New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-01
WHO WILL BE PRESIDENT?
MRS. DECKER, OF DENVER. HAS. IT is SAID.
A GOOD CHANCE TO BE ELECTED AT
THE FEDERATION BIENNIAL

as Mrs Decker of Denver to be president OF
the next General Federation Of Womens Clubs!
said a we'll known in club circles. Ihat
is the question that is passing from lip to lip among
clubwomen Mrs. Decker ii is said by those who
know, has been a presidential possibility in the
federation for the last four years. Ever since, as
Plat the first president of the big progressive
Woman's Club Of Denver, she doomed upon the ciup
horizon before the Denver Biennial, she has been
talked of for president.
The warmest time that the general federation
has had yet over the election OF president
at the Denver Biennial four years ago. Mrs Alice
Ives Breed of Lynn Mass, the first vice president.
wanted, it is said, 10 be president Mrs. Charles
Henrotin, OF Chicago, the president, was deter
mined that she should not hold that office In pur-
suit Of her policy. Mrs. Henrotin advanced the
claims Of the West a section not yet recog
nized. and began to groom Mrs: Decker for the
upon began to say unpleasant things about Mrs.
Platt, and the diseonresy of the hostess city put
ting forward a candidate.
Some OF these things got into the papers, and
grew warm, and decided to take a hand in the cleo
@ left fo d ne ia o. the anSda and
the West would rally to her support When Mrs
the biennial was to open it was to confess regret,
fully that she had found no candidate She had
another from Kentucky. but both had refused
Mrs Henrotin was almost as much opposed to her
Popular president sRe had influence eeF With va" Cubs
M dd e ne % 6 was s e e0d nd that
candidate, It was then that a newspaper woman
in the conference said:
- There Southern women over at the
hotel who are pushing the claims Of a Mrs. Lowe.
Of Atlanta, for YiCe-president They the
South recognized. Do you think she would do for
PRESIDENT
Yes, consideration. Mrs. Henrotin thought
Mrs. Lowe would do The newspaper
sent TO the hotel to confer with Mrs. J. Lindsay
Johnson, of Georgia, and other Southern women.
Within an hour the matter arranged. The
West. the South and the Northwest combined
orally, and that the way Mrs Lowe be
elected Most of the women who voted for her had
never heard OF her before they reached
Denver.
"At Milwaukee the presidency was once
offered to Mrs Decker, and more refused by
her. Mrs Lowe went IN by default. although at the
last some New-England women, reused by
the attitude of the South the color question.
secured the candidacy Of Miss Evans. Of Mime
sofa, q movement which resulted in a fasco. The
consent Of Mrs Dimies t Denson, of this city,
10 accept tie yicepresidency reused good deal OF
feeling in the New-York State delegation. in view
Of certain pledges and agreements previously n
tered into by the delegation
And now, who is to be elected Angeles?
Mrs. loves term expires by limitation Mrs. Deni-
son Is first vice-presdent, but she probably could
control her delegation. a thing fatal to
any candidate. Mrs. Helmuth has been made
president of another great national organization,
Miss Evans has again been suggested. but has come
in a statement to the press denying her candi-
dacy Mrs. Decker has also been suggested, and
says nothing. Her friends think the time has
when she is willing to accept the presidency. and.
if this is SO, she will certainly be elected