The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-28
OF Interest
To Women


Just why politics should enter SO
largely into the selection of the OFF,
GERS of the National Society Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution, is
a question which is hard to answer.
The General Federation OF Women's
clubs which has a much larger mem.
lbership, and is composed of equally
representative women, holds its bien-
NAL elections with scarcely a ripple.
Whatever the reason may be, there is
always a good deal of politics among
the Daughters in the national society.
The two candidates for president gen.
eral this year are the present incum-
bent, Mrs. William Cummings Story
of New York and Mrs. George
Kansas Mrs. Story has visited the
bered as one Of the speakers at the
ceremonies attending the unwilling
Of the Keokuk statue. She was both
gracious and charming and left a
very pleasant impression with all
who met her here. The other candi-
date, Mrs. George Thatcher Guernsey,
is a western woman and bases her
claim to election on that, and also on
being woman Of unusual business
ability and forceful speaker. Her
own state most cordially endorses her
candidacy and many western and
southern states have endorsed her at
their conferences. Mrs. Guernsey
has one other requisite, not so often
mentioned, but altogether essential in
being president-general-she has
great wealth.
To be president-general Of the ma
tional society of d. A. R. takes about
as much money as it does to be a
United States minister at q foreign
court. It means q trip to Washing
ton. D. c., at least once every
month, or residence in that city. 1t
means to attend all state confer
ences and to entertain deliberately in
Washington, the national headquar
tiers. All these expenses are borne
by the president herself Mrs. Story
is not as rich a woman as Mrs. Guern-
sey or as these who have preceded
her in office, At the last continental
congress, her friends had a resolu-
ton passed that certain part Of her
travelling expenses should be paid by
the society. This being an unprece-
dented request, it is being used as an
argument against her reelection. 1t
is also said that she is not good
presiding officer and that her knowl-
edge of parliamentary usage is not |
equal to that of Mrs. Guernsey. Any !
one who has met Mrs. Guernsey. and |
some of the Keokuk women have, |
A. r. congress running wild under |
in her hands would mean something. I
Tho inHinofinn ctrnn o1y in !
favor Of Mrs. Guernsey's election, if
it is possible to forecast D. A. R.
election for president general.
Distance not only lends enchant |
ment, but gives interest and enthusi- |
asm as well, in the question of phil
anthropy and uplift. 1t is much |
easier to be interested in the people
In the Congo, than in the condition
Of the colored people next door who
may need your help. Many all over
his country, give enthusiastically, to
relieve distress in the warning coun- Y
.ries, and because of the hard times,
cut down their subscription to local
charities. A few days ago in New
York, within two minutes walk oi
he Offices of half dozen charity and
organizations and next
loor to the financial district Of that
very rich city, was discovered a
group Of men, women and children
living in abject poverty and squalor,
with siXty-fve cases of tuberculosis
n one block, which led Philadelphia
paper to remark: About nine times
out Of ten proper objects for chart
able Intervention are right round the
corner from you-Whether you live
IN Manhattan or in Emporia, Kan
sas"
On March "a occurred the death of
Mrs Mary Anna Jackson, the widow
If Stonewall Jackson, at Charlotte
Vile, N. G. She was very old
having been born in 1881.
She was the daughter Of Robert Hall
Morrison, a Presbyterian minister.
md was a woman of the greatest cul-
ure. She was frequent visitor in
and was given many 80
,ial attentions. On her last visit to
gton, she was the guest of
President and Mrs. Taft 1t was said of
nor that til ere was not the least feeling
If bitterness in her heart toward the
lorth, that the memory of the Civil
var and it's hardships and sorrows
we're never mentioned by her. ,,