Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-09-26
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FOOLED" A REPORTER.

All is not serene at Tyler's lake.
Some OF the professional mediums are
very much dissatisfied with the Ga
zette's reports OF the camp meeting.
And they are trying to persuade every
body that this paper is making war
on spirltuallsm, which is clearly not
the case. Not word has been said
or Will be said against spiritualism.
The officers OF the association are
willing to have lengthy reports of the
meeting, and these are being furnished
but 1t seems that whatever appears as
uncompllmentary to any medium who
happens TO be on hand is taken by
them as unkind, though 1t is clearly
not meant TO be so. The following
letter was sent in yesterday:
Editor Gazette-1n your issue OF 25th
you kindly devote a column OF your pa
per to our spiritual camp meeting, but
unkindly cast II reflection on the me
dlumship and good name of our wor-
thy sister, Mrs, e. NJ Gilman. when
you publish an Interview with child
concerning materializlng seance,
while we respect the opinion of the re-
pOrteTs little child friend" we wish
TO say that this Is not an orthodox
camp, neither is 1t place where side
shows VIII be endorsed. but a camp
where thinkers have come together TO
enjoy that which the church apd courts
have failed to give to humanity-the
proof of future life ana spirit return;
and as for sister Gllmau's mediumship,
and being as you say assisted by her
husband we wish to emphaticully
state that We have tested her me-
diumship when her husband was hum
dreds OF miles distant from her and
with equally as good results as IL he
had been present.
Your reporter only showed his igno-
rance regarding spiritualism by inter
viewing II child when he could easily
have questioned either OF the twenty
ave grown sltters at the seance re-
ierred TO- We ask no favor from the
law, the public or the press, but we
demand Justice.
w. J. MCCONNELL. Secretary.
j. C. WATKINS. President.
These good gentlemen are moi n III.
Tie Indignant because the reporter re-
peated the testimony OF child as
To- the fraud practiced In seance
lney demand to know why the repor-
Ter ala not apply for Information TO
some one of the TWO score people who
dld not see the stuffed dolI,' ''ris
strange that the reporter was 80 STUPID
as not TO apply to one Of the me
ulunts friends, who would not have
seen anything OF the sort, instead OF 10
"A mere child who had not learned Thai
she should not always tell the truth.
IL IL safe To say that this little piri
VIII not again be guilty OF doing any
tnins 50 unohristian as TO expose a
palpabie effort To defraud, I'VE have
spotted the person the reporter re-
ferred to-" gleofully declared Mr.. Gil
man, and she VIII probably be given n
severe lesson In naturalization.
~ some confederate person, pirltuaI-
ISL or otherwise. thinks Ii unklnd to
REFER to the tricks OF materidlizing me
diums as frauds. lot them read this
paragraph, written by woman that
Lyman G. Howe declares a devout
splritualist:
us there genuine materializatIon?
hundreds of honest men and women
say they have had II In their own
hoines whose doors have never opened
To itinerant professional mediums, THE
selnce rooms OF Lily Dale cannot be
ana are not recommended by thu local
guardians as a good place FOR RlIeptlcs.
Ihe EXPRESS correspondent VIII add
that they are not good place for
Lny SER Inspecting, aspiring 'han or
| woman. They are show rooms for
/ questionable shows. In one OF these
! mysterious places this summer, which
Is presided over by one Hugh Moore.
me infpositions practlced upon the
public have been OF the boldest ever
attempted at Lily Dale"
| Yet Hugh Moore has been strongly
Endorsed by as good men us Messrs.
/ Watkins and Mcconnell Huish Moore
Is no more u believer In spiritualism
than the offending reporter for the Ga
zette He is q believer In nothing but
| Hugh Moore's own shrewdness and
| the gulibillty of attendants OF annual
camp meetings. He has been exposed
time and again. as at Lily Dale, and
denounced by honest spirtualsts.
Mr.. Jules Wallace and many other
spirltualists ON the grounds objected 70
what the Gazette said yesterday con-
corning Mr.. Donovan as rejecting upon
his character az a medium. In The
first place, the charges against him
We're not made by spirit" and
though they We're repeated In a spirit
uallst paper. the whole thing was
clipped from the Buffalo Express, a
paper hostile 10 splritualism In the
second place, Mr.. Donovan was es.
pecially engaged at Lilly Dale to sil
for Mrs. Pettingill TO see what he could
get for her In the way OF developments
AZ the same time. he was engaged by
her as confidential clerk. private secre-
tary and medium. This position wa.
objected TO by her son-in-law. Mr.,
Bates. who, through jealousy and Vari
Gus other causes which cannot nt ex
plalned. DID ull In his power to re-
fect on Mr.. Donovnn's character ant
medium ship a truth loving public car
readily see how great part the per
sonal relations ~ mother-in-lnw .anC
medium. cupidlty and cussodness. plaS
In the whole Transaction. Investigation
viii show that spite ana selfshnesss OF
the part OF Bates were at the bottom
OF the charges.
During Ills short stay at Fort wortl
MIR. Donovan gave abundant evidence
10 muny prominent citizens OF his won
derful power as an Independent slat,
writer That entire satisfaction wa
shown by them with the messages re
ceiyed may be proven by afiidavits, 4
called for.
The protest from Donovan's friend
is timely, and n given TO the publ
with much readiness. though the ~
porter wrote that these charges wei
made By splrituallst" instead o
by spirit" II the EuGaio Eek
press Ia hostile To spisitualisn
| THIS Is not published i,lr the purpos