Show REVS MCABE i I AD CRANstON II 1 J Choice of the Methodist Confer j < ence for Bishopsl j TH DEADLOCK BROKNj CLEVER WAY IN WHICH IT WAS ACCOMPLISHED Sixteen Ballots Were Accessary Bat When the Result Was Announced the Conference Took on the Features Fea-tures of a Political Convention Brief Biographies of Both CLEVELAND May 19The deadlock in the M E general conference over the election of two bishops was broken today by the selection of Dr Charles C McCabe of New York and Dn Earl Cranston of Cincinnati It was apparent when the delegates assembled this inorn 1 ing that they were tired of the balloting j and were determined to bring me ters to an issue The ball was set rohtng by I Rev C L Stafford of Iowa who moved that the election of bishops be indefinitely indefi-nitely postponed This precipitated a I lively discussion and the motion was debated I i de-bated Then Dr A B Leonard cf Cm I oinnati moved that in future ballots the I name of no candidate be announced who received less than ten votes That motion mo-tion carried and it smashed the deadlock dead-lock From the first the conference had 4 been voting for two candidates op each ballot that is each delegate baJ two votes on each ballot On every ballot from one to twp hundred hun-dred votes were scattered among a score or more of candidates who had no phance I of election As soon as it was decided that candidates must receive more than ten votes to be counted the delegates saw that the time to do something had arrived ar-rived A commission was quickly formed On the fourteenth ballot Dr MrCaoes vote jumped to 25S from 190 what he had received on the ballot taken last night and Dp Cranstons from 245 to 261 That indicated clearly who the leaders lead-ers were and on the fifteenth ballot Dr McCabes vote rose to 344 or more than were needed to elect while Dr Cranston polled 328 or eight less than were needed The next ballot gave the victory to Dr Cranston and the west and east had both elected their candidates candi-dates WHO THEY ARE Bishopelect Charles C McCabe was born October 11 1808 at Athens O In 1S52 he became chaplain of the twenty second Ohio volunteers infantry At toe battle of Winchester Va June 1805 while looking after the wounded he was captured captur-ed and taken to Libby prison where he remained a captive over four months After his release he rejoined the regiment with broken health and was sent back to the hospital at Washington Since the war he has been in the service of the Ohio Wesleyan university and the board of church extensions In 1S84 he was elected missionary to Turkey Through his efforts ef-forts the cry of a million for the missions mis-sions once a prophesy Is now one of the brightest facts in the M E church Dr Earl Cranton was born June 27 1840 at Athens O He enlisted in the United States service and rose to the rank of captain His first service in tad church after the war was in the Ohio conference He was transferred nnally to Denver Cob where he was presiding elder Since 18S4 he has been book agent at Cincinnati Cin-cinnati He Is a pulpit orator 0f high rank CHURCH EXTENSION Some of the delegates are working to have the staff of the Church Extension society increased This cropped out at a meeting of the committee on church extension ex-tension today The committee recommended recom-mended that a work on state and national law as it applies to the holdings of churches be included in the course of reading of theological students I It was voted that where a church asks aid in building and accepts it the buildmg must conform with plans approved by the church extension board i There was a hot discussion before the committee on missions on thet propositions proposi-tions that persons may specify t the purposes pur-poses for which special gifts to the churches shall be used Bishop Thoburn Is exceedingly anxious that this be done A few days ago he said that if better support was not given the mission work in India one out of every six missionaries there would be compelled to return home Today he said that while that might not be the result a continuance of present conditions might prevent his returning to India The chance proposed met the opposition op-position of Dr McCabe and Dr Leonard The matter was held over The book committee today recommended subsidies amounting to 1S280 per year for several of the church papers Bishop Walden speaking of the result said it was an Ohio day Both of the bishops elected are natives of tile Buckeye Buck-eye state and six of the sixteen bisnops now on the board were born in Ohio They are Bishops Merritt Walden Joyce McCabe Cranston and Thoburn Bishop Foster who was retired is also an Ohio man |