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.
Peter C. Yorke
Illustration by a San Francisco Call artist, published November 1, 1898
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
Peter Yorke
…He was pastor of St. Peter's in 1914. In San Francisco, Yorke became the editor of The Monitor, the official newspaper of the archdiocese. During the 1898 California gubernatorial election, he denounced Democratic nominee James G. Maguire for a book he wrote ten years prior, Ireland and The Pope, in which he argued that the subjugation…
Henry Gage 1899
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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.