The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-10-20

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had money and paid my bills like any
Gentleman, and L had plenty OF bills TO
show for it. The first two or three
YEARS that was in New YORK was
doing well. l had business and nau
money and | had friends, nice once,
and all that; but after the Heralds pub
IcatiOn, in the course OF SIX OF seven
months. got all run down ana run out.
/ STAYED at the st. Nicholas Hotel LOT
week. at the end or 1t they presehteu GhS
hill. did not have any money, ana
fold them that | would see them about
If i'm day or two, and | started TO go.
Inst at that moment their detective
came ont. He was burly fellow and
he was very impudent. | had a good
anti of clothes on and he looked
af INV coat and he says: well,
that is good coat; suppose we take
that; suppose we put him out under
the hvdrant and open the hydrant on
him: suppose we take him around TO
the other hotels and exhibit him. The
detective was abusing me in that way
and finally lost my temper and l told
him not to treat me in that way; that
was a gentleman, and l would certainly
nav them in a very few days; that eX-
Dected some money. Thereup0n ne got
angry and he seized me by the throat
and marched me through the back way
to the Prince street station house. lie
and Mr.. King, one of the junior prOprle-
tors, went with me to the station mouse
and they put me into a cell and locked
me mn all night. The next morning the
detective came there and came to my
cell, and says, How are you, Professor
Saws |. L am about sO-SO. | had never
been arrested before in my life, and L
felt terribly disgraced and very lndlg-
nant at him for doing it. He was bluff
and hilarious in his style and laughed
and talked to me and wanted to know
how much had sued the Herald Tor,
etc. The end of this distressing part OF
the biography is that Gniteaq hnally
got into the TOmbs on the charge OF
false pretenses and that he released by
his relative, Mr.. Scoville. who happened
to be in the city at the time. The Her
aid episode in his history is closed up
with the expression of the opinion that
he would consider it handsome thing
if the proprietor would send him a
check for $4,000 and call the thing
Square" .
GUITEAU AS A SECOND ADVENTIST. Zoo
In the fall of 1875 Guiteau conceived
the curious idea of becoming a great
editor, and endeavOred to purchase the
Chicago Inter-0cean. II intended" he
saws, ''to make it the great paper of the
Northwest" He talked to his friends
about it: but it is needless to add the
project fell through. In the spring of
1876 he was again in Chicago with a
law office. Mr.. Moody started his revi-
val meetings in the fall of that year,
and Guiteau was of course on hand.
About this time his thoughts turned to-
ward theology. "AlOng in November"
he writes, 81 began to get some cOncep-
tiOns about the second coming of Christ.
/ heard the Rev. A. Kittridge, the well
known Presbyterian minister of Chicago
say at Farwell Hall prayer meeting one
day that, as a man of God, he had no
idea when Christ would come. There
seemed to be an impression in
the public mind at that time
and has been ever since
that Christ might come very soon, and
| studied the Bible, and this passage
came to me with great fOrce:-'If will
that he (JOhn) tarry till come, what is
that to thee? This idea was the founda
tiOn to my subsequent discoveries in
reference to the second coming of
Christ az set forth in my book, "The
Truth" prepared the article on the
second coming of Christ at the Public
Library in Chicago during the month of
December. 1876. went there and got
the New Testament and the Concordance
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not think of anything else scarcely du
ring the entire month of December.
while my mind was running on that
idea of the second coming at the de-
structiOn of Jerusalem. The more |
examined the New Testament with the
help of the Concordance to find out just
what the Testament said on the subject
of the second coming the more certain
1 was that got at the truth about 1t,
Nl.A ..Io rVnl
my book, was the result of my discovery
and research and study. Soon after
writing that article l wanted to go out
lecturing to enlightel the world in ref
eTenee to the discovery which / con-
ceived had made, and got the MethO- |
dist Church therein ChicagO-and |
had my intention to deliver the |
lecture well announced in all the |
Chicago papers about the 10th or 18th |
of January, 1877. 1t was Saturday |
night, cold, bitter night, one of the |
cOldest nights of the year, and after
making some preparations and getting |
the hall, after considerable delay and
trouble, / went there to deliver my
lecture on the Second Coming Of Christ
at the Destruction of Jerusalem The |
announcement was made something
like this, Admission, twenty-five cents;
free TO all who cannot afford to pay
twenty-five cents L went there about |
eight O'clock, and found about twenty
five people, .and went on to the stage
and delivered my lecture on the Second
Coming of Christ at the Destruction of
Jerusalem, A. d. TO- The next morn
ing the Chicago Tribune gave me about
three-quarters of column, what they
called a report of the lecture, setting It
forth in rather unfavOrable light, ridi-
euling me, Sc, making fun of the fail
uIe of it, and the publication did me a
great deal of harm. 1t brought me
into contempt, and went to
see the city editor about it, and he was
on high horse and would not make
any correction of it, and went to see
Mr.. Sam Medill, the managing editor,
and he referred the matter to the city
editor, and they would not either of
them give me any satisfaction. They
claimed it was a correct report of what
happened, and they thought it would
have been great deal better if had
not attempted to deliver the lecture, and
certainly thought so when / saw their
report and the result of my attempt. l
finally persuaded the city editor to pub
lish little retraction, which he did the
next morning, which relieved me con-
siderably of the Odium of the previous
publication" Guiteau next describes
his experience as a lecturer in different
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