The morning call., 1892-11-08
THE DIVE ORGANS LIES,
How the Chronicle Tried to Bolster
a Lost Cause.
By SLANDERING THE CLERGYMEN.
Their Vigorous DGnunCiatiOnS Of the
Malicious FalSehOOdS.
HIKE DE- Y0UNGS DYING SNARL REFUTED
Ministers and Citizens Brand Ills Publications as False and
Declare Them TO Be Woven Out of Whole Cloth
Which They Undoubtedly Are.
HIKE De YOUNG'S DYING SNARL REFUTED.

I've been having the Chronicle come to
my house" said the Rev. DIR. W. w. Case,
fn his address to the Anti-Dive mass
meeting Sunday afternoon.
A voice: put it out"
''No; will keep it in the house to make
soap with. there's so much lie in it,"
This witticism earned for It's author
thunders of applause from the great crowd
Of enthusiastic Non -Partisans gathered in
Odd Fellows Hall Sunday afternoon.
II was true enough then. as the speaker
we'll knew, having been himself one of the
victims Of the Chronicles falsehoods, but
DR.. Case little thought at chat time how the
Chronicle was preparing to corroborate his
estimate of it by the publication of a false
hood so gigantic and daring in substance
and execution as to completely overshadow
the efforts OF Baron Munchausen and TO
convert. by comparison, into solemn truth
every other lie uttered since man forSook
the straight and narrow path.
Whom the gods destroy they first
make mad"
This is old and threadbare, but very ap-
posite 10 Nike De Young and his fiction
factory these days.
The organ Of the dives and boodlers and
bosses simply went mad yesterday morning
in its efforts TO dfstort the monster Anti
Dive Non-Parttsan Mass Meeting Of Sun
day afternoon into pro-diye assemblage
In its three columns of misrepresenta-
tiOn regarding that meeting were as many
IaIsen0ods as sentences.
Each wUrd a. lie pure and simple, aad
the whole was malicious and transparent.
Ii was an orderly meeting throughout.
The hall was crowded to fts utmost ca
pacity. The name of L. r. Elert was
cheered aud cheered to the echo. That
Non-Partisan platform and candidates
were indorsed by thunders of applause SO
lond and long that II made the bosses on
Third street tremble and the hideous imi-
tation copper tower qGiVer and shake.
A lady who differed with one of the
speakers upon very immaterial point at
tempted to correct what she deemed a mis-
take then and there.
The audience frowned down this inter-
TuDtion, and the lady retired to an ante
room where she stated her grievance 10
private to the Rev. Mr.. Filben.
When II came his turn to be introduced TO
the audience, Mr.. Filben, very CALAMITY,
stated the lady's side Of the case.
Then the great meeting went on to its
great and glorious end.
Out Of this trivial occurrence the dive
keepers organ woye three columns of abso-
lutte, barefaced falsehood.
And the following statements, published
over the signatures of those who made
them yesterday afternoon, prove this be-
yoDd all cav.
The article In the Chronicle OF
to-day purporting 10 be an account
of the mass-meetlng of the Anti Dive
League on Sunday afternoon is ten
storied lie. 1t is pre-eminently character
istic Of the Chronicles course during this
campaign and bears all the marks of that
highly specialized liar who seems to have
devoted his abnormal legend making talents
particularly to the proceedings OF our asso-
citation.
To traverse In detail this doubly fortified
two-column pictorial falsehood is proftless,
neither is it necessary, as the obvious vic
iousness of the stroke has broken its fangs
1t may be regarded in general, however,
as the expiring snarl of a defeated and
brutally malicious foe who already recog-
nizes in the certain and sweeping victory of
the Non-Partisan party its own Tetribution
and political grave.
As an attack on the Anti-Dlve League It
can be taken as measure of our hitting
power. 1t only uncovers the hidden ulcer.
Most assnredly the dives have at last found
an effective champion. We do not fear the
final issue of this hand-to-hand conflict
with the worst element Of San Francisco
society. Victory Is ours.