The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1901-06-23
The DAVIS MONUMENT
Che Funds Raised By the Ladies
9uxilisry
Gia0 CRedlS 80 Whom Credu
IS Due

| In fridays issue of the Journal unGel
1aring headlines it Is stated th0t the "Es
C)nfe ]erste e ne, Be" -Uet-ran0 o.
Leiloy Stafford Camp forwarded nearly
| 800 as their portion of the fund for The
JEFF Davis monumeit," which is iEcorl ect
ami misleading.
The purpose oil This article Is to correct
created in the minds OF the people YhO
read the headlines ard not the substance
of articles published in newspapers.
The fu cd. $G71.48, was realized by "the
Ladies Auxiliary" which number
Eighteen and whose names with their
officers have been given in the Caucasian i.
These ladies wer9 assisted by their friends
In raising this money, together with S149
for the Besuregsrd monumsnt fund anG
other funds which have been entrusted to
the keeping of the Gen. LeRoy Stafford
Camp.
The Gen Leroy Stafford Camp Is entitled
to no credit for raising these funds, nor is
there single member of the camp who
would detrsct from the noble efforts Of the
ladies whose patriotic incentive led to thu
re ealization OF these funds.
The JEFF Davis monument fund has not
bSen in ''baak to the credit Of the General
Leroy Stafford Camp for eight or ten
years" This fund was deposited In the
savings department OF the Merchants' aud
Farmers bank less than two years ago Acc
was CREDITED to 1.-THE JEFF Davis monument
fund.-" To draw tLis money from the bank
an order from the camp, as provided by
resolution, was necessary, and the money
could be paid to only such person or pei
sons a. would be designated by an cHieIai
order by Gen John Is Gordon.
For yesrs the camp at its IN mDnthly NEE,
ings has had communications from differ
snt persons in reg ard 10 The fund and It wa,
only when the Gen Leroy Stafford camp
bad, by resolution, urged Gen Gordon to
name and designate the authority to whom
the.tuud should be paid that he issued the
necessary order to mrs w j Beh4n, OF
New Or!eans, president Of the Ladies'
Confederate Memorial Association, who
endorsed the order, with Geo Packwood.
major general commanding Louisiaus
division, U G v, to whom were edded tue
signatures of Mrs N Randelph, Chairman
central committee, aId Mrs D Taylcr,
treasurer central committee Jefferson
Davis Monument Association, of Rich
mond, Va. This order was cashec In the
State Bank OF Virginia at Richmond. Va,
in May and when 1t reached Shreveport
through the Citizens National bank 1t was
met by = check on the MerchaDts' and
Farmers' bank, signed by the commander,
the adjutant ana the chairman Of the
fnnnce committee of the camp, as pre-
Vided.
In tnis transaction the camp simply dir
charged duty entrusted to them BY the
Ladies Auxiliary, and it may be said that
the camp has been a faithful custodian.
The Jefferson DAVIS Monumental Asso-
citation, headquarters at Richmond, Va,
was organized Soon alter the death Of
Jeheraon Davis, and is recogniz I'd as the
central association, which is vested with
authority and is the custodian of all the
iuHuS "nlOu nave Ue60 realized IOr the
erection of the monument, and who, with
The cooperation of other associations of
ladies', will erect the monument at Rich,
nOnd, to perpetuate the memory and the
anne ct the President Of the Confederscy.
The erection OF the monument. projected |
7ears ago, would now be complete if the |
aides Of the monumental associations had
received the encouragement they had
but during these Years there
aas been little serious consideration of
his mSnument At the annual reunions,
It which nearly all the business interests
laVe been absorbed by the social func-
ions, pArsdes and displays, but now that
he ladies Of the monumental Associations, I
IRE gathering the funds in their treasury a,
it will be renewed with greater
igor.
The Ladies Auxiliary aud the ladies' OF
ae monumental associations are entitled
'@nd must be credited Tor the work they
laYs4dona.