The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-05

ternational Monetary conference at In
dlanapois. Among the strong men of
the lower house of congress who be-
long to the Methodist faith is Jonathan
p. Dolllver of Iowa. He is noted par
ticularly as an orator, and his name
has been prominently mentioned as u
candidate for vice president on the ReN
publican ticket. 1t is interesting to
notice that in the stirring campaigns
he makes in his congressional dis
trict he uses methods which may have
been suggested by a Methodist camp
meeting. Instead of renting halls in
the towns for campaign purposes. Mr..
Dolliver takes a tent and starts out to
hold meetings along the country cross
| roads Often he makes speeches out in
the open air, with nothing but the
shade Of tree over his head.
Another Methodist is at present pre-
siding over the destinies of the state
of Kansas. Governor w. E. Stanley
has been a member of me same Meth
odist church in Wichita for the last
twenty-five years. He came by his
Methodism naturally, for he was born
in a Methodist family and educated at
the Ohio Wesleyan University. He is
extremely active in church work, hav-
ing been for a quarter of a century the
superintendent of the Sunday school,
which is the largest Sunday-school in
the state and one of the largest in the
West. Governor Stanley also follows
the strict letter of the church law in re-
| gard to amusements and personal con-
duct. He does not drink, smoke, chew
| or swear, and yet at the same time he
| Is, as the politicians say, "a good
| mixer" and knows how to make
| rafting campaign. The Methodist
| brethren at the conference point to
| him and to Governor Shaw of Iowa
as two good examples of practical
| politicians, who have demonstrated
| that profanity whiskey and cigars are
not necessary factors in political cam
| paigns. In Ohio Senator Joseph b.
| Foraker is a Methodist, and he comes
| from one of the Oldest Methodist fami-
| lies in the state. His mother was
pioneer Methodist at Hillsboro, o., and
| one of the leaders of the crusade
movement there twenty years ago.
| o.
Robert r. Pattison, twice governor
| of Pennsylvania, is said by his brother
| delegates to be the most prominent
among the Methodists of the Keystone
state. He served as a lay delegate in
! the general conferences of the church
| in 1884 and in 1888. In 1890 he was sent
| as a fraternal delegate to the general
conference of the Methodist church
| South, and in 1891 he was a delegate to
the commercial council of the church
at Washington. His record as n re-
former in politics his brethren point
to as an Illustration that a man
brought up in the tents of Methodism
| is not apt to go far astray. Among
| the more prominent members of the
United States senate who are Metho-
dists may be counted Henry NJ. Teller,
| the free-silver leader from Colorado;
| John T. Morgan, of Alabama, the
champion of the Nicaraguan canal;
Louis f. McComas of Maryland, and
John NJ. Thurston, the Nebraska ora
tor. Each of them is either a member
of the church or has decided Method
list affiliations. Benjamin r. Tilman,
senator from South Carolina, better
known as "Pitchfork" Tillman, is also
a Methodist, though he owes his al
legiance to the Methodist church South.
SO far as the White House itself is
concerned, President Mckinley is the
first Methodist who has occupied it,
President Hayes was not himself a
member of the Methodist church,
though his wife was active in church
work. 1t was through her influence
that wine was banished from the
White House during the Hayes admin
istration. Secretary of the Treasury
Gage was for years member of the
Methodist church, and since his resi-