The morning call., 1892-11-02
mixes HALLUCINATIOuS.
Ris Fiction Factory Is Being
0verWorked.
.:FLLERT is REINDORSED.
The Citizens. Anti-Dive League Reitsrates Its
= Allegiance to and Confidence in the
>; Non-Partisan Candidate.
San Franciseo. Nov.I.1sss.

Attn meeting of the campaign committee
af the Citizens Lesgde of this date the
Following resolution was adopted. without
dissenting voice:
Resolved, That we. the campaign COM
mittee or the Citizens League for the Sup
preston of the Dives, deny the ch rye
that the league is opposed to Mr.. Ellerfs
candidacy for Mayor, and affirm that the
.:Ieague has Endorsed his nomination by the
n .Partisans: and we are sure that 1t VIII
moi withdraw its Endorsement or support
from him; and that We. have confidence
that NIr. ElIert WILL If elected favor the
.TaGicaI surpre ssion otthe dives, in accord
-:nc6 with the Non-Partisan platform and
with the purposes and objects of the
..Cit1zeus' League.
MICHAEL FLOOD, Chairman
:. c. %. BURTON. Secretary.
- Mikes private organ is fairly bristling
: with simon-pure fabrcations these days.
= Each edition of the Chronicle outstrips
;.jfS predecessor in the number and trans
IaTancy Of its falsehoods.
: Honest men are beginning TO think that
tbe whole staff has gone clean daft over the
=. political situation. and seif-respeeting Re-
*publicans are on the point Of calling upon
Wendell Easton to openly disaVow the ut
ictances being made by De Young personal
organ.
But then there aren't many honest Repub-
UcaIs Nko read the Chronicle these days,
50 IL isn't Likely that the pressure on Mr..
Easton VIII be very strong.
That tie Republican" candidate for
-Afayor has not already voluntarily adopted
this course can be accounted for on but one
or the other Of these two hypotheses:
=. Either Mr.. Easton is in ignorance Of the
"bia2en falseho0ds constantly being printed.
ostenslbly in bis support, by Mike de
y oung's organ; or he IS tied to the Kelly
.CTmmins-De Young gang so tightly that he
p. dare. NOT. assert the manhood that may be
III him.
-. And the latter is probably the true rea-
son. for 1t does violence to cOmmOn-sense
: to suppose that Mr.. EastOn does not read
the only organ that supports his candidacy
on the s0-ealled Republican" ticket.
: People accounted for the great number OF
lies IL Nike 5 personal organ Monday morn
ing by suppOsing that the fiction factory
had made little squirt for the occasion.
: But they were wrong Tuesdays issue
contained even more lies, or rather more
:-YaTlatl0nS Of the same old, stale untruths,
=Igl.. dltcA al " ikC ; uCslUu 4dCkUlG EaChS
sadly in imaginative faculty.
Some practical joker told the fiction fac
tory yOGgg men that Mr.. Ebert was not
being Endorsed very heartily by the anti
dive people.
= And the young men bit like suckers at
: erassh0pper. II was really funny how
readily they did bite.
OF course this practical joker-who should
.: he rhe1ueXt victim of the -killer-knew
: that his statement was as true as that his
.. t0fieal fable about the moon being made Of
green cheese, but be sized up the mental
;.caliber Of the young men CT the fiction fac
tory ABORT rightly.
=, They :bit and have been biting Justify
eyer since
:. Yesterday they turned out about yard
~cf new variations on that threadbare old
lie. They had it that the ministers Of the
::city.were Tepudiating their own candidate
. Dir. Ellen; that the ant-dlve people we're
:: not enthusiastic over the candidacy OF the
: man they are pledged to support and who is
;: plalged 10 support them in-closing the dives
: It seems trte to notice such paltry at
/. tenIpts at pure fiction as these, but the Citi-
zeps' Anii-DiFe League has thought best to
i. relterate its allegiance TO l.. R. Ebert and
the y on-Parrisan movement and to this end
: haYe.sgRed the following: