Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-10-20


were produced before the committee.
Suffice it to say they were of such
a character that only women with
an outraged sense of propriety
would make, and make at a great
sacrifice to their own feelings, and
only out of a sense of the highest
duty toward the church and the
cause of holy religion.
A stormy discussion followed the
reading of the affidavits in which
such men as G. M. Parmenter, J. G.
Booth, Il. McF. Patton, Jos. Cooke,
Napoleon Davis, DIR. Keene, Percy
Willis, Frank Gilbert, j. +. Nut
ton, and others expressed them
selves very freely.
SEEK TO AMEND.
An amendment was offered to 80
change the report of the committee
that it would ask for a resignation,
but give no letter. Lost by a vote
of IS for, SO against.
A secret ballot was then taken, on
the report of the committee, which
was adopted by vote of 6S for and
81 against.
Mrs. Talbot said she could refute
all the charges that had been made.
A PROTEST.
was put in here by Mr.. Parmenter,
leading member of the church.
He protested against giving any
letter of recommendation, but
before he could get a second the
meeting had adjourned, the motion
TO adjourn being put through with q
rush. Chairman Talbot, with
whom Corwin has made his home,
leaving his chair, and the meeting
broke up almost like mob.
A FALSE IMPRESSION.
has been sent abroad by reckless
and designing report published this
morning. 1t conveys the idea that
the church has contradicted and
stultified itself in order to shield
and whitewash Rev. Corwin, which
is not the case. THE JOURNAL has
taken pains to give the news and
dispassionately to get at the facts of
last nights meeting. The action of
the church in adopting the report of
the committee does not exonerate
Corwin, but condemns him. Chair
man Talbott's ruling, that, as the
report of the committee gave Cor.
win a letter of dismissal it was
bound to give him letter of full
fellowship, was not sustained. The
ruling was protested against, the
other trustees decline to sustain
this ruling and the clerk of the
meeting will not write letter with
that understanding. In refusing
to amend the report of the COM
mittee the church repudisted Mr..
TalbOtt's ruling. His ruling reveals
that from the start the organization
was under the cunning hand of Cor
win, as Talbot is the man he has
made his home with for a long time.
THE FACTS ARE.
that practically all the contributors
and levelheaded adult members,
who have bad years of experience
in church work, are opposed to re-
taining Corwin and dead set against
his being given letter Of any kind.
One very prominent man, who has
been pillar of the church, has
been looking up his history and
says:-"His history for the past
twenty. five years will not bear in
vestigation, and there is hardly a
congregational minister in the as
who will have anything
to do with him."
M hEtOMMENDAIlON
The false report that the COM
mittee or the church had given DIR.
Corwin letter of recommendation,
as published here and telegraphed
to the Oregonian, Is denied by near
ly every member of the committee.
Corwin's best friends on the COM
mittee say they never intended that
he should have letter or a recon-
mendation and SO stated openly at
the meeting. Any such report
rests, says another member, upon q
technicality that Is not worth con-
sidering. His resignation 10 asked
for and he is dismissed from further
as pastor Of this church.
He is given no letter from the
nor any letter OF recon-
mendation. The report as 1t read
was adopted by large vote with
Dut amendment.