The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-07
BISHOP NCABE is DROPPED.
INTERNATIONAL POLICHHOLDEhS
UNANIMOUSLY VOTE HIM OUT,

mitlee, at a meeting at the Waldorf-AS-
torsA yesterday, ousted Bishop Charles
@. MCCabe Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church from membership on the COM
mftee. This was the committees answer
20 4he Bishops recommendation made
pubic through the management OF the
Mutual Life Insurance Company, that
the international organization indorse the
administration tickets OF the Mutual and
New YORK Life.
Eighteen OF the twenty-five members
Of the committee were present at the meet
ingI and the vote to dispense with the
Bishops services was unanimous. Bishop
Mccabe's. attitude, the committee held,
was so completely out OF sympathy with
the. announced purpose Of the ~organiza-
ton that IL amounted in effect to a sur
render Of his membership. The Bishop
was not present.
The international committee at yester-
days meeting also selected the men 1t
will present on the policyholders' tickets
for trustees OF the Mutual and New York
L4f6. In selecting the former ticket the
international organization oooperated with
thel MutuAi Life Policyholders' Associa-
ton. The tickets will not be made public
until September Is, the date on which they
must be hled in Albany.
Here are the resolutions adopted by the
international committee relative to Bishop
Mocabe's stand:
where's Bishop McCabe accepted member
shiu on the committee. but has been unable
20 4tend1 any Of the meetings or those OF its
subrcommiTtees although repeatedly urged
10 do 30, and
Whereas there was furnished to the press
from the ONCE OF the Mutual Life Insurance
Conapany on August 81 a letter. dated August
%. ct Evanston. ILL.,. mailed at New York
city August 81. bearing the signature Of
Bishop MoCabe. addressed to the Hon. Alton
b. Parker as chairman Of the executive CON-
miteee, which letter has been read at this
meeting. bnt which had not been received
~ the time it was given for publication by the
Mutual Life Insurance Company on the date
Of Ne mailing. and
whereas Bishop McCabe has been, COM
mnnicated will by telegram and letters
urging him to attend this meeting 80 as to
present his views to his associates and to be
infurmed as to the work OF the committee.
but has made no reply to such communica-
tions and has failed to attend. and
Whereas copies Of the proposed address
fan address sent out to the policyholdersl
which was criticised by the Bishop in his letter
were furnished to Bishop MoCabe before the
~ VAA@ A. ~ 80 SbN
and a copy Of the address as adopted was
mailed at least three weeks before the address
was distribufed and no criticism or objection
was made by him to the form OF the address
for Four weeks after the distribution thereof.
nor until the letter Of August 20. and
Whereas the views Of the committee as to
the course that should be pursued by the
p~olicyholders in tho impending election for
trustees. ms expressed in It's address To policy
holders issued July 0. are opposed to thoss ex-
PRESSED In the aforesaid letter to the chairman
Of the executive committee. 1t Is
Resolved, That this committee regards the
altitude assumed in said letter "a 50 COM
pletely out Of sympathy with the announced
purpose Of the COMMITTEES as to amount In
effect TO the surrender by Bishop McCahe>of
his membership in the committee. and he Is
accSrdingly relieved rom further service.
RssoIped. That the chairman OF the e1ecu-
tive committee Is directed to reply to the COM
munication OF Bishop McCabe in such form
~ he deems appropriate.
Resolued. That in the judgment OF the conn
mittee it is not in the interests Of the policy
holders TO accept or indorse the administers
ton ticket Of either company.
The men who thus put themselves on
record yesterday as strongly opposed to
Olney Of Massachusetts, o j. Frank
Hanly OF Indiana, Ex-Governor W. S.
Jsr0ings OF Florida, proxy for Gov. Brow
ard'of that State; the Rev. DR.. Russell II.
Couwell Of the Baptist Church; Edgar E.
Clayk. Grand Chief Conductor Of the Order OF
OF Delaware, J. G. Hemphin OF South Caro-
lima Harlow N. Higinbotham Of Illinois.
Gov. John. A. johnson OF Minnesota. Con-
greesman Nicholas Longworlh Of. Ohio
Fremont Older Of California, Gov. Penny
packer Of Pennsylvania, ex-Judge Alton B. |
Parker, Gov. Henry Roberts Of Connect
cut Col. A. H. Shook Of Tennessee, Charles
EMORY Smith Of Philadelphia and Gen.
Benjamin F. Tracy of New York;
Two Of the four members of the commit
tee who were absent from the meeting,
Thomas B. Wanamhker Of Philadelphia |
and Samuel Newhouse OF Utah, are in
EuYppe.
The management OF the Mutual Life In
surance Company, came In for q hard knock
because Of its refusal, In the faoe of our
pFooeedings, to remove from the adminis-
trnflon ticket the names OF the four mem
bers OF the international committee who
were nominated against their wishes.
min r. Tracy, Col Shook and Mr.. Higin-
botkam. This resolution was unanimously
adopted by the committee:
Resolved. That the placing Of the. names Of
four members OF this committee on the adj
mlnlstratlon ticket of the Mutual Life In
etrHance Company, without the consent and |
AGAINST the protests OF those whose names
were thu used. tends to deceive the policy
holders- who are called upon to vote. and
deserves the r~eprobation Of all fair minded
men. Tho policyholders are warned AGAINST
this EtteFhpt TO deceive them, and are advised
not to vote Tor any ticket containing the names
Of these four gentlemen.
The committee from the Mutual Life
Policyholders' Association, which cooper
ateds with the International organization
IN selecting the Mutual Life ticket, con-
sisted. Of these q B. n. Baker Of Ralti-
more, Calvin Tompkins OF New York, John |
De Witt Warner; T. #. Cotman of Little
Rock ARR: Alfred Y. Hammer OF Bran
ford, Conn; U. @. Orendorff Of Canton, Ill:
Charles M Harl of Council Bluffs, Ia;
Lealie O.. Cornish Of Augusta, Me-; Hamil- i
ton Carhart of Detroit; X. Y. Mitchell Of
Springfield, Mo; Frank W. Rollins, Con-
cord NJ. r.; Cesar Gone, Greensboro, n.
c.; Arthur B. Farquhar, York, Pa; DR..
Henry D.. Holton, Brattleboro, VT; John |
skeleton williams, Richmond, Va, and Col. |
b. A. Scott, Quebec, Canada.
A nominating committee from each OF
the poliCyholders' or organizations first agreed
upon the Mutual Life ticket and then the
ticket was discussed separately by each
organization. Finally the committees came
together ina joint meeting and formally
ndop4ed the ticket. The nominating COM
mittoeN had been working for aay eral /