The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-08
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At Chickamauga, the Confeder-
ates won a complete victory, and
but for the noble stand of Thomas,
a Southerner by birth. would have
destroyed the Union forces.
But when one goes over the bat
tlefield today and notes the mag
nificence of memorials to troops
of Northern states and the com
parative insignificance of memo
rails to troops of Southern states
he is left under the impression
that in some mysterious manner
the Northern troops, without let
or hindrance, performed on that
ground deeds glorious enough to
make it sacred through all ages
to come.
The Daughters of the American
Revolution recently concluded
their annual convention in Wash
ineton. The complete control of
the situation by women who re-
side in New England might have
deceived a stranger into believing
that the South had nothing to do
with the winning of the indie
pendence of the colonies.
Yet it is said that Maryland,
Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina and Georgia had some
thing to do with the events of
ITS and subsequent years, and
that one of these states even
went so far as to contribute the
commanding general of the Amer
len forces.
The convention was consumed
by politics. The opposing candi-
dates for president general were
Mrs. Cook of Pennsylvania and
Mrs. Hanger of the District of Co
lumbia- Each candidate had her
ticket. Only one Southern woman
had place on either ticket. Mrs.
Rhett Goode of Mobile was the
candidate for chaplain on the
ticket of Mrs. Cook
Mrs. Cooks ticket was. in the
main. successful. Only one of her
candidates was beaten. That can
didate was Mrs. Rhett Goode of
Mobile. 1t was rather a poor
compliment to Southern delegates.
practically all of whom, in effort
to secure the election of Mrs.
Goode, ardently supported Mrs.
Cook.
The explanation made to South
ern delegates was that Mrs.
Goodies opponent was Mrs. Thomas
f. Edison, and that many of the
delegates pledged to Mrs Cook
thought that it would prove Of
fensive to the inventor of the pho
nograph needle were they not to
support his spouse.
And how they played the game,
You have heard of master politi-
clans of the Republican party ma
nipulating a convention of dele
gates ignorant of that which
transpires behind the scenes, OF
how, on one memorable occasion,
a nomination was made in a room
of the Black stone hotel. Chicago.
by a handful of the politically
elite while those actually charged
with the duty of nominating
peacefully slumbrered in less
magnificent quartersi
But the masculine politician
has never had anything on the
feminine. Why. in the D. A. r.
convention. composed of women
gentle, refined and aristocratic,
they circulated an anonymous
pamphlet declaring Mrs. Cook I'M
worthy to hold the office because
her son, at the beginning of the
war against Germany, proved
himself to be a draft dodger.
The pamphlet was not only
anonymous. It was false. Mrs.
Cook aYailed herself of the great
fortune of her husband, and with
the assistance of lofty and erudite
barr1Sters, proved it false.
But back to the historical as
cendancy of New England. Time
is not far distant, it is feared,
when by virtue of the poetasters
of Massachuset it's, one will be con-
WINGED beyond peradventure that
Paul Revere was the only man
who threw a leg astride a horse
during the revolutionary period.
And there is no record that Re-
we're suffered at Valley Forge.