The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-21
Mrs. Nation Is Elected from the
DOwie Meeting.
Insisted on Asking Questions,
Interrupting Elijah's Talk.
HE PRAISES HER WORK
But Said She Had Been Using
Wrong Methods.
Madison Square Garden Packed
and 5000 Couldn't Get In.


New York. Oct 21.-Mr Dowie.
arrayed in evening clothes, talked for
two hours last night before a great
throng in Madison Square Garden, the
burden of his talk being denunciation
of the clergy and the press.
When he began the huge garden was
crowded and the police say six thou
sand persons who could not gain en-
trance were turned away. In half an
hour, however, the crowd began to
surge out. and then the police refused
20 admit any late corners. saying they
feared a riot
It was with difficulty that any SEM
blance Of order was kept. The speaker
was repeatedly interrupted with Kisses
and shouts of disapproval. At one point
DOwie ordered the police to arrest two
men In different parts of the building
who had interrupted him.
Carrie Nation, who occupied a seat
near the front, asked Elijah" to an
swer some questions. He refused, and
ordered her to sit down. Dowie then
praised the spirit in which Mrs. Nation
had warred on the saloon. but said she
used wrong methods. Mrs. Nation
again demanded the privileges of ask
ing questions. At once the Zion guards
surrounded her and with help of sew
era1 policemen elected her.
At this several hundred persons at
the back OF the garden made a rush to
get out. The entrance was blocked in
a moment and Dowie, shouting that the
way had been blocked by the crowd
outside brought there for the purpose
OF creating q disturbance, ordered the
Sioatsts to keep their places He then
requested the audience to be seated
and after getting the side exits opened
he directed the audince to rise in sec
Nnrk at Il,
meeting was one Of continuous disorder
Dowie had announced that he would
reply to an attack by Rev. DR.. -Tamea
IA Buckley published in a magazine
last YEAR, but he only referred to this
subject casually. He attacked Rev. DR.
=. ;. Henson, Rev. DR.. Parkhurst, ]. P.
Morgan and others, and announced that
hereafter he intended to keep the news
paper reporters out of his meetings
Rev. Dr. Chas H. Parkhurst has sent
the following open letter to Dowie:
i do not want to be presuming, but
doubt II 1t is any more preSumptIVe in
me to come and try to clarity you than
It IS for you to come and try to clarity
New York. and 1 don't know which of
US has taken the heavier contract
attended your service at Madison
Square Garden last evening, and 1 went
determined to enjoy it if could
and to be benefited by it and to go
away and refute some of the charges
that 1 had heard alleged against you.
But 1t was of no use; your behavior
on the platform crushed all the sVn-
pathy had with you. I never heard
from a public speaker such a discharge
of wrath and coarse invectives. 1 went
to heaS you preach the gospel and you
preached Dowie, Zion city, 'stinkpot
I was ashamed of you and almost
ashamed to be in your audience It
was along way below the standard
even of the eircuses that 1 have at
tended in the same garden. The only
consolation I could derive, it was so
abominable and so far beyond the
bounds of the responsibility that even
those in your congregation who did not
know what Christianity is would have
no idea that it had anything to do
with what you were saying. OF course,
the righteousness of the performance
was only enhanced by the immensely of
your pretensions. If you claimed to be
only an ordinary man there might be
some hope for you even with what you
call the 'rabble,' but the rabble is dis
eliminating and can discriminate as
keenly as the keenest between prophet
and a juggler between an Elijah and
8 nountebank.
Il say this in no spirit of anger, but
either your head is twisted or your
heart infected, or you have blundered
badly in your method. You can not
guard them into the kingdom of heaven.
hope you will take this in the kindly
spirit in which it is offered and that it
win be blessed to you.'
DoWie's chief aides his wife and son,
are about to leave him for trip abroad.
They will start on Thursday from this
city taking the steamer SaXonia from
Boston. They will go first to England
family still lives. They do not expect
to return to the United States until
next July.