The National tribune., 1908-07-16
BELLE C. HARRIS.
ansas Wants the National Presidency.

Kansas Wants the National Presidency
Kansas is out with neatly gotten
up circular. announcing the candidac,
of their "favorite daughter" Mrs. Bell
| c. Harris for the uiliee of Nationa
President at the coming convention
at Toledo. Mrs. Harris is well known
thruout the Order. and because of he
! pleasing personality and musical gift
is a great favorite. Her qualification
for the office cannot be better stated
however, than by appending the circu
lar, which is signed by Past Depart
ment Presidents Julia A. Chase, Emma
z. Forter and Ida Wilson Moore. ant
Anna Heacock. Department President
who are the members of the committee
and also by the Past Department Presi.
dents. delegates to the National Con.
vGntion, and the Department Senior ant
Junior Vice Presidents, Treasurer and
Secretary:
Parsons, Kan. June 10, 1908.
AT the oath Annual Convention of the
Woman's Relief Corps, Department OF
Kansas. held May 10. 90. 81, in Kan
of Emporia, was unanimously Endorsed
as candidate for the office of National
President, subject to the decision OF
the National Convention, to be held in
Toledo, Ohio, Aug. 81 to Sept. g. The
Encalnpment of the Grand Army OF
Kansas, in session at same time and
place. also gave an enthusiastic in
dorst IiIent of her candidacy.
She was born in Pennsylvania. Her
home has been in Emporia, Kan, for
% years. Her husband, Charles Har-
ris, Past Department Commander, De-
Pertinent of Kansas, served in an Iowa
c
prominent in Grand Army affairs, and
is the present Assistant Adjutant-Gen-
eral of Kansas. G. A. r.
Mrs. Harris comes of patriotic fam
lily, her father, three brothers and an
uncle having followed the Flag in the
war of the rebellion. She has been
member of the P. B. Plumb Corps,
No. 20, for % years.
Mrs. Harris has held most of the
important positions in Corps and De-
partment work, serving as Department
President in 1889. We who have been
in close touch with her these many
years bear appreciative testimony to
her great ability and unflagging zeal
in all Relief Corps and Grand Army
endeavors, and believe that she will
carry into the National work the same
level-headed, warmhearted energy she
has shown at home. In the Depart
ment of Kansas Belle C. Harris is a
name to conjure with.
Our candidate is also well known in
National Councils. She is, at present,
National Chief-of-Staff and has been
National Senior Vice President, so that
her acquaintance with the workings of
the National organization, together with
her Unborn executive ability. well quail
fies her to fill the high office of National
President, Woman's Relief Corps.
She has attended nearly every Ma
tional Convention, and many will re-
member her beautiful singing which
has often broken the monotony of rou-
tine work.
The Department Of Kansas was or
ganized in February, 1884, and in this
almost quarter of a century has had
but one National President. This
great soldier State, with a Relief Corps
of over 1000 in good
standing and not one delinquent Corps
present to the 10000 members of the
Woman's Relief Corps in the United
States the name of Belle G.. Harris for
the highest office in your power to give,
in the full assurance that the woman
and the State are both worthy of your
The resolution adopted by the De-
partment of Kansas. G. A. r., in reIa-
ton to the candidacy of Mrs. Harris,
are here given:
Whereas, The Department of Kan
sas, G.. A. R., in convention assembled,
have by unanimous vote indorrsed Mrs.
Belle C. Harris. wife of Past Depart
ment Commander Charles Harris. for
the position of National President of
the Woman's Relief Corps; therefore,
Resolved, That we heartily concur
in the reimbursement of the Woman's Re-
lief Corps. and assure, the women of
our Auxiliary thruot the Nation that
they Will make no mistake in comforting
this great honor on Kansas and upon
one of her most talented and worthy
]. NJ. Miller. Assistant Ad-
jutant-General; r. A. Campbell, De-
partment Commander"