The Wilmington daily Republican., 1900-03-31
DELLA WARE
CONFERENCE.
The Ballot Box Was Stuf.
fed and a Scene
EnsueS.

| The third days session Of the Delaware
conference Of the Methodist Episcopal
| Church took place ou Friday. The Lay
! Electoral conference also met Here il
| where the trouble began.
Up until o'clock in the evening the
! laymen were engaged in ba!ioting for two
candidates for the general conference In
Chicago. They could not agrees on Il
| 0h0lce. At the conclusion of the seventh
| ballot, chairman of ,eliers. 5, IL. Hodges.
announced that J. 10 votes were cast, while
there were only l0l delegates present.
He also said thai eseveu votes were written
In the came hand and that some one had
stuffed the hats of tbs tellevs with false
vOtes.
A score of men arose to their feet indig-
nhnt. Simon A. Nose one of the candi-
dates, who received the highest number of
votes on the seventh ballot, declared lie
would not accept he oilics under unfair
conditions. President Wagner then de-
clareu the election null and void. Pre-
vious to this ballot Charles A. Coleman,
OF Wilmington, charged TINT ministers
wero interfering in the lay conference by
setting up II wall against the Wilmington
nominee.
Tho candidates for delegates were Simon
+. Chase, Wilmington, Del; FredeI ick
Nichols, Chestertown; Walter b. ,iohuson,
Philadelphia District. Norbert II. Will
son, of salisbury District, Nd; had been
chosen delegate earlier in the afternoon.
which left but two to elect
AGAINST MOB LAW
Walter J. johnson, q member of City
Councils, Of Ches ter Pu.. offered resolu-
tons, protesting againeG lynChing and
mob law in the South, Offering aid to
suppress lawlessness, suggesting that the
conference churches rase funds to prose-
nab d Il nj.
bccau.e they feared no punishment for
their crimes. The matter was referred to
the Resolution Committee.
Al tho morning session. presided over
by Bishop II w. Warren, Atlantic City.
was chosen as tho place for the next an.
nual meeting of the conference
Ministerial delegates to the general con-
ference at Chicago wore elected as follows:
Row DR.. II. A, Monroe. pastor Of Xoar VI.
j. II. Scott; reserves, RevI. c A. 'lindiey
and A. r. Shackley these were at once
elected on the fist ballot
The following were taken into full con-
ference momber.hip: G. f. Davis, L. Rod
gers, r w. Price. and C. A. Norwood.
Among those elected elders we're: John S.
Colomon. John Il. Holland. William e.
Waters, Cyrus w. Moore, Edward d.
Haven, Benjamin W. Beny, +. j. Handy,
.tuStiAo M MOI, ooaVpA
Washington l. Bean
Ptiors Of appeal were elected rs follows:
j. IL. Harmon, L. A. Tuulson, J. II. Nut
tor, D. A. RiJoout, E, E. Parker amt 81.
ii. Horsey
Pastors of the ten churches in Pennsyl-
vana belonging to lha Delaware confer
ence will Do mt as delegates to the State
convention OF McthodiSts, to bo held in
October next, In Harrisburg.
No delegates were chosen until late in
the evening, and then tine election was
rather unexpected. After he tenth ballot
Mr.. johnson, tho Philadelphia caniidate.
asked that his name be with-d Drawn.
Fifteen of his alheren.s still clung to him.
however. and after the eleventh bal lot had
produced another deadlock, Mr.. Nichols
withdrew his name and asked that his
thirty-one supporters join the johnson
faction. On the twelfth ballot Mr.. John.
son was elected.
Mr.. Chase was elected provisional dele
gate by acclamalion. The same me hod
was used to elect MIR, Nichols, MIR. Solo
mon Austin Salisbury, and Edward
Reed (Wilmington) IS reserve delegates.
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