Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-21
From Washington.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
Washington, D.. c., April q.

Washington, ID. u, Aprll Il.
In observance Of Good Efiday the
Daughters Of the American Revolution
are holding no sessions OF the fourteenth
annual congress today. -,
The recess is a welcome break in the
strain of one of the most exciting con
crosses the daughters have ever held.
After an almost continuous session from
10 o'clock yesterday morning until $3.50
O'Clock in the evening, the result of the
hammer and tougs campaign among the
candidates for presidsnt-general was an
nounced in favor of Mrs. Donald Nc
Lean of New York.
The supporters OF the New York m
had worked necessarily for their tayorlte
and those on the other side had been
eonally ~tireIess for their champions.
Many women were in a state Of nervous
collapse when the contest was finally
over. This was evidenced by the waI
they took victory and defeat. Women
on both sides wept bitterly or laughed
Historically, whichever way their emo
tons happened to affect them. Mrs.
Mclean slept late at her apartments in
the Arlington this morning. She spent
the evening holding an informal receP-
ton in the hotel parlors. Hundreds OF
women thTonged about her. She must
have been kissed by ecstatic female adj
mirers SOME hundreds of times. Also
she received flowers in yeritable truck
loads.
al have formed no policy" she said
this morning. ''There hasn't been time,
| have been kept busy thanking those
Ioyal women who through seven years
Of struggle have stood at my side. Graf
itnde TO them is the chief emotion | feel
in victory. Work on Continental Hall
will be pushed and all the society un-
dertakings will be fostered during my
administration as they have in the past.
will stay in Washington some time
after the congress adjonrns to get in
touch with my new work and plan it
ahead"
No one took more joy in Mrs. Nc
Leans victory than her husband, who
has been a close attendanta at the congress
and has watched every move by the fac
tons with intense interest.
Despite the fact that Mrs. S%ternberg
and Mrs. Lippitt moved 10 make the
election unanimous and it was carried
with a cheer, the elemental luminosity
raging before the announcement OF the
election kept right on thereafter. There
was a veneer of harmony and that was
all. Women who had fought Mrs. Nc
Lean for seven years couldn't love her in
two minutes. Mrs. Mclean in herspeech
recognized this and took occasion TO fire
a broadside or Two into the defeated and
demoralized Fairbanks army. The
vanquished took the hot shots VITA grim
fortilude. The fact that some of them
wept is attributable only to their sex,
not to lack of fOrtitude in misfortune.
Some women found recours in a
popular masculine sOlsce. During Mrs.
McLean's w1rble of triumph n
staunch member of the opposition was
heard drawing in sweet Virginia accents
something that sounded like 'dammer,
dammer, dammer." She kept this up
for a good while.
Another woman expressed the situa-
ton in these words:
"We've been suppressing this IN
for years, and now she has won out.
NV husband owns raceborses. He would
say Mrs. Mclean had won, coming
way on the bit. Now you just watch
out for the next two years. Mark my
word-Mrs. Mclean is going to ride
everyone that's been against her with
whip and spur. If my husband was
here, he would say we stand to be whip
sawed coming and going. | guess I'll
have to give up coming to the Congress
for the next year or two and take to
raising a flower garden about this time
Of year. ! have a notion this woman
knows how to use the spurs"
The President has appointed VIM. +.
Cunningham postmaster at Louisa,
Virginia.
President Shonts and Vice. President
Wallace of the Panama Railroad this
afternoon entered into a contract with
the American Locomotive Works Of
Rochester, New York, to supply that
road with twenty-four large double
ended Mogul engines. They will cost
about $l2, 600 a piece. Specifications
are also being prepared for the purchase
of 800 freight cars, six passengers coaches,
and other equipment.
The Court of Inquiry, which recently
met at Fort Myer, Va, to investigate
the accidental wOuDding of 2nd Lieuten-
ant Donald G. Cubbison, last October
at Gretna Green, Pa, during the target
practice of the 4th field battery of artil-
lery, has made its report to the War De
partment. The court completely vindi-
Captain Stephen VI. FoOte, who
commanded the battery, from all blame
aud recommends that no further proceed
ings be had.
Rev. ID. r. Ward is E~xonerated.
A dispatch from ClaremOnt, Va, says