Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-04-22
HOT FIGHT ON IN
D..A. R. MEETING
Twenty-Third Annual Convention
Of the Society COnvenes in
Washington.
TWO CANDIDATES IN FIELD
Mrs. George T. Guernsey Opens Con.
test to Succeed Mrs. William C.
Story as President - Close
General Election Expected.

Washington, April 19-Mrs. George
T. Guernsey of Independence, Kan,
today opened her contest to succeed
Mrs. William Cummings Story of New
York as president general Of the So
ciety of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, at the twenty-third
annual convention of the order held
in Continental Memorial hall.
President Wilson Is on today's pro-
gram for an address to the Daughters
while other speakers were II. Jules
Jusserand, the French ambassador;
John Barrett, director general of the
Pan-American union; Mrs. John Hays
Hammond, wife of the mining en-
gineer, and Rogers Ballard Thurston,
president of the Sons of the American
Revolution. Bishop Harding of Wash
ington delivered the invocation.
Only Two Candidates.
Chief interest centers this year In
the contest for the presidency-gen-
eral of the society. For the first time
In several d. A. r. elections there
are but two candidates, Mrs. Guernsey
and Mrs. Story. For the last few days
Washington hotel parlors and women's
clubrooms have been buzzing with pre-
election talk, and the election is ex-
pected to be a close one.
Tonight Mrs. Story will hold re.
ception in honor of The delegates at
the Continental MeIRorial hall and on
Wednesday afternoon President VIII
son will receive the delegates in the
east room Of the White House. There
will be several business sessions dur.
ing the week with reports to be read
and resolutions to be adopted.
The fight between the administra-
tion and the antiadministration can
didates has grown very warm. Mrs.
Guernsey has issued platform, in
Iwhic6 She makes many charges
against the present administration.
In her platform Mrs. Guernsey says
1t is an outrage that Mrs. Mary c.
Bassett, historian general, who has
switched to the Guernsey side, should
have been humiliated, first by taking
the records of her office away from
her, and second, by being refused ac-
knowledgment by the national board,
Of which she is a member.
Plank No. 4, which innocently enough
reads: mo mileage for officers OF
committee chairmen," has enough ma
terial to fill a whole day with lively
interest. The mileage account Of the
present general will probably be at
tackled.
One of the spats promised is in the
plank which calls for the publication
Of the official organ of the society by
a responsible firm. The magazine
might be one of the powder" kind
so thoroughly has 1t served to set eacf
annual congress afame. Last yea
the chief battle centered about thu
chairman, Miss Finch of New York
who was openly accused of misman
agement.
Mrs. Guernsey's Slate.
Mrs. Guernsey's slate names Mrs
John w. Langley, wife of the repre-
sentative from Kentucky, for record
ing secretary general; Mrs. Woodbur,
Pulsifer of the District of Columbi
for corresponding secretary general
Mrs. Horace Parker Mcintosh, Di!
trict of Columbia, for organizing sec
retary general; Miss Catherine Elizi
, beth Custis, District OF Columbia, 70
. registrar general; Mrs. Charles
Grandlield, for treasurer general; Mr.
r George w. Hodges of Maryland, fC
historian general; Mrs. Robert Ale,
, ander of Pennsylvania, for directc
Q general Mrs. Edward b. Kellogg {
. Massachusetts, as librarian genera
and Miss Sophy Pearce Casey, Di
trict of Columbia, for curate genera