Evening star., 1912-11-16
MRS. WHITE AGAIN AT HEAD
Chosen Notwithstanding Her Alb
sence From the Convention.
OVATION TO UNION VETERAN
Corp. James Tanner Delivers Brief
Address on Sectional Amity.
Concluding Session Tonight.

eral of the l.. d. c., and, with two excep-
tions, every other general officer was re-
elected at the convention of the organiza-
ton this morning in the New Willard
Hotel. Every officer without exception
was elected by acclamation and without
contest.
The two new incumbents OF Office are
Mrs. I. W. Faison of North Carolina,
chosen third vice president general. and
Mrs. Orlando Halliburton of Arkansas,
made registrar general.
The former registrar general, Mrs. James
B. CAN'T of Jefferson City, Mo-, was not
a candidate. owing to the recent death of
her husband. Judge CAN'T Mrs J. j.
McAlester, retiring third vice president
general. also was not a candidate.
In the name of the entire convention
body telegram was sent to Mrs. White
at her home in Paris, Tenn, announc. .ng
her reelection. Mrs. White is detained at
the bedside of her husband, who is grave
ly i'll.
Roster of Officers.
Other officers reelected We're: Mrs
Frank G. Odenheimer of Jessup, Md, first
vice president (Mrs. Odenheimer has been
presiding over the convention as acting
president generaD; Mrs. Drury c. Lud-
low of Washington. second vice president;
Mrs Roy Weaks McAlester of McAlester.
Okla, recording secretary general; Mrs.
Eduard Carl Schnabei of New Orleans,
La, corresponding secretary general; Ms.
Z. b. Tate of Pulaski. Va, treasurer gen.
eral; Mrs. Mildred Rutherford of Athens,
Ga. historian general; Mrs, l.. H. Raines
OF Savannah, Ga, custodian of crosses OF
honor; Mrs. Frank Anthony Wake OF
nf 6ap
nants.
Presented by Mrs. Waiter d. Lamar OF
Georgia as the man "who has done more
than any other to aid the L. D. c., in
procla1ming the brotherhood of man.
Corp. James Tanner, received an ova-
ton and vote of thanks from the con.
vention. By his side as he stood upon
the stage was a veteran of the gray, s
A. Cunningham, Proprietor and editor OF
| the Confederate Veteran, official orgar
of the u. C. v.
Mrs. E. X. Trader, who as Ellen New
some was celebrated as the FLORENCE
Nightingale Of the Confederacy." giving
her means and her labors to the nurs-
ing of wounded Confederates during the
war between the states was also pre-
sented, and took seat upon the stage
Mrs Trader is now an emplOye of the
United States pension bureau, and is
also in receipt Of a pension from the
u. d. c.
Mrs. Odenheimer, acting president gen.
eral, demanded the honor of escorting
Corp. Tanner to the stage. She said of
him to the convention:
IF you knew the man as l know him
you would love him from the heart as
love him."
Corp. Tanners Response.
'If we of the north and south knew
each other long ago as we know each
other now we would not have been en-
broiled in the terrible fratricidal war of
1S61-65." declared Corp. Tanner. He re-
ferred to Gen. r. A. Alger as one of the
gentlest men that ever lived, giving him
credit as United States senator for intro
ducing the bill returning the battleflags
of the south.
The storm of protest which greeted this
proposition died down, so that when 8
vote was taken in Congress there was nc
voice Of dissent. He told the women OF
the southland that 1t would be disgrace
to their womanhoOd should they forget
the blood shed by father and sons upon
the battlefield, and the glorious tradition
Of their history.
Since Gen. r. E. Lee urged the veterans
of the COnfederacy not to exile them
selves. but to remain on their native soil
and help build up a united country, said
Corp. Tanner, he had been an advo-
cate of reconciliation, and had done his
best toward promotion of better feeling
between the sections, with never bitter
word spoken by him.
Georgia Division Reports.
Mrs Lamar. in presenting the report
Of the state division of Georgia, of
which she is president, asserted as fact
that a text book used in the Military
Academy at West Point between 1920
and 1S40 had inculcated the principle
that the right Of a state to secede from
the Union was unalienable. Stonewall
Jackson, she commented. was under
going his military instruction at the
academy during this period.
A party of Daughters made special
trip to Mount Vernon to visit the Wash
ington home today. The delegation will
stop in Alexandria either in going to
or returning from Mount Vernon.
The final session Of the convention will
be held tonight.