Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-04-22 | Page 2 | Daughters on Eve of Exciting Battle

IDAUGHTES ON EVE IF EMM! BATTLE I Rival Candidates Con cent rating t Their Forces for Thurs- ' day's Election'. WA S rriNG TON, April 21. On the ' cvg of tlio battle of. bullots for officers j of the Dnulitcrs of the American Hev- olntion, the contestants lire concent rat- I ingiheir forces. Mrs. Scott of Illinois j and Mrs. Story of New York, the rival candidates, are confident; of tlio out--'omc- , . A dramatic feature of today s nirot-in"- was the fwuik statement of .Miss .Jo.'inctte Bicliurds. the official reader, Hint she alono tvas responsible lor the (lul..J.i! Ant nirrlit. th:if. had placed Mrs. Story, rrs. McLean and ihe congress iu nn nlcward position, and had resulted in the refusal of the pres-idont-ceuernl to recognize Mrs. Story in order to submit her report as resent of New York. The explanation, -which was accompanied by nn open apology, was greeted with applause, and what promised to develop into a most; disagreeable disa-greeable situation turned out, to be a genuine love .feast. Mrs. McLean and Mrs. Story expressed themselves as entirely en-tirely satisfied. The superstitious ones, however, tonight to-night are predicting all sorts of dire happenings tomorrow, and all because the English sparrows, which had infested infest-ed the hall since the congress convened, have been destroyed. During the afternoon after-noon recess men armed with air rifles inched off one by one the little "doves of pence" as they become to be known, . and their merry chirps sounded no more. No official was .willing to admit that she gave the execution order. The annual contributions for continental conti-nental hall fairly swamped the president-general s desk. The actual sums handed in, together with the pledges announced, aggregated about $50,000. The day's events were brought to a close by a reception in honor of the daughters by the Sons of the American Amer-ican Revolution.