The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-05-09

We say BRIDE since to Lizabeth A. Turner
the GAR. stands pre-cminent. Other women
happy in home and children and soldier bus-
bands divide their love for the Grand Army
and care for its interests with those nearest
the heart OF every woman thus bounteously en-
dowed.
But from this grand Daughter of the Amer
lean Revolution, daughter of sires and DANES
who gave up all that was dearest and best to
mako this country Free widowed in her early
girlhood, without family ties, without sons and
daughters upon whom to lavish her Astounding
love, the Grand Army receives singleness OF
devotion worthy the true type of loyal Amer
lean womanhood for which she stands.
For 16 years Lizabeth A. Turner has been
foremost in the working ranks of the W.R.C.,
local, State, and National In 1879 she joined
serving as President; but long before that.
from the war period down, her sympathies and
her means wore consecIated to the men who
saved the Nation. -
She was tho first Treasurer of the State De-
partIncnt OF Massachusetts, W.R.C. and of the
Union Board, and for six years National Treas
urer of the w re, taking the Office when there
was hardly dollar in the treasury, and by the
exercise Of care and economy and the use of he
own credit, carried her work to magnificent
success. Had she given consent to the use of
her name she would have been National Presi-
dent long ago, and now that she has given con-
sent there can be but one issue, and that is q
unanimous election TO the office which her as
sociates ask her TO fill. s
Lizabeth A. Turner has been the best patri-
otto missionary in the w re, as her frequent
inspections among the colored Corps of Virginia
and tho Atlantic Seaboard States attest.
Honest, plain-spoken. of inspiring presence,
Astounding in generous mpulses, devoted to the
pure principles of the Order, Lizabeth A. Tur-
ner will reflect new honor upon the Office OF
National President. SO ably and unselfshly
filled by some OF the strongest women of the
Nation, in and out of tho W.R.C.
THE BUCKEYE STATE.
Second only to the mother Department of
Massachusetts, in aggregate membership and
expenditures for relief, but exceeding even
Massachusetts, in number of Corps and widely
disseminated and varied work, stands the
stanch Buckeye Department, ably and excel
lently presided over by Department President
Sarah D. Winans, of Troy.
The spirit Of 1857 is still marching on in
Ohio, and animates the men and women of the
State that gave Grant. a Sherman, q Sheridan,
a Stanton, a Mother Bickerdyke and an Annie
Wittenmyer to the service Of their country.
The Department of Ohio. GA L. and W.RC,
stand as unit for all that is brightest and best
in the history of these great bodies, State and
National, past aud present.
The record of Ohio soldiers in the war, one
tenth in number OF the entire army, is blazoned
upon every page of our National history.
The record of Ohio women on the battlefelds
and in the hospitals i'll the Sanitary and Chris
tian Commissions and their tributaries, the
Soldiers Aid Societies, stands second to the
work Of no State in the Union.
And Ohio women were at the Grand Army
beginning. Away back in 1879 Gen. James B.
Stcedman, Department Commander of Ohio
issued a grand rally, addressed 40 the Vet
eran Soldiers and Sailors and Patriotic Women
of Ohio"
Closing this historic order, that incomp parable
citizen soldier said:
Let the patriotic women come forward, to
organize for works of charity and love, IS they
did when their husbands and sons and brothers
were following the flag to the front.
Toledo has already her Forsyth Post La
dies Society, doing faithful and efficient serv-
ice for soldiers families in the city-a Society
which is already the right arm of the Grand
Army of the Republic, as the Soldiers Aid So.
cieties and the Sanitary Commission, moved
by the women Of tho North, were to the Gov
eminent in days of war.
Come forward, one and all, and organize for
the perpetuation and preservation of all that
was glorious in war and excellent in peace"
Ohio women did come forward, and they
have been coming, and have come to stay; and
Grand Army in the State, as they have been,
and are to-day.
In this connection 1t is due to Department
President Sarah ID. Winans, and the cause she
to say that all stories to the con.
trary, set afloat by q man claiming to speak
for the Grand Army and Relief Corps of Ohio,
through a so-called soldier-organ-a man who
is not aud never has been an advocate OF the
Woman's Relief Corps-are false as the
u
If anyone doubts the truth of this assertion,
that the Relief Corps of Ohio is acceptable to
the Grand Army let him address Gen. E. E.
Mutt, Department Commander, GAR Sidney,
o., or any other representative coarade with
in the jurisdiction of Ohio.
OHIO CANDIDATES.
In this connection we give place to the an
forwarded by the supporters of
the two candidates named for the office of De-
partment President of Ohio. Like the present
Sarah d. Winans, Hannah u
Maxon began her faithful service on behalf of
the Union soldiers in the old war days Lena
Springstein, on tho contrary, is q sterling rep
rescntative of the women who have grown up
since the war, and taken their places in the
ranks of loyal workers, her husband. DIR.
having served in the 10th N. Y.
Cav.
Both are active In the ranks Of the W.R.C:
both are representatives of law and order, and
stand by the decisions and opinions of Ma
tional Convention in all matters of recent con.
tr0versy.
HANNAH u. MAXoN.
Members of Corps 1S5, Gallipolis. O., in re-
counting the heroic services of Hannah U.
Maxon in the hospitals of Galipolis during the
war and on behalf of the Woman's Rei ef Corps,
say: "She is veritable Florence Nightin-
gale. with heart overlooking with Christian
love and sympathy, yet firm and inflexible in
the right. and well fitted to perform with dig
nifty aud honor the high duty Of Department.
President.