The Washington herald., 1917-03-03
LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN
TOHEAD DAUGHTERS
Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey Popular
Candidate for D. A. R. Presidency.

Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey. of In
dependence. Kan, yesterday launched her
campaign for the office of president gen.
eral National Society Daughters of the
American Revolution. which holds its
twenty-sixth annual congress in Wash
ington the middle of April. There are
three other candidates who wish to sue
ceed Mrs. william Cumming Story. the
incumbent but Mrs. Guernsey is the only
one who appears fully equipped not only
with a full ticket for all the national
offices. but a platform to stand on as
well.
Opposing her will be Mrs. George c.
Squires. of ST. Paul. Mimi, Mrs. John
Miller Horton, of Buffalo, N Y, and
Mrs. j. Hamilton Lewis, of Chicago.
While Mrs. Horton evidently has a strong
following. having figured conspicuously as
a candidate or near candidate for
some years. she will appear before the
voters without the Endorsement of her
own State which failed to declare for her
at the annual State conference.
Has Strong Enforcement.
Mrs. Guernsey. on the other hand, is
not only indorsed solidly by her State.
but has as well the Endorsement of more
than a thousand officers of the organiZa-
ton. including those from forty-three
States and the District of Columbia.
ing behind Mrs Guernsey's campaign are
Mrs. Sheppard w. Foster, OF Georgia:
Mrs. Samuel Mcknight Green. of Mis-
souri,; Mrs. Edmund P. Moody. Of Illinois;
Mrs. John Lee Dinwiddie, of Indiana;
Mrs. Harold r. Howell, of Iowa; Mrs.
Joseph s. Wood. of New York, vice pres
ident general of the National Society;
Mrs. Joseph E. Ransdell, treasurer gen.
eral; Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood, chaplain
hnnnFarN l.
District of Columbia. from whose early
writing came the first suggestion for
founding the society; Miss Grace NJ.
Pierce. registrar general, and Miss Cath
crime Brittin Barlow, curator general.
On the ticket with Mrs. Guernsey are
Miss Elizabeth f. Pierce. District of CO.
lumbia, for chaplain general; Miss Emma
L. Crowell, Pennsylvania, for recording
secretary general: Mrs. Duncan u.
Fletcher. Of Florida, for organizing sec
retary general; Mrs Robert ]. Johnston,
of Iowa, for treasurer general; Mrs.
Woodbury. Pulsifer, OF Maine. for cor
responding secretary general; Miss Grace
NJ Pierce, New York. for registrar gen.
eral; Mrs. George X. Clarke. Massaehu-
sets. for historian general: Mrs. Benja-
min D. Heath. North Carolina, for direc-
tor general; Mrs. James NJ. Fowler, In
diana, for librarian general: Miss Gather
Inc Brittin Barlow, District Of Columbia.
for curator general. and Miss Natalie
Sumner Lincoln. Connecticut, for editor
Of the magazine.
Platform Popular.
Back Of the ticket is a platform which
calls for the elimination of all party
lines; one term OF three years, with no
reelection for all national officers, in
order to prevent the distractions conse-
quent upon a campaign for a second term
all elected officers to have complete con-
troll OF their own offices and to be held
responsible for the conduct Of the same:
no mileage for officers or committee chair
men: regular board meeting to be held
four times a year; a committee Of ap-
peals to be elected by congress for the
adjustment of otherwise unsettled differ
ences in state or chapters, whose decision
shall be final; the magazine to be pub
lished by a responsible firm, and last of
all, a fair and square deal for every
daughter.
The platform Ii ono we'll known to the
nearly 10000 members Of the society.
as 1t was launched during Mrs. Story's s
last campaign, and found a ready re-
sponse from those who read It