In the Spring of 1904, I was in the office of Miss Lucy Page Gaston, the National President of the Anti-Cigarette League.  I saw on the walls of her room Mr. Roosevelt’s picture.  I said, “My dear Miss Lucy, why do you have that picture in here?  Don’t you know, he is a cigarette smoker?” She said, she did not know it.  I said, “let me tear that up.  Did this man who is at the head of affairs in this nation ever say a word against this vice?  Although he is sworn to protect from just such.  This brave, good woman, whose heart, soul, and body is dedicated to saving the young men of our land did not seem to recognize the fact that Democrats and Republicans (so-called) were the head and front of all the corruption we have.  At last, I said, “If you will write to Mr. Roosevelt and get his statement that he does not, nor ever did smoke cigarettes I will give You $50 for your work, she said she would.  She wrote to the President, got no response from him, but Mr. Loeb, his secretary wrote that the President, did not nor ever had used tobacco in any form.  She sent this to me, of course I was not to be caught with such chaff.  I wrote her so, telling her of the time when Mr. McKinley wished to deny the fact, that he rented his property in Canton, Ohio, for saloon purposes, his minister denied this, but the ‘Chicago Voice’ proved that he did.  I suppose Mr. Roosevelt got his minister to write what he dared not.  I wrote her that old birds were not easily fooled with chaff, also stating, that if she would get a statement that Mr. Roosevelt was not a beer drinker, I would give her another $50.00.  Of course she could not do this, but the Republican Press published all over the country that Miss Gaston got the evidence and I paid the $50.00, but not one word of this was true.

CHAPTER XXIV.

SISTER LUCY WILHOITE’S VISION.—­WRITES TO ME FOR CO-OPERATION IN MAKING RAID ON MAHAN’S WHOLESALE LIQUOR HOUSE.—­HESITATE ON ACCOUNT PRESSING ENGAGEMENTS AHEAD.—­ANSWER THE CALL.—­RAID SET FOR 29TH.—­W.  C. T. U. CONVENTION IN SESSION.—­FOUR SISTERS AND MYSELF START FROM M. E. CHURCH.—­A CALL FOR THE POLICE BEFORE WE COULD EFFECT AN ENTRANCE.—­TAKEN TO JAIL IN HOODLUM WAGON.—­ UNHEALTHY CONDITION OF CELL.—­IN JAIL FROM FRIDAY TO MONDAY.—­ GOOD OLD PENTECOSTAL TIME ON SUNDAY—­COUNTY JAIL MONDAY—­TRIAL WEDNESDAY—­JAIL SENTENCE AND FINES—­APPEAL TO DISTRICT COURT.

In the Fall of 1904, I received a letter from Sister Lucy Wilhoite of Wichita, telling me of a vision, which I will relate here in her own words:  “During a severe illness, last July, the Lord appeared unto me and revealed many wonderful things concerning our work in which I have been engaged for seven years.  Temperance and Prohibition.