The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-08
TO EXPEL FAKIRS
sPIRITUALIsTs OF COLORADO WANT
STRAIGHT BUSINESS.

Those Who Have Some Respect for Them
selves and Their Cult VIII Disband the
Present Organization and Revive IL
Under the State Law, Refusing Adnls-
mission to the Fakirs Who are Bringing
the Faith into uisrepute-Kobert Gil
lens Death an IIlustrstion-"hh No'
Recceutz. tb. National Association.
OanvAr chi May 7.[nternecine
ztrife has broken out in the camp Oh lfie
Colorado Spiritual ASSOCIATION anu one
result has been that on Sunday last the
,-aSidant Of the association and the 9TH
A. s~eo,,tiy-e officers resigned and also
81 oo,,nciI Of nine. and on Sunday next
.ba association will dissolve, but only TO
ne horn again in a new organization
Nth a new charter which VIII not be Cd
,a,ned from the National Spiritual asso-
ciatjon as may be thought, but from
Secretary Of State McGaffey. This will
he entirely within the traditions OF the
did association, for the charter which Is
still lived under was obtained two years
ago from the secretary of state. The
state spirituaiists want To be supreme
in control over themselves and the
spirits they commune with; the idea OF
being subject 10 the national assocla-
ton is repungnant to them.
The cause of the extinction OF the OLD
society and the organization or ne"
one is stated to be too much fake ma
terializing and too much fake test pusl-
ness among the members or the assocld-
ton. This. it is complained. has done
h 10 the society," that the
peopfe of Denver have poor opinion or
the spiritualists It is declared that
never was charlatanism so rife in Den
yer as today and ii is fiourishing so wen
that IT is destroying the morals OF local
spiritualisrn, and unless These untoward
manifestations are stopped the respect
able spiritualists and the cause itself
will suffer.
In order TO make themselves appear as
orthodox and so better realize profits
from their spurious claims, many Of the
fakirs joined the Colorado State Spirit
ual association. The object of the new
association is 10 clean Denver of these
creatures. or at least purge the society
of the righteous spiritualists OF their
presence.
Nor are the changes general in their
nature The death Of the late Robert
GiIlen by morphine, because al seance
II had been told him by the alleged
s,pir-it of his second wife that she was
happy in heaven and that she wanted
him there with her, is said to be the re
suit of the depravity to which local
epirituaTism had fallen. There is no
doubt that Gillen committed suicide I'M
der the impression that he had visit
from his dead wife, and the charge Is
made by those familiar with the cir
cumstances that he was imposed upon
by one Of these same fake spiritualfets
the association is trying TO get rid OF by
reorganiza ton.
So strong has grown the feeling
against those accused of being fakirs
that at the meeting of the association
last Sunday afternoon one OF them, a |
woman was publicly charged with be- |
ing a fake Undertaking. medium. Her |
seances were described by some pres |
ent who said that they had found her TO |
be an unmftigated fraud. IT was chaTg-
ed that her spirits were not spirits, but
herself in gauze veil. Her accusers
stated that they had placed themselves
in the hall where the manifestations
were given. so that they saw her with
their own eyes disguise herself for the
imposition, and now what had she 10
say for herself?
The accused. who was present, had
good deal to say She Is large and |
powerful woman. with a strong mascu-
line accent and she defied her accusers.
She denied that she was not orthodox
or that she was in the least fakish. Ac-
cusationS and counter accusations few
10 and fro with almost overwhelming
rapiafty. She had her defenders and
partisans and they were strong enough /
to make ii very unpleasant for her OPP
ponents She and they refused to leave
the association.
After the Sunday session an adjourn
ment was taken to the house Of Mrs.
DR., Green. ClarksOn street and Nine
teeath avenue, and there the executive
off GERS resigned and also the council.
These were the officers: 3. NJ. Cason,
president: Or. Ernest Green, vice presi-
deE: Mrs DR.. Green, secretary; J. NJ.
Kicker. treasurer. These, together with
Messrs. Bennington, Moran. Gavitt and
Mrs. tF1a ger, constituted the council As
named there are only eight in the coun-
eli. there being a vacancy due TO a pre-
vious resigna ton which was not filed.
In resigning, Mr.. Cason said that he
was very weary Of the strife then exist
ing in the body and. as he felt that he
could do nothing to restore harmony or
purify the association. he must resign.
The other officers got up and expressed
themselves in similar vein and it was
decided to accept all the designations.
What was 10 be done was then can
vassed and the result of the cogNations
was that il was decided TO dissolve the
association and to organize a new one
with the Objectionable members left
out. The new charter was 10 state eX-
plicity in words that physical manifes-
tatfons Of spirits by the members was
forbidden and that the objects Of the
ganization were for incubation of
pure philosophy. The corporation is to
keep itself close one and 10 admit no
new members except after the most
careful scrunity. There is 70 be no
more Of the loose method OF the old or
ganizatioh. whereby all that a candi-
date had TO do was u sign his name 90
the roll. II was decided TO meet again |
as the State Colorado Spiritual associa-
ton next Sunday in Nendofe hall, dis |
solve, and reorganize the new society.
To serve during the interim DR.. Green
was elected president pro tenn and
Robert Ward secretary pro TEN. The
association has about 125 members and I
100 OF these are said TO members TO |
whom the majority and therefore the 5
reorganizers have no objections. The ,
meeting will take place at 2.S5 in the af- !
ternoon. =
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