Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1903-10-29
powIelres DISCOURAGED
Many Of Them Want 70 Give Up Trying
ia Save New York.

Many OF Them Want 60 Give Up Trying
to Save New York.
New York. Oct. 24.-Two hundred fol-
lowers OF John Alexander Dowie indi-
Gated they were tired of the work OF
reforming New York city and wanted
to return to Zion City. when General
Overseer' invited all who wanted to
give up the work and give others the
chance to take 1t up, to step forward at
the early meeting in Madison square
garden today.
DoWle said he should endeavOr to
convert the pope. He added that he
had received many bogus checks since
coming to New York, but that others
had been good. Turning his attention
10 Kissing Dowie said people should be
careful OF their kisses and use them
carefully. even in the family.
Why, my son Gladstone never kissed
a woman outside our own family he
said.
William A. Brady. the theatrical
manager. who with Lorenzo Winter
was arrested and charged with disor-
defly conduct in the crowd about
Dowie's meeting In Madison Square
garden last night. was discharged in
police court today. Winter was paroled
to give him opportunity to bring wit
nesses to testify to the brutality and
bad Judgment Of the police.
Crusade a Failure.
Dowie Is not having the success he
anticipated when he left Illinois for
wicked Gotham" So far the "proph-
ct has not had a single convert, and
Elijah knows now. If he never did be-
fore. what 1t is to be, in the language
OF the worldly, up against it,"
The present time is not propitious
here for games like Dowie's. as the
people down In the Wall street diS srict
would have been we'll able to tell the
prophet.
The big healing" meeting yesterday
was not convincing, but it was as con-
vincing as the one today. All the in
carnations and the grooming of the va
rious overseers brought to bear on a
suffering infant taken to Madison
Square garden by its distracted mother
We're unable to quiet its cries of pain.
This plainly had a bad effect with the
multitude on Dowie's pretensions.
hat Dowfe feels failure in the air
seems to be indicated by his trades.
Perhaps these are characteristic of him
always. but his outbursts Sunday,
when the people left his meeting in
droves. and again today. when his
crusade made no Roadway. showed
plainly that he is frantic with rage
In Just such a state as might result in
q man who. recalling the out
lay In money the excursion hither cost.
saw all the expected gain slip from his
grasp and disappear. He might we'll
I with the ragtimeist, Everything
~ going out and nothing is coming
In"
Wife Tried TO Quiet Him.
Several times Sunday and today
Dovie got into such a frenzy that his
wife. who seems to be a well-balanced
and sensible woman. had to pull his
coat tails to make him subside.
The Prophet" mas been denounced
by the newspapers n these attacks
have called forth a torrent of billings
gate from him against the newspapers
n particularly reporters.
Inc New York American says: I'm
pudence Will carry a charlatan far, but
sometimes 1t carries him too far. Brother
Lowie was taught that salutary lesson
yesterday when he attempted to boss an
audience of New Workers. as IL they had
been a Grove of 'Zionists.' who's chief
earthly joy apparently is derived from be-
inb bullied by just that 4 of a MASTER
Tie New York Mail and Express says:
The extraordinary ranter who ragged and
roafed at Madison Square garden yester-
day ia an example of egotism gone mad.
He annexes heaven and earth. Dowie's
followers are simple people whom he had
blinded and stunned by his impudent pro-
phetic p%retense and who therefore easily
are led by his talks"
TIL Brooklyn Eagle says: 'Dowie has
not reached the population which supports
and attends the existing churches. He
mo reach them, beCHuse he has rUt
the intelligence or the power. Some be-
.ieve he Is a charlatan. n some believe
he is sincere. but mistaken"