The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-20
Chaplain McCabe and Earl
CranSton Finally Win
the Places.
BOTH ARE NOTED WORKERS.
Distinguished Records Made by the
Two Men Raised to the
Episcopacy.

CLEVELAND, OHIO, May 19.-The
deadlock in the Methodist Episcopal Con-
ference on the Episcopal elections was
ing candidates-C. c. McCabe, the famous
mission money raiser, and DR.. Earl Grams
ton, as ent of the Methodist book concern
at Cincinnati. Chaplain McCabe was
chosen first on the fifteenth ballot with a
plurality OF eight votes. DR.. Cranston was
raised to the episcopacy on the next bal
lot, having plurality OF thirty.
Bishop Bowman, the venerable senior
Bishop of the Methodist church, presided
over the conference, called to order for the
last time this morning.
Rev. Charles L. Stafford of Iowa put the
conference in a great uproar by moving
that the election of Bishops be indefinitely
postponed.
~ am satisfied" he SAID, that we do
not need those Bishops. and the vote of the
last few days looks as though the confer
ence thought so too. Any ten Bishops in
good health could attend to all the work,
and we have fourteen, besides the two that
have been declared non-effective.
Rev. DR.. Buckley said: ITO postpone this
election would make this confere nee and
our church ridiculous in the eyes of the
world. In one of the dioceses OF the Prot
estant Episcopal church they have taken
fifty and sixty ballots and then adjourned
for six months to think it over, without an
cleo ton, and yet the election OF a Metho-
dist Bishop carries with it more power than
a dozen Protestant bishoprics. The remedy
is this: Let the voting go on until we
elect Bishop or until it becomes plainly
apparent that we cannot elect anybody"
After long debate the motion was de-
feated.
Rev. DR.. A. J. Parker started an exciting
discussion by reporting from the COM
mittee on state of the church resolution
authorizing the licensing OF evangelists
and for the placing of restrictions upon
travelling evangelists.
Rev. DR.. Robert Forbes of Duluth said
that people were getting converted too
fast. "In some places all you have 20 do
is to hold up your hand and shout, "Come
to JesuSI' and you are saved. 1t will soon
be SO that you may get saved by sending
your cabinet photograph and having it
baptized. Salvation will soon be on sale
by telephone and telegraph
The report of the committee was
adopted.
BalIoting for Bishops was then resumed,
Chaplain McCabe being elected on the
fifteenth and DR.. Cranston on the six
teenth. The elections were greeted with
loud applause.
Chaplain McCabe is So years old. He is
of Methodist parents. He has brother
who is a professor in the Ohio Wesleyan
College at Delaware. He was taken pris-
oner in the war and was for time con-
fined in Libby Prison. He inherited some
money and by wise investment his wealth
grew rapidly.
Much of it had been spent in advancing
the cause of Methodism. He is now worth
about $65, 600. He is now engaged in rails
ing money for the great American Uni
versity to be erected in Washington, and
as Bishop he Will continue this work. He
Is considered the greatest money-raiser in
the Methodist church. He is the man
who first raised the Cry, "a million for
missions" He raised the mission collec-
ton from 500 600 to 81, $50, 600.
Earl Cranston was a soldier in the late
war and is now member of the Loyal
Legion. He is an eloquent minister and
preached for many years in Indiana
Illinois and Iowa. He is member of the
Colorado Conference. He is now book
agent at Cincinnati.
The conference then proceeded to make
nominations for the office of New York
publishing agent, there being two to be
elected There were only nine candidates
for the two offices and the majority was
sufficient to elect. On the first ballot
Homer Eaton, the present agent, was re-
elected Another ballot was then taken.
o. r. MCGEE. G. p. Mains and w. NJ.
Swindells were the leading candidates.
Nominations were also made and one
ballot taken for the two Western publish
ing agents.
The result has not yet been announced,
but it is probable that DR.. Lewis Curtis is
reelected.