The San Francisco call., 1910-02-12
CIVIL WAR RACED
/. BYD.A.R. CHAPTERS
Trouble Over Choice of State
Regent Will Be Brought
to an Issue
Important Meeting Will Be Held
by Delegates at St.
Francis Today

California Daughters of the American
their organization just now. and north
ern chapters and southern chapters
have become sufficiently modernized to
have a little civil war of which the
first gun is to be fired in this city today.
The matter OF choosing state regent
is the root of the trouble. Mrs Freder-
lex Jewell Laird of Berkeley, the in
cumbent being the choice of the north
and of two of the southern chapters,
while the other southern chapters and
the Sequoia chapter OF this city declare
themselves as opposed TO Mrs Laird.
They will put forward Mrs. ". w. Still
son of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles daughters have fought
Valiantly during the last week to Sc
cure the annual conference for their
city and have gained a victory, as it
will be held there Thursday next 1t
bids fair to prove an empty honor.
however. for it is not Imperative that
the regent be chosen at this confer
ence.
The statute of the national society
provides that delegates may choose
their state regent after February l,
when and where they see fit. but the
election is not complete until announced
al the annual meeting.
DELEGATES MEET TODAY
\ meeting of. state delegates to the
continental congress- the national con-
vention of the daughters. in whose
hands lies the choice of the state re-
gent. has been called for noon today at
the St. Francis and it is expected that
al least Is out of the % state repre-
sentatives Win be present. These will,
of course, constitute majority, and
they are solid for Mrs Laird's re-elec-
tion. What the minority does in Los
Angeles Thursday next viii not be the
cause of any anxiety to the Laird ad-
herents II is probable that the south
ern party viii carry protest TO the
national convention. which viii meet in
Washington, D. C. April L. San Fran
cisco daughters are saying. signif-
cantly. Let them. The majority rules.
The national constitution settles that"
IN CAMP OF ENEMY
The Sequoia chapter, of which Mrs.
Mary Brier Moores is the regent. held
a meeting yesterday morning, at
which it was addressed by the state re-
gent. Mrs. Laird, who explained the
statute governing the choice OF state
regent Although she has many warm
adherents in this chapter. her candi-
dacy will not be upheld by the Sc
quotas as Mrs. Moores and others are
not favorable to her, it is said
The state delegates are the regents
of chapters and when the chapter has a
membership of more than so il is enti-
tied to another delegate As Mrs
Laird is not a delegate she will not be
present at the meeting today, but she
will preside at the conference in Los
Angeles next week
CALL FOR THE MEETING
Today's meeting was called by the
following circular sent TO each chapter
in the state:
We. the undersigned, delegates to
the continental congress Daughters of
the American Revolution. 10, be held at
Washington D. c.. April Il, hereby
call meeting Of said delegates TO be
held at the st. Franz hotel, San Fran
cisco. Saturday. February l.. at u
o'clock. noon. Signed, Hilda Holmes
Bergen Brown. regent California chap
ter; Mary 7. Tuttle Kett. regent Oak
land chapter; Blanche Baldwin McGaw
regent Puerta del orc chapter: Abbie
F. Woodsum. regent Sierra chapter
Berkeley; Louise c. Smith, regent
Berkeley Hills chapter; Florence Ma
rion Nutting, regent Tamalpais chap
ter; L. /. Gif1ogly, regent Copa del ORC
chapter. Alameda; Edith Burnett Brad
ley, regent Portola chapter, East Oak
land: Matilda Brooks Dudley, vice re-
gent Santa Monica chapter; Mary Lou
ise Wiley. regent Ann Clark chapter
Fresno; Ida G. Leib. regent Santa
Ysabel chapter. San Jose; Genevieve
Forman Peters Six. regent Ell Toyan
chapter. stockton; Sybil A Gage. dele
gate, Oakland chapter; Mrs w. w.
Wymore, delegate from Puerta del ORC
chapter; Mrs. Mary Barnes regent
Hollywood chapter, Los Angeles.
OF these all viii be at the meeting
except the Santa Monica and Holly
wood signers.