The San Francisco call., 1896-10-25
Are Opposed TO the New Charter
and TO Woman's Suf-
frage.
WILL 1NDoRsE CANDIDATES
Certain Supervisorial, Judicial and
Legislative Nominees to Re.
ceive Their Support.

woman's 8 suffrage amendment to the con-
stitution will have new and powerful
element avowedly and openly opposed to
them within the next few days, and this
same element will also take an active part
in the election of Supervisors, Superior
Judges, Police Judges and members of the
Legislature.
Never before in the history of the State
widely organized as for this campaign,
and this condition of things is acknowl-
edged to be very largely due to the energy
and ability of J. P. Edoff, the president of
the California State Protective Associa-
tion, the organization of the wholesale
and retail liquor-dealers of the State, and
also president of the Wholesale and Retail
Liquor dealers and Brewers League. the
organization of the local liquor people.
In this City there are 5000 people en-
gagged as proprietors in the liquor trade,
and these, with their employees and vari-
Gus attaches. represent, it is claimed, a
vpting strength of 14,000 in this City
alsne, and this compact and organized
mass of voters are TO be placed in the field
against the new charter and against
wonan's suffrage. Not only will these
men vote against these propositions, but
they will do active work at the polls on
the day of election to bring about the de-
feat OF 10Th measures.
1t is b0t little over month ago that the
Wholesae and Retail Liquor Dealers and
Brewers League was organized in this
City for tie express purpose of taking an
active par in the local and State election.
Its reasonSfor SO doing. as stated by one
OF It's prominent officials, is TO secure the
oio of 10b fsoio olc yrx-;l
any unjust determinations to be made
against the lquor men and their business.
The mem ber of the organization disavow
any intention of seeking favors at the
hands OF arymen whose election they
may aid to ieeure, but desire, they saw,
simply to be given fair deal before the
Legislature. tledifferent Boards of Super
visors and Town Trustees. and before the
Judges who mayb called upon to inter-
pret the laws relaing to the liquor busi-
ness.
It is claimed hat measures are fre-
quently brought up in the legislative
bodies OF the Statesof the various counties
and OF towns andcities, which are moth
ing more than clnchbilIs, and which cost
the liquor trade comfortable trouble and
money to defeat. 1t is to prevent such
contingencies in thtfuture that the field
OF politics IS TO be enteed by the State and
the local organization # the liquor men.
The local organization consists of the
following seven indeppdent bodies, and
the conference committee to which is
intrusted all the confidatiaI and respon-
slble business comprise three delegates
from each, as follows:
California State Protective Association
j. 7. Edon, Joseph NJ. Lowe, John Wolf.
German Saloon-keepers-Jo Hagler,
Captain Siebert, D. B. Faktcr.
Retail Grocers' Associasnn-John G.
NnhmQn I 7 7
San Francisco Branch No.2 California
State Protective Association-J. B. Var
land, I. M. Ferguson, w. T. CBrien.
Brewers Protective Assochtion-C. B.
Stone, L. T. Schuster, II. Wreten.
Retail Liquor-dealers' Protective Asso-
ciation-J. Z. Kenny, Frank Lam, J. S.
Macintosh.
Retail Grocers' Protective Association
J. T. Hurley, James O'Connor, S. Vock.
Herewith is given the first ctmpaign
circular issued by the literary committee
OF the conference committee. It's a re-
markable document in many respects, but
tells its own story clearly and strongly, SO
needs no comment:
SAN Francisco, October %. 1896.
Dear Sir: The Wholesale and Retail LIQUOR
Dealers and Brewers League, which is COM
posed of representatives from all the huuor-
trade organizations OF San Francisco, which
are as follows:
California State Protective Association.
Brewers Protective Association.
German Saloon-keepers
Retail Groeers' Association
San Francisco Branch No. 2, C. s. A
tion.
Retail Grocers' Protective Union
viii mail you on or before the morning of
November a LIST of candidates which they
have indorsed.
has the interests OF the business at heart to
vote for the candidates indorsed by the league,
as much OF the future of the liquor traffic de-
pends upon the success of our ticket
Endorsement slips VIII be sent only for the
following officers:
Supervisors.
Superior Judges.
Police Court Judges.
Members of the Legislature.
Endorsements will be made from this of1na
only. None will be distributed by hand In
oorsements cannot be changed alter the lis is
mailed to you.
CAUTION.
Beware of newspaper announcements. as no
Information will be authorized by us and .nv
purpori1ng TO come from US will be a fraud
and imposition. Also beware of bogus lists of
Endorsements represented as coming from this
league.
Turn this sheet of paper sidewise and hold
to the light In the paper itself YOU will see
the words premium Note Coz repeated sew
ersl times This is water-mark. All of our
genuine Endorsements VIII have the water
mark Premium Note Co." repeated several
times In the paper. Test the same by turning
the Sneeb SlQeW1Se ana holding 1t before the
light Any Endorsements not bearing this
water-marks are fakes We have secured all
OF this kind of paper in existence, and will be
the only ones using the same.
Vote for the league Endorsements and act
upon their suggestions and test your ticket be-
fore voting Our main object is to get men in
office who viii be fairly disposed to our inter-
ests and whom we can trust
Should any person in our line fail to receive
TINS notice, send names and addresses to the
office and Endorsements will be sent Respect
fully, JOHN c. NoBMAN,
JOHN HAGLER,
J. b. GARLAND,
III. WREDEN,
JOHN WOLF,
J. S. MACINTOSH,
S. VoCK,
Literary Committee.
WILLIAM T. o'BRIEN, Secretary.
This circular was the result of the delib-
eratlons of the conference committee held
during the week. During these same
meetings four com mittees were appoin ted
to select the candidates to be indorsed.
There IS separate committee for each