga, Sept. 28, did what was expected of it. It renominated Frederick Cook, the Rochester brewer, forSecretary of State.

Mr. Cooks record was thoroughly presented by our Rochester correspondent last week. The other nominees are: For Comptroller, Edward Wcmple of Fultonville; for Attorney-General, Chas. F. Tabor of Buffalo; for Treasurer, LawreneeS.

Fitzgerald of Cortland; for State Engineer and Surveyor, John liogert of New York. For the first time since the Democratic party of New York ceased to be under the immediate personal control of Samuel J. Tilden. it has adopted a straightout, honest liquor platform. The party platform dodged the temperance question in the campaign of 1885, and has been practically silent regarding the issue ever since the campaign of 1878.

Now there is a return to the old Tilden doctrines. The following is the liquor plunk of the Saratoga platform: We favor a revised Excise lawapplicable without unjust discrimination throughout tho State. Wo oppose all sumptuary laws needlessly interfering with the personal liberties and reasonable habits and customs of any portion of our citizens. We believe that excise revenues, like other proper local revenues, should be applied in lessening local burdens and to the reduction of local taxation. We assert the right of local self-government for cities, and demand that the Legislature shall provide general Jaws for the exercise of that right.

Nothing is said about the repeal of the Sunday-closing law, so strenuously demanded by the Germans. Liquor-dealers were offensively prominent in the Convention. Among its 54 Vice-Presidents were the following liquor-dealers: Martin E. Doyle, Henry W. Gouts, Thomas P.

Walsh aud Daniel Patterson. Tho New York World obtained the opinions of a majority of the delegates about the probable Prohibition and Labor votes this fall. The highest estimate of the Prohibition vote was 250,000, and the lowest was 155 men thought it would reach 40,000 or more, 67 thought it would be below 40,000, and 112 were non-committal. The highest estimate of the Labor vote was 250,000, and the lowest was 72 thought it would go to 75, 000 or above, 119 thought it would fall below 75,000, and 141 had no opinion. Of 335 who were interviewed with regard to their Presidential preferences 1H0 favored the re-nominulton of Cleveland, 128 were non-committal and 43 favored Governor Hill NOT A GOOD-ENOVGU RVM PARTY.

The Cincinnati Democrats Make a Great effort, but The Volksblatt Kicks. Cincinnati, Oct. 1. Special Correspondence.) Tho Hamilton County Demoeratio Convention, like the Republican Convention, was controlled by the heelers and bummers, and has nominated some notorious men. Of these may be mentioned Jimmy Kelly, candidate for Representative, who keeps an infamous low dive in the same ward with Geo.

B. Cox, the Republican saloon leader, and who is a bitter rival of Coxs for the control of the tough 'element; John Haefling, candidate for Infirmary Director, who is proprietor of "The White Hall, one of the most disreputable road-houses in the county, uud a great resort for chicken-fighters, dog-fighters and prize-fighters, who leave the city under cover of night and seek its friendly walls to enjoy their sport free from police interference Julius Freiberg, candidate for State Senator, a wholesale liquor-dealer Edwin Stevens, candidate for County Treasurer, owner of a whiskey commission-house; Hudson T. Scott, candidate for County Commissioner, who owns a tavern aud saloon in Sharonville, and A. P. Butterwortli, candidate for Representative, who owns a hotel With a bar attachment.

But though the liquor business is so prominently represented on the ticket, the Dem-xicrutio Convention did not say anything about liquor in its platform. The Volksblatt, Gcrmau saloon organ, is dissatisfied on this score, and with increased emphasis declares for the Republican county ticket as the more satisfactory. The Volksblatt says Concerning the temperance question not a word Is said. That Is very sagacious of the Democrats. Thereby they can.

perhaps, secure the eupport of the Prohibitionists. Joy to their union I But this significant sileuce is a very important matter tothe county in reference to which the Republicans have spoken out so olearly and unequivocally gives much cause for careful thought to liberal-minded citizens. The important temperance questions are passed over with eutlre silence. In Memoriam in New York and Brooklyn. Memorial services for the late John B.

Finch will be held next Sunday at the meeting of the American Temperance Union in Chickering Hall, corner of-5th aVouuo. and 18th street, beginning at 3 p.m. The services of the Manhattan Temperance Association in Cooper Union next Sunday will he commemorative of John B. Finch. The principal speaker will be Mrs.

Caroline B. Buell, Corresponding Secretary of the National W. C. T. II.

A memorial meeting under the auspices of the Young Mens Prohibition Club of Kings County, for John B. Finch, will be held in the Everett Assembly Rooms, Brooklyn, Tuesday evening, Oct. II, at 8.30. Speeches by Rev. Geo.

H. Vibbert and others. Chairman Finchs Successor, Tho successor of John B. Finch as Chairman of the National Committee of the Pro. hibition party, will be clioson at the meeting of the Committee called for Nov.

30, at Chicago, unless it is deemed necessary to call a special meeting before then. Biographical Sketch of John B. Finch. John B. Finch was bom in Chenango County, N.

March 17, 1852. Ho was therefore only a little more than 35X years old at bis death. His father was of English extraction and his mother of South of Fi ance parentage, His maternal grandfather was a dissipated man, and was killed by being thrown out of a carriage while intoxicated. His mother taught him to hate drink, and he was always a total abstainer. His warm temperament he probably derived from his mother.

He had a common-school, classical and legal education. His earliest work was as a teacher; at one timo he vXis Principal of the Union School at Smyrna. N. Y. He graduated from Harvard college.

Ho went into the Good Templar work early in life. Just before 18TU lie was State Lecturer of tile Good Templars in this State, but was bumpered by the jealousy of some of the members. In 137(1 he settled at Lincoln, and there devoted himself to Good Templar work, for several years being head of the Nebraska Grand Lodge of that Order. Prohibition was not then so generally agreed upon by temperance people ns it is now. actively cngiiged in the High License movement, being consulted by Members of the Legislature us cno of the leaders of that policy.

To his exertions chiefly the enactment of the Nebraska 81,000 license law was due. Hedged around with ninny restrictive and prohibitory provisions, this luw is regarded as the nearest approach to a prohibitory measure that a High License statute can he. Yet Mr. Finch witnessed its utter failure and lamented the part he hud in its establishment. In politics be was originally a Democrat Ho becume a power in the Prohibition party as soon as he entered it.

He was made Chairman of the Nationui Committee and Natiomil Executive Committee of tho party in 1384 and held both places until his death. For three successive terms ho was elected Right Worthy Grand Templar of the Right Worthy Grand Lodge, I. O. G. and upon the union of the two branches of the Order last May he wus unanimously elected bend of tho united Order.

Mr. Finch nni rried Miss Frances E. Brnu-chestcrof Cortland, N. who was prominent in the W. C.

T. U. Mra Finch is a lady of capital business ability, and fans maternity aided her husband by attending to his busiuess affairs, neglected by him through stress of Prohibition Inbor. itiB wife and one child, John, survive Mr. Finch.

He took part in every great campaign for the Prohibition party during recent years, and was the strong right arm of every movement for winning Constitutional or local Prohibition which he entered. Since the death of John B. Oougli, Finch has been everywhere considered the foremost platform orator for temperance and Prohibition in America. Some of his most successful platform service for temperance was as a Red Ribbon orator. For 62 successive nights, in 1877, he addressed orowded houses in Omaha, Nett.