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iiA BOW IN MEETIN’”Colored Women's National Convention Has A Itorray RndtnsT* %Chicago, Auk. At the end of the convention of the National Association of Colored Women of America today trouble aro*o over the election of officers and a cra*h came in the withdrawal of all the delegates from the New' England States.The unpleasantness started over the re-election of Mary Church Terrell, of Washington, as president. Yesterday a motion was made that re-elections he allowed. It was lost and a counter motion prohibiting re-elections was carried.When Mary Church Terrell’* name was put up for re-election for president today In spite of the resolution passed yesterday It was urged that, she had only tilled an un-explred term of a former president and the law could not apply to her. She was reelected after a long struggle.After this the following officers were re-elected by acclamation In rapid succession:First vice-president, Josephine Bruce, of Indianapolis.Treasurer. Josephine Silone Yates, of Kansas City.National organizer, Mary Jeffrey, ofRochester.Chairman of national executive committee, Booker T. Washington's wife.Carrie Lynch, of North Carolina, was chosen corresponding secretary, defeating the Incumbent, Anna V. Thompkins, of Washington, I. C. Then a split in a contest for the only remaining office, that of recording secretary. Three candidates were nominated. Connie K. Curl, of Chicago, Elizabeth C. Carter, of New Bedford, Mass., and Mary Sutton, of Pittsburg. After three ballots without a choice, a motion was made and quickly declared carried for the election of Connie Curl by acclamation.An attempt was made at once to propitiate the New England colored women by proposing that the office of assistant secretary be created and Elizabeth Carter chosen to that position by acclamation. A Boston woman reminded the delegates that there was no such office provided for, but in spite of this protest the delegates chose Elizabeth Carter to the new office. The New England delegates did not vote. Elizabeth Carter rose the moment the vote was announced and said she did not want the office and would not take It. The New England delegates, she sold, had been unfairly treated, and she announced the withdrawal of the Northeast Federation, comprising the New England States, and its 1,000 members from the association.
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Baltimore Sun
Baltimore, Maryland, US
Thu, Aug 17, 1899
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