The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-17
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NE Haze Been Treated to Con-
siderabH More of EbochiaI
Ellis
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Now, if Ellis were a man of consequence
you'd find his name among the notables, in
"Who'S Who".
The book is bulky, more than 1900 pages
and contains short sketch of almost every
editor, distinguished lawyer, politician, au-
thor, scientist, scholar, etc, that we can
boast.
But they missed so illustrious person as,
William L. Ellis, Editor of the great Phila-
delphia Record; Editor of the great Philadel,
phia Press; staff correspondent, celebrated
traveller, sporadic orator, and professional
champion of missions that are un-Scriptural.
Strange that 'JVho's Who'' should have over
looked SO exalted a parsonage.
1t is possible that Epoch1cal Ellis may be
in "HhO'S Who" for 19O8-9: if not, you may
bet that he will climb into the neat edition if
he possibly can.
Still yearning to learn something of Ellis,
| turned to ''lhe United Editors Encyclo-
pedia". This is an up-to-date work of forty
volumes. Its purpose IS to give Editors quick
access to knowledge about all persons and
things.
Vainly did | seek the name of William T.
Ellis The noted missionary William Ellis,
who died In 1872, is mentioned, and biogra-
phical sketch given: but there isn't word
about William t., the Perambulating Racket
of the present day
Again | ask: Who and what is VIM. I.
Ellis? He has not been able to write letter,
since he was imported to demolish me, that
was not full of absurdlties; he has not made
speech that was not, at some portion Of it,
hissed The language he uses in addressing
a mixed audience, containing many Southern
ladies,) would cause him to be put out of the
house IT he were not talking to a lot of ex-
cited partisans. Suppose [ were to stand be-
fore an Atlanta audience, speaking of some
public man, and should say of him that he is
a person who "aCe0rs out his pants before he
does his shoes" Would not you be greatly
surprised if [ were not hooted off the stage?
That is the kind of language that Ellis used
about me, and there must have been several
hundred ladies present. He who came down
South because he said there was no Southern
gentleman with sufficient chivalry and cour-
age to call me to account for my alleged attack
upon missionary ladies, used such gross Ian
guage in the presence of ladies' that he was
Kissed.
To pre- udice the audience against me from
the very beginning he declared that | had
said there were more foreign missionaries
ruined by Cinnamon than there were Chinese
converted. Mr.. Ellis says that I not only
made this statement, but that after he had
gone to Macon and jumped on me about it, [
had "the brazen effrontery to repeat the SLAM
der" Every reader of THE JEFFERsoN1ANs,
every reader of the Macon Telegraph, every
reader of "Foreign Missions Exposed", knows
that the charge brought against me by Ellis
is absolutely without foundation. There qOds
a question of veracity between Miss Helen
Clark and newspaper reporter as to whether
she had used the words which the reckless
Ellis tried to saddle on me. She denied hav-
ing used the language attributed to her, but
she repeated what she had told the reporter,
tn11t Tint be hD6 onoa1 tie offont am hI1nhtod