The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-05-30
THE NEW BISHOPS CHOSEN.
METHODIST CONFERENCE ELECTION
Drs. Vincent and Fitzgerald Elected TO
Bishoprics-Several Ballots Necessary
to Settle Shc Matter--Sketches of
the Successful Men.

NEW YORK, May 22.4For the first time
since the twentieth general methodist confer
ence began, every seat in thevast auditorium
of the Metropolitan opera house was filed to-
day when Bishop Mallalier opened the session.
The question of the selection of a second mis-
sionary bishop to India came up Immediately
after the reading of the journal. Dr. Flood
made an earnest appeal for such a bishopric.
DIR. Lanahan opposed it. The result of DR..
Lanahan's opposition was that the matter was
temporarily laid on the table. Gen. Fisk then
moved TO hold a special session of the confer
ence on Thursday evening for the purpose Of
considering the report of the committee on
temperance and prohibition, which was passed.
Bishop Bowman then prayed especially in
reference to the order of the day, after which
the election of bishops began. -Four sections of
telIers consisting of three each and one at
large, were announced BY Bishop Andrews,
and took their places in the aisle. Before the
actual voting began much time was taken up
in settling the question as TO whether ballots
containing less than the required
number of names should've counted or thrown
out. After much discussion it was decided to
count them and the voting began in earnest.
The total number of votes cast on the first bal
lot was Az The number necessary to a choice
was Dos. The votes cast for the leading
Candidates were as follows: DIR. j. ii.
Vincent 215, DIR. James y. Fitzgerald 1875,
Dr. J. A. Goodsell los DIR. J. p.
Newman 1856 DR.. u w. Joyce 49,
Dr. Payne $50, Drs. James NJ. King and Earl
Cranston 12S each, DR.. Kynett 1l9, III. A. Butts
ll5. There twenty candidates who received
less than 100 votes, and over fifty who received
but one vote each. On motion, the time in
which to elect bishops was extended. Sec
onH ballot uroS fol-au q,H tho enufarapaa fhan
took recess until o'clock this evening.
At the evening session ballOting was resumed.
Neither of the two afternoon ballots had Sc
cured 10 any candidate enough OF votes, but on
the third ballot at the evening session two
bishops were selected. There were 459 votes
cast and 306 were necessary for a choice. The
vote was: Vincent, 81; Fitzgerald, 30; Good
sell, $50: Newman. ~; Joyce, go; Payne, las;
Cranston, 143; Kynett, 1OS; Butts, Ill, and
King H. The others were scattering The
two bishops elected were, therefore, the Rev.
Dr. J. III. Vincent of the Rock River confer
ence, and the Rev. j. w. Fitzgerald of the New
Jersey conference.
DIR. Vincent was born at Tuscaloosa, Ala,
Nov. %, 1882. In 1888 he moved TO Pennsyl-
vania. He was educated at the Milton and
Lewisburg seminaries and at the Newark Wes-
leyan institute. He was a licensed exhOrter in
1S49 and in 1850 local preacher in the Balti-
more conference. From 1852 to 1867 he had
charges in New Jersey and Pennsylvania lie
established in Illinois in 1865 the Northwestern
Sunday-schOOl quarterly. In 1868 he was elect
ed secretary of the Sunday school union, a po-
sitiOn he still occupies. In 1874, with Lewis
Miller, he established the Chautauqua circle.
He was at one time the pastor of Gen. Grant.
Rev. j. w. Fitzgerald is fifty years of age,
and was born at Newark, n. j. He studied at
the Newark academy and then at Princeton
college. On leaving college he studied law
with Chancellor Runyan and Sec'y Frelinghuy-
sen, and was admitted to the bar He was adj
mitted to the church thirty years ago. He was
presiding elder of the Newark conference until
seven years ago, when he was elected recording
secretary of the missionary society.
After the election of these two bishops a
fourth ballot was taken, but an adjournment
was taken before the count, and the result will
be announced tomorrow. While the third
ballot was being taken resolution was carried
making the limit five years