The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-01
SET BY The EARS
Election of Episcopal Vestry
Causes Trouble.
Dean Hayes Supporters Were
Triumphantly Victorious.
OLD MEMBERS GO OUT.
Only Two of Them Were Re-
elected at Meeting.
Differences About Salary and
Vacation Cause the Trouble.

Episcopal parish and the church on ac-
count of the defeat of the majority of
the old members of the vestry and the
electing of a new vestry at the meeting
held at Grace cathedral November 90.
AS a result several of the largest con-
tributors to the support of the church
have threatened to withdraw their con-
tributions.
1t is charged that Dean James Philip
de Bevers Kaye and Mrs F. r. Mills
paugh, the wife of the bishop of the do
cese Of Kansas, planned to gain COM
plete control of the church organization
by packing the meeting with their SYM
pathizers. At the meeting 1913 votes were
cast. Heretofore the maximum number
of votes cast has been about So The
total number of votes cast at the meet
ing to elect the vestry in 1902 was 81.
The differences in the church mem
bership were caused by the fact that
two of the vestrymen took it upon
themselves to raise Dean Hayes salary
from $1,000 to $1,000 a year The raise
was granted last April. Another reason
for the difference was that the old YES
try wished to determine how long
vacation Dean Kaye should take each
year instead of allowing him to be alb
sent at his own pleasure There was
some criticism from various members
of the church directed toward Dean
Kaye and his actions
The persons who have been members
or the cnurcn 1Or years ndQ no 1Qed THAT
there was any plan under way to over
throw the veStry which had controlled
/ the affairs of the church for years.
The old members of the church were
taken completely by surprise and We're
outvoted mere than three to one. For
weeks before the meeting to elect the
vestry Dear Kaye and Mrs. Millspaugh
and their followers were active in
marsllaling their forces. People who
claimed no membership in the church.
but who sometimes attended, were re-
queSted to attend the meeting on the
night of November %. A printed
/ ticket bearing the names of the nine
Vestrymen who We're to be elected to
succeed and overthrow the old Vestry
was prepared, and when the persons
who were known to be with the side
which planned to capture the vestry
entered the church they We're given
the printed tickets. The highest num-
| Der of votes cast for the recollection of
/ the old vestry was &c.
The new vestry elected by those who
supported the printed ticket, is as fol-
lows: Earl Williams. D. w. Nellis w.
N. West. E. A. Herbst, E. w. Thomp-
son, a. Zahner. G. B. Merriam, c. M.
which was defeated and overthrow
was as follows: William Henderson,
George B. Palmer, w. r. Barrett, j. NJ.
Mead, Edwin Shakeshaft Ralph Peter
son, Earl Williams. D. w. Nellis. -
! Strong. The only members of the old
Xesfry Reelected We're Nellis and Will
| liarcE-
Williams and Nellis were both in ac-
cord with Dean Kaye on all the ques-
tons over which there was a contro-
Versy- They favored the increase in sal
airy and also favored allowing Dean
Kaye to take his vacation when he
pleased and for as long as he pleased
/ without the vestry having anything to
do with the matter Williams and Mel
lis were listed by the supporters of the
printed ticket for reelection
Of ,, I. e
TN had decided that Dean Hayes sal
AIRY should be increased $500 a year
there was considerable opposition to the
increase and the claim was advanced
| that the increase was not authorized A
meeting of the vestry was called and
the action of the two members who
granted the increase was sustained by
| the close vote of five to four against the
/ increase. At the same meeting the dis
cuSsiOn over the deans vacation came
up and when some of the Vestrymen an
nounced that they thought that the YES
try should pass q resolution determining
when and for how long the dean should
be absent, D. w. Nellis opposed such a
resolution and finally left the meeting
| in huff.
While Dean Kaye and Bishop Mills
paugh We're absent on their vacations
all the work of the parish devolved
church require that the bishop and the
dean shall arrange for the duties of
their offices to be looked after by some
one else. Canon Burke had the work
to do. Recently the dean and the
bishop decided that Canon Burke
should act as steward of Christ hos
pital in addition to his other duties.
Burke refused to act and stated that
during the summer he was forced to do
all the work of the parish without extra
pay, although the deans salary had
been raised, and that he did not in
tend to assume any other duties.
Tt is claimed by the older members of
the church that at the meeting for the
election of the vestry when the new
vestry was chosen by an overwhelming
majority, that women who are mem
bers of the church but whose husbands
| are not, took their husbands to the
meeting and voted them solidIy for the
printed ticket. The older members of
the church say that people attended the
meeting and voted whom they never
saw in church nx)re than once before.
After the meeting Mrs. Millspaugh said
to some of the women, We'll, we beat
them"
George B. Palmer, who was a member
of the vestry and treasurer of the church
for seven years and who was defeated
for reelection, said this morning: The
meeting was certainly very large and
saw persons there who We're voting whom
never saw attend any other meeting.
did not know that they were members of
the church. I take this all to be just q
little move in the church of political
nature. Sort of friendly rivalry to vote
dIiei set WIZ WOtiu Will lS OldC4 tAit-ut-
bers who have been in the church for
years voted pretty well together and poll
ed As votes for the reelection Of the old
vestryTnen. This was nearly the maximum
strength of the old members, as last year
the total vote was 81.
At the services last Sunday Dean KAYE
announced to the congregation that he
hopes to have cathedral built and he
outlined his plan for the future. The
older members of the church think he
should have announced his plans to the
congregation before the vestrymen were
elected instead of waiting until he had
captured the vestry.
Grove Will Go to Albany.
ST. Louis, Mo-, Dec attorney Gen
era1 Grove has decided to go to Albany
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