The San Francisco call., 1909-12-28
CURRY Club FEARS
WILfS OF MCCARTHY
Wholesale Merchants Scent
Scheme to Deliver Their Or
ganization to Gillett
Vice President Herrscher COn=
fers With Mayor Elect;
Colleagues Indignant
By GEORGE A. VAN SMITH


That Mayor elect P. H. Mccarthy. is
attempting to seduce the Wholesale
Merchants Charles F. Curry club away
! from it's first love and deliver 1t bound
the charge made by some of the Curry
club leaders.
That Mccarthy has chosen Joseph
Herrscher, first vice president of the
wholesalers club, as the medium
through which he hopes to work his
fell purpose, is suspicion that has
not been reduced to the status of for
NAL charges.
That Herrscher will be called upon
the carpet, when the club meets again
in January; his wrist slapped metaphor
ically; told that the wholesalers pur-
pose to do or die in the sacred name of
| Curry and that traitors will be ac-
corded but short shrift, is the nub
Of the promise or threat that was
loosed by leaders of the club yesterday.
! The wholesalers enlisted for the pri-
mary war under the Curry banner rep
resent 163 firms Their membership
roll showed a total of 4S6 at the last
meeting They had understood that
Mayor elect Mccarthy was strong for
Governor Gillett. They had accepted
the theory that Mccarthy had under
taken to deliver the union labor party
vote to Gillett. They were resigned, but
grieved
GRIEvED AND INDIGNANT
They are torn now with the fear that
Mccarthy has also undertaken to de-
| liver their club to Gillett with his
consignment of labor votes. That fear
is the direct result of their discovery
that Herrscher. first vice president of
their cherished organization has been
in conference with the mayor elect On
that score they are not resigned. Thcy
are grieved and indignant.
CircumstantiaI evidence figures some
what in the tentative case made up
against Herrscher 1t appears that Nc
Carthy had invited other officers or
members of the club to drop in for
chat. They had sidestepped. fearing
they knew not what. Then they learned
that Herrscher had been with Nc
Carthy. Their fears took shape
I'VE will stand for no foolishness."
said President Eugene Pfaeffie yester-
day afternoon. when we meet again
in two weeks We are going to tell
one man affair and that he can not de-
liver it to anybody. We are organized
for Charles +. Curry. We are going to
make his fight and he is going to be
the next governor
mo, we don't know that Herrscher
is trying to deliver the club to Nc
Carthy for Gillett. but Mccarthy is for
Gillett and we do not know what else
they could be comforting about. Nc
Carthy has called up some of the other
members of the wholesalers club. We
did not go to talk with him. We are
for Curry to the end, and we will make
Herrseher understand that when we
meet again. No one can take our club
away from Curry. Why, we were
organized for him and the permanent
organization has formally Endorsed
him.
ORGANIZATION MADE PERMANENT
The wholesale merchants Charles F.
Curry clubs temporary organization
was made permanent last week by the
election Of all the temporary officers
and the appointment OF a campaign
committee charged with the direction
of the clubs efforts on behalf of ClIr-