The National tribune., 1909-04-29

on the platform except Mrs. Mclean,
the President-General; Mrs. Amos q.
Draper, the Registrar-General, whose
party friends played her false and de-
feated her for Vice-President-Ge
in charge of organizations; Mrs MaSury,
the silver-tongued from Massachusetts:
Mrs. John w. Murphy, ditto, and
others A soft low voice in woman Is
very beautiful thing in parlor or IN
a cosy corner, but in Q. convention
calliope beats it all hollow. But a
steam calliope footing exactly the same
thing from two corners of the PLATFORM
at the same time couldn't have talked
against the Daughters in Convention
They had too much dress, too much
reception, too much politics to discuss
to be even courteous to the presiding
officer and as for the members OF the
Congress, they didn't seem to care
whether any of them addressed them
selves to business or not.
The police who were on duty tc
guard against overcrowding, fire, and
to keep off the NATIONAL pickpockets
who were in the city to clean the
Daughters out of their heirloom jewels
pocketbooks and the like. declared tna'
they would rather handle mob in the
streets than the well-dressed women
in the Congress- Women who had nc
right to them took possession of the
seats that were arranged for the alter
mates in the front rows in the gallery
| and though the President-General or
dered them to vacate, and the ponce
were asked to accelerate their getting
out. they wouldn't have been out VI
to now if the Congress had not closed
| its doors They simply sat still and
the police could do nothing.
It was about the most discourteous
| Congrc.s of the whole IS, and this
writer Knows, having attended and re-
! ported all of them. The President
| General was seldom permitted to hnisf
ruling. on first trial being halted wlth
| No" THAT isn't the way of it, Oh
no." "No-o-o-o," and like Interruptions
OF course that is the way the average
convention woman uoes things, but Il
does not sound very pretty. to put Il
| mildly 1t is a thousand pitieS that the
d. a. r. Congress is comprised or sucf
an unruly lot of women, for 1t IS
SPLENDID great big body of patrlotie
women doing a noble work. That II
permits itself to be ridden over by lo
of malcontents who employ themselve:
with picking flaws instead of helping
| things go is to be deprecated. 1t wa:
| the first Congress in the series OF foul
presided over by Mrs. Mclean that ha:
been really unruly and lacking in cour
tesy. but the Insurgents We're hunting
| trouble, and they found 1t. They hat
to make most of it, it is true, but they
/ got what was coming to them
1t was the first Congress in three
wears that had been attended by Mis-!
| Mary Desha She got mad and took hei
| doll rags and fiounced out three year.
ago Miss Desha. as delegate from
| Minnesota, said, thinks she owns th'
Daughters because she is styled one o
| the founders. Mrs. lockwood is NOR
entitled to that title than any of th'
other three, for they would never hav'
accomplished anything but for he
| facile pen. We have given Miss Desh;
too much prominence. She can't stan'
It and it makes us trouble"
Mrs Mclean was magnificent. a
usual. She will go down in history a
The Great President-General.' She /
without doubt one of the most briliian
women of the day, brainy, diplomatic
I and always capable. She has accom-
plished tremendous results in her fou
years work. Everything was chaotic
Inebulous, and most unsatisfactory whel
she took up the reins. When she lai'
them down it was to turn over to tn
Daughters an almost finished hall. witt
| every penny of its cost provided 70
in legitimate and economic way.
The Registrar-General, Mrs. AmO
IG. Draper, was able to report over %,
1000 additions to the membership of tn
National Society in the four years O
Mrs. McLednS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. lar Oul
stripping any other Administration. TIL
Vice-President-G General in Charge of Or
ganization. Mrs. Charlotte Emerso
Maine, could make the same repOr
for chapters organized. The Treasurer
General. Mrs. Mabel Swormstedt, re
; ported a perfectly healthy condition O
. the finances of the Society, with ever
obligation met oa time. and money t
meet those coming due.
The Historian General, Mrs. J. Eaki
Gadsby. whose failing health would no
} permit of her standing for reelection
had q splendid report of the historica
Iresearch and presery alton of historica
places. Mrs. John w. Murphy had
fine report of her Children of the Re
public In fact all the reports wer
fine. Lots of good work has been done
and it was pity that small fractio
in the District, as it usually does, shoul
have made so much trouble right a
the end of splendid woman's magnifi
cent work. The work lives, however
and the row dies a natural death.
Il A great many magnificent present
were given, one being to the President
General and representing only tith
of the love and affection of her Daugh
tiers.
Il 1t was three-piece silver fruit an
flower set, an exact replica of a Sc
once owned by Washington. It stand
nearly three feet high, and on eac
piece is q reproduction in gold of tn