The San Francisco call., 1906-11-06
Appeals toLabor to
Defeat Carroll Cook


n stand unit today at the polls against Judge Carroll
Cook, Rev Father Caraher of St. Francis Church has
painted the inquy of that urist has been painted
before The fact that Judge Cook the of
the proprieors Nymphia they had been
fearessy sentenced terms in prison by Judge Graham
then the police bench pointed by Father Caraher
the striking evidence of Cooks unness for the
bench Father Carahers appeal labor, contained in
communication the editor of The Call, follows
Editor The Call In yesterdays issue of your journal
there appeared my few paragraphs which
upon the public life of Judge Carroll Cook the
expression public life advsedy abhor practice of
laying the private life of any candidate seeking Office
Private life is public property, and should be
dragged into political campaign.
In looking the Of candidates the Union
Labor ticket my among them the
of Carroll Cook 1t has been my belief that the unions
would touch him than they would leper. His
nomination Santa Cruz by section of the Republican
heinous crime against every virtue
approve of that crime and become partakers by
indorsing his nomination
And now what claims has Carroll Cs~k upon the union
laborers appear upon tcet7 AS
rule they who have families and who love their
children dearly their lives But by protecting and
fostering brote Judge Cook strikes the family exist
ence for numbers of young will marry
the burdens of married life and of families while
the Nymphia the Marscana and the gigantic
The number of young unmarried that travel every
tventyour Kearny-street Jackson
is truly amazing. And what the
quence is that the offers of marriage young
growing less every day. and that many of them
upon of vice shamei Many of young
women whom every day aghting cars at
Jackson Kearny Streets many others their calling
throughout city, their downfall and their contnua-
ton in sin to venal and corrupt officials.
In the early days of Carroll Cooks judicial incubency
he took projectors and proprieors
torous Nymphia, which of gigantic size. We
had propetors arrested and tried by Of Police
Judges who fearlessy~ sentenced them i'm
prsonment They appealed the Superior Court, and
their heard by three Superior Judges banc one
of whom Carroll Cook Throughout hearing of the
Judge Cook championed the of the criminals and
by his efforts succeeded in modifying the Of the
lower and in imposing instead nominal ine EN-
by light punishment they received proprie
tors reopened the Nymphia and continued flourish
until Police temporarily succeeded Isaiah
w. Lees gave it a crushing blow.
Yes Judge Cook been the friend of the Nynphia on
Pacific street. and later of the Marscana on Dupont street.
and by friendship brothes their proprietors and
inmates ends far his power the family e and
punges our youth into sin and shame.
I now ask you members of the various unions to as
your independence and manhood polls
your for virtue sanctity of the family
by giving Carroll Cook crushing defeat To man raise
up pointer in the voting machine that hangs over his
Prove tomorrow that you not the friends and
abeors of vice and corruption but contrary their
sworn and impacable enemies.
T. CARAHER, St Francis Church
November S, 1906.