The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1903-10-29
D0WIE WOULD
DESTROY THE PRESS
Prophet, With Tears Streams
ing Down Face, Denounees
Newspapers.
a x 4 ZIG SENSATION
Claims He Is Not the Son Of John
3owie, but His Father Was a Brit
lsh Army offcer-Audience
Given to Much Applause.

New York, Oct. 2S.-In q broken voice,
with tears streaming down his tace,
his body shaking with emotion, john
Alexander Dowie stood on the Platform
in Madison Square garden before an
audience of 10000 persons and an
nounced that in truth he was not the
son of John Murray Dowie OF Essex,
Ia, from whom he takes his nallles but
that his father was d British army or
ficer OF high family, n the husband
of his mother by common law mar
riage. He heaped Nlii1icaiiun aid de-
nunciation or John Murray DoWle, Who,
he declared, had made his mother be-
lieve her common law marriage to-
DoWie's father vas shameful, and, the
army officer having been taken away
from his mother BY his relatives, his
mother in the first tiush OF her Shame
had sought to give her son a name by
marrying John Murray Dowie.
The revelation was made at the end
of al hours TRADE against the press
OF New York, its treatment of his work
and himself. The reporters We're de-
nounced as yellow dogs, poisonous
reptiles, Who nave wrecked thousands
of homes and broken thousands OF
hearts"
He led up to the publication of ex-
tracts from letters passing between
himself n John Murray bowie indi-
eating DoWie-s renurciatlon of the lat
ter parent, and Which We're responsible
for the general soverseer's partial expo
sition OF the great secret of his life.
Shouting at one II in a fit Of
violent rage at the newspapers, MIR.
bowie would the next moment speak
in the most gentle voice OF his mother
and of his wife. Women wept, and at
times bursts Of applause greeted his
declarations.
Would Be ElackmaiIed.
Dowie announced that one year ago
he, had addressed a meeting in Chicago
blackmail him by a man writing Irorl
Boston, who said he had certain let
tiers which had passed between Dowie
and John Murray Dowie.
That man wrote me-" said MI.
Dowie, that the letters, if published,
might cause me annoyance, and in the
generosity of lis heart said that for
instead OF to a Chicago newspaper.
CARRIED extracts from these letters
We're published in a IN tnis city
yesterday. i challenged that paper to
produce the original letters. what was
printed being only misrepresentilg -X-
distorted quotations and largely
pure connection, obtttinsd either nom
the man who tried to ~biacknaail me a
year ago, gotten from John Murray
DoWie by him at Essex, Ia, or else
John Murray DoWie, poor, wicked man.
was SOLAR lost to shame as TO sell the
letters of him, Who he falsely said, a
his SON.. These letters have come
either by robbery or a sin much deeper
and more wicked. the basest OF all sins.
The best proof that John Murray
DoWie is not my father is,"ha shouted,
that he has given up my letters to
him, ~rebuking him for the most terri
BILE sin a man could ever commit, in
my judgment. We're it all against my
self l would not care; but there is one.
the dearest. sweetest, purest women
that ever was, who is now ten years,
thank God, in heaven, my mother.
II denounce the publication of those
letters because they are false in nan
parts, extracts being omitted, thereby
distorting the meaning o fthe rest,
Others Confirm Story.
Mr.. Dowie up to this point had old
planned that he had laid the matter a
year ago before some of his high
church officials. He called out Over
seer v. ". Barnes, formerly a judge in
South Dakota and now judicial arbi-
TRAITOR Of Zion and general counsel, and
Charles j. Barnard, lions financial
agent.
The last words, pronounced with SOL
emnity over the great still garden, fell
on the audience like an irrevocable
dictum, and in a few seconds a great
burst of applause greeted the speaker.
My father was a man of high stand
Ing. He led one of the great charges i'll
the Crimean war, and died like a sol-
der at the head of his troops.
II want to say that ! never wanted this
story to come out, but 1t is known that
I am not the son of the miserable scoun
dral, who, in order to strike at me sold
the letters in which i reproached him, to
the vile press of New York"
Denounces tbs Press.
Dowie burst into invective of the bit
teresr type against the press for publish
ing the letters. He ragged like a man
crazed by the enormity of the injury done
him, and then, as il spent by the exertion
Of his TRADE, broke down and wept. He
said he was glad his wife and son were
away, SO that he could bear the humilia-
ton alone. He likened himself to David
and solomon, but added that he did not
hold himself to be an illegitimate son. At
the close of the address Dowie pro-
nounced this benediction:
God look down on the Irresponsible
of criminals who write the papers =
publish their lies, and have mercy :
on them. Have mercy, oh, God, andS
grant grace to the country and may it