The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1896-05-20
METHODIST CONFERENCE.
DEADLOCK In VOTING FOR TWO
BISHOPS BROKEN.
G. 6. MCCabe Chosen on the Fifteenth
and DIR. CranstOn on the Six
teenth Ballot.

CLEVELAND (O), May 19.-The
deadlock in the M. E. Conference on the
episcopal elections were broken to-day
| by the election of the two leading can
didates-Chaplain G. c. McCabe, the
famous mission money-raiser of the
church, and DR.. Earl Cranston, agent
of the Methodist book concern at Gin
cinnati. Chaplain McCabe was chosen
| first, on the fifteenth ballot, with
plurality of eight votes. Dr. Cranston
was raised to the Episcopacy on the.
next ballot, having a plurality OF
thirty.
Bishop Bowman, the venerable senior
| Bishop of the Methodist Church, pre-
sided over the General Conference,
probably for the last time, this morn
| ing.
Rev. Charles Stafford of Iowa put the
conference in a great uproar by moving
that the election of Bishops be indef-
nitely postponed II am satisfied he
said, that we do not need those Bish-
ops, and the vote of the last few days
| looks as though the conference thought
SO, too. Any ten Bishops in good health
could attend to all the work-and we
have fourteen, beside the two that have
been declared non-effective.'
Rev. DR.. Buckley said: ITO postpone
| this election would make this confer
ence and our great church ridiculous
in the eyes of the world. In one of
the dioceses of the Protestant Episco-
pal Church they have taken fifty and
sixty ballots, and then adjourned for
six months to think it over, without an
election. And yet the election of a
1 OF Rich aYriac wi
power than a dozen Protestant Do
cesar Bishops. The remedy is this:
Let the voting go on untn it becomes
plainly apparent that we cannot elect
anybody
After a long debate the motion was
defeated.
| Rev. j. A. Parker started an eXcit-
ing discussion by reporting from the
Committee on State of the Church
resolution for the licensing of evan
gelists
| Rev. Dr. Forbes of Duluth said that
people We're getting converted too fast.
I'm some places all you have to do is
to hold up your hand and shout: Come
| to Jesus 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.
Balloting for Bishops was then re-
sumed Chaplain McCabe being elected
on the fifteenth and DIR. Cranston on
the sixteenth ballot. The elections were
greeted with loud applause.
! Chaplain McCabe is "a years of age
He has brother who is a professor in
Wesleyan College in Ohio. He inner
tied some money, and by wise invest
ments his wealth grew to considera BILE
proportions. A good portion of it has
been given in aid of the church in it's
various branches. He is now engaged
in raising money for the great Amer
lean University to be erected at Wash
ington, and as Bishop he will continue
this work. He is considered the great
est money raiser in the Methodist
Church. He is the man who first raised
the cry "a million for missions" He
raised the mission collection from $780,
600 to 81 250,00
/ Earl Cranston was a soldier In the
late war, and is now a member of the
Loyal Legion. He is an eloquent min
lister, and preached for many years in
Indiana, Illinois and Colorado. He is
a member of the Colorado conferen0e.
He is now book agent at Cincinnati,
and has charge of the publishing bust
ness of the Methodist Church at Chi
cago, Cincinnati and st. Louis.
| 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 first two offices, and
the majority was sufficient to elect
On the first ballot Homer Eaton, the
present agent was reelected. Another
ballot was then taken o. r. MCGEE, G.
p Names and w. M. Swindells are the
| leading candidates.
| Nominations were also made and one
ballot taken for the two Western pub
/ fishing agents. The result has not yet
been announced, but it is altogether
probable that DR.. Lewis Curtis is re-
elected.