The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-04-21
INTEREST IN d. R. CONGRESS
for President General Of the
Society.
THREE LEADING CANDIDATES.
Election VIII be field Today-Cona-
rlction OF the Memorial He'll Fro
icct-Fisuring i'm the Campaign.
Lively Debate Over Proposition Not
10 Hold n Session on Good

Washington. April 1S.-lnterest OF
the Daughters of the Revolution today
lcentered in the preliminary campaign
lot the candidates for president general
lof the society. Mrs. George NJ. Stern
berg, of this city: Mrs. Donald Nc
Lean, of New York: and Mrs Charles
lWarren Lippitt. Of Rhode Island, are
1.-THE active candidates. The friends II
ladherents of each are leaving nothing
Irndone that might promote the inter-
Tests of their ~favorite.
The election will take place tenor
row morning, but it is not possible at
this time definitely TO forecast the re-
lsult. Completion of Continental Memo
Trial hall is figuring prominently III he
campaign, the desire of all the dau2h-
tiers being to elect Il woman as the
head of the organization who will
lcarry forward to the best advantage
the work begun so auspiciously By
Mrs. Fairbanks.
\ lively debate developed today over
ia proposition of the programme com
tmittee not to old a session of the con-
gress on Good Friday. 1t was pointed
iOut that both Catholics and Episcopal
3lians had been elected as delegates to
1.-THE congress with the understanding
that no session would be held on Good
FRIDAY. During the course of debate,
Mrs. Donald Mclean, New York, one Of
the candidates for president general,
Expressed the hope that no session
would be held on Friday. Mrs. Nc
Lean was given an ovation by the
daughters, despite the efforts of the
president general to restore rder.
During the discussion a delegate urg-
led that the congress is not a religious
parliament" and demanded a vote. FL
nally, a vote vas reached and the pro-
tpOSed amendment was rejected with
out division.
Politics was injected into the pro-
|ceedings at this point. Mrs. Amos e.
Draper, of the District of Columbia,
lrising to a question of privilege, called
lattentiOn to some slams made by one
|Of the national officers concerning the
candidacy of Mrs. Mclean. Il dc
lmand," she said, that Mrs. Mclean be
IallOwed to speak to the congress oil
her attitude toward the Memorial Hail
project"
1.-The chair" responded the president
general sharply, docs not consider
icampaign speeches a question of priv.
lege, and, as such, she wiz not listen
Ito them now or hereafter" (Applausey
A motion was made and carried that
the whole matter be laid on the table.
Mrs. Mclean finally secured recogni-
ton and remarked warmly:
Il AVE no campaign speeches and /
Suggest that we proceed with the bus
mess of the day"
She was warmly applauded.
Reports of the subordinate national
I%Officers then were received. The &C
Itual membership of the society was
lshown to (be 42,SO4.
The question of polygamy was rails.
led by Mrs. Teunis S. Hamlin in her re.
IpOrt as chaplain general. She urged
the members of the society to use their
Influence with Senators against the fur
Ither promotion of the Norman propo.
Uganda. The report was adopted.
AT the afternoon session a resolution
|offered by Mrs. William Lindsay, OF
ikentucky, was taken up. 1t provided
that, in view of the recent recovery OF
the remains Of John Paul Jones, in
Paris, France, the Congress authorize
la bust of John Paul Jones to be placed
lin Continental Memorial Hall on its
completion. Action was postponed.