The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-28

NO NEW WOMEN.
Newark Conference Will
Send No Petticoat Dele
gates to Cleveland.
MURPHY AND DoHERTY CHOSEN
Lively Squabble Over the Time
Limit for Pastors-W Women's
ssl
Home Missions.
MURPHY AND DoHERTY CHOSEN
Special TO the Jersey cstu Ns,rs.

odist Episcopal Church, received a rude
shock yesterday afternoon at the Lay
Electoral Conference of delegates from
the Newark, Jersey City, Paterson and
Elizabeth districts, who met in Franklin
Street Church. 1t is scarcely necessary
to say that the conference referred to
was composed of men who, as calamity
as the circumstances would permit. re-
solped-
That this conference does not approve.
under existing conditions of the cleo
tion of women as lay delegates to the
General Conference
1t may be readily inferred that this
decision was not arrived at without a
considerable amount of verbal sparring
and scrapping which kept 200 delegates
bottled up in stuffy little room, the at
Uosphere of which was highly favored
by the gentle zephyrs from a neighbor-
ing livery stable for upwards of three
hours
These gentlemen were ostensibly gath
cred together for the purpose of electing
two lay delegates to the General Con-
ference, which meets in Cleveland O..
in May next but when that business
was over they started as a sort of side
show the women delegate question and
that of the time limit of pastors. It was
during the discussion of these last men
toned topics that the fun commenced.
The first business then was the election
of delegates. which resembled political
primary as one pea does another. There
were plenty of candidates, and each did
his own hustling for votes in the ortho-
dox political way. Many of the pastors,
finding the missionary meeting in ST
Faurs Church rather slow, came in to
take a hand, and what with the but
toatohng and the whispering into ears
willing and unwilling. and the dickering
of votes, the scene would have gladdened
the heart of a Tammany heeler. Chair
man J9hn NJ. Grinnell of Newark, whose
conscience smote him when he perceived
how political the meeting was rapidly
becoming. brought his gavel down with
whack that brought instant silence
Gentlemen he said, 1--WE will now
proceed to nominate delegases'
Mr.. William H Murphy one Of New
ark 8 wea4 ~ men, was the first name
mentioned, and he who made that nori-
nation covered Mr.. Murphy with what
the boys call taffy. In rapid Succession
came the names of William H. Beach
of the Jersey City Board of Education,
Dr. R R. Doherty. from Centenary
Church, Jersey City; Samuel Sterling, of
Hedding Church. Jersey City, and
batch of others from other cities The
result OF the first ballot was:vMurphy.
III; Doherty, 6S; Jeffrays, 81; Carroll,
4S; Beach, 15 and Sterling, g. Seventy
SIX votes being necessary for a choice.
Mr.. Murphy was, therefore, elected
delegate, and the Conference went at it
again for the second man. On the next
pallot Mr. Beach retired and DR.. Doherty
received ~ votes, Jeffreys, 80; Carroll, n,
and Sterling, 4 There was a third ballot
at which DIR. Doherty received So votes
thus thus giving jersey City and Newark d.
Conference. Messrs Jeffreys and CarrolI
We're made aiternates.
Having settled this part of the business.
1ne delegates took a Resolutions fit.
and this was the result of spasm No
1:-That the General Conference be re-
quested to reaf1rm and re-enforce attend
ance at class meetings, or else wipe out
tr1ln 1asSa Inc dlsepiirle the rule which says.
that the member has been under proper
teaching for six months According to
ihe delegate who proposed this the rule
mas m been mere honored in the breach
II, the reading was lie, statement
which staggered many of the hayseed
fraternity After some hagglIng and
s9uirming s gu on their part, they swallowed
resolution The delegates passed a sec
ond resolution approving Of the appoint
ment @ OF as many lay as ministerial dele
Everything had proceeded in a general
way narmoniously up TO this stage, and
one e. delegate thought it high time to make
eral Conference an attempt was made to
estapnsn @ general fund of collections
raised among the conference, and dis
pursed as the general body in its wisdom
saw fit. The laymen srumbled at fhis
and issued protest against such pro
ceeding IN the form of another resoll-
When the time limit question was men
lloned the pastors. in the rear seats prick
eo,,osdd 60 up Their , ears, since it, of course.
was read to the effect that -sas this aues-
ton is likely to come before the General
Conference e the delegates be directed that
Secretary J. Y; Foster, of Jersey city,
when score Of the delegates were n IN
their feet elamoring for the floor. nv.
what Hood Of eloquenee was at once let
loose. One gentleman opposed it because
g long term made a church and its pas
tor famous.
Look. at DR.. Parkhurst, for instance.
nenbering the extraordinary antics ,f
that individual refused to become CON
vinced with such distinguished illustra-
tion of the efficiency of the SYSTEM
was raised in Rockland County.''
said second speaker with a tawny bunch
of whiskers dangling from bis chin, and
don't know how you city folk run your
churches, but we uns in Rockland County
believe IN keeping our parsons until they
"a Ole: praise h the LORD, piously ejacu-
seats whose congregation wanted to get
rid of him.
Ths subject vas 4 slrashed out and not