Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 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.

Methodist Episcopal general conference
over the election Of two bishops was brok
an today by the selection OF DR.. Charles
c. MCCabe Of New York and Dr. Ea'l
CFanston OF Cincinnati. 1t was apparent
when the delegates assembled this mora
ing that they We're tired of the ballouls
and We're determined to bring matters to
an issue. TIE ball was set rolling by
Rev. C. l.. Stafford of Iowa, who moved
that the election Of bishops be indefinitely
postponed This nrecipitsted lively dis
cilssion ana the motion was defeata |.
Then Or. y. 3. Leonard of Cincinnati
moved that in future ballots the name
OF candidate be announced vino
ceivel 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
each ballot. On every ballot from one 20
TWO hundred votes We're scattered among
score or more OF candidates who had
no chanc. OF election
As soon as it WAS decided that canIi
dates must receive more than 10 votes to
be counted the delegates saw that th,
time TO do something had arrived. \ com
mission was quickly formed. On the 14th
ballot McCabeS vote jumped to 25S from
10 what he received on the ballot taken
last night, and Cranston from 245 to 26l
That Indicated clearly who the leaders
Were and on the 18th ballot McCab2's
Vote rose to 3ii, or more than We're need
Cd to elect. while Cranston pollcd 32s OF
eight less than We're needed. The mex;
h illot gave the victory to Cranston, AMI
the west and east had bot: a!ected their
candidates.
Both OF the bishops elected are. natives
oS Ohio. and six of the 16 bishops now Oh
the board We're born III Ohio
The Proceedings.
Cleveland. May 19.-Thirteen ballots for
bishop had bean taken when the Method
iSt Episcopal conference assembled this
norninS, and the convention was practi-
caily in deadlock. Rev G. l.. Stafford Of
Iowa moved to postpone Indefinitely he
election Of bishops, saying a large number
We're opposed to increasing the episcopal
E@ard. DR. J. a. Buckley opposed the mo
ton The comm .ttee he said, recommended
three bishops. and the conference, by d
majority of % substituted two. He ,e-
viewed the conference of 1883, when eight
ballots We're taken. To Indefinitely post
pUne would make the conference ridrl1-
lo13s 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.
Or. c. ID. Hills of New Hampshire pre-
sented a substitute, which provided if no
election should result on the l4th ballot.
the five highest ones be voted for on the
I7jh ballot the lowest one to be dropped
each succeeding ballot. Bishop Bowman.
presiding. ruled the motion out of order.
Dr A. J. kinnett of Philadelphia eulo-
s;tIFd the candidates for bishops, partcu-
larlT McCabe. Rev. d. Munger of central
Neu' York protested vigorously agains:
el@et.0neering. The motion to postpone
was defeated b. large majority. An at
tempt to secure a supension of the rules in
order 10 present a substitute TO elect three
instead of two bishops was defeated. Then
the lith ballot was taken. On this ballot
oel votes We're cast making 336 necessary
to choice. The vote: CranstOn PSI, Me
Cabe 2-S, Hamilton 1i9 Buttz 123. Neaiy
ll2. Bowen 81, scattering 20
The 18th ballot was at once taken. There
We're 304 votes; necessary to a choice. :,36
Of these c. G. McCabe of New York fe-
Cetved 3i4 votes, electins him by eight
votes. The vote for the others was Grams
ton 32S, Buttz 122. Hamilton 1o9 Nicely 90
Bowen 50. scattering 81. The delegates
stood yelling and waving handkerchiets
Calls for McCabe, Song. Speech rose
from all parts of the hall, In the first
lllll & motion to invite ''BiShOp McCaba'
to the platform was carried with whiri
AS DR.. McCabe walked down the aisle the
rabe begged to be excused from saying
anything or singing.
The 18th ballot showed a gain for Grams
ton of 81. The 10th ballot resulted in the
election of DR.. Cranst on as second bishon:
3tH votes We're cast, necessary to cholce
32S. CranStOn received 1858. thus electln2
him by 80 The conference went wild
| again Handkerchiefs We're 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 ID. Hammond of California.
| ON the first ballot Dr.. Homer Eaton Ct
| Troy n Y. was overwhelmingly elected.
| Nomina tions for two agents of the Wes
| lcyan Book Concern at Cincinnati We're
! 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.
| Bshop-elect Charles G. McCahe was
born October II, 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.
| Or. Earl Cranston was born June Il
| 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, Col.
where he was presiding elder. Since 1SS
he has been the book agent in Cincinnati
| IIc is a pulpit orator of the highest rank.