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Show mm is mm TOITIl RESULTS Day of Intense Excitement in Convention of Daughters of the Revolution. WASHINGTON, April 22. All was suspense tonight among the Daughters of the American Revolution over the result of the election of a prcsideut-general prcsideut-general and other officers today. The balloting began late in the afternoon and tonight the tellers arc counting the votes. This may take many hours ami it was regarded as unlikely that the result would be known before tomorrow. to-morrow. The day was one of intense excitement. excite-ment. There was a mad rush for Continental Con-tinental hall and long before the session ses-sion began every dodegate was in her seat and the galleries were packed to overflowing. The bare mention of the names of Mrs. Storey and Mrs. Scott, th" ant.i-adininistral ion andrjidiuiuist ra (ion candidates, respectively, for president-general, was enough to set the gathering into a state of pandemonium. Tho delegates and visitors threw aside all semblance of restraint and wildly cheered, clapped their hands, waved their handkerchiefs and in other ways displayed their partisanship. Lack of Bitterness. . The nominating speeches were fine and gave evidence that the contest was a batlle. royal. Thero was no suggestion sugges-tion of bitterness, however, the respective re-spective candidate being put forward entirely on their merits. The fury of the struggle wis somewhat some-what broken when in the afternoon the daughters went in a body to the White IJonse to pa3r their respects to Mrs. Taft. But two candidates were put forward for vice president-general in charge of chapters, Mrs. Amos .1. Draper, the administration candidate and Mrs. Miranda.!). Mi-randa.!). Tulloch, the ''insurgent" or Story candidate. Tl'iorc are ten retiring vice presidents presi-dents and ten wore named: Mrs. Alexander Alex-ander Patten, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Edward Ed-ward Orion, dr., Ohio; Mrs. Charles V. Hickox, Illinois.; Mrs. .f. Morgan Smith, Alabama; Mrs. Schas Bryan, Tennessee; Tennes-see; Mrs. A. A. Kendall. Maine; Mrs. James M. Fowler. Indiana; Mrs. Wallace Wal-lace Delafield, Missouri; Mrs. .John Campbell, Colorado; Mrs. George M. Sternberg, District of Columbia; Mrs. Tod irolmuth. Now York; Mrs. lOdward C. Oregon-, North Carolina, and Mrs. John l' tfwift, California. At L o'clock Friday morning Mrs. Donald McLean, re firing president-general president-general of the D. A. R., came from the room where tho ballots cast in the society's so-ciety's election were being counted, and said' about two-thirds of the votes still romained to be examined. Both sides are claiming victory. |