The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-13
POLITICS 1T THE SYNOD
HAD DISCUSSION OVER M,KINLEY,s
STATUS FROM TEMPERANCE
STANDPOINT
REPUBLICAN, SIDE WON OUT
Clause In Report Calling Him a
"Wine-DriRking, Canteen-Per-
hitting President" Is
Struck Out.

Mlnaesotas Presbyterian synod held it's
last session yesterday morning in the
Central Presby terrain church. The SEES
SION was the most sensational Of any held
during the three sbaysl
Inc excitement commenced when the
temperance committee brought in its re-
port. Rev. ]. S. Mccormack read it and
all went smoothly until in one Of the
clauses appeared quotation by Samuel
Dlekey, temperance lecturer This gem
tteman IN speech at Owatonna, re-
ferred to President Mckinley as wine
drinking, canteen-supporting Methodist
president"
Ihls at once aroused the ire of the good
Republicans present, and in the discus
sion following the report, Rev. ]. L.
banner, Of st. Cloud, referred to it as
mud-slinging. vitupcrative clause, and
Indignantly demanded that it be stricken
from the report
Mr.. Mccormack stated, in defense of
his report, that he saw no reason why
the immortality of the president Of the
United States should be condoued, simply
because of his official position.
There arose from different parts of the
church cries of:
1t is an ungodly Charge
= 1T is an injustice to our good presi-
cent shouted one divine who could not
bear to hear his idol thus rudely at
tackled.
one minister stated that while ne be-
IeVed this administration would go down
into history as the whisky administra-
tlon' still 1t was his belief that Presi-
dent Mckinley wished in his heart that
he We're on the other side
lie wants to be reelected, and If he
IS, believe that just such censure as
this will cause him to act differently in
regard to the temperance question"
IN. Edwards believed that President
Mckinley was a temperance man, and
he deserved credit for banishing liquor
from the navy. AS for the army canteen,
many prominent officers in the army, who
Were themselves for temperance meas
ures, held that the. army canteen pre-
Fented much intempsrance in the army
Dr. Pollock, of Litcnfe1d, especially Ok
Jected to the reflection upon the Metho-
dist church involved in the quotation.
MI montgomery wished to retain in the
report some dignified Statement condemns
ing the president s attitude.
DIR. Meldrun Thought it was not the
function of the synod to pass Judgment
upon the president Of the United States.
and that it would be a shame to allow
any such words stand In the report.
We are not here" said he, .'to ally
ourselves with any political party
IL,
was ordered stricken out!
The resolutions III the report were then
discussed ser1atim5 sd
The second resolution, which was also
stricken out after an animated discussion.
read to the effect that 'tit was a reproach
TO the church and her membership that
they should in any way derive a benefit
from the license system, which represent
ed the price Of degradation" etc.
I1aor
Petitions were received and granted
providing for the transference of the
Church of FL Dorado from the Preslv
terry of st. Cloud to that of Red River,
and that of Osakis, In Douglas county,
from the Presbytery Of Red River to that
of St. Cloud. fs'le1-5'
: 1t was decided to open the next synod
on the. second Thursday instead OF the
second Tuesday of October allowing the
sessions TO continue over Sunday
S Chairn1en of the various standing COM
mitteeS departed and the synod adjourn
Rev. A. II, Carver, moderator, appoint
ed tie following pertinent committees:
!, Home Missions Ministers Samuel ].
Il e. A. PresgIy, Crawf2rd McKibben, G.
F Al poloek p D., j. j. Dancer D. D.,
Foreign Missions Ministers A. B. Mel
drum, D. D.. j. c. FAIRIES, Fenwiex W.
E hfsSer Bell Fl : f b %I;a T. e. Sykes
Elders Archie McCu1loch, W. NJ. Farf.
Church Observation-Disclosures J. Russell
Jones, S. p. Jamison, r. ~. Adams, D.
D., John Sinclair, D. d.. w. 8. Ward,
l. F; Badger, T. N; sFindley. Elders L.
Ministerial ReIiefSESfders Ell Torrance.
E. J. Davis, NJ. d. Ministers G. =. Tay
export, James Godward, J. B. Ferguson,
Nd. r. Paradis 712f1
Benevolence and Observation-Disclosures IT.
III. Cleland, d. d., Murdock Mcleod, a.
=. Meldrum, D. D, Crawford McKibbfn,
T. NJ. Ffndley, w. G., Cornell, Elders E
c: Brown. Thomas Shaw.
Young Peoples Soeiety-M Ministers c. H.
h Shedd, s. F. Wishafd, A. Cardle, Ed
ers w. c. Snow, James T. Hale.
Sunday School Work-Ministers c. P.
M Ma H. G. l. Wilson wills +. Drysdale, Rob
Beckwith, G. II. Brewster.
Observation-Disclosures iOro P. Rider +
S. Handyside, D. d. Mitchell, E. p. Crane
NJ: w Davis, Elders M. G. Willard, .Tohn
Educa tion-Minfsters Henry F. Giet,
Augustus H. Carver E. p White. I
D. Paxton. d. d. c: B. Augur, G. A.
Holzinger. Elders NJ Bierman. c. o. Goss.
j. S. Corkey. T. K. Fisher. James Coch-
ran, S. E. P. White, S. J. S.. Moore. VIII
liam Gardner, Elders w. B. Dean. Vernon
Bell
Harbaugh, ]. S. Boyd s. B. Roberts. G.
NJ Junkin, W. c. Laube, Elders c. B.
Cellar, w. H. Emerson.
Observation-Disclosures A. w DriseoIl
s. B. Roberts, P. Knudsen. ]. S. Boyd,
Ware. r. H. Holcombe.
Observation-Disclosures T. M. Findley, Ora