Gerrit Smith made one or two attempts toward an "anti-Dramshop" party, but, as women could not vote, they felt no interest in the measure, and failure was the result.
"Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897"
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
First come the Shtiglitzy, Dervizy, Morozovy, the Demidoffs, the Yusapoffs; then great bankers, merchants, officials, landed proprietors, among whom I also belong; then the poor-very small traders, Dramshop-keepers, usurers, district judges, overseers, teachers, sacristans, clerks; then house-porters, lackeys, coachmen, watch-carriers, cab-drivers, peddlers; and last of all, the laboring classes-factory-hands and peasants, whose numbers bear the relation to the first named of ten to one.
"The Moscow Census - From "What to do?""
Lyof N. Tolstoi