A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > District of Columbia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=323 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=31145 Submitted by: barbara-dave Article Title: Washington Post Article Date: April 8 1912 Article Description: D.A.R. Page 2 Article Text: Washington Post April 8, 1912 D.A.R. Page 2 D. A. R. FORCES GATHER Delegates to the Congress Here Make Political Plans. MANY CONTESTS EXPECTED Supporters of Mrs. William Cummings Story and Mrs. Matthew Scott Already at Work to Elect Their Candidate President General, Though the Choice Will Not Be Made for a Year. With supporters of Mrs. William Cummings STORY and the faction now led by Mrs. Matthew T. SCOTT, already having plans, politics has begun to seethe in the ranks of the Daughters of the American Revolution, which begins its twenty-first continental congress here next Monday. A number of delegates to the congress are already in the city, and arrangements for the four days' meeting have been completed. Ten vice president generals and an honorary vice president general are to be elected this year, and adherents of the conservative party, led by Mrs. STORY, and the progressive party, led by Mrs. SCOTT and Mrs. Donald McLEAN, are making every effort to place their supporters in office. News brought by the delegates already here is to the effect that the approaching congress is to see the greatest contest ever had in an "off-year." Stung by their defeat of a year ago at the hands of the progressives, the followers of Mrs. STORY are losing no time in preparing for the election of a year hence. Mrs. SCOTT whose term of office as president general expires in 1913, cannot be a candidate again, since this is her second term, and the constitution of the American Daughters of the Revolution limits the service of the president generals to two terms. Two of the Prominent Candidates. Mrs. John Miller HORTON, of New York, and Mrs. Alexander E. PATTON, of Pennsylvania, are looked upon as the most prominent candidates of the progressives for president general next year. Neither has made any announcement of their candidacy, however. Mrs. STORY, it is said, is certain to run again, as her followers feel confident that she can now be elected, after being defeated twice by Mrs. SCOTT. The vice presidents general, whose terms expire this year, are Mrs. John T. STERLING. of Connecticut; Mrs. La Verne NOYES, of Illinois; Mrs. Egbert JONES, of Mississippi; Mrs. George Scott SHACKLEFORD, of Virginia; Mrs. Emily P. S. MOORE, of Vermont; Mrs. Andrew H. K. GAULT, of Nebraska; Mrs. Edward RANDALL, of Texas; Mrs. William E. STANLEY, of Kansas; and Miss Anna Caroline BENNING, of Georgia. Mrs. Ellen MECUM, of New Jersey, one whose term expires this year, died recently. Mrs. La Verne NOYES and Mrs. Edward RANDALL are two who are likely to be candidates for reelection. Mrs. Joseph S. WOOD, State regent of New York, and an ardent supporter of Mrs. STORY, is certain, it is said, to be a candidate. Others whose names have been mentioned in connection with these positions are Mrs. A. B. JAMIESON, of Virginia; Mrs. A. S. BRYAN, of Tennessee, and Mrs. John Miller HORTON, of New York. Contest Expected Over Report. The factional differences of the Daughters of the American Revolution are expected to come into prominence on Tuesday afternoon after Mrs. SCOTT, as chairman of the Continental Hall committee, makes her annual report. There were several things done by the committee during the last year that are not approved of by all the members of the organization although the supporters of Mrs. SCOTT say her acts will be enthusiastically indorsed. The hottest dispute is expected when the publicational committee, headed by Mrs. Egbert R. JONES, makes its new report on the disposal of the now famous old Chalkley records of Augusta county, Va. The committee last year recommended that the records be turned over to the Congressional Library, with the understanding that they be published if found valuable. This recommendation was so bitterly contested by the members of the STORY faction that a decision was postponed until this year. The records contain data thought to be extremely valuable from a genealogical standpoint. May Reduce the Number of Delegates. Great interest, not only among members of the Daughters of the American Revolution, but to the District public generally, is attached to the outcome of the vote to be taken this year on an amendment to the constitution, which, if passed, will have the effect of greatly reducing the number of delegates who will attend future congresses. The amendment was introduced last year by Mrs. B. B. SWORMSTEDT, of the District. There are now more than 30,000 members of the Daughters of the American Revolution throughout the country. There were more than 1,000 delegates entitled to attend the last congress. At the present rate of increase in the membership there would be more than 1,000 delegates entitled to seats in the congress in 1913. Continental Hall will not seat so many. Mrs. SWORMSTEDT's plan cuts the representation of each State exactly in half. Members of the District Daughters of the American Revolution, headed by Mrs. Mary S. LOCKWOOD, the State regent, are preparing to do everything possible for the entertainment of the visiting delegates. Although the attendance will not be as large as in years when there is a general election of officers, it is expected that there will be nearly 1,000 delegates in attendance at the congress. There will be also several hundred visitors. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com