The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-04-30
Ehe Victory in Rhode Island.

ne great ltlf WIS tlldU the IHUiiilltS
would buy enough votes to run in ahead
ofus. There is no doubt they tried their
level best to purchase the election, and
they had money enough 10 do so, doubt
less, had it been purchasablc; but, as a
prominent Prohibtionist expresses the
fact, they couldn find men enough to buy
they absolutely couldn't spend their
money Let me relate three incidents in
point: II is reported, upon reliable infor-
nation, that n leading iiquor-dealer was
called on for Il contribution of 81, 800 to
the rummicS' campaign fund. "What do
you want it fur?' he asked; ''if it's to bny
up them Prohibtionists you can't get it,
fer | know they can't be bought for 81 600
q hcadt' 4 man in the 9th Ward who had
left off drinking a few months before, and
who used to be one of the best workers
that the liauor-dealer had, was approached
by one of their agents and offered 500 to
spend in their behalf 1t was a pretty
hard thing for the poor fellow to refuse
but he said; mo. sir; promised my wife
to put in for Prohibition, and I'm going to
do it, On election morning fellow came
to temperance headquarters and desired to
have a private interview with Mr.. Conant.
The latter took the prccauton to call in Mr..
Sears, of the Central Hotel To these two
gentlemen he stated that he could control
Is or II votes if gwen specified sum of
Ia ro(t1Cn1 Mr. Coma Mt
thinks he was sent for the purpose Of get
ting an offer Of money.
On the afternoon of election day this
plaeard was prominently posted at every
voting place in Providence:
Gentlemen. Those who vote the Pro-
hibiton ticket are voting for st. John the
defeater of the Republican party. Vote
Rejected =
At one of the polls an Irish laboring
man took up ballot for the Amendment,
intending to vote it. Pat, said liquor
dealer to him, '.do You know what it means
if you vote that ticlict?' ''Phwat it
~ said Pat; ''sure it names that
the likes of yez II have to carry your tin
buckets along the sthratc the same as
mcsilf! And Pat pumped it in. Another
workingman was told that Prohibition
wond Increase taxes. "Wcll, he neatly
replied, Il don't know bout that, but |
know mighty we'll it'll let some of MS out
OF paying - 30 and costs of Monday
morning.
~ novel meeting was held in Music Hall
Sunday, Apr. t. 1t was attended by voters
alone, to the number of some 1000 or
5000, the Hall being completely packed
The only woman in the building was Mrs
]. Ellen Foster, but her eloquent speech
made many think that after ALL the wo-
men were not so much in the minority.
Ia East Providence, Mrs. Hicks was one
of the womrn-workcrs N the ward-room.
She is a very modest, retiring lady, and it
was thought she would not be of much
under the inGuene, Of liquor was pilotcd
in by rummy. Mrs. Hicks walked up to
him. took the liquor tickets ont Of his
hand glye him Prohibition tickets instead
and actually marched him up to the ballot
boz; and voted him. In the same place
Mrs. VIM. Chase, Il very excellent lady,
had talk with rumseller named Robt
Tobey, who, if if is possible for any person
connected with the liquor business to be
respectable, has the reputation of rcspcc-
liability; and it is said that she influenced
him to vote for the Amendment.
The morning after the election the town
went wild. One Prohibitionist immedi-
atoly began to canvass for subscriptions to
make upa fund for firing 100 guns. He
went into the store Of jerome Kennedy,
and asked Mr.. H. s. Woodworth for a con-
trbutiou. Mr.. Woodwork gave him 50
and Mr. Kennedy, when he arrived, gave
50. The solicitor asked Mr.. Woodwork
for the names of persons who would prob
ably contribute, which the latter furnished
About noon he came back and said he
hadn got halt through the list before he
had raised the necessary $780, Every man
lie met was more than willing to open his
pocket book, all were so overjoyed. The
100 guns were fired that evening
Michael T. Holden, the irish orator, said
at tile great Notification meeting held at
Music Hall on Thursday night: 'Ladies,
you are wearing your white ribbons in
honor Of the victory, and you men are
wearing your bHr ribbons. That's right;
but I'd like Go see you mix a little green
With them, for didn't the irish troops fight
nobly ~ rooj3eace LetterM The Ioicc.
Tho organs Of the liquor traffic are be-
moaning the fact that there Us no one in
the United States Senate to stand up and
defend the traffic against the growing en-
croaclmcnts Of temperance sentiments.
Well let them bemoan. They will soon
see the handwriting on the wall which
will pronounce their doom. They have
already been weighed in the balance and
found wanting.
There are fifty tectotallcrs in tho new
British Parliament; twenty-five years ago
a ~