The Sentinel=record., 1909-10-21
POLITICS IN THE
 |. ). [. MEETING
JEFFERSON DAVIS NAME IS AGAIN ATTACKED TO CABIN
 JOHN BRIDGE.
President General Stone Will Not Run for e-Election--Littie Rock Af-
 ter Next Convention.

Houston, Texas. Oct 20.--Politics crept into the sessions of the United Daughters of the Confederavy ill ses- sion in Houston today, when the pre- liminary skirmish for prospective new general officers, divergence of views being started when Mrs. L. w. Kline, chairman of the rules commit tee, submitted a rule providing for the election by ballot of all general officers where there Is more than one candidate for the office.
 Strings that had been laid for the candidates were laid bare in the dis cussion over the merits of the system. But the advocates of the secret bal lot were defeated and the elections will be by viva voce vote on the call by states.
 Although the general election will not be held until Friday the last day of the convention. efforts are being made to prepare the clate and in it North Carolina, Kentucky, Missouri West Virginia and Alabama are con didatesl for the honor of president general. II being the policy of the Daughters to pass the horror to the various states, and in consequence Mrs. Cornelia Branch Stone of Gal weston, the present president general will not be a candidate for re-elec- ton, so Texas will not be represented
 But among those mentioned for the governing office are Mrs Virginia Me. Sherry of West Virginia, Mrs. John P Hickman of Tennessee and Mrs. J. w. Faison of North Carolina. The latter is regarded as a very strong possibility.
 Richmond, Va, Little Rock, Ark, Jacksonville Fla. and Memphis, Tenn. are candidates for the next convention.
 Reports of the general officers were submitted today, the report of Pres ident General Stone being the more im9ortant When that part of the report was read which referred to the success of Mrs. Stone in securing the restoration of the name of Jefferson Davis to Cabin John Bridge. much of the dignity of the convention was lost in the prolonged applause. For her work in this behalf Mrs Stone was voted a resolution of thanks, offered by Mrs. Ross of Alabama.
 Several amendments to the byllaws were made, ahe more importan being the decision to cause the office of registrars general to be permanent in Richmond, Va, because the registrat containing the records is permanently kept in the Confederate Museum in that place
 Another change was the giving of the state of Illinois three votes in. ste8d of two in the convention. thus making the full voting strength of the convention 1904.
 At the Rice Hotel, the headquar- ters of the convention. a meeting of the Arlington Monument Association wns held The reports submitted showed nearly $15,00o in the hands of the association. which is charged with fhe building of the monument to the Confederate dead on Shiloh battle field
 A note of sorrow was injected into the convention sessions when a tele- gram was read announcing the sudden death today at Louisville Ky, of Mrs. Basil W, Duke one of the most act. i've workers of the organization. When the telegram was read the members stood with bowed heads in token of their sOrrow