St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-14

party. When few months ago
the committee OF awards of the
woman'S board was formed, Mrs.
Ball was made member of
1t, and was subsequently elected Its sec
rotary. Mrs. Meredith was the chair
man OF this important committee, which
mad the duty of selecting the women
Jurors. Almost as soon as the commit
tee entered upon its work the old an
tagonlSm came to the front and soon
produced strained relations between its
members. These, five in number, we're
Mrs. Meredith, Mrs. Ball, Mrs. Ginty Of
Wisconsin. Mrs. Stevens of New jersey,
and Mrs. FOsdick, of Alabama. What
ever the difference of opinion between
Mrs. Ball aud the other members of the
commlttee-wh opposed her as unit
the public knew nothing of the
trouble till it came before the board in
the following manner:
MISS cunningham. member from
South Carolina, made i'll open session
rather incorporate protest against
the misrepresentation of the state on
tho Juries OF award. charging Mrs.
Meredith, chairman of the awards COM
mlttee. with malice in the matter. This
preclpltated the first public row, the
old CouZlnS faction rallying to the aid
of Miss Cunningham, while the con-
servatlve element as speedily ranged
itself under Mrs. MeredIth's banner,
with much bitterness, excitement and
recrlminatiOn upon both sides. Mrs.
Meredith made a Scathing arraignment
OF Mrs. Ball, the secretary of the com
mlttee on awards. She stated that from
the very outset Mrs. Ball had been in
lmIcal to the interests of the committee
and openly allied with its enemies.
ma tn 1-Is, Of
now intensified by the general under
standing that Mrs. Ball would speak in
reply, supporting Miss Cunningham
charges of malice against Mrs. Mere
dlth." The opportunity for this speech
from Mrs. Ball did not occur. and when
1t was, nevertheless. published in the
papers of the following day. then the
hight was on indeed. Mrs. Ball made
another speech even more bitter than
the published one. She disclaImed re-
sponsibility for the latter, and Miss
Cunningham sprang up amid Kisses and
cries of shame to say herself was
the person who had furnished type
written copies of Mrs. Ball's intended
speech to the press. Mrs. Ball wound
up with all Indictment of Mrs.
Meredith as "a cruel, mercileSs. vim
dlctlve woman" concluding with an at
tack upon Mrs. Nancy Huston Banks,
the member of the board in charge of
its press interests, whom she charged
with having given the article TO the
reporters. This was obviously absurd.
following Miss Cunnlngham'S admission
that she herself was the guilty party
But Mrs. Banks nevertheless now came
into the wraHgle to the extent of making
statement of her connection with
the affair. This was an earnest
effort, looking towards the sup
preston of the article, as was
plainly in the line of her duty, as press
representative of the board. That let
Mrs. Banks out, but the row went on
with undated fury, and report from
the committee on awards, asking that
Mrs. Ball "be excused from further
SERVICE" brought things to Climax.
This document was signed by every
member of the committee, excepting, OF
course, Mrs. Ball, and was finally
adopted after terrific struggle, cOnstI-
tuting a virtual impeachment of that
lady. On the following day, after what
she considered a public vindication,
Mrs. Meredith withdrew the so-called
report, thus restoring things to statu
quo,