The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-21
MRS. NATION TACKLES DOWlE,
ALMOST 4 RIOT BEFORE SIZE GOT
OUT or HIS MEETING.
And All The Other Cranks We're There
Never Was Such a Collection Of Ill
Balanced Brains a. These Garden

Carrie Nation tried to butt in on the
Prophet Elijah at Madison Square Garden
last night. and had to be put out by the
police. She made two attempts to divide
the audienc, with Dowie. The first time
Dowie addressed her with loving and kindly
words, and persuaded her to obey some of
his Zion Guards and sit down.
Tie second time she persisted in getting
into the gabfest with so much vehemence
that she caused small riot Dowie with
that gcneralship and executive ability of
which he is an acknowledged master, put
down the racket and sent the audience
away quietly after Carrie had been elected.
Elijah had been trying to furnish an
answer 10 DR.. James NJ. Buckeyes magazine
article about him when Mrs. Nat ion inter-
ruped him. With his absolute inability
to talk continuously on any one subject he
had branched of into every subject VI der
the sGn-but mostly into the vileness of
reporters, whom he called -razor-backed
swine and other names less printable.
N the midst of one of these TRADES, Carrie
hubbed up with her usual urbane smile in
The centre aisle, rather forward Of the mid
do OF the Garden
Doctor" she shouted. Il want to ask
you a quest ion."
Elijah had never seen his dist inguished
competitor before, and with his usual
ronptness yelled back at her:
"St down | won't answer any oues-
tons Guards, make that woman keep
quiet
The irrepressible Carrie bobbed and
smiled in her own glad, good natured way.
But, DOCTOR" she cried, in voice to be
heard all over the Garden Just one ques-
ton
A number OF Elijah overseers went up
TO him az he ran up and down the platform
shouting to the guards. One Of them must
have told him who his nterrupter was.
Il am informed he shouted, that it is
Carrie Nation
Carrie, who had been compelled to sit
down, bobbed up and curtsied,
yes, doctor she cried, land want -"
My ueur Mrs. Nation" said Dowie
in his gentlest tones. "lny dear sister, sit
down. Please. sit down. I love you, my
sister, and admire your courage, though
We may not always approve OF your
methods. Nevertheless, admire your spirit.
We are glad to have you with us and
will you, please, sit down and not allow
yourself to be used by those who have
organized to break up these meetings"
Carrie blushed and sat down.
Elijah went on with his remarks on DR..
Buckley and the rest of the universe. He
called DR.. Buckley a micromaniac. 70 say
nothing of demo minatng him liar and no
gentleman. But he had no sooner fin
ished his address-if such Il succession
of rambling, inCoherent remarks could be
called an address-than Carrie was up and
screaming again. This time there was a
lot OF uproar, and she was not heard after
her first Shrill request
"NCW dear doctor can't 7, please, talhf"
Dowie raised his hand and began to shout
his closing prayer, sentence by sentence,
while the host made responses. At the
end of the prayer he started hymn The
band played. Carrie was still yelling in
the middle of a crowd of Zion Guards and
few policemen. She refused to stop. and
was led out of the Garden.
great crowd of non-Rest orationsts
made rush through the aisles toward Mrs
Nation az she went, and there was an at
tempt to hustle her out of the hands of the
police. For about two minutes the pros
poets Of a riot and dangerous rush seemed
very good. But Dowie and his deacons
kept yelling:
"Sit down! Everybody sit down! Let
every member of Zion sit down. Let every
good citizen sit down"
Order was restored at the front. The
choir was still singing with Il mighty
chorus. ~, Gradually everybody ala sit
swept her out into the street. Dowie gave
directions for letting out, section by Sec
ton the remainder of the audience, and
the most strenuous meeting yet III Dowie's
visitation came to an end,
Students of added and twisted brains
have been prophesying for several days
that there would be trouble In the Garden
at the night meetings before the week was
far gone. Eight o'clock every mig ht brings
crowd Of about 5000 New lor keTs into
the place. Every night, an hour later, the
tide GIBBS. Every outgoing tide leaves
few cran1s behind it,
The cranks never want to go home-they
would like to stay and argue with Dowie
all night. Every variety from mild to
acute is there. There are single takers
and vegetarians; Anarci lists and Tree love
advocates Great Thinkers and plain luna
tics.
Every night tho percentage of people
with queer bees in their bonnets has in
creased On Monday night they made
themselves heard all over the Garden. Last
light they were yelling from all parts OF he
house. Most Of them could not be under
stood, but the type OF question they, asked
was well typihed by one -whiskered
person with an unholy glare in his eye, who
rose in the north gallery and screamed;
what want to know is: what do you
claim?"
These pitiful folk hang about the Garden
all day long. The man who says that ne IL
Elijah and is said to have made s35 900, 900
by sticking to it arou5es either their ad-
miration or their rage or contempt, but
the place where he is is their mecca.
colarless man who walked sidewse,
swung his arms like windmill and whose
ears stuck out like block signals, held up
two reporters outside the Garden yesterday
afternoon and whispered to them:
Did you see him In there? Yes? Did
he tell you he was Elijah? Well, say,
tell him I'm out here waiting to see him.
My chariot ran away, but I'm going to get
him to give me another. I'm Naaman.
There were sixty others in more or less
Ike condition of brain to be seen In walk
about the Garden at any time OF day. There
are more coming, II Dowie's mail is any
indication Maniacs signing themselves
God and John, the Baptist have writ
ten to him, as he announced on the plat
form last night, threatening him with
death
by the end OF this week, said one Zionite
yesterday-one whose sense OF humor has
not altogether disappeared in his religious
earnestness--"we will have the finest en-.
Genealogical exhibition in the world around
here. ] doubt II so many bugs were ever
gathered under one roof before. unless IL
was In an insane asylum"
He was speaking, OF course, not OF ms
own people, who are for the most part
rather sensible, normal appearing people
but OF the host Of cranks to whom DoWle
mas made the Garden a mecca
Dowie's own people, aside from the
H. NJ