The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-09-26
NATIONAL W. R. E. CONVENTION.
Tidngs of Death of President Mckinley Causes Intense
Sorrow
A WEEK OF GLORY AND GLOOM IN CLEVELAND
Address of National President Mary Carr Reports OF National
Officers and Routine Matters Coming Before Convention

tie Durell, New Jersey; Orpha Bronson
Missouri: Sarah Il. Putnam, Maine; Lot
tie NJ. Minans, California; Jennie WALKER
Kansas.
Credentials Committee-Chairman Fan
ME d. w. Hardin, Colorado; Charlotte n
Wright, Connecticut; Jessie Bross, III
! nois; Ada C. Work, Texas; Susan A.
Sheeler, Nebraska.
Assistant National Secretary-Emma
Pianist, Amelia c. Alexander, Ohio
: Stenographer, Ella FL. Snyder, Indiana;
: Chief Conductor, Clara Afford, Maryland
Assistant Conductors, Nellie Greenawa !,
Scott, lola Miller, Edith Sweeney, Lima
: Grail Delilah Davis, Mrs. Ell Torrance
Platform Aids, Sadie chatham, Kate
: D. Raynor, Edith Moore, Georgia
Hamilton. ~.
Chief Guard, Martha G. Hayr, Ohio
Assistant Guards, Bessie Harland, Dora
! Brush Efiie st. Johns, Sarah Esgiest01h
: Color Bearers, Clara Chapelka, Ella
Wyman. Bertha Cadmus, Sadie Barnes.
Press Committee, Mary NJ. North
Chairman, Maryland Lottie Il. Larner,
Illinois; Mary A Vaughn, Massachusetts
/ Julia Marvin, South Dakota; Isabel Wor'
rell Ball, Department of Potomac.
Just as the committees were announced
the Department Ol SSAS NH
the National President a great basket OF
yellow dahlias and maidenhair fern, ana
the Corps of Cleveland big bouquet OF
; American Beauty roses.
Mrs. Johnson, wife of the Mayor OF
Cleveland, was announced and escorted Dy
1.-THE four pretty ColorBearers, mounted the
stage and delivered to the Convention a
ldaintily-worded address of welcome, III
which she declared that she herself was
n daughter of the Southland" but came
with a welcome to those of every section.
Mrs. Johnson's well-rOunded sentiments
we're received with every evidence Oh
pleasure, and she retired amidst the waN
ing of flags, after a few words OF accept
ance from the National President, VINO
has the happy faculty Of briefly eloquent
expression.
This brevity which is the soul of wit
was very happily exemplihed when she
} called her staff of co-wOrkers about her
and introduced them individually with a
little word for each. But three members
of her official family were absent-Mfs.
Kline. of San Francisco, National Coun-
selor; Mrs Sarah u, Fuller, life member
of the Executive Board, and Mrs. Laura
G. Remage, Of Jennings, La, member Vi
the Executive Board.
Those who were present are as follows:
National Senior Yice-President Belle NJ.
Satterley st. Louis, Mo; National Junior
Vice President Abbie X. Flagg, Battle
Greek, Mich; National Secretary, FANNIE
ID. W. Hardin, Denver, Colo; National
Treasurer Sarah e. Phillips, Syracuse,
In. Y; National Chaplain Mary McCorkie
Sims, Frankfort, Ind; National inspector
Abbie Lynch, Allegheny, Pa; National L.
and /. Officer Maria E. Dean, Chatta-
nooga, Tenn; National Patriotic Instruct
or Jennie l.. Day, Gorham, Me.
Members of Executive Board-Georgia
Wade Mcclellan, Chairman, Denison'
: Iowa; Nancy Danforth, Milwaukee, Wis;
Anna NJ. Williams, Mitchell, ). d.; May
, |. Barton, Ponce City, Okla.
: Board of Directors of National w. X.
C. Home-Agnes Hit, Chairman, Indian
apois, Ind, elected 1897; Emma Stark
Hampton, Secretary, Detroit, Mich, elect
: ed 1900; Charity Rusk Craig, Asheville,
\. c., elected 1896; Flo Jamison Miller,
, Wilmington, ILL.,, elected 1899; Harriet j.
Dodge, Hartford, Conn, elected I9oo:
5 Andersonville Prison Board-Liza beth
( A. Turner, Chairman, Boston, Mass,
l elected 1896; Sarah d. Winans, Toledo.
t Ohio, elected 1897; Calista X. Jones, Brad
ford, VT, elected 1898; Mary A. ii. Cad
l den, Baltimore, Md, elected 1893; Ellen
, NJ. Putnam, Oxford, n. Y, elected 1900.
? Then followed the introduction of Past
, National Presidents in body, which al
ways brings out all the enthusiasm III the
, Convention. Those attending the Conven-
= ton were: Kate Brownlee Sherwood,
: Ohio; Emma Stark Hampton, Michigan;
: Charity Rusk Craig, North Carolina; En-
ma r. Wallace, Illinois, Lizabeth a. Tur-
ncr, Massachusetts; Agnes Hit, Indiana|
$ Flo Jamison Miller, Illinois; and Harriet
/ j. BODICE, Connecticut; eight in ali.
I Mrs. Sherwood is now the Senior Ma
e tfOnal President of the body since the
Q death of Mrs. Barker, the well-belOyed
: first President. Each one as her name
f was called stepped to the front and made
her NEST graceful bow, and was greeted
: with clapping of hands and waving OF
4 flags, her Department usually rising III
: body to salute her. Particularly was
a this true of Massachusetts, Illinois and
' Connecticut.
Address OF NATIONAL PRESIDENT.
The address of the National President
s which was in part as follows, was good
[ sound, sensible talk, thoroughly business
+ like, and shorn of all frIlls:
V Since the existence of this Govern
= ment no organization has greater respon
t sibiity laid upon it, or more manifest op
O portunity TO pass on to the future tbs
r ideas which made this a distinctive Ma
: ton than ours. If we permit 1t to bt
swept aside by beneficiary orders, which
i: hope to receive more than they give; if il
: our thought it becomes displaced by lit
n il hard 10 hold our own. Indifference IL
such cause is the direct result of selfish
n ness; and if fostered, not only Will oul
Order be depleted and aged veterans b.
}, uncared for when most they need us, bu
society at large and the very genius o
our Government will find their tendereS
! traits chobed by
$ the gain and get
e On which hot human hearts are set.
o ours is a society for the benefit of tn
u defenders Of the country; benevolent ant
IL educatiye, but not beneficiary. The adde's
fact should never be lost sight of, tina
the work is nobly educative to those VIII
take earnest part in it. Beneyolence i
not our only factor of value; instance tn
IS intelligent advance i'll the personnel of on
= National and Department Conventions.
The best thought of our ablest mem
$ bers has for Is years been Intervene
,e with the warp and wool of this organiZa
: ton The National officers devote all thei
il time to its advancement, but their careful
10 plans come to naught unless the member
~ snip works in accordance with those plan:
10 Loyalty 70 those in authority is absolute
n ly essential TO success, and the solemn OF
=. legation taken by every member at initia
20 ton makes this an imperative duty. Whe
each Department and Corps works in hal
c mony with National plans, and when cart
No full records and accurate reports show thi
~ fact, greater results for the entire scop
NJ of our work will be secured"
no OF the Galveston flood she said:
10 AS the extent of the Texas horror b,