Show I DOME DOWIE TELLS HOW llO HE GOT fiOT OT MILLIONS MIWON I J Gifts Aggregating I Came to Him Hini i l Without Conditions I. I I j CLAIMS ITS IT'S ALL HIS OWN ft Letter to oHm Telling of ot Pl President Alleged lIl I y a and lit 1 Encouragement F FI I Chicago J June ne 13 John 13 John Alexander AlexanderI l I Dowie Dowle In Iii tho the United States Stales court COUlt this c afternoon told his own story lie made matlo madeI I man many astonishing statements in th the I course of or his testimony Yet nothing 1 I that ho said surpassed tho the contents of or ofa n. n confidential letter lettel which he wrote f I R about out President Roosevelt to overseer o Yoli n In iii iyO 1904 who was then one of or I Dowie's Dowies friends and who vho 1 Is now Ills his I hit bitterest t Iest foe Dowie declared that luring during the last I four years ho hu has hns made between 1000 10 I 00 and Legacies and gifts I alone he ho said netted him never ne le less 0 lOO lI and several times as ns asI I much as mis I With ith his t H blazing his weak weak- frame ln c quivering with deep feeling lie at cried that all nil that lint was was as given to toI I him belonged to him him because he ho had hadI I L accept accepted ll no Ito gift Ift to which any condition condi- condi r I lion tion was attached He described hl his real estate operations in iii ZIon and amid told r u 8 L first hand story tul of many events c that lint I until now no noha ha have hahl hl been n inexplicable to tho o who whit were not hot ln In the Inner coun- coun I ells ellis I The confidential letter to tr Voliva was wa it I I load ad to the rhe court couiL A passage la gc of the thc I t letter leller r foil follows 0 s j Zion is a an and never can tIC lie bp anything else hilt but of necessity f I Zion Aon I 1st Republican Wo o 0 must either stand out of all nil politics or Ol take our oni 4 stand as supporting for time the time lime being the Ito Republican part I Promised ZIon Support I l have told Roosevelt that hint he will I get gel ct the support of or myself and tIme Iho p people ople as long mug as ho lie I is willing that Lt God shall rule 1111 and with a n tear teal Jis- Jis cuing in his eye he said Mid I am a ak k theocrat I 1 understand you doctor I J said I I 1 don't dont know what your our political associates would Say My a t. t He lie mid You are too kind to mci me mc i to make mal any use uso of ot this remark ox- ox c In a aN N very general way I I salt Mid Surely II He e said I I dont don't want to h hold hIld l office of Of- I. I ice fice much longer er and I want to be I freo fm-co to Sit say y and antl do things s which I 1 t 1 I cannot cam ho do ell In tIme the presidential chair I pr said You shall come back to lo toI I office Wo Wt 11 need 11 you ou and you ou will wili have to lo take the tIme presidential chair again I ell Ills I I shall take lake the opportunity in lii 4 coining coming back hack t to the United States of if coming through Washington anti and will rill I L tI introduce c you 1 IC I moot you in Ja- Ja JaI I malca to tn the tho Pr t. t It I has It-has has been cn I. I o exceedingly kind of ot the President to lo r ret treat me nie In fn the time 3 way he has and arid If I sa wiy HY that ho hu calls me friend rien I simply say sy the tho truth anti and mil he lie is not ashamed I of it i. i He lie is m my friend I 1 am his He lie is a Christian He lie docs does many things thing that I do 10 not approve of or oa is supposed to do Io them which Is another I thing thinS but hut as to lo his fundamental principles prin primi- j. j there is simply no question question- t ho lie Is a n t man of Go God Cod Dowie made a splendid witness for hl his hia own cause c He lIe spoke o In II n a loud 1 4 1 and clear voice volee and anti In a deliberate I manner munner except at rare moments when tho the thought of hi his banishment over over- I came him bun and ami with wILl tas tears ho he would I. I I fling HnS d defiance to his enemies I 0 n II Welcome cl Death I i In the tho COl course SO of or his t testimony Dowie I'S tremblingly I begged for death cath to relieve T him of his S sorrows and anil his defeats v f He Tie declared also that should he ho lie die tle i he lie would come conic back baek to earth a again aln as a Elijah Eljah the Restorer I Dowie Dowl gave the following rules to lo toI I guide a man nina who is about to lo die tile S Do things things iu In order order even oven when you 1 L go to lo di die Dont Don't make a n. splash and a mess messof o of It f.- f. I Go to your rOU death cath couch an and await I the thc end in calm I- I The lime occasion for the discussion 0 of death came caine when Dowie lighting for tor forthe or the ownership of or ZIon City Cily and antl the reclaiming of possession which which which-Is is now in time the hands of it Wilbur G. G Volva i ir f was telling of his hj first serious illness Iness 4 as part of the tIme testimony his I a on omi pres- pres i Ii cut ent competency lo tu rule th the city cily ely which I- I ho i built i Dowle Dowie ma made e the amazing assertion 1 that after he lie was J t stricken ho lie lay J ioWa down to die lie but hut awoke two t o hours lat lat- alive f er i I 1 was ivas never so disgusted ns as when I awoke two hours later latel I alive alve he lie hl hes said l H I and I arn an stilt still sll disgusted |