The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-05-23
NEW BISHOPS
DIR. CHAs. M'CABE AND DIR. EARL
CRANsToN THE MEN CHOSEN.
Deadlock Broken by Dropping All
Candidates who Had Less
Than 10 Votes.

MeLnOulSl Btl4tidl COhlSANho~
over the election of two bishops was brok-
en- today by the selection of DIR. Charles
c. McCabe of New York and DR.. Ea-l
Cranston of Cincinnati. 1t was apparent
when the delegates assembled this morn
ing that they We're tired of the ballouns
and were determined to bring matters 10
an issue. The ball was set rolling by
Rev. c. L. Stafford of Iowa, who moved
that the election of bishops be indefinitely
postponed. This precipitated lively dis
Cussion and the motion was defeated.
Then Dr. A. b. Leonard of Cincinnati
moved that in future ballots the name
of no candidate be announced who re-
ceived less than 10 votes. That motion
carried and it smashed the deadlock.
From the first the conference has been
voting for two candidates on each ballot;
that is, each delegate had two votes on
each ballot. on every ballot from one 10
two hundred votes were scattered among
a score or more of candidates who had
no chance of election
AS soon as ii was decided that candi-
dates must receive more than 10 votes to
be counted the delegates saw that the
time to do something had arrived. A COM
mission was quickly formed on the 14th
ballot McCabes vote jumped to 25S from
1870, what he received on the ballot taken
last night, and Cranston from 245 to 26l
That indicated clearly who the leaders
We're, and on the 18th ballot McCabe's
vote rose to 344. or more than were need
ed to elect, while Cranston poled 32S, or
eight less than were needed The next
ballot gave the victory to Cranston. and
The west and east had both elected their
candidates.
Both of the bishops elected are natives
of Ohio. and six of the 16 bishops now on
the board were born in Ohio.
Cleveland, May 19.-Thirteen ballots for
bishop had been taken when the Method
list Episcopal conference assembled this
morning, and the convention was practi-
cally in deadlock. Rev. c. l.. Stafford Of
Iowa moved to postpone indefinitely the
election of bishops, saying a large number
were opposed to increasing the episcopal
board. DR.. J. A. Buckley opposed the mo-
ton. The committee, he said, recommended
three bishops, and the conference, by a
majority of %, substituted two. He le-
viewed the conference of 1888, when eight
ballots were taken. To indefinitely post
pone would make the conference ridicu-
lous in the eyes of the world DR.. Buckley
said the difficulty now lay in the fact that
individuals who had no possible chance to
secure the necessary two-thirds vote still
permitted their friends to vote for them.
DR.. c. d. Hills of New Hampshire pre-
scented a substitute, which provided if no
election should result on the 18th ballot
the five highest ones be voted for on the
18th ballot, the lowest one to be dropped
each succeeding ballot Bishop Bowman,
| DItSluluSs IuleQ the mOIlOn out Oh OTOeI.
| Dr. A. j. kinnett of Philadelphia eulo-
| gized the candidates for bishops, particu-
| larly McCabe. Rev. d. Munger of central
New York protested vigorously against
electioneering. The motion to postpone
was defeated by a large majority. An at
! tempt to secure a supervision of the rules in
| order to present a substitute 10 elect three
| instead of two bishops was defeated. Then
! the l4th ballot was taken. On this ballot
| 5q votes were cast making 1856 necessary
I to a choice. The vote: Cranston 261, Nc
| Cabe 25s, Hamilton 149, Buttz 123, Nicely
| 49, Bowen 81, scattering 20.
The 18th ballot was at once taken. There
| were 54 votes; necessary to a choice 336.
! OF these c. G. McCabe of New York Ie-
ceived Sl4 votes, electing him by eight
votes. The vote for the others was: Grams
| ton 32S, Buttz 122, Hamilton 100, Nicely 50,
! Bowen 30, scattering 80. The delegates
stood yelling and waving handkerchiefs.
| 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 carried with a whirl.
| AS DR.. McCabe walked down the aisle the
| demonstration was repeated, but DR.. NC
Cabe begged to be excused from saying
| anything or singing
The 18th ballot showed a gain for Grams
ton of 67. The 18th ballot resulted in the
election of DR.. Cranston as second bishop;
| 504 votes were cast, necessary to a choice
=
| him by 3d. The conference went wild
again Handkerchefs were waived and
the noise continued for several minutes
| while DR.. Cranston walked forward and
bowed. An attempt by Judge Caples of
| Oregon to make the election unanimous
was howled down.
The conference took up the election Of
two book agents for New York. Among
them was John d. Hammond of California.
on the first ballot DR.. Homer Eaton CT
Troy N. Y, was overwhelmingly elected.
Nominations for two agents of the Wes-
leyan Book Concern at Cincinnati were
made After taking the first vote on the
Cincinnati concern and the second on New
York, the conference adjourned. The votes
will be announced in the morning
BishOp-elect Charles c. McCabe was
born October IL, 1898, at Athens, Ohio. In
1862 he became chaplain of the One Hun
dred and Twenty-second Ohio volunteer
infantry. At the battle of Winchester,
June, 1868, while looking after wounded,
he was captured and taken to Libby pris-
on, where he remained captive over four
months. After his release he rejoined his
regiment, but with broken health, and was
sent back to the hospital at Washington.
Since the war he has been in the service of
the Ohio Wesleyan university and Board
of Church Extension. In 1884 he was elect
ed missionary secretary. Through his eff
forts the cry "A million for missions. -
once prophesied, is now one of the bright
est facts in the history of the Methodist
Episcopal church.
DR.. Earl Cranston was born June q.
1S4O 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 Col
where he was presiding elder. Since. 1884
he has been the book agent in Cincinnati.