The San Francisco call., 1909-07-30

ly before helped secure the acquittal
of James Fitzgerald and Dick Williams
owners of Joints" tried for the rob-
berry and murder of prominent farm
er Pete Vallejo. the third of the trio,
confessed and received 10 year sen
tence.
With power to hold up saloon IL
censes. Mcnamara has been very con-
siderately treated by the merchants.
There are now 16 saloons in town, the
loss of whose patronage would be Sc
verely felt.
What Mcnamara is able to do is
shown in the case of j. NJ. Lasell
president of the Alhambra water COM
pany, who ran notice to the public"
for several successive days in the Ga
zette, denying that either he or his
manager had signed the w. c. T. u.
petition. AS matter of fact, six of
Lasells employees signed the petition.
The "R. B. club of which they were
members, had a dispute with Mcnamara
in engaging the Park dance hall. Lasell
says their grievance was personal and
not in the cause of prohibition. At
any rate the boycott which Mcnamara
was published has been taken a
wholesome warning by the business
men.
The women fighting Mcnamara be-
fore the supervisors are Mrs Marie E.
E. Kerr, Mrs. c. w. Jenkins Mrs. Alice
Dickinson and Mrs. Mary A. Bachiller.
They faced j. H. Trythall, Vincent
Hook, J. Ryan, William Buchanan
and j. p Casey, the latter a Port Costa
fal lay~
advisement July 10, to be decided the
first Monday in August While the
license was not referred to yesterday
by the supervisors at the liquormen's
banquet, the speeches did not indicate
hostility to the park.
w. C. Il. L. CAMPAIGN
Mrs. Kerr, in a recent address before
the county w. c. T. u, declared her
self as follows:
Let us now serve notice upon all
parties that none but good, worthy and
clean men must in the future be nomi-
mated for office. Let us here and now
formulate plans to carry such an un-
dertaking into effect. Let US organize
bands of workers in every school dis
trict, town precinct. every church and
every home. Let us see to 1t that the
right kind of men are nominated: we
can do so under the primary election
law"
MCNAMARA MAKES DEFENSE
Speaking for the willy, entrenched
enemy, skilled in disreputable practices
in vote getting" so described by Mrs
Kerr, Mcnamara makes this defense:
The W c. 7. u. women are good
women, only most of them are in their
second childhood. My park had nothing
to do with the riot. The Garibaldi
guards were peaceably behaved. but
bunch of their followers filed up at
the cheap wine dumps and started
roughhouse not in my park. but down
at the station. Neither nor the
guards had anything to do with it.
won't sell to drunken man. 1 won't
sell to minors l am not responsible
when family buys beer by the bottle.
takes 1t into the arbor to drink and
gives some to youngster-thats their
own business. This European custom
started the charge by the w. c. T. IT,
that 1 sell to minors
Il had nothing to do with the hoot-
ing of Dr. Burke off the streets
week ago Sunday. In fact, 1 told the
boys to let him talk in peace 1 am
a temperance man myself, but 1 say to
hi with prohibition
Not public official in Martinez has
any opinion whatever on the park
license matter. Whether ring" "sore-
head or democrat all are equally
silent. But neither do they have any
views on the subject of Herrin and
Southern Pacific politics.
c. w. Jenkins, who introduced DR..
Burke at the meeting, was forced by
the supervisors to resign from his posi-
tion as superintendent of the county
hospital and poor farm.