The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1918-03-30
Man Who Came to Tulsa and Left
with Big Wad l. a Proven
ImpOstcr.
Kansas Minister who Was Born n
Same Town as McDuffic Tells of
His DuplicitN.

Some years ago strange man
made his appearance among the peo
pic of Oklahoma and by means of
strange chimincal tales of the Won
derful blessings awaiting colored
people who would only 20 with him
to enjoy IT, This man was Chief
Sam. man who exercised a pecu
liar influence over great masses OF.
our people. SO much so that he.
colld. would and did tell all ginds of
lies about the kingdom i'm Gold Goa
Africa over which he presided and
many OF our people. some of them
wcll-to-do and apparently intelligent
believed him and were fools enough
to acll their homes and other prop
erty to 20 with Chief Sam to Afria
The better thinking people investi-
gated the African chief and his
claims and found them false. They
exposed the imposter. but the greIt
majority of the people were pro-
Chief Sam and would not listen to
reason. As a result many of them
cold everything they had and left
with their new leader after raising
thousands Of dollars for him. The
people fairly worshiped him and
many lifelong friends became
estranged because of him. In some
communities it was dangerous to
speak against Chief Sam and his pro
ject. Finally many pulled away
from their best friends and left with
Chief Sam for Gold Coast Africa
where they expected to live in peace
fuM bills sand luxury the remainder
of their lives. But we all know what
happened Cablegrams and letters
came to tell of the great suffering
the chiefs followers were under
going. Appeals came for money or
tickets to relieve them from suffer
ing and death that threatened them
and actually visited many of them.
Eventually nearly all Of those who
lived over the experience returned
with bowed heads admitting that
they had been the worst kind Of
fools The better thinking intell'-
gent people maryeled that so many of
our people were without reason or
common-sense judgment in their re-
liglous frenzie over Chief Sam. But
it was useless to denounce the i'm
poster as many of us did, because the
masses believed in him. So II seems
in the case of S. Douglas McDufiie.
who came to Tulsa for the expressed
purpose of making money as re-
nowned shouting evangelist. lie
came and proclaimed proving him
self an invetorate liar to the salts
faction OF any sound minded clean
hearted man or woman who heard
him. but Notwithstanding his bold
and careless, wreckless method OF
handling the truth many of our peo-
pie were wrapped up in him and al
most worshipped him. In fact the
masses seem to have followed him
like hungry sheep following their
SHEPPARD, Notwithstanding his moral
unfitness to lead them. II did not
take the Star long to discover the
mans true character and it was our
duty to expose him as soon as We
we're convinced that he was a false
leader This we have done in the
face of severe criticism Some of oul
critics being those who have hereto
fore been friendly to us
For instance, prominent business
man. member of the church where
McDuffie pulled off his show, haC
run an ad in the Star practically eyeI
since the first issue of the paper il
Tulsa, discontinued the same afte
our first attack on McDuffie holding
them, as he probably does now, tina
we were not justified in the exposure
of the great CD evange list.
But our cause nor our conviction
was not in the least changed, our af
fected by his action. Nor would /
have been had every one of our ad
vertisers withdrew their supper
from us just as this one did.
1t is the sacred duty OF every news
paper to expose any and all kinds o
corruption and whenever and where
ever the Star finds it, certainly
will be exposed-regardless OF tn
cost. We have maintained that Nc
Duffie is a fake and a fraud an IN
verterate liar and a sacreligious i'm
poster. And we have produced tn
evidence to prove our contention.
Still there are people weak minde
enough to hate the editor of this pa