The Washington times., 1912-02-22
SHARP POLITICS ON
PROGRAM FOR D. A. R.
NATIONAL MEETING
Candidates for President
!. General to Maneuver
H. for Positions.

When the Daughters Of the American
Revolution mobilize beside the Poto-
mac" as they will in their twenty-first
annual Continental Congress on April
10 of this year, delegates will observe
the smoke and flames of as many burn
ing questions as they did at past con-
crosses, according to the expectation
of District members of the society.
Even though the congress does not elect
national officers, canvassing for support
at the 1913 congress will be active, and
headquarters will be maintained, in
formally at least, by Mrs. John Miller
Horton, Mrs. William Cummings Story
and the four or five other active and
avowed candidates for the office of
president-general.
There will be vigorous debate over
questions of constitutional revision and
over the matter of the publication of
the "Chalkley papers"
One candidate for president-general is
now in Washington: Mrs. William
Cummins Story, the opponent of Mrs.
Matthew Scott at the last two con-
crosses. Mrs. Story is in the city, 1t is
announced, to attend the dinner of the
rSouthern Society tonight as the guest
of Mrs. c. ID. Merwin, of Virginia, a
member of the Southern Society execu-
tive committee.
The District conference, to which del
egates from the forty-two chapters OF
the d. A. r. in this state" will be
sent. will convene the first week in
April. The conference indorses no can
didates for president-general and
thereby avoids a good deal of friction
say Washington Daughters. None the
less, local Daughters are intensely in
terested in the situation, for a majority
OF them have been active supporters
of Mrs. Story in the past and bid fair
to be such again.
. Revision OF the constitution of the
daughters has been a much debated
matter in the past, and will be again
this year, when a committee headed by
tion secured something of a victory al
the last congress, when it was voted
10 establish this committee, Mrs. Scott
as president general being it's eX OftiCic
head.
The "Chalkley papers" comprise rec
ords of Augusta county, Va, from ia;
TO 1900, and are declared to be the mos
valuable historical matter which the
, the other hand, it is declared with
; equal fervOr that their accuracy is
doubtful. their historical value nil, ant
publication waste of money.
The issue over the "Challiley papers
is much more complicated than tht
question of their value, diverse as
the experts are on this point. Aftei
much debate the last congress adopted
resolution empowering the librarian
general to collect contributions Iol
their publication The librarian gen
eral is Miss Amaryllis Gillett, of Wash
ington. The national board last JUNE
authorized Mrs. Mary Lockwood, alst
of Washington, 70 collect the money.
Opponents of publication will chat
lenge this act Of the national board.
Augusta county, Va, comprised west
ern Virginia and most of West Virginia
as those States now exist, besides larS'
parts of ohio and Kentucky. ThC
"ChalkIey papers" contain the vita
statistics, records, and other genealogi
( cal material of this big stretch of ter
rtory for half a century. and propon
! ents of publication say that publication
will add $1,000 new members to tk'
order