The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-05-24

VI e-1sNNs A-0NAcA 49,
seconded and carried.
A letter was then read from th'
ladies OF Petersburg. Va. requesting
that the Tennessee Division SHOULD
put up a window in the old BlanforC
church in that city. the window Il
cost $4,000. Motion was made By
Mrs. William Hume that the donation
be taken into consideration. and the
question OF erecting the window be
laid before each chapter by its dele
gates, which motion was seconded by
Mrs. Mason and carried
Mrs. Davis, Of the Bate Chapter
offered an amendment to the Constf
tuition that any member known to
have been a Union sympathizer dur
ing the years of 81 TO IS. should be
barred from holding once in the State
Division. though said member may
have married a Confederate veteran.
Mrs. C. NJ Goodlet suggested that ii
would be very hard to prove that a
woman was a Union sympathizer forty
years ago. A very heated discussion
followed. lead by Mrs. Lula Epperson
in favor of Mrs. Davis motion, and
Mrs. Mason and others opposing.
Mrs E. H. Hatcher made a motion
that the resolution be tabled and re-
ferred to proper committee, which
motion was carried.
Mrs. Mason then moved that the
Convention proceed with the election
of officers, which motion being unani-
mously carried, the most interesting
business of the entire three days
meeting was taken up. The Chair az
pointed Mrs Alec Fall and Mrs Jack
son of Nashville, and Mrs. E. H.
Hatcher of Columbia, tellers, and the
Secretary then counted out ballots
corresponding with the number of
chapters present, which were distrib-
uted by the tellers with instructions
by the Chair as to the method of vot-
ing.
The voting was here interrupted by
the offering of an amendment to the
Constitution, which was introduced by
Miss Mollie Claiborne of Nashville, to
the effect that an aspirant to Office in
the U. D. c., should be prohibited from
seeking votes; that the Office should
seek the woman, and not the woman
seek the Office, and that a committee
should be appointed to investigate and
report to the Convention. The paper
of Miss Claiborne, which was read
with much feeling, created much ex-
element, and was argued holly pro
and con, and several papers were read
on the subject. Mrs. Talbot finally
moved that the amendment be tabled, !
and the Chair announced that the
question would be decided by roll call |
and vote Of chapters. The vote re-
suited in 1853 against, to rs in favor of
the motion to table. The amendments
were then taken up and passed.
The election of officers then pro-
ceeded. Miss Lauderdale Of Dyers-
burg, who is remembered as the cour
teous and charming former State Lii
brarian of Tennessee, rose and in
gracefully-deliyered and well-written
address, nominated for the position
of State President, Mrs. M. B. Pitcher
of Nashville. Her speech was re-
ceived with deafening applause, and
the seconding of Mrs. Pitchers nomi-
nation by Mrs. T. B. Neal of Nash
vile, Mrs. Darlington Mason of Mem
phis and Mrs. Gillespie of Fayette-
Vile, we're also cheered {
Mrs. Craighead of Chapter No. l, {
Of Nashville, then arose and in
Iorceful, brief and well-delivered
speech, nominated Mrs William v
Hume of Spring Hill Here v
again the Court House rang h
with cheers of the followers C
If Mrs. Hume; this nomination receiv- v
ng even more applause than the first. C
Ind the seconding of Mrs. Hume's II
nomination by Mrs. Collier of Mem II
his, of the ]. H. Mathis Chapter, p
ars. Foster of Nashville, Mrs. w. r. c.
Bryan, Mrs. Mitchell of the 46th Tenn. C
regiment Chapter, Mrs. John Hick p
nan and Mrs. Lula B. Epperson, were
lmost drowned In the confusion 10
The vote was then cast by the S
'hairmen of the respective chapters, s.
nd the tellers retired to the Commit
ee room to count the vote. During G.
heir absence the report of the FL
ance Committee was called for, read Ia
nd accepted. r.
Mrs. Foster of Nashville, then was Al
ecognized by the Chair and announced
lat she wished to move that the In
send a vote Of thanks to B.
lie u. ID. G. for sending the handsome