The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-10-30
DOWIEITES DISCOURAGED
Many of Them Want to Give UP Trying
to Save New York.

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 it up, to step forward at
the early meeting in Madison Square
garden today.
Dowie said he should endeavor to
convert the pope. He added thu he
had received many bogus checks since
coming to New York, but that others,
had been good. Turning his attention
to 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 family" he
said.
William A. Brady, the theatrical
manager, who with Lorenzo Winter
was arrested and charged with disor-
DERBY 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 it 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 district
would have been we'll able to tell the
prophet.
The big healing meeting yesterday
was not convincing, but it was as con
Nlnclng 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 it's distracted mother
were unable to quiet it's cries of pain.
This plainly had a bad effect with the
multitude on Dowie's pretensions.
That Dowie feels failur in the air
seems to be indicated by his TRADES.
Perhaps these are characteristic of hin
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 q state as might result in
a man who, recalling the enormous out
lay III money the excursion hither cost,
saw all the expected gain slip from his
grasp and disappear. He might well
sing with the ragtimeist, Everything
is going out and nothing is coming
in"
Wife Tried to Quiet Him.
Several times Sunday and today
DoWie 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' has been denounced
by the newspapers and these attacks
have called forth a torrent Of billings.
gate from him against the
and particularly reporters.
The New York American saws: I'm.
pudencc will carry a charlatan far, bu
sometimes it carries him too far. Brother
DoWie was taught that salutary lessor
yesterday when he attempted to boss al
audience of New Workers as if they haC
been a crowd of 'Zionists,' whose chic
earthly joy apparently is derived from be
inb bullied by just that kind of a master
The New York Mail and Express says
The extraordinary ranter who ragged ant
roared at Madison Square garden yester
day is an example of egotism gone mad
He anneXes heaven and earth. Dowie'i
followers are simple people whom he hat
blinded and stunned by his impudent pro
phetic pretense and who therefore easil,
are led by his talks"
The Brooklyn Eagle says: "Dowie ha,
not reached the population which support
and attends the existing churches. II,
cannot reach them, because he has no
the intelligence or the power. Some be
+ lieve he is a charlatan, and some believ,
he is sincere. but mistaken"