Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-21
Mrs. Story and Mrs. Guernsey
Each Confident of Victory in
D, A, R. Election.
VOTING GOING ON TODAY
FOR NATIONAL OFFICERS
Delegates Received by the President
and Miss Wilson at White
House This Afternoon.

With voting in progress for the rari-
Gus ma vioual officers and for ten wee
presidents general. delegates to the
twenty fourth Continental Congress
of the Daughters of the American ReE-
olution took only a perfunctory inter
est in the routine of today's program
and constant efforts of Mrs. William
Cumming Story. president general. pre-
siding, were required to MAINTAIN a
sufficient degree of order to allow those
present to hear the many announce
mcnts reading of the minutes. etc.
shortly before the noon recess Mrs.
George Thacher Guernsey. state regent OF
Kansas opposing Mrs. Story for the Of
fec of president general. issued a state
ment claiming that she would be elected
by Il ma jority of from thirty to fifty
votes.
Following the inrocat ton by Rev. For
rest J. Prettyman. the report of the COM
mittee on credentials was read. The re-
port showed that the total vote Of the con-
gress is 1,e03, making 602 votes neces-
sary for a choice for president general
and for other offices for which there are
only two candidates.
The lists of tellers for the president
general and for Mrs Guernsey were
announced, Mrs. Storys list including
the following: Mrs. Joseph Dearborn
New Hampshire; Miss Florence Finch
New. York: Mrs: Charles Bissell. Con-
necticut; Mrs. Harvey, Delaware: Mrs
William Taylor. New Jersey: Mrs. W
NJ. Wallace. District of Columbia; Mrs
Ernest Allan. Maine: Mrs. Annie $
Head. Massachusetts,; Mrs William b
Howe, Massachusetts: Mrs. Julius J.
Stevens, Connecticut: Mrs Hannah,
Ohio; Mrs. Helen Weed. Connecticut;
Thompson. Massachusetts, and Mrs
John T. Moss. Georgia
Tellers for Mrs. Guernsey's ticket in
Guided Mrs. De Wolfe, Iowa: Mrs Harry
Montgomery. Pennsylvaja: Mrs. Marsh,
Pennsylvania: Mrs. Henry 3. Joy. Mich
igan: Mrs. Wallace Hangar. District of
Columbia: Mrs. Drayton w. Bushnell,
Iowa: Mrs. Lindsey, Nebraska; Mrs NJ.
). Mercer, North Carolina: Mrs. Charles
Il. Banks. New Jersey: Mrs. George De
Bolt West Virginia: Mrs. o. Winn, Ar
kansas: Mrs. Euia Griffin Georgia; Mrs
Frank w Bohnson, Illinois: Mrs. Frank
Lang, Tennessee. and Miss Farmer,
Maine.
Lineup Between East and West.
Adherents Of the Story and Guernsey
factions professed to see in the lists of
teilers as announced a lineup between
The east and west, with further 'subdi-
vision north and south.
Supporters~of Mrs. Story called atten-
ton to the fact that large majority
of Mrs. Guernsey's tellers were from
western states, where membership in
the d. \. r. is relatively smaller than
IN the east. while adherents of Mrs
Guernsey were jubilant over the fac;
that Mrs. Story had only three teilers
from states west Of the Allegheny
mountains and south of the Mason and
Dixon line. while Mrs. Guernsey's list
contained the names of six women from
the east and south.
In her statement claiming the cleo
zion. Mrs Guernsey said that a care
full. complete and accurate tabulation
of the vote showed that she had more
solid state delegations absolutely
pledged than her opponent States
pledged solidly for Mrs. Guernsey, ac-
cording to the claim. were Kansas.
Iowa. PENNSYLVANIA and Illinois. Be-
Sides these solid state delegations Mrs.
Guernsey claimed that the tabulation
showed that she would make heavy in
roads on the Story vote in New York
and Aassachusetts. New York's rep
against :0s last year. OF these 1eU
delegates nearly fifty have given posi-
tive pledges that they would vote for
Mrs. Guernsey, she asserted.
Campaign managers for Mrs Story
we're equally positive i'll claims Of success
Tor the Incumbent. though they made no
categorical claims and presented no fig
':res
T:ae arrival Of Mrs John Miller Horton,
pf Buffalo shortly before the room recess
"eatsd ilutter IN the congress To the
newspaper representatives Mrs Horton
declared that she had come TO Washing
ION at considerable personal inconvenience
- order TO exert all possible influence and
20 DO everything she could TO aid in the
election of Mrs. StorS's opponent She
oppressed absolute confidence in the elcc-
,'oa OF the KanstS candidate.
Received at the White House.
National otncers and delegates TO the
congress were received at the White
House at O'Clock this afternoon b,
President Wilson and Miss Wilson
The reception was held in the historic
cast room. all national officers and 8
majority Of the delegates to the con.
zrees attending. The officers wore thei,
FUN official r'gaia. and all delegate.
were required to wear their badges
ne pages at the congress, more thar
100 IN number. also attended the re.
ceptton-
Polls were f,fl.,f.d open at 10 o'clocL
.!tis morning, bHt The actual voting al,
'"t begin unit! thts afternoon 1. wa.
c..pected the votes would ali be reris
tered by early tn!s evening
voting at this years election is h,
machine, big voting machine of the
latest improved type having been in
allied for the purpose Many OF the
delegates, In spite of tho printed in.
structicns covering every detail of the
manipulation of the machine. which
were distributed with copies of the ~.
icial list Of candidates. were wary n,
attempting to operate the machine anf
= number of eastern delegates decI,re[
I" vote because they feared they wo,,l6
rot register their votes exactly as 1be,
desired. ]: was stated that man n,
the western delegates. especially tb,s.
from states where women vote AZ al
elections. were perfectly familiar VIII
the mechanism and were able to regis
ter their votes in two minutes or less
Owing to the time required for III,
reading the minutes of yesterday,
aessions and the making Of nunerou
directions in the minutes. the reguI,,
JTder OF business of this mornings ses
sio: ives not reached until a few min
utes after noon. and the ma ajority q
scports of committees went over to TN,
ttternoon session. which WAS called :,
,.,nvene at O'Clock. These repor:,
.~e:
Report Of the committee ON re-,
,.aIshters, Mrs. Julius j. Estey, char
-ta&a: report of the national charit,
p:fcer. Mrs. Joseph A. E.nslow; repor
of the committee on conservation O
,ae home, Mrs. William b. Mem, chair
mau: report Of the committee On wei