The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-01
DARLINGTON Is FIRM
HE WILL HAVE No CONFERENCE
WITH sALvATIoNIsT RELATIVES.
His Terms for a. Conference Rejected
by Mrs. Booth-Tucker - The Gem
erals Message to Americans.

NEW YORK, March 31.-The following
statement was given out by Commander and
Mrs. Ballington Booth at the Bible house to-
night:
when Commissioner Emma Booth-Tucker
landed on Saturday last she was met by
letter from Commander Booth, in which he
stated that having heard through the press
that she desired to see him, ne was wiling
to meet her at her convenience. Sne an
wished the interview to take place as soon
as possible. The Commander and Mrs. Booth
being in Philadelphia at the time. appointed S
Booth Tucker wrote them that it was incon-
venient as to the hour, owing TO having
then changed the hour to o'clock. but Mrs.
Booth-Tucker objected to the stipulation that
they have a witness present. She insisted
that the meeting must be private, without any
witnesses of their choosing Commander
Booth then explained over the telephone that,
in view of the fact that his previous inter-
views with Londons representative had
taken place without any witness other than
Mrs. Booth, and he had been misquoted by
them In consequence, his version having even
been deliberately branded by Miss Booth as
terview impossible.
"He had arranged for a trusted friend to
be present and positively declined, in view of
the public interest attached to this interview.
and his position and present stand before
the world to agree to what ne CONSIDERED Sn
ing to see his sister, as he has repeatedly
stated, but, under existing circumstances an
unwitnessed interview could only tend to fur
Their misunderstanding.
Seeing that they rendered the interview
impossible, he then stated to his sister over
the telephone, in the hearing of Mrs Balling-
ton Booth and Lieutenant Colonel Glenn, me
following decision: That he would not, under
any consideration, change his present atti-
tude and decision. That after the mislead-
ments made by London and their representa-
tives here, he could not entertain the idea
of receiving any propositions to re-enter the
army"
The meeting between brother and sister
is off, at least for the present. Commits
sioner Carlton said tonight that Balling-
ton Booth insisted on q witness, his physi-
clan. DR.. McKelway. of Philadelphia. being
present. Mrs. Booth-Tucker replied to this
by saying that If they met as brother and
sister she saw no need OF a third party be-
ing present. In his letter tonight Ballng-
ton Booth told his sister he would send
Colonel Glenn with a coach to the head
quarters, where she Is stopping, on West
Thirteenth street, and wanted her to go
to where he would take her to meet him.
Where the meeting place was to be Mrs.
Booth-Tucker did not know. She was not
at all pleased with this and promptly dis
patched message to the volunteer head
quarters in the Bible house, telling him not
Mrs. Booth-Tucker tonight met her staff
officer in the barracks of the Fourteenth
street headquarters She read the letters
she had received from her brother, and is
said to have expressed herself as being not
at all pleased with the way he had written
for their meeting and interview. 1t was
said by the Volunteers that the telegram
sent to BallinEton Booth at Philadelphia
announcing the death of Mrs. Booth Tuck
er'S baby and also the death of his sister
Lucy's child in India were sent at a time
IL would reach him in the middle of a meet
ing and worry him. Mrs. Booth-Tucker in
her first letter TO her brother to-day ex-
pressed some surprise that he had not men,
toned anything about the death of the
babies. In his next message to her he ex-
planned that he did not think it necessary
to do so by letter, but was keeping his re-
grets, etc., for the meeting
Darlington Booth to-day announced that
the property of the Volunteers would be
held in the names of seven representative
American citizens.
General Booths Position.
NEW YORK, March 31.-The Independent,
of this city,. recently cabled to William
Booth, chief of the Salvation Army, that It
was willing to present authenticity to the
American public his position and views on
the present disturbance within the ranks of
that organization. General Booth responded
by cable to the extent of one thousand words
In conclusion he said:
"a very little time will show those of our
American friends who have been tempted to
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