Daily Ohio Statesman

Hon. William E. Finck.

The people throughout all the counties of the 12th Congressional District, are heartily and enthusiastically responding to the nomination of the Hon. William E. Finck, for Congress.

He will receive the cordial and earnest support of the Democracy, and of many others who have never yet voted the Democratic ticket.

The Circleville Democrat says:

We place the name of Wm. E. Finck at the head of our ticket this week. We are justly proud of the candidate nominated for this district. He is a man of experience, a sound Democrat with fine talent and popular address. He is a self-made man—reared among the sons of toil, identified with all the sympathies and interests of labor—commanding the universal respect of all who know him. He is a sound Union man, ever ready to labor to restore the Constitution and the Union as our fathers made them—devoted to the overthrow of rebellion and the defeat of all fanatical abolition schemes.

He is a most reliable man for the times, worthy of the support of every loyal man in the District; and if the pretended no-party men are honest in their professions, they will make no opposition to the election of Mr. Finck. And the critical condition of the country demands the united energies of all, let us all unite and elect Finck by acclamation, as the representative of a united people to crush out the rebellion.

We take the following paragraph from the Somerset Union's account of the Convention that nominated Mr. Finck:

Balloting began about a quarter-past two and was kept up until about ten o'clock, when the 63d ballot put an end to the contest, by declaring the Hon. Wm. E. Finck, of Perry, the choice of the District. His nomination was immediately made unanimous amid the deafening cheers of the immense assemblage. The Perry county boys yelled peculiarly long and magnificently loud. When the thing was accomplished the Convention was glad enough to adjourn to the open air in the street, where store-boxes were arranged, and the name "Finck! Finck!" came from every throat. Mr. F.'s presence was greeted with immense applause. He opened his speech by thanking them for the very high favor conferred on him, after which, he, in a masterly way, held spell bound the thousands of Democrats there assembled. The applause which greeted the termination of almost every sentence of his speech, told in language plain and forcible how well they thought of their able and eloquent new leader in the campaign of 1862.

Mr. Eshleman, of the Chillicothe Advertiser, who received the vote of the Ross county delegation in the Convention, thus writes of his successful competitor, Mr. Finck:

In morals, no man is more pure, and in point of ability he has few superiors. If the people shall ratify his nomination at the ballot-box in October, we feel satisfied that he will represent his District very ably and creditably—that he will do no act that will cause them to be either mortified or chagrined. It is to be hoped that the Democrats of old Ross will give him a cordial and enthusiastic support. He deserves it.

Hocking county responds through the Sentinel, as follows:

The Circleville Convention was one of the largest District Conventions we ever attended, and the enthusiasm manifested by the delegates in attendance was a sure harbinger of success. The nominee, whose name we place at our masthead this week, is a gentleman, a scholar, a statesman, a Democrat and a firm supporter of the Government in every Constitutional effort for the suppression of rebellion. The people of Hocking county will "yell" for him with enthusiasm.

The Waverly (Pike county) Democrat says of Mr. Finck:

His selection was entirely the result of a healthy, frank and unwavering public sentiment in his favor. He made no contest for the position—his immediate friends sought the use of no influence in his favor; but left the result to the spontaneous preference and decision of the masses of those whose delegated men to represent them in this convention, and most faithfully have those delegates discharged this trust. It is not our purpose to refer to the great qualities of Mr. Finck for the position which he has been thus enthusiastically and unanimously nominated for. The reputation he has made as Senator is a sufficient warrant of the success he will achieve before the people in the coming contest.