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Show IADMII9ISTRATI0H IS VICTOR- II ELECTION-By ELECTION-By Close Vote Mrs. Matthew T. 1 Scott Heads Daughters of v the Revolution. WASHINGTON. April 21! By a vote of JoO" to -123. Airs. Matthew T. Scott oi" Illinois ,was today declared clcctcl president-general of tlio La j'lcrs or Iho American Revolution over Jlva. wi.-li:im wi.-li:im Cumminps Story of Now i ork. Airs. Scott's election wis a victory lor iho administration faction. Hounds of applause jirectnjl the announcement an-nouncement of thc vote. Mrs. .blory moved to mafco the election unamnioii?, hut. a chorus of deletes refused to loin lier. Mrs. Stoiy beapolso for Airs. 'Scotr. tho sunnort of all members. Tho total vote east at iho election wns S7:t. but tho total Jc.sal vote lor president itfnoral war. Su'-I. - Retiring President-General. On a mo tiou of Mrs. Murphy of Ohio, a resolution was adopted t making Airs. Donald 0. Loan. I he retiring presidout-renoraI. presidout-renoraI. an honor." ry prpsidMit-jrciicMi. Here Mrs. Scor.r. tho prcsidcnt-pjencrnl-clect was cs;oitol to the plattorni. in a short speech, Mr?. Scott, acknowledged tho honor the convention had conferred TiPThe co'ncrcss approved, the election of tho various state regents. They include ,ihlZ, Walter Tnlbolj Wifor-uia. Wifor-uia. M"rs. Frederick J- Laud; Idaho, Mrs. uavui n. xiiu. Was Divided Victory. After twenty-four hours devoted to counting and recounting the ballots cast lH vesierdav, the Daughters of the Ainen- can involution found the honors pt the iBWfl biennial election of their society divided iBBM1 between the administration and the H! anti-administration forces. IMWfl The birr fight was won by I lie nil- ministration, in tho election, ot Mrs. iBVM Matthew E. Scott of Illinois, lo be IBWff president-general. The second ofucc in iBM point of honor, that of vico-president- general in charge of the organisations, IBWi however, wont, to the auti-admirnstra- tion followers by the election of Mrs. IBVl Miranda li. Tulloch of this city. Mrs. Scott obtained a majority over Al.rs IMVfl William Cuminings Story of New York of onlv eight votes out of Sio baMots iBM ca?t. 'The election was characterized bv a bitterness that, prevented the adop- I ion. - without dissent, of the motion of Mrs. Storv to make the election of her rival unanimous. When the con-lBV con-lBV veutiou met today the count had not been completed. Toward noon "Mrs. 'A- rov Avorv. cliairman of the tellers7 com-vjiuttee. com-vjiuttee. nhnounecod that 7S3 ballots had been cast. "The number necessary for an elec- lion is IS.i." announced Airs. Avery.! 1 14 Mrs. Matthew T. Scott received iMVfl Paudcmonium followed. Gray-haired women waved whatever they could seize, and some of the Daughters even houted. Scarcely had Mrs. Avery announced ihat 'Airs. Story had received -12S votes before the New York candidate had found her way 1o the platform. She thanked those' who had voted for her, asked that their support be given Airs. Scott, and moved that the election be made unanimous. Cries of "No, no," greeted her, but Airs. AIcLcan put the question. Although a majority voted in the affirmative, several answered in the negative. Airs. Scott was introduced as the next president-general. Eloquent Response, x "I shall be content," she said. if only one-fold'of the mantlc"bf my great predecessors falls upon me, but t pray j you to envelope me with another inantle that of your charity for my shortcomings; to "allow your construc-tive construc-tive imaginations to read into my ( character the qualities that ought to be the splendid endowment of whomso- ever is called to sit in the exalted chair of president-general. "Our beloved and magnificent orgnui-station, orgnui-station, without partisanship, without sectionalism, with ever-broadening out-look out-look and ever-higher ideals, moves on with a platform broad ns fatherland, tender as motherland, hand -in -hand and shoulder-to shoulder in its jrraud -work for' home and couutry, for God and na-tive na-tive land." Half an hour later another dramatic feature of the session occurred. Mrs. Sfor3', as state regent for New York, was called upon to make her report. T.t was the report over which one of the clashes of the congress had taken place earlier' in the weolc. As she faced the ayscmbly her followors vied with one another in impressing on the meeting that Mrs. Story had fallen short of 1 president-generalship by onlv five votes. j Tn her report ACrs. Story spoke of the loyalty of New York to the organiza- |