Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-05
JUST LIKE POLITICS.
Lively Contest Anticipated in the
Pittsburg Presbytery
OVER THEELECTI0N OF DELEGATES
To the Meeting Of the General Assembly
in Oregon Next Month.
TRYING 10 RRElK THE REDSTONE SLATE
OVER THEELECTION OF DELEGATES
TRYING TO BREAK THE REDsTONE SLATE

The Pittsburg Presbytery will meet at
Williamsburg to-day, and while the session
will dispose of considerable routine busi-
ness, the dignifed ministers will indulge
in Nat is expected to be decidedly lively
contest for delegates to the General As
sembly, which meets in Oregon early in
May.
The Presbytery to-day will elect three
ministers and three elders to represent the
Pittsburg Presbytery, and with less than a
half dozen exceptions every minister and
elder in the organization has announced
himself as candidate for the proposed trip
across the continent. All the legitimate
expenses of the delegates will be paid by q
tax laid upon all the churches of the nation,
and the people of Portland. Ore, have
already raised SAC, 900 to defray the expenses
of the visiting churchmen.
Avery Desirable Trip.
The contemplated trip, therefore, is
q most desirable one, and the con-
several weeks carried on with
the skill of we'll trained politicians. Letters
have been written and legitimate wires have
been pulled by the ambitious candidates,
and when they get together to-day Ii is ex-
pected that the campaign will be closed
much after the fashion of a political conven-
tion. The rivalry among the candidates is
said to be entirely friendly, but a combina-
tion is limited at that threatens to carry the
day.
Assembly from the Allegheny Presbytery is
said to be much the same as that among the
Pittsburg brethren. The Allegheny Pres
Beaver oD sSs ssh viii Il nsSe the
Rev. Baussman case to dispose of,
which will likely attract more general
attention than the election of delegates.
Rev. Baussman, who will be tried by the
meeting for heresy,it was announced yester-
day viii. make a vigorous fight for his posi-
tion and his belief He is admitted
of the Presbytery. He was educated
for the Law, and it is asserted by
his school fellows that before lie entered
religion, and when he decided to become a
minister he surprised all his acQuaintances.
In letter to Pittsburg friend yeste rday
the Rochester minister announced that he
would not be turned down without con-
test
Going After the Slate.
An amusing feature Of the contest for del
egates to the General Assembly developed
recently at the meeting of the Redstone
Presbytery, composed Of Fayette, West
moreland and part OF Allegheny county.
The people of those counties are politicians,
pure and simple, and not infrequently they
carry their politics into their churches. The
contest for General Assembly delegates
was just as lively in that Presby.
terry as in the other organization, and
a special meeting was called some weeks
ago to dispose of some church matters. Be-
fore the meeting adjourned the election of
delegates was sprung upon the gathering
and the little slate prepared by the minister
ial bosses was carried through without flaw.
Considerable discomfort manifested itself
after the meeting. but no formal protest was
entered Last week, however, it was dis
covered that the rules required that
delegates to the General Assembly
shall be elected at regular
meeting Of the Presbytery and
at a specified time before the meeting of the
General Assembly. This rule nullifies the
election of the delegates from that Presby-
terry and another set Of delegates must be
elected at the regular spring meeting of the
organization Already lively campaign is
in progress in that PresbyterY, and IL is said
an effort is being made to defeat those dele
gates chosen at the snap convention.
Withal it is clear that the Presbyterian
minieSers in Western Pennsylvania are mix
:ng little politics with their religion.