The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22
LAW DEMANDS
 4 FAIR DEAL The Rector Editor Sees Some Small Politics.
GOES AFTER V0N BOKELYN.
DECLARES HE IS Nor THE BOSS
 OF THE DIOCESE.
Sequel to the Sensation Raised at the Diocesan Conference Recently Held in San Fran
 cisco.
oakland Office San Francisco Call,

S0S Broadway, May 21.
 The little sensation created by Dr. Marshall Law in San Francisco last week by charging that politics were being done has been supplemented by some direct statements, made by the rector-editor affecting prominent members of St. An drew's Episcopal Church
 The rector of the Church of the Advent in his published statement, openly asserts that some enemy has made and circu- lated false figures and facts. The letter which will no doubt be iteresting to the whole of the diocese. is as follows:
 If you will glance at the names of the stand Ing committees and compare them with the names or the delegates to the General CQnven- S-S SAott Sas IePorLsu on page of the Pacific Churchman of May 15) you will see one of the Polhts which the rector had occasion to criti- clse m the elections at the late convention. Nc man ought to hold two of these most import ant positions when there are seventy good and true clergyInen in this diocese, and three times as many laymen. Of course everything would have been sweetly harmonious If the rector had efforts which were being made to retire Mr. Valentine (our senior warden), from the stand raer senior warden of St. Johns. of St. Paul s since the former church burned. Per sonaiIy It would be much pleasanter not to fight unfair methods, but when the wardens and yestrymen of this parish are unfairly assailed to get Mir. Valentines naturally invincibIe candidacy out of the way at this convention although thousand regret the lack of har- Inony In the closing hours of the convention rector had thrown little light upon this ''har- monlous proceeding, Mir. Valentine was i'm of 20 to 1, or therea bouts What were the ob- !ecuonabie methods?' somebody asks. Only the
 innocent report that Mir. Valentine had de- e!lned to serve; that he was hopeless invalid. mat curing the past year he had not attended the meetings Of the standing Committed at ali.
 therefore cast your vote for Mr Haven ''' None or these statements quietly and in- dustriously circulated are true MT Valentine He is off bned-and who would not like to fake eirojin- trlp IT the rector Of the Advent had onIy acqulesced after he found out that these things were being said by the run-about hnttoy, Is process or electtoneering what a SWeet-spirited person he would have been-to be surei And MT HaVen could have taken MT. Valentine's s Geoted to w. A. NJ von Bokelyn largely for SircuIatlng these reports (after working for MT Valentine last year), but also for some otner DacK-handed favors which the parish ought to know about. Our payments on Dishop salary were tardy this year account GI S eHIa 2 ourdehs ln paying oil church debt and Tor improvements. So when the auditing com mlttee were gathering in the Occidental Hotel lew days before the convention the rector was there and told Mir. von Bokelyn in the lobby that we would be "all squared up'' be- 1ore the convention opened. He replied T will remember that Notwithstanding fhis he circulated in an open session of the con Iention a printed statement showing us to be delinquent sI1l bishops salary which had been paid in full to him before the convention opened The rector privately charged him with this and he said he would correct 1t yer bally in open convention, which he did not do But worst of all, a whole week after the con Nendons close he mailed these same un- cnanged reports, unauthorized by anybody about the diocese requesting those who re ceived punches of them distribute the same MT. Read, our treasurer, got five of them For 75 cents he could have made a printed correction of them if so disposed. Or he could have drawn a pen through the whole line u- stead of coolly correcting an error in figures in 1t as he did. Frankly, it is about time W A. M von Bokelyn was made to understand that he IS the servant, not the boss, Of this diocese