Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-04-03
BISHOP CAN DLER
CAME HOME
YESTERDAY

Bishop w. A Can dler returned from
Baltimore yesterday He has been
there for the past week attending the
Baltimore conference. HIS attention was
called to a dispatch from Washington
published Tuesday concernh g his pres
ence in that city. He said About all
that is true in the dispatch is that 1 did
stop in Washington going to and coming
from the Baltimore conference. The rest
of the dispatch is of piece with that pre-
posterous statement in 1t to the effect that
am the head of the Methodist FL Iscopal
church, South. No man is the head or
that great church. 1 am one of its eleven
bishops, and one of the younger ones at
that. I was not in Washington to collect
facts about the fee paid Mr.. Stahlmans in
connection with the payment by the gov
eminent of the claim of the Methodist
Publishing house in Nashville, for dam
ages done 1t by the Federal army during
the war. All the facts about that matter
have been fully known for over three years
past, and If 1 desired to use them have
them all in my possession without going
to Washington for them. Nor did my
presence in Washington have any sort Of
connection with Mr.. Stahlman's presence
there. did not see him nor communicate
with him directly nor indirectly; for !
had no occasion to do so. / did hear he
was there taking testimony for use in a
suit in which he is the plaintiff: but ex-
cept as a matter of rumor / know moth
ing of what he was doing. I had not the
remotest interest in it. 1t is purely a mat
ter of Mr.. Stahlman's business, and I
doubt if he knew was in Washington or
cared IL / was or was not there.
GAS to what the general conference,
soon to be held in Dallas, Texas, and not
in Little Rock. Ark, as this dispatch says,
will do with this publishing house matter
7 oIxa A hos
vote in the general conference, and can
address the body only within the narrow
est limits. I have no communication to
make to the general conference on any
subject except to sign with all the other
bishops the Episcopal address-a formal
document regularly presented at the quad
rennial sessions of the body.
II will only say 1 doubt not the whole
matter of the publishing house will be
fully and finally and honorably settled
without any acrimonious or sensational
features. I am sure il will be If sensation
alists will quit meddling with it, and this
1, hope they will have the decency to do.
At any rate ] claim the right of a gen.
tleman to go about my business without
having my movements made the subject
of all sorts of surmises and sensational
dispatches.
81 may say with reference to the Balti-
more conference that 1t had a most happy
and harmonious session. The reports of
the past years work were cheering and
the promise for the year just now begin
ming is very hopeful. Generous friends
at the conference gave me about $500 for
the maintenance of the Cuban mission,
of which / have charge, and that timely
aid in nowise diminished my hearty en-
joyment of the session. Now am home
for a few days rest and 1 wish the SEN
sationalists may let me enjoy ii undis-
turbed. If I have anything to say worth
the attention of the public 1 prefer to
say it in my own way without their help.
The abominable publicity into which they
often seek to drag a man detest. 1t is
coming to pass that one can, scarcely step
out of his house for walk without being
impertinently asked where he is going
and what he is going for. Some time back
one of these ubiquitous interrogators
came asking me where l was going
simply because / had a travelling bag in
my hand. 1 told him 1 was going to
heaven and asked him where he was GO
ing. He would not tell me and I am sure
/ do not know.