Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-05-19
WESLEYITES In CONFERENCE
DR.. McCabe and DR.. Cranston Elected
Bishops on Fifteenth and Six
teenth Ballots.
DR.. CRANSlON WON FAME IN DENVER
End Of the Protracted Contest Greeted
with Wild Manifestations OF En-
thusiasm-Both Bishops Bowed
Their Thanks.

Cleveland Ohio, May 19.-Thirteen bal
lots for bishop had been taken wher
the Methodist Episcopal conference con
vened this morning and the convention
was practically in deadlock.
Rev. G. l.. Stafford, of lows, moved tt
postpone indefinitely the election O.
bishops and said there were large mum
Der opposed to increasing the Episcopa
board.
Or. J. M. Buckley was opposed to tht
motion. The committee, he said, recon
by majority of twenty five, substituted
two. To indefinitely postpone would
make the conference ridiculous in the
eyes of the world.
Dr.. Buckley said that the difficulty lay
In the fact that the individuals who
had no possible chance to secure the nee.
essary two-thirds vote for election per.
mitted their friends to vote for them.
Rev. G. u. Hills, of New Ham pshire,
presented substitute, which provided
that if no election should result on the
fourteenth ballot the five highest ones
should be voted for on the fifteenth bal
lot, the lowest one to be dropped in each
succeeding ballot,
Bishop Bowen ruled this motion out of
order.
Finally motion to postpone was de-
feated by large ma iority and baloting
was resumed.
BALLoTING RESUMED.
On the fourteenth ballot SOL votes were
tn
The vote resulted Cranston, 26l; Nc
Cabe, 1858; Hamilton, 249; Butts, 1873;
Neeley, 112; Bowen, 81; scattering, 10.
The fifteenth ballot was at once taken
There we're 504 votes cast; making
necessary to choice 1856. OF these 9. q.
McCabe, of New York, received 344, elect
ing him by eight votes.
The vote for the others was: Cranston,
328; Butts, 112; Hamilton, 1O9; Neeley, so;
Bowen, 30; scattering, 35.
The delegates stood yelling and waving
their handkerchief. Calls for "McCabe,"
"song," speech" rose from all parts of
the hall.
In the first lull motion to invite
Bishop McCabe to the platform was car
ried with whirl and as DR.. McCabe
walked QOWu bu6 dlblo Ul6 uoluOu6UTdblOu
was repeated. Dr.. McCabe begged to be
excused from saying anything.
The sixteenth ballot resulted in the
election of DR.. Cranston as the second
bishop. OF the 5O4 votes, Cranston re-
ceived 365, thus electing him by 30.
The conference went wild again. DR..
Cranston walked forward and bowed.
SKETCHES OF THE NEW BISHOPS.
Charles @. McCabe was born on October
II, 1886, at Athens, Ohio. In 1862 he be-
came chaplain of the 122d Ohio volunteer
infantry. he was a prisoner in Libby
prison over four months. After his re-
lease, he Joined the regiment, but with
broken health, ard was soon sent back to
the hospital at Washington. Through
his efforts the cry, "a Million For Mis-
sions,' once prophecy, is now one of
the brightest facts in the history of the
Methodist Episcopal church.
DR.. Earl Cranston was born on June
~, 1910, at Athens, Ohio. He enlisted in
the United States service and rose to the
rank of captain. His first service in the
church after the war was in the Ohio
conference. He was transferred finally
to Denver, Colo, where he was presiding
elder. Since 1884, he has been book
agent of the Western Methodist Book
concern, Cincinnati. He is pulpit
orator Of high rank.