The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-17
Vacant Places in the Southern
Methodist Conference Are Dis
cuSsed at Dallas.
MENTION OF EDITOR PALMoRE.
81. Louis Man, Though Not Can
didate, Has Many Friends
Present Who Are Urg-
ing His Name.

| REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Dallas, Ten, May lG.-The reports that
| are current in St Louis 10 the effect that
Doctor W. Il. Palmore, editor of the st.
Louis Christian Advocate, is to he elected
Bishop by the General Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, now in
session at Dallas. are not borne out ty
developments here.
No time has yet been set for the cleo
tlon OF Bishops, or, in fact; has the num-
Der to be elected been determined unon
mere may be one, two or three The con-
ference has the discretion of electing as
many as ii p!eases. or none at all
Nh.h the General Conference first opened
IN IN Nay the question of the election of
biShopS WAS quite actively canyassed. 1t
mas been almost entirely lost sIght of since
however, IN the more intense War Claim
isSut- Inc War Claim issue is likely TO
SctIIed before the erection OF Bisnops
At the beginning of the conference Doc
tor Paimore's name was camvasssd .mCnp
Utuer possible candidates and aroused graf
itS ~ ing pdrddilty among mis- many frIends in
DID no, ari,, isate Doctor Palmore. however.
u!u % Hot encourage his friends to press his
name, nahle, and has not at any time been an
i'.,,,' aHomed G canlldate, as near as can be
gates from the Missouri conferences
Ooctor Palmore has been absent from
p4'lSs during the last two days attending
'A4'"I'iIS VI lile EpWOrth League
az az fort Worth. a friend of his, a delegate
from Missouri, said tonight:
. we 30 not consider Doctor Palmore in
the race for Il Bishops place His incIina-
tons do not lean in that direction. H. does
not incline to the work of an executive DO
Hl.ioh. MS tastes are more along literary
iines and important mission service He IL
In no sense a probable candidate for Bishon
delegates"
\ canvass among the different DELEGATIONS
lC-lllSilt SHOWS DrOnDurraJ S+ilI bnp
,he places of Bishop The indications are
that three will be elected. with the
Nashville, Tenn; Doctor \. Coke Smith Of
Slrsinii, and Doctor James Atkins of Dur
nam 1 N =: IN the order named.
The election of Doctor Hoss is conceded
whether the election is for one or more
The other candidate most prominently mem
TONED are Doctor Collins Denny and Doc
There are three strong candidates for
editor Of the official church organ, The
TTariStian Tann n Ahdvocate printed at Nashville.
present editor. becoming a Bishop. They
are Doctor George c. Rankin OF Dallas,
noct9r & r. F. Liscomb of Petersburg, Va.
and author, of Los Angeles. Cal Doctor
chapman is making the most active cam
parfn' I'm ca,fd1nc cn1 the election is in doubt
tary tangle this afternoon. over conflicting
committee reports Intended to remodel the
Joint Board Of Finance and clearly define
order were raised and four appeals taken
from ruling OF the chair. The rulings were
all sustained. Both reports were sent to the
calender for future consideration.
The conference refused to instruct the
Publishing Committee to submit its report
on the war claim" issue at 10 o'clock to-
morrow morning by tablng a resolution TO
that effect and which also contained a pro-
vision that commencing tomorrow The
General Conference consider no other mat
ter but the war claim" sue until 1t
should be disposed Of
The Committee on Revisals was dead
locked, thirteen TO thirteen. on the question
on creating the Order of DeaconeSs eS, and
the conference could not break the dead
lock. The report will be considered later.
The balance of the session was devoted
to minor routine matters, and special ses-
sion was held tonight. that the conference
and the public might listen to the fraternal
addresses from the fraternal messengers
Church. embracing jurisdiction of England. |
Ireland and from the Methodist Church of |
Canada. The addresses We're extremely cor |
dial in tone and ELECTED generous applause. |
This afternoon President B. 2. Fullerton,
ID. D.. and Home Mission Secretary J. II. |
Miller of the Board of Missions. St Louis. |
sion receipts for all causes for the year |
sl23 505.s5. The church has foreign missions |
in Japan, China and Mexico and home mis- |
sions in ten cities, though still in debt 21,- |
6 0. The Indebtedness IS RAPIDLY decreasing. |
pu6lishing, ,,os Nashville ;s. reported ed
Of liabilities s126 666; net profits s1l.9S3. The |
Board of Publication owns building and |
printing office and issues all the official lit
eratUre of the church: including: besides |
books a full supp y of Sunday-school peri |
Ddicals and the church paper, THE Cum |
berland Presbyterian"
Tonight a popular Joint meeting was held ,
in the interest of home missions and edu- |
rat'onal endowment. addresses being de-
chicago Rev A. p. johnson Of the Indian
Territory and Reverend r. A. Wigginton, |
Evansville, Ind; Miss Spencer. Pueblo. |
Colo. Greetings were received from the |
Presbyterian Woman's Mis- |
sionnrv Convention, which closed its annual
national meeting at Bowling Green, KY.