iption of, i. 266.

Prohibition, issue, 1854, ii. 203;
law passed, 210;
declared unconstitutional, 210.

Prohibition party organised, 1874, iii. 316;
nominated Clark for gov., 1874, 316;
total vote, 319;
state con., 1875, 326;
state con., 1876, 346;
state con., 1877, 384;
state con., 1878, 392;
state con., 1879, 412;
principles of, 412.

Pruyn, Robert H., aspirant for gov., 1866, iii. 156;
services of, 156;
nominated for lt.-gov., 1866, 159;
defeated, 165.

Pulitzer, Joseph, N.Y. _World_, a leading Dem. editor, iii. 420.

Purcell, William, supporter of Tam., iii. 383;
editor Rochester _Union Advertiser_, 420;
a leading journalist, 420;
nominated for sec. of state, 1881, 484;
defeated, 486.

Purdy, Ebenezer, state senator, i. 149;
charged with bribery, 149, 190;
character of, 190;
resigns to escape expulsion, 191.

Putnam, James O., a Silver-Gray, ii. 156;
eloquence of, 156;
votes for Babcock for U.S. senator, 1855, 207;
favours union of American and Rep. parties, 249;
elector-at-large, 328;
Americans follow him into Rep. party, 332.

"Quids," nickname for Gov. Lewis' followers, 1806, i. 152.

Radcliff, Jacob, appointed on Supreme Court, i. 68;
life of, 69;
character and appearance of, 69;
becomes mayor of New York City, 172;
removed, 179.

Radical and Conservative Democrats, difference in canal policy, ii. 53.

Radicals, faction of Dem. party, ii. 52, 126;
opposed state debt to construct canal, 52, 126;
leaders of, 53, 126;
called Barnburners after supporting the Wilmot Proviso, 126;
see Barnburners.

Raines, Thomas, nominated for state treas., 1871, iii. 264;
elected, 275;
joins Lib. Rep. party, 307;
dropped by Reps., 307;
renominated by Dems., 1873, 308;
elected, 309.

Randall, Henry S., biographer of Jefferson, ii. 324;
Barnburner, 324;
ch'm. of Hards' state con., 1860, 324.

Randolph, John, teller when J.Q. Adams was elected President, i. 343.

Rapallo, Charles J., nominated for judge of Court of Appeals, 1880,
iii. 460;
defeated, 463.

Raymond, Henry Jarvis, in Assembly, ii. 159;
speaker, 159;
career and gifts of, 159-61;
editor of N.Y. _Courier_, 160;
established N.Y. _Times_, 160;
quarrels with Webb, 161;
supports Fish for U.S. senate, 162;
ambition to be gov., 1852, 173;
at Anti-Nebraska con., 194;
nominated for lt.-gov., 1854, 199;
deep offence to Greeley, 199-