Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1900-09-26
CAMPAIGN ASSAULT
History of Its Defeat In Meth
odist General Conference.
PRESIDING ELDERS STORY
Prohibitionist's Charge 0isproved and
Attack Defeated.

Attack Defeated.
The Outcome OF Charge Of Tipping Against
the President and Its inses.g ation-Mc
ley "a Pure. Christian Statesman Of Whom
the Church Might Be Proud = Defense
Of the President by a Political Opponent
Who Served In Congress With Him.
presiding elder of one of the most
important conferences in the north
| west. thoroughly familiar with all Of
| the facts he presents, has written the
| following To i friend:
President Mckinley should receive
| the support of the whole moral and
| religious influence OF the country. He
| is entitled TO it by the purity of his
private life. by the grand record he
has made IN congress and since he be
came president, and by all of the glor-
ious possibilities for the nation and
the world that are involved and as
sured in his reelection. As is well
known. President Mckinley is a mem
Der Of the Methodist Episcopal
church. II is also widely known that
chairman OF the Prohibition national
committee, stated before several meet
ings of Methodist preachers and in his
paper The New Voice. that. at a ban
quet in Chicago, he saw Mr.. Mckin
ley drink four kinds of wine. During
a meeting of the missionary committee
held in Washington. November. 1899
the bishops being present, Bishop Wal
den called on the president and asked
him TO the facts in the case referred
10 by MIR. Isickie. Mr.. Mckinley
frankly replied that ii had been his
custom ut banquets not to turn his
glasses down. but To leave them to be
filled by the walters the same as the
glasses of other guests. But since he
became president. and for many years
previously, he had not drank wine at
banquets and similar OCCASIONS; but
he would call for a glass of apollinaris
water as that was his favorite drink
on those occasions: that he did not
drink the wine IT the Chicago banquet
as charged
Pure, Christian Statesman.
Bishop Walden related this con-
ver>ation TO the other bishops and at |
reception given TO the committee by |
res idcnt Mckir ~ at the white
ouSc the bishops heartily concurred |
the coEncndatory resolutions pass
ii hy the committees, which spoke of |
Mr. MCKINLEY as a pure Christian |
statesman of whom the church and |
the nation might well feel proud |
Al the general conference in May, |
1900. Mr.. Dickie was chairman Of |
the committee on temperance and. un-
doubtedly chagrined that the bishops
and great majority of Methodist |
preachers and laymen had perfect con
hdence in President McKinley's word
evidently determined to Use the gen
eral conference TO humiliate the pref
dent before his own church and the
nation His report, which he succeed
ed In pushing through the committee
censured the president in severe ana
bitter terms. When nfesented TO the
general conference by Mr.. Dickie Ii
produced decided sensation, espec-
Tally that part of the report which held
the president responsible for the opin-
Ion OF Attorney General Griggs rela-
tive to the canteen and for the sale
or intoxicating liquors in the Philip
pine Islands. DR.. ]. f. Price presented
a minority report. temperately phrased.
emitting all censure of President Nc
kinley. This brought the issue square
" before the general conference and
gave rise to the most exciting debate
Hon. Charles Il. Lore of Delaware, con
coded to be one of the ablest laymen
in the general conference said:
Political Opponents Tribute.
Nothing but an imperative sense of
duty compels me to speak am
heartily and earnestly in favor of the
adoption of the minority report for |
two reasons The first is, the major
ity report Is historically inaccurate,
and for this reason: President Nc
Kinley ia blamed in that report for /
practically multiplying the laws of the |
United States. Did You go back and |
attack congress because it saw flt |
to adopt law which is susceptible of |
two interpretations? And the inter
probation of Attorney General Griggs |
is recognized by some of the ablest |
legal minds throughout the United |
States as the only legal Interpretation |
of the law. Have you passed censure |
upon congress? No. You praise it. |
Again. you say that Hon. John d. |
Long is worthy of praise because he |
abolished liquor from the navy. Do |
you know that that is the act of Will |
lam Mckinley through John ID. Long? |
And on the other hand do you Law |
your hands upon the president who |
has given. in his judgment a correct
opinion? Here you have divided your
selves and cannot stand. Again let |
a
with William Mckinley in the Forty
eighth and Forty ninth congresses.
was politically opposed TO him. | am
not in favor of his policy today-if you
will allow a Judge to have an opinion
in many respects. But | stood be
| side that man four years and learned
10 love his elemental manhood. He
was brought up in a Methodist atmos-
phere and taught by a good old Meth
| odist mother. He stood before me a
| typical man. He said to me person
| ally, when his seat was contested In
| the house of representatives. If you
| cannot vote for me. honestly believing
that | was elected fully and fairly, do
| not do it. | will go home 10 my con-
| stituents again / watched his life
as he moved up and down In those
halls l found in Washington con-
gressmen in the saloons and in worse
| places. have heard of them being
| there / will not say | saw them
| there. That would not be fair
watched Mr.. McKinley's course up
| and down Let me tell you that NJ
| Mckinley. when not al his duty in the
I halls Of cau,-raSs mr. in the committee
| room. was with his invalid Wife and