The 1898 California gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1898, to elect the governor of California. Republican lawyer Henry Gage defeated Democratic-Populist-Silver Republican Fusion Congres
Henry Gage 1899
Maguire, Hon. J.G Alt Crop
Maguire's full statement announcing his candidacy for governor of California, as published in the San Francisco Examiner, October 26, 1897
Maguire (left) shakes hands with Gage outside the Merchants Exchange Building in San Francisco, October 8, 1898.
Peter Yorke
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Peter Christopher Yorke was an American Irish Catholic priest and an Irish Republican and Labor activist in San Francisco.
1898 California gubernatorial election
…any connection to Southern Pacific and marketed himself as a political outsider. During the campaign, Maguire was denounced by Irish Catholic priest Peter Yorke for a book he had written ten years prior, Ireland and The Pope, in which he argued that the subjugation of Ireland by the British Empire had been…
Peter C. Yorke
Illustration by a San Francisco Call artist, published November 1, 1898