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Show ENGLISH PREACHER SNUBS PRESIDENT Refuses to Speak From Same Platform Because of Difference Dif-ference in Creeds. By Leased Wire to Tho Trlbuno. NEW YORK, Aug, 20. To satisfy the demands of Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, the English preacher. President Taft will not speak at Winona Tuesday. August 30, at the Presbyterian assembly. Ills name appears on tho printed programme for that date. Dr. John Wesley Hill of Metropolitan temple, this city, who obtained ob-tained the consent of Mr. Taft to speak there, Is to preside at the foreign missions mis-sions conferenco on that day. He and Dr. Charles L. Goodell of Calvary Methodist Meth-odist Episcopal church, were to precede tho president at tho morning session. Dr. Morgan refused to speak from tho same platform as tho president, because the latter Is an avowed Unitarian. Dr. Morgan Is a Presbyterian. Winona assembly. It Is said, has lacked noted speakers since the withdrawal of Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman. The English divine was regarded as a great drawing card. It Is said that Dr. Dickey and his associates regard Dr. Morgan as a moro important attraction than the president. pres-ident. Corning Just at the time when the president pres-ident was compelled to cancel a large number of speaking engagements the snub was undiscovered. It was made known through clergymen who have just returned from the Northfield conference. Dr. L. R. Meyer of Cincinnati, head of tho Presbyterian Jewish work, was also on the Winona programme, when asked if the report wero true, nnswercd: "I understand Dr. Morgan roally refused re-fused to speak at Winona if President Taft spoko, but I doubt the rest of the story." |