The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-22

defeated by the objection of a half
 dozen Ritualistic delegates, and to these the day following the Rev. Mir.
 Stoddard Of St. Johns church, Jersey
 City Heights, paid his respects ill a
 somewhat unecclesiasticaI interview.
 He is quite savagely offended because
 the motion to make unanimous should
 have been. opposed. But" he added,
 ''one of our priestlets with very round
 hat and a very short coat objected. I
 mention this to show the particular
 kind of insect with which in this dio-
 cese We have to deal" And later on
 in the interview he described the ob-
 Jectors as "fledgelings" and talked of
 the refusal of the 'sour youngsters to
 swing into line. For the objectors it
 is said. however, that their opposition
 to the Rev. .Dr. Lines selection was
 dictated by conscience. and that they
 could not, without a sacrifice of con-
 science, have joined in unanimous
 vote.
 The Broad Church element dominated
 the convention, but the choice finally
 made was a compromise between the
 two cults in the diocese. It is admitted
 that Dr. Lines is High Churchman,
 but then, as pr. Stoddard put it, he is 8
 broad-minded, tolerant, catholic man,
 and the Broad Church advocates felt that their interests would not be jeo-
 pardized by their support of him. He
 is expected, if he accepts the election,
 to administer the affairs of the diocese
 in very much more positive lines than the late Bishop Starkey did. The Rev.
 MT. Stoddard inferentially criticised the
 late bishops work somewhat unamia-
 bly when he declared that his successor will lift the Diocese of Newark from the small and ridiculous position she has occupied for so many years" <.
 The committee named by the Dioce- san convention to make formal offer
 of the bishopric to the New Haven rec tor waited upon him yesterday. He
 will probably take a few days to make up his mind whether he cares to accept
 it or not It is said that at one time he
 had the office of Bishop of Western
 Massachusetts within his reach, but, against the insistence of his friends, re- fused to permit the use of his name St. PauPs church, of which he is rector, is one of the wealthiest in Connecticut, and is the one to which the Rev. Anson
 Phelps Stokes is attached as the assis- tant rector. The expectation is that, If Dr. Lines goes to New Jersey, the Rev. MT. Stokes will succeed to his pulpit. The Rev. G. B. Morgan, whom the
 High Church element in the Newark | convention supported, is a neighbor rec s,,@ .seyf | church, to which he ministers, was mo- ted at one time for having the largest 1 attendance of Yale students. It was he who offlciated at the nuptials of Alfred Vanderbilt and Miss French. That the opponents of Dr. Lines should have gone to Dr. Lines own city for their candidate was something of a surprise | to the delegates who sat in the conven- l ton, but, though they put him into the contest at the last moment and without | any previous notice, they commanded a i most fiattering vote for him in the bail
 loting. His supporters are not without | hope that he may yet succeed to the
 distinction they strove to win for him.
 In the event of Dr. Lines declination, they say. he will be easily called to the I See of Newark. *.,.
 The convention increased the bishops i compensation before going into the election in the hope of making the po- sition attractive to the best talent in the church. At the time of Bishop | Starkeys election the old diocese had | just been slit in two, and the new head
 of the See had much smaller ,jurisdic7 l tion to preside over than that which | had heretofore been under the eye of
 Bishop Odenheimer. The salary was fixed at four thousand dollars with that condition, and the consequent smaller
 volume of diocesan work in view. But
 the diocese grew while pr. Starkey was it's chief, till it became again as large
 numerically as 1t had been before the partition. It was therefore deemed only proper to make an increase in the
 compensation commensurate with the larger quantity of work that will come
 to the new bishops hands, and the all
 lowance was put up to six thousand dollars per year. Some of the delegates had their misgivings as to the source 1