The morning call., 1892-11-07
PROTESTING WRITER'S.
The Chronicle Employees Are
Out for Ellert.
THEY WILL HELP TO ELECT HIM.
A Strong Reputation Of the Recent
Bitter Attacks.
Mike de Young's Campaign Of Lies Falls
Flat, as His Own Men Will Not
Support Him.

A long and bitter campaign of falseho cd
will be closed by the Chronicle to-day.
In order to boost brazen Mike de Young
into the United States Senate that sheet has
made lying an especial feature of its politi-
cal literature.
1t has lied about Mr. Ellert from start to
finish.
1t has declared that the Antl-Dive League
was against him, when its members were
the most enthusiastic Of Non-Partisans and
the strongest of his supporters.
1t has declared that the clergy was against
him, when the exact reverse of that state
ment was true. the great majority of our
leading diyines being with him. and only
a few weaklings, controlled by the Chronl-
Gle, being foolish enough to oppose the
great reform movement that he represents.
1t has declared Mr.. Ellert to be bad
fnancier, when he Is one Of the best, IL not
the best we ever had in the Board of Super
yisors
1t has declared that Mr.. Ellert's true name
was Levi Rothschild Ellert, thus seek
Ing 10 gain votes among the enemies OF the
Hebrews, although it knew that his name
was Richard and not "Rothschild." But
this lie gained many more votes for the
Non-Partisan candidate than ii lost him,
| as both Jew and Christian resent the in
tended insult to our reputable Hebrew ele-
ment
1t has declared that the old soldiers and
sailors of the League we're against Mr.. ELL
| ert when they had unanimously indorsed
| his candidacy and will support him TO man.
This lie has acted as another boomerang, as
such lies always do.
1t has even gone so far as to assert that
the Salvation Army had been prosecuted by
Mr.. Ellert, when the leaders OF the army
are strong In their declarations that by no
word nor deed has that gentleman ever op-
posed them.
THE CALL has exposed these knavish
lies one by one fully and completely. But
this Is not all. 1t now proposes to show
that Mike de Young Is himself personally
responsible for all these untruths. and that
they did not creep into the Chronicle un-
aware or unknown to him.
Several Of the writer's of the Chronicle
wish it to be thoroughly understood that
what the Chronicle has printed of their
writings has been horribly and strangely
! distorted before it went to the printers.
They wish TO declare through the column s
Of The CALL that they are not responsible
for these lies. nor can they support the pro-
| prietor Of the Chronicle in them.
OF course, the names of these writer's can
not be made public. The gentlemen who
made these statements would at once lose
their situations. which they can Ill afford to
| do, a they have families TO support.
Some Of the articles denouncing Mr..
| Ellert have really been written by these
gentlemen under De Youug's orders, but
few have gone into type in the way they
were originally prepared.
Writing agains ones own convictions on
| soimportant a matter as this great citizens
| movement is a very hard thing to do. Blu,
that is what most of the Chronicle writers
| have been forced to.
The writers believed Mr.. Ellert to be tht
best man for Mayor that there was before
| the public.
| They had 10 write that he was the worst
and then had 10 submit to the humiliation
of seeing their words in print so distorted
| as to make them almost unrecognizable a:
| their own productions.
That the Chronicle does not stand on the
truth in this campaign; that its writer:
have said one thing when they meant an.
| other; that they do not support Mr. Eastor
privately, but that they do support Mr
| Ebert is conclusively shown by the follow.
ing vote, polled by THE CALL among the
Chronicle writers and other employees Of
that paper: