NAWSA Subject File Congressional Union Publicity 1917 SUFFRAGISTS WILL PICKET WHITE HOUSE - Plan to Post "Silent Sentinels" Bearing Emblems, Whom President Must Pass. [*NY Times 1-10-17*] WILL GUARD ALL EXITS New Campaign of Militancy Arranged When President Says His Views are Unchanged. _ Special to The New York Times. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.---Women suffragists, representing all parts of the country, disappointed over the result of an appeal which they made this afternoon to President Wilson in the East Room of the White House, held an indignation meeting and decided to adopt a new plan of campaign. They intend to post women pickets hereafter about the White House grounds. Their purpose is to make it impossible for the President to enter or leave the White House without encountering a picket bearing some device pleading the suffrage cause. The pickets will be known as "silent sentinels." Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch, daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who presided over the indignation meeting, coined the title of "silent sentinels" for the White House pickets. These silent sentinels, all young women, commencing at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning will take up their stations near the entrances to the White House. Raise Fund for Sentinels. At the indignation meeting a subscription list was started to pay the cost of the silent sentinel campaign, to buy umbrellas to protect the sentinels from inclement weather, and pay other expenses. Miss Mary Burnham of Philadelphia started the subscription by giving $1,000. Mrs. Townsend Scott of Baltimore, one of the group of six suffrage leaders who flung their banner from the gallery of the House of Representatives, gave $100. Mrs. William Kent, wife of the independent member of Congress from California, subscribed $100 a month to the silent sentinel cause. There were 300 suffragists in the delegation that went to the White House to present memorials on the death of Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain. The women were admitted by cards, which the White House sent to the headquarters of the Congressional Union yesterday. The delegation was headed by Sara Bard Field of San Francisco, who crossed the continent to present the Boissevain resolutions, which were adopted at a recent mass meeting in California. Although the White House audience was arranged merely to present the Boissevain memorials, the women made it the occasion to renew their pleas that the President should support the Susan B. Anthony amendment. The President expressed his surprise, reminded the spokesmen of the party that he had not been apprised of their full purpose, and was not prepared to say any more than he had on previous occasions. His speech follows: "I had not been apprised that you were coming here to make any representations that would issue an appeal to me. I had been told that you were coming to present memorial resolutions with regard to the very remarkable woman whom your cause has lost. I therefore am not prepared to say anything further than I have said on previous occasions of this sort. I do not need to tell you where my own convictions and my own personal purpose lie, and I need not tell you by what circumscriptions I am bound as the leader of a party. Bound by Party Commands. "As the leader of a party, my commands come from the party and not from private personal convictions. My personal action as a citizen, of course, comes from no source by my own conviction, and therefore my position has been so frequently defined and I hope so candidly defined, and it is so impossible for me, until the orders of my party are changed, to do anything other than I am doing, as a party leader, that I think nothing more is necessary to be said. "I do not want to say this. I do not see how anybody can fail to observe from the utterances of the last campaign that the Democratic Party is more inclined than the opposition party to assist in this great cause, and it has been a matter of surprise to me, and a matter of very great regret, that so many of those who were heart and soul for this cause seemed so greatly to misunderstand and misinterpret the attitude of parties. Because in this country, as in every other self-governing country, it is only through the instrumentality of parties that things can be accomplished. They are not accomplished by the individual voice, but by concerted action, and that action must come only so fast as you can concert it. I have done my best and shall continue to do my best to concert it in the interest of the cause in which I personally believe." Included in the delegation which called on the President were Miss Anne Martin of Nevada, Chairman of the Woman's Party; Miss Ella Riegel of Bryn Mawr; Legislative Chairman of the Pennsylvania Branch of the Congressional Union; Mrs. Townsend Scott, Chairman of the Maryland Branch of the Congressional Union; Mrs. William J. Ewing, Mrs. Howard Schwarz, Miss Eleanor White, and Mrs. Morris, all of Baltimore; Mrs. Harvey Wiley of the National Advisory Council; Mrs. Frank P. Odenheimer, President General of the Daughters of the Confederacy; Mrs. William Kent, Mrs. Lola P. Thurston, widow of Senator Thurston of Nebraska; Mrs. William Bailey Lamar of Florida; Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch of Kansas: Mrs. Charles Houghton Wood, and Miss Mary Phelps Morgan. [*Wash Herald 1-11-19*] The White House Pickets. The good women who are such ardent champions of the suffrage cause that they are willing to go to any decent limit to present their cause to the public cannot hope to win friends or supporters by turning themselves into peripatetic sandwich women in front of the White House. The President of the United States and the Congress of the United States are not given to hysteria or easily driven to stampede. They are intellectual human beings and they recognize the potency of the suffrage movement as readily as does any woman who has espoused it. The majority of them have declared for suffrage, but have found the method of granting it opposed to the idea some women have for the application of the principle. To think that they can be persuaded to other views by demonstrations in front of the White House or by flaunting banners against the rules and dignity of the House of Representatives is idle. They are not that kind of citizens. The last demonstration tried in this country with the object of shaming somebody was by the Socialists and anarchists of New York. In order to impress John D. Rockefeller, Jr., with the horror of labor conditions in Colorado, a guard of black-garbed men and women marched silently to and fro in front of No. 26 Broadway, New York, for several days. The police protected them against the curious. The notice they occasioned diminished from day to day until the silent guards disappeared without anybody knowing it. It is to be expected that the suffrage sentinels in front of the White House will become such a fixture within a week that they will not be noticed at all. And without being noticed women will not "carry the banner" in public. Silent Sentinels to the Entrance to the White House Grounds Women Talk to No one but Reporters- Motion Picture Men Take Scene. HERALD BUREAU NO. 1,502 H STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C., Wednesday Both front gates of the White House were picketed today by women suffragists calling themselves "silent sentinels". They bore banners inscribed:-- "Mr.President, what will you do for woman suffrage?" Throughout the day from ten o'clock in the morning until six o'clock in the evening-there were six women on duty at each of the gates. There were morning and afternoon shifts, twelve being on duty at a time. They wore the suffrage insignia- a sash of purple and yellow. The women made no disturbance, but stood their ground silently, holding their banners. The Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, which is in charge of the demonstration, announced that the "silent sentinels" would remain on duty until March 5. The number, the suffragists said, would be increased gradually, until 3,000 were surrounding the White House of inauguration day. Mr. Wilson Merely Smiles. President Wilson, accompanied by Mrs. Wilson and the Secret Service guard, passed through the gates four times during the day. Her merely smiled. The women said nothing. Twice they did not recognize the large White House automobile as it turned sharply from Pennsylvania avenue into the gravel driveway. The appearance of the suffragists was the signal for the arrival of half a dozen motion picture camera operators. That, however, was all the commotion they caused. The officials paid no attention to them. The police said that they did not regard the suffrage banners as advertisements, so that no permit would be necessary. The women stood with their backs to the White House fence, so that their banners could be read. They did not talk except to a few reporters who wanted to find out what it was all about. They took an hour off for lunch at noon, going in relays to the Congressional Union headquarters, a block distant. A group of Indians seeing the sights of Washington went to the White House the early afternoon. As is their custom they wore feathers and gay robes. "Wild women," grunted one of the Indians. Says Women Lose Ground. Representative J. Thomas Heflin, of Alabama, who in a speech in the House recently condemned the suffrage cause, went to the White House through the suffrage line. The women, however, failed to recognize him. "Those women ought to know that they are losing ground by such tactics," Mr. Heflin said. "Two members of the House told me to-day that they would vote against the suffrage amendment merely because the women are trying to annoy the President." This new form of militancy on the part of the Congressional Union, which started with the unfurling of a banner in the House a month ago when the President was delivering his annual message, was criticised by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National Association of Woman Suffrage. While declaring that the organization of which she is the head is just as eager for suffrage as the Congressional Union, she says that the President should not be held responsible and should not be heckled. [*"With cordial good wishes and the hope that the new year may be a most successful one for the cause for your state as well as for the national, I am, Most cordially yours, (Mrs. Walter McNab Miller).*] N.Y. American Jan. 9 - '17. [Ameri]can - A Paper for the Pe[ople] SUFFRAGISTS WILL PICKET WHITE HOUSE ——————— Rebuffed by President, "Mild Militants" Vote to Post "Silent Sentinels" Bearing Banners ————— Washington, Jan. 9.—Woman suffragists, after another futile appeal to President Wilson to-day for his support of the Susan B. Anthony amendment, announced plans for retaliation by picketing the White House grounds with "silent sentinels." Their purpose is to make it impossible for the President to enter or leave the White House without encountering a sentinel bearing some device pleading the suffrage cause. The move was acknowledged to be a step in the new policy of mild militancy, which began with the coup in the House gallery Dec. 6. At that time a party of suffragists unfurled a "Votes for Women" banner while the President was making his opening address. The suffragists refuse to worry about what the White House authorities will do about the pickets. After the women had their audience to-day, they returned to the headquarters of the Congressional Union, formed their new plans and held a meeting pledging $3,000 for the "silent sentinel" campaign. MEMORIAL OSTENSIBLE OBJECT. Headed by Miss Maud Younger and Mrs. Sara Bard Field, 300 suffragists from the Congressional Union went to see the President, ostensibly to present memorials on the death of Mrs Inez Milholland Boissevain. Because of the affair in the House gallery in December, there was some difficulty in arranging the audience, but the President consented to receive the women. When the women had made their suffrage plea the President responded: "I had not been apprised that you were coming here to make any representations or would issue an appeal to me. I had been told that you were coming to present memorial resolutions with regard to the very remarkable woman your cause has lost. I, therefore, am not prepared to say anything further than I have said on previous occasions of this sort. "I do not need to tell you where my own convictions and my own personal purpose lie, and I need not tell you by what circumscriptions I am bound as the leader of a party. As the leader of a party my commands come from the party and not from private personal convictions. POSITION ALREADY DEFINED. "My personal action as a citizen, of course, comes from no source but my own convictions, and therefore, my position has been so frequently defined, and I hope so candidly defined, and it is so impossible for me until the orders of my party are changed, to do anything other than I am doing as a party leader, that I think nothing more is necessary to be said. "I do want to say this: I do not see how anybody can fail to observe from the utterance of the last campaign that the Democratic party is more inclined than the opposition party to assist in this great cause. "It has been a matter of surprise to me, and a matter of very deep regret, that so many of those who were heart and soul for this cause seemed so greatly to misunderstand and misinterpret the attitude of parties, because in this country, as in every other self-governing country, it is only through the instrumentality of parties that things can be accomplished by the individual voice, but by concerted action, and that action must come only so fast as you can concert it. I have done my best and shall continue to do my best to concert it in the interest of a cause in which I personally believe." [*Eve Journal Jan. 10 - 17*] WEDNESDAY, JANUARY WILSON ELUDES SUFFRAGIST PICKETS Washington. Jan. 10.---President Wilson won the first two rounds to-day in the battle waged against him by the "silent sentinels" who are picketing the White House in an effort to change his views on nation-wide suffrage. In an auto he slipped out of the Executive Mansion grounds before the pickets got on the job and upon his return flashed by before the sentinels recognized him. He did not even glance at the banners they bore, which carried this demand. "Mr. President, what are you going to do for woman suffrage?" ORDERED NOT TO TALK. The pickets in groups of four took positions at each entrance to the White House. They were followed after three hours on duty by another squad of twelve, who in turn were to serve three hours. The pickets went on duty with positive instructions from the leaders to remain silent in their patrol work, and not to argue suffrage with White House officials or with the President when he leaves or enters the White House. The first squad included Mrs. B.H. Papandre, of San Francisco; Misses Gertrude and Augusta Crocker, of Chicago; Miss Vivcian Pierce and Miss Mildred Gilbert, of California; Miss Berta Crouse, of Colorado; all of whom are registered voters. The others, who are not voters, were Misses Mary Fendell, of Baltimore; Miss Elizabeth Smith and Miss Winifred Francis, of Washington; Mrs. M. C. Bowell, of Philadelphia; Miss Joy Young, of Washington, and Miss Edith Jamieson, of Norfolk, Va. 'SILENT PICKETS' OF SUFFRAGISTS AT WHITE HOUSE ——————— Twelve Members of Congressional Union, with Banners, Take Up Stand at Main Gates. ——————— WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—Woman suffragists to-day began their "silent picketing" of the White House. Twelve women from the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage appeared at the two main gates of the White House grounds carrying suffrage banners inscribed:—"Mr. President, what will you do for woman suffrage?" White House officials said nothing would be done about it so long as the women created no disturbance or attempted to enter the White House. The White House police stood smilingly by as the women took their posts on the sidewalk just outside the entrance. Each of the women wore a white, purple and yellow sash across her shoulders. They stood at attention, three on a side of each of the two main gates. Their banners could be read for more than a block. The suffrage leaders announced that the picketing would be maintained from ten o'clock each morning until six o'clock in the evening. The "silent sentinels" will be relieved every three hours. The announced purpose of the picketing is to make it impossible for President Wilson to enter or leave the White House withoutbeing confronted with reminders of the suffrage cause. Just before the pickets appeared the President went out to play golf. Although groups of men and women quickly gathered about the pickets, they refused to enter into any conversation. President Wilson returned to the White House from the golf links and smiled as his automobile passed through a gate flanked by the silent sentinels, who made no demonstration. Six Comanche Indians from Oklahoma arrived at the White House while the suffragists were on guard. They stopped and viewed them with silent wonder. Miss Alice Paul, chairman of the Congressional Union, brought the pickets to the White House and deployed them at the posts. She did not remain on guard herself. [*Eve. [Jel?], Wed. Jan 10 - 1917*] ? Walter McNao Miller HGM: MHH SUFFRAGE PICKETS AT WHITE HOUSE continued from page 1 sented those adopted that day, calling on the President "to open the great doors before which our women are exhausting their lives in waiting and appeal." Women Bring Resolutions Mrs. Field brought resolutions adopted at a memorial in San Francisco. Mrs. John W. Brannan and Mrs. Clarence M. Smith of New York, brought resolutions and the appeal to the President presented at the memorial on New Year's Day in New York to Mrs. Boissevain. "I had not been appraised that you were coming here to make any representations or would issue an appeal to me," said the President. "I had been told that you were coming to present memorial resolutions with regard to the very remarkable woman who your cause has lost. I, therefore, am not prepared to say anything further than I have said on previous occasions of this sort. I do not need to tell you where my own convictions and my own personal purpose lie, and I need not tell you by what circumscriptions I am bound as leader of a party. As the leader of a party my commands come from the party, and not from private personal convictions. My personal action as a citizen, of course, comes from no source but my own convictions, and therefore, my position has been so frequently defined, and I hope so candidly defined, and it is so impossible for me until the orders of my party are changed to do anything other than I am doing as a party leader, and I think nothing more is necessary to be said. Regrets Misunderstandings "I do want to say this: I do not see how anybody can fail to observe from the utterance of the last campaign that the Democratic party is more inclined than the opposition party to assist in this great cause, and it has been a matter of surprise to me, and 'a matter' of very deep regret, that so many of those who were heart and soul for this cause seemed so greatly to misunderstand and misinterpret the attitude of parties. "Because in this country, as in every other self-governing country, it is only through the instrumentality of parties that things can be accomplished. They are not accomplished by the individual voice, but by concerted action, and that action must come only so fast as you can concert it. I have done my best, and shall continue to do my best, to concert it in the interest of a cause in which I personally believe." Minority Report Favors Votes for Women in U.S. [From the Tribune Bureau] Washington, Jan. 9. - Urging the passage of the Federal suffrage amendment, Representative John M. Nelson, of Madison Wis., representing the minority members of the House Judiciary Committee, to-day presented in the House a report which for the first time deals directly with methods of obtaining equal suffrage and, because of the indorsement of suffrage by all political conventions last year, is not burdened with the necessity of making an argument for the principle of equal suffrage itself. The report marks a new era in this equal suffrage campaign. The question of whether women shall have suffrage is assumed to have been settled by the promises of political conventions. The question of how these promises of political conventions. The question of how these promises shall be made alone engages the writers of the report. PRESIDENT SMILES AS HE PASSES BY SUFFRAGE PICKETS Twelve "Silent Sentinels" Begin, Guard Duty at Gates to the White House WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. - Women suffragists to-day began their "silent picketing" of the White House. Twelve women from the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage appeared at the two main gates of the White House grounds carrying suffrage banners inscribed: "Mr. President, what will you do for Women Suffrage?" White House officials said nothing would be done about it so long as the women created no disturbance or attempted to enter the White House. Each of the women wore a white, purple, and yellow sash. They stood at attention, three on each side of the main gates. Suffrage leaders announced that the picketing would be maintained from 10 o'clock each morning until 6 o'clock in the evening. The "silent sentinels" will be relieved every three hours. Teh announced purpose of the picketing is to make it impossible for President Wilson to enter or leave the White House without being confronted with reminders of the suffrage cause. Just before the pickets appeared this morning the President went out to golf. Although groups of men and women quickly gathered about the pickets, they refused to enter into any conversation. As the President returned to the White House from the golf links, he smiled at the silent sentinels. "SILENT PICKETING" OF WHITE HOUSE BEGUN Dozen Mute Suffs Sentinels at Gates - Number to be Increased to 3,000 Washington, Jan. 10. - Women suffragists to-day began their "silent picketing' of the White House. Twelve members of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage appeared at the two main gates of the White House grounds carrying suffrage banners inscribed: "Mr. President, what will you do for women suffrage?" An idea of earnestness with which the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage intends to conduct this picketing came this afternoon when it was announced that the silent sentinels would be gradually increased until 3,000 will be surrounding the executive mansion grounds by inauguration day, March 5. White House officials said nothing would be done about it, so long as the women created no disturbance or attempted to enter the White House. Each of the women wore a white, purple, and yellow sash across her shoulders. They stood at attention, three on a side of each of the two main gates. Their banners could be read for more than a block. The suffrage leaders said the picketing would be maintained from 10 o'clock each morning until 6 o'clock in the evening. "SUFFS" PICKET WHITE HOUSE President Wilson SMiles as He Passes Silent Sentinels Outside of the Gates. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. - Woman suffragists to-day began their "silent picketing" of the White House. Twelve women from the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage appeared at the two main gates of the executive mansion grounds carrying suffrage banners inscribed "Mr. President, What Will You Do for Woman Suffrage?" White House officials said nothing would be done about it so long as the women created no disturbance and did not attempt to enter the mansion. The White House police stood smiling as the women took their posts on the sidewalk just outside the grounds. The women wore sashes of white, purple, and yellow across their shoulders. They stood at attention, three on either side of each gate. Their banners could be read more than a block away. The suffrage leaders announced that the picketing would be maintained daily from 10 A.M. until 6 P.M. The "silent sentinels" will be relieved every three hours. The purpose of the picketing is to make it impossible for President Wilson to enter or leave the White House without being reminded of the suffrage cause. Just before the pickets appeared to-day the President went out to golf. On Mr. Wilson's return from the links he smiled as his automobile passed through a gate flanked by the silent sentinels. Six Comanche Indians from Oklahoma arrived at the White House while the suffragists were on guard and stopped to view the women with silent wonder. [*N. Y. Times Jan. 11-17*] PRESIDENT IGNORES SUFFRAGE PICKETS ——————— Six Silent Sentiments Posted at Each of the Main Gates of the White House. ——————— BUT HE GOES BY OBLIVIOUS ——————— While Police on Duty Only Smile—Women to Post Guards with Military Regularity. ——————— Special to the New York Times. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 - The White House has been picketed before, but never until today by hostile suffragists. It was placed in the beleaguered state this morning under the new "silent sentinel" campaign, begun by the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage as an outgrowth of the failure of President Wilson to declare-in favor of the proposed Federal suffrage amendment when he received a delegation of 300 suffragist leaders at the White House yesterday. The first guard mount of the suffrage sentinels marched across historic Lafayette Square a few minutes before 9 0 clock this morning, under command of Miss Mabel Vernon. The detail consisted of six young women. The sergeant of the guard for its first day of picketing was Miss Mary Gertrude Fendall of Baltimore. Twenty-four suffragists, besides the officer of the day and the Sergeant of the guard, were utilized today. Twelve were on picket duty this morning and the others this afternoon. Six were stationed at each of the two main gateways - east and west- from which he semi-circular roadway leads to the main entrance to the White House. Each of the sentinels carried a banner. Two banners of yellow bunting at each gate were inscribed with the words: "Mr. President, What WIll You Do for Woman Suffrage?" Flanking each of these banners were two others, displaying the suffrage colors—purple, white, and yellow—but bearing no inscriptions. President Wilson was one of the first to enter the western gate after the sentinels went to their posts. He was returning in a sedan motor car at 10 o'clock from a game of golf, and seemingly ignored the presence of the pickets when he passed them. One of the sentinels, when asked whether the President smiled as he passed through the gate, replied: "Not so that you could notice it. He was utterly oblivious, apparently, of our presence here." Ignored by White House. If the Congressional Union members expected that the stationing of these pickets would result in a flare-up of resentment from the White House to-day they were disappointed. No disagreeable incident occurred. At the White House it was said that it was the purpose to ignore the presence of the pickets. The White House police, supposedly acting under orders, merely smiled when they approached the sentinels. The object of the campaign is to flash before the Presidential eye the phrase "Mr. President, What Will You Do For Woman Suffrage?" every time he passes through either of the main gates to his official residence. It was acknowledged that the move was part of a new policy of mild militancy, which began when the suffragists unfurled a "Votes for Women" banner from the gallery of the House of Representatives on Dec. 5 last when the President was delivering his address to Congress. It was said that the picketing would be continued in the most systematic fashion for an indefinite period, at least until March 4, when Mr. Wilson is to be inaugurated for a second time. A separate day is to be designated for each State in the Union until forty-eight days have passed. On these State days the sentinels representing their respective States. After that is the intention to have a woman lawyer day, a woman doctor day, a woman scientist day, a feminine author day, and so on. The Congressional Union announces that it intends to keep the pickets posted as long as necessary, rain or shine, daily from 9 to 5:30. A fund of more than $3,000 has been raised to pay for umbrellas, raincoats, and other incidental expenses, including possible fines. Order for the Day. A general order for the guard mounting will be issued every day. The order issued today was as follows: GENERAL ORDERS NO. 1 Officer of the Day, Miss Mabel Vernon. Sergeant of the Guard, Miss Mary Gertrude Fendall. Guard mount. Privates—Miss Vivian Pierce, San Francisco; Miss Bertha Cron, San Francisco; Miss Mildred Gilbert, San Francisco; Miss Bessie Papandre, San Francisco; Miss Elizabeth Gary, Illinois; Miss Gertrude Crocker, Illinois. Morning detail, west gate. Privates—Mrs. M. C. Dowell, Philadelphia; Miss Joy Young, District of Columbia; Miss Maud Jamison, Norfolk; Miss Elizabeth Smith, New York; Miss Pauline Floyd, Arkansas; Miss Frances Pepper, District of Columbia. Bugler of the Day—Press Bureau of the Congressional Union. Challenge—"Mr. President. What Will You Do For Woman Suffrage?" Uniform—Shoulder sashes. Miss ALICE PAUL, Commandant. ———————————————————————————— [*Eve. Tel. Jan 9 - 1917*] 300 SUFFRAGISTS TAKE BOISSEVAIN PLEA TO CAPITAL ——————— Congressional Union Delegation at White House with Memorial Appeal for Amendment. ——————— PRESIDENT ASKS REDUCTION OF SPEECHES TO ONE. ——————— WASHINGTON, Tuesday.—Renewed pleas to President Wilson to support the constitutional amendment for women suffrage were made at the White House to-day by a delegation of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, who presented memorials on the recent death of Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain. The women had arranged for several speeches but, because of the limited time at the disposal of the President, instructions were issued at the White House that only one woman could speak. ———————————————————————————— [*Globe + Commercial Adventurer N. Y. Jan. 9 - 17.*] SUFFRAGISTS CARRY FIGHT TO WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON, Jan. 9—Woman suffragists carried their fight for a federal amendment to the White House again to-day. President Wilson set aside an hour for receiving a delegation of several hundred representatives of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, who wanted to present resolutions urging him to support the federal amendment pending in congress, snd memorializing the late Inez Milholand Boissevain, suffrage leader. The East Room of the White House was thrown open for the visitors, spokesmen for whom were Mrs. Sara Bard Field of California, Mrs. John W. Brannan and Mrs. Clarence M. Smith of New York, and Miss Maud Younger. Suffragists With Banners Picket White Grounds ——————— Six at Each Entrance Present Silent Query, "How Long Must Women Wait?"--To Continue Indefinitely. ——————— From a Special Correspondent of THE EVENING SUN. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—"Silent sentinels," a dozen of them, each bearing a yellow banner inscribed, "Mr. President, How Long Must Women Wait?" are pacing back and forth in front of the two Pennsylvania avenue entrances to the White House grounds to-day. The demonstration is part of the campaign being waged by the suffragists to force the President to give a definite answer to the question asked of him yesterday, when 300 or more of them visited him in the East room of the Executive Mansion. At 10:30 o'clock President Wilson, returning from his morning golf game, ran the gantlet at the west gate. The suffragists were so surprised they did not recognize the White House car until after the President had passed. He smiled as his car rushed between the sentries. The twelve women will remain on duty till 6 o'clock to-night. Whenever the President leaves the Whit House before that hour he will see these sentinels and their blazing banners. At each of the two entrances six suffragists are located. They are saying nothing to the crowds of curious attracted by their presence. Like the sentries on guard at an army post, they are apparently oblivious to their surroundings. Among Those Present. An hour after the time fixed for their arrival—9 o'clock—the sentinels reached the Executive Mansion. They made no efforts to get to the White House. They remained on the sidewalks outside the entrance gates and waited. The first squad of sentries was led by Miss Vivian Pierce, California, with a bodyguard including the Misses Mildred Gilbert and Bertha Crone, both of California. All carried suffrage standards. Other members of the first squad included: Mrs. M. C. Dowell, Philadelphia; the Misses Joy Young, Elizabeth Smith, Winifred Frances and Frances Pepper, District of Columbia; Miss Maude Jamison, Norfolk, Va.; Mrs. Bessie Papandre, California; the Misses Augusta and Gertrude Crocker, Illinois, and Mary Gertrude Kendall, Baltimore. Five full blooded Comanche Indians from an Oklahoma reservation who went to the White House to see the sights gazed with delighted wonderment at the vari-colored display of suffrage banners at the gates of the grounds, but they couldn't understand what it was all about. Each picket wore ordinary street attire with a ribbon of suffrage colors across the breast. It was a dreary day for "guard mount" duty, damp and raw, but all of the picketers cheerfully took their positions. Every day, Sundays and holidays included, for an indefinite period, the (Continued on Second Page.) (Continued from First Page.) sentinels will guard the entrances to the White House grounds. They will be on duty but eight hours out of each twenty-four, however, and will be relieved at regular intervals. Purpose of Move. The decision to place pickets about the Executive Mansion was reached at a meeting of the Congressional Union officials last night following the visit to the White House earlier in the day of 300 or more Suffragists, who called to present a memorial to the President on the death of Inex Milholland Boissevain and, incidentally, make another appear to Mr. Wilson for his support in their work. The President gave them a slight rebuff and explained that he could, as the leader of his party, take no definite stand on that matter until the party had directed him to do so. It was then determined to call to the attention of the President at every opportunity the fact that the votes for women advocates have not yet given up hope. Opinions as to the jurisdiction of the White House police and Executive Office guards differ. As long as the pickets keep on the move, even within the White House grounds and violate none of the rules of the grounds, they may not be molested, said one official. "But it is my opinion that as long as they do not interfere with traffic, remain too long in one place or make objectionable remarks to any one, they may not legally be interfered with." ———————————————————————————— WILSON SMILES AS HIS CAR PASSES SUFFRAGE PICKETS. [*World Jan. 11 - 1917*] ——————— (Special to The World.) WASHINGTON, Jan 10.—The White House was picketed to-day. From 10 o'clock this morning until 5.30 this afternoon twelve "silent sentinels," representatives of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, stood on guard in front of the Executive Mansion. President Wilson happened to be the first person to run the gantlet of the Suffragists. He returned from a game of golf at 10.30 this morning and was driven to the White House through the west gate of the grounds. On either side stood three of the "silent sentinels." So quick was the move of the Presidential car off the venue and into the grounds the the Suffragists did not know of the President's presence until after he had passed, and had no chance to ask their question "What will you do for Woman Suffrage?". The Executive had seen the tri-colored banners at a distance and knew their meaning. His face was wreathed with a smile as his car passed between the delegates. Every day, Sundays and holidays included, for an indefinite period the sen- ———————————————————————————— Suffragists Use Death of Mrs. Inez Boissevain to Win President's Aid Washington, Jan. 9.—Another attempt to move President Wilson from his position that suffrage for women is a question for the States to decide separately, was staged at the White House this afternoon, when hundreds of suffragists placed in his hands resolutions mourning the death of Inez Milholland Boissevain and at the same time asking the President's support of their cause. The resolutions were adopted in Washington, San Francisco and New York at memorial meetings in honor of Mrs. Boissevain. Mrs. Sara B. Field presented the California petition, Miss Maud Younger the resolutions adopted here, and Mrs. John W. Brannan and Mrs. Clarence M. Smith, the New York resolutions. The resolutions described Mrs. Boissevain as a martyr to the cause, and declared that "as long as the lives of women are required they will be given." Tribune January 11, 1917 Wilson Runs Gantlet of Suffrage Pickets President Becomes a Marble Statue as He Rides Into White House Past Grim Sentinels with Yellow Banners Silently Demanding Vote By Mary Brush Williams Washington, Jan. 10. - " I certainly have an ordeal to-day." The President of these United States made the remark at his luncheon table. It was on the day when the delegation of the suffragists waited on him to present to him the Inez Milholland-Boissevain resolutions. He said that they rain in an unexpected question on him, when he was expected only to listen- not to reply. There was a guest present at the luncheon, and this guest met a mere reporter, to whom he happened to pass on the President's words. The question now arises whether, if he regarded the first encounter as an ordeal, how has he felt about to-day? The sequence of events up to 11:30 this morning was as follows: Twelve bright-faced suffragists, with their lovely purple and yellow banners, arrayed themselves in lines of three on either side of the main entrance of the White House. One of their banners said: "Mr. President, how long do you mean to keep us waiting?" You know the store. They became provoked at the meeting of the day before which to President Wilson was an ordeal, and the Congressional Union decided to keep silent sentinels outside his gates, always standing there in the gold and purple to remind, reproach and cajole him. Wilson Sees Grim Sentinels They observe the eight-hour schedule of work, however, and the President does not, with the result that he had been out for a game of golf before they started work at 10. Maybe he did not know that they were to be there, for he rolled down Pennsylvania Avenue in his machine, he was talking vivaciously, as the President can seldom talk, with his companion. Before the motor turned into the entrance, however, he saw those grim sentinels, standing so squarely and so upright, with their purple banners flying. Immediately he pulled the curtain over his facial expression and looked straight ahead of him, like the marble statue that will probably be made of him one day and place in the Capitol. He greeted them not. He saw them not. But in thirty minutes he was the smiling host to a group of enfranchised Indians, who waited on him where the suffragists had petitioned him the day before. In a little while he and Mrs. Wilson rode out at the other entrance. There was the same sentinel guard there, and Mrs. Wilson, who was talking animatedly until she saw the other women, stopped short and looked at them as if startled. You have seen women do this and know how it is done. For whole seconds while the limousine was getting out of the gate she looked them over as if taking stock of their bearing and their clothes. These stood up very well under the test. Helen Hill Weed, daughter of Representative Hill, was one of them, and she looked stunning in a long, monk-like gown and gray furs. Her banner hung in rich-colored dignity in front of her. Mrs. Wilson made no sign. In an hour Miss Margaret Wilson returned to the White House in the motor and waved to them. Thus in the short space of an hour was the attitude of the Presidential group denoted to them. Excitement on the Avenue Meantime down the avenue excitement was growing intense. Somebody started a movement to get the women away. The Park Commissioner said that this was not his obligation. The Chief of Police said that he had no authority. Nobody could find any one who had any. People were passing along the street and voicing their sentiments freely. One of the easiest things to obtain on this story was an interview. All of the silent sentinels would tell you at once all about it. According to Mrs. Weed the most insolent of the commentators were the negroes; the rudest- she said the most insulting - were the uniformed soldiers. The most sympathetic were the men. "They say as they pass so that we and not the passerby can hear, 'Keep it up! Keep it up!' They seem to get our position much better than the women. I don't believe the men are for him." So great had the movement grown by nightfall that thousands of women here in Washington, many of whom do not belong to the union and others all over the eastern and middle portion of the United States, telegraphed that they would come to help. There is to be a writers' day, at which Mrs. will Irwin will assist. There will be also days in charge of Vassar and some other colleges. The women of New York will have a day. Miss Alice Paul expressed herself as delighted with the results thus far. "We shall keep it up," she said, "until Congress passes our amendment or until the President helps us. Of course, when he helps it will pass." A Cumulative Moment The Movement is cumulative in effect. Those who were there to-day will stay until the end, and it is predicted that by Inauguration Day there will be two thousand women assembled around the White House. Those on guard to-day were Mrs. Bessie H. Papandre, Miss Mildred Gilbert and Miss Berat Crone, San Francisco; Miss Vivian Pierce, San Diego; Miss Gertrude Crocker and Miss Augusta Crocker, Chicago. Those from non-suffrage states were Mrs. M. C. Dowell, Philadelphia; Miss Maud Jameson, Norfolk; Miss Pauline Floyd, Arkansas; Miss New York American January 11, 1917 Suffragists Close In On White House 'Silent Sentinels' to Move Nearer Mansion Each Day -- First Squad of Pickets Confronts Wilson Washington, Jan. 10 -- Members of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, who began to-day to picket the White House with flaring yellow banners, have planned an even bolder manoeuvre. Day by day their line of "silent sentinels" will be deployed a few paces nearer the threshold of the mansion until they flaunt their message at the President's door. To-day they stood on the sidewalk on Pennsylvania avenue, three on each side of the two gates. President Wilson, returning from his morning round of golf, was greeted at the west gate by the squad of calm and unabashed young women who held up to his gaze two banners bearing this legend in unescapable block letters: "Mr. President, what are you going to do for woman suffrage?" Flanking each of the banners were streamers of purple, white and gold, the colors of the Union. The women wore shoulder-sashes of the same combination. Smile at Storm Warning There is still a heated debate in progress within the Union, a stone's throw from the White House grounds, over whether the President smiled cavalierly upon the suffragists, or whether his eyes were lifted without expression to the needlepoint of the Washington Monument. But the suffragists will be there to-morrow and the next day. Unless the President eschews his golf, they declare, he will have further opportunity to settle the issue. Neither rain nor snow dismays them. They smiled in face of the weather forecast of "snow and much colder," with the promise of a temperature below twenty degrees to-morrow. Prepare for Storm Mrs. Helena Hill Weed of Norfolk, Conn., daughter of Congressman Ebenezer Hill of that State, went into the kitchen and told the Union's cook to keep a pot of chocolate always simmering. A collection has been taken for umbrellas and storm coats. The picketing is planned on lines of the eight-hour day. The "silent sentinels" were posted to-day at 10 a.m., and remained on duty until 6 p.m. This schedule will be followed. Special days will be designated, in which the picketing will be done by women of certain States, colleges, professions and organizations. Under auspices of D.A.R. members, the banners will be held one day by descendants of men who took part in the Boston Tea Party, the burning of the "Peggy Stuart" at Annapolis, and other acts of extreme militancy in pre-revolutionary days. "SUFF" SENTINEL FINDS THRILLS IN JOB OF PICKETING WILSON [*Wash Times 1-11-17*] ——————— Pávements Are Cold But President's Stony Gaze Far More Frigid, Says Miss Pierce; Complimented By Indians. ——————— By VIVIAN PIERCE, [of San Francisco, organizer for Congressional Union and one of the first of the pickets.] Picketing a President is more difficult and more exciting than just the ordinary picketing that you used to do. Before I began picketing President Wilson I though picketing a very monotonous job. It is full of thrills. For four solid years the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage had worked steadily to change the President's mind on Federal suffrage. Following the death of Inez Millholland, following a campaign in the West that had aroused women throughout the country, President Wilson reverted to his original position on suffrage. He said he could advance no furthen than his party. He had said that to suffragists over three years ago. Long ago we gathered the impression that the party followed the President and not the President the party. Decided to Picket President. So we decided to picket the President. We wanted, in his own words of yesterday, "to concert public opinion." I believe that we have concerted a good deal of it today, our first day of picketing the White House. It was a pretty cold day to begin. After the first hour the romantic ideas were somewhat cooled. The pavement got colder and colder at the rate of about five degrees an hour. But we had our rewards. I am from California, and had considered that the only demonstrative human nature was Western human nature. Far from it. The women of Washington want to picket. They came up to us and volunteered to take our cold jobs. Since we to be on the job for nearly sixty days, until the Convention of the Congressional Union on March 2, 3, and 4, there will be plenty of chance for these volunteers. the only persons who were not impressed visibly by the Congressional Union picket were President Wilson and Secretary Tumulty. They are difficult to impress. Wilson Gazes Stonily Ahead. Imagine it for yourself. There are two great gates at the White House, the east gate and the west gate. Each gate leads to the main entrance and its army of plain-clothes an uniformed police. We took up our positions at both these gates, wearing the purple, white and gold regalia of the union, and carrying banners. There were three pickets on each side the gate, three voters and three unenfranchised women. Each central picket carried a great banner lettered: "Mr. President, What Are You Going To Do About Suffrage?" As guard to the central picket, the outer pickets carried the great tri-colored banners of the union. When we took up our station at ten in the morning they told us that the President was out playing golf. When he came back half an hour later he must have seen us long before he got to that gate. It is hard not to see the Congressional Union banners. He gazed stonily ahead, however, and Secretary Tumulty did the same. Just as the Federal amendment has been nonexistent to them all these years, so was our purple, white and gold picket. But we concerted enough public opinion to make up for this. Indians Find "Suffs" Pretty. Our first excitement was the entry into the grounds of a delegation of Sioux Indians. They had come to call on the Great White Father. I believe that is the title Secretary Lane uses for the President when he admits these Indians to citizenship. They wore their hair in braids twisted with bright colors, and feathers in their hats. As they went in our gate they stopped to look at the bright colored pickets and said in very creditable English: "Some pretty girls!" I rather wondered if the reception that the President gave the Indians was quite as chilly as the one we got the other day. However, Miss Margaret Wilson passed our gate several times, and her smile, and apparent interest somewhat made up for her father's lack of interest. By the time the picket is over we may have concerted enough public opinion to make the President and Mr. Tumulty smile also. Will Resort to Mild Stimulants. In the meantime the utilitarian side of our long job is being worked out by us on the picket line itself. We have the coldest months in Washington to live through, and all of us are going back to headquarters tonight to read histories of the arctic explorers. We will probably come back to-morrow equipped with gum drops, sweet chocolate, and other stimulants of that kind. We are thinking of organizing a coffee squad. There are many suffragists who, while not willing to stand in the line, are still yearning to serve. We think mid-morning and mid-afternoon coffee will come in quite handily, especially as a blizzard is predicted for tomorrow. Policemen have given us advice as to how to keep our feet warm. We are planning to manufacture little wooden bocks, such as the traffic men use to stand on. Other friends suggest miniature stoves. But we do not wish to appear too feminine. One gentleman stopped and told us in a somewhat peevish tone that if we could stand it, he thought the President could. We assured him that we could, but were not so sure about the President. One Girl Faints. This is no ordinary picket. There will be more women on the job every day. There will be no gaps in the rank. We are going to surround the White House with a purple, white, and gold cordon. In short, we are going to take the President's advice and concert public opinion. There are no hangers-back in our ranks. We stick. A girl in the picket this morning finally crumpled up in a dead faint. We picked her up and carried her back to headquarters. We she came to she said, 'That was the silliest thing we ever did,'—ate some lunch and went back on the picket line, to stand another three hours. The President has to follow public opinion. We are out at his front gate creating it, and w'ell be there a long time. ———————————————————————————— WILSON SMILES AS HIS CAR PASSES SUFFRAGE PICKETS. [*NY World 1-11-17*] ——————— (Special to The World.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—The White House was picketed to-day. From 10 o'clock this morning until 5.30 this afternoon twelve "silent sentinels," representatives of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, stood on guard in front of the Executive Mansion. President Wilson happened to be the first person to run the gantlet of the Suffragists. He returned from a game of golf at 10.30 this morning and was driven to the White House through the west gate of the grounds. On either side stood three of the "silent sentinels." So quick was the move of the Presidential car off the avenue and into the grounds that the Suffragists did not know of the President's presence until after he had passed, and had no chance to ask their question "What will you do for Woman Suffrage?". The Executive had seen the tri-colored banners at a distance and knew their meaning. His face was wreathed with a smile as his car passed between the delegates. Every day, Sundays and holidays included, for an indefinite period the sentinels will guard the entrance to the White House in the hope of impressing upon the President the advisability of his support for Nation-side Suffrage. "VOTE" PICKET FOR PRESIDENT ny Tribune Women, Angered, Will Place 12 Sentinels at White House 1-10-17 [From The Tribune Bureau.] Washington, Jan. 9.- "Mr. President, how long must women wait for liberty?" President Wilson, beginning to-morrow will not be able to enter or leave the White House without having this question thrust upon him by "silent sentinels" of Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. Three hundred women of this organization went to the White House to-day to present to Mr. Wilson the resolution adopted at the Capitol on Christmas Day, and in other places, in memory of Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain. The President's answer to these, which asked him to "open the great doors before which our women are exhausting their lives in waiting and appeal" was so disappointing to the women that they retired to their headquarters and agreed on more drastic action. The President expressed surprise that he had been appealed to in this fashion. As leader of his party, he said, his commands came from the party, and not from his private personal convictions, which favored the suffrage cause. Having delivered his brief answer to the gathering in the East Room of the White House, Mr. Wilson turned abruptly on his heel and walked out of the room. The women thought he seemed extremely annoyed. Indignant Meeting Held The meeting that followed at the union's headquarters was full of indignation. It was decided to bring to the President's constant attention in as forcible a manner as possible the desire of women to have him take some steps, as leader of his party, similar to his action on behalf of the child labor bill, which would further the suffrage cause. More than $3,000 was quickly pledged to aid in his campaign. Beginning to-morrow morning, twelve "silent sentinels" will stand before the White House gates, six on the east and an equal number on the left side. Those on one side will be representative of the states where women vote; those on the other side of the non-suffrage states. They will be "typify the union of the Women of the East and the West in their demand for nationwide enfranchisement." Each banner bearer will be flanked by two women carrying standards of purple, white and gold, the colors of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and the Woman's party. "The time for parades and deputations is past. We must take a new line." said Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch after the women had returned from the White House. "We have gone to the President with great and small deputations during the last three years and have shown the interest of women all over the country in our cause. "Hides Behind Party" "The President says we must convert his party. Why, he holds his party in the hollow of his hand. He can mould it. He moulded it quickly before election on the railroad eight-hour law. Was there anything about that in the Democratic party platform? But he is not willing to lay a finger on his party in behalf of women--one-half of the people of the United States." "It is only when women go to the President that he hides behind his party and says he hides behind his party and says he is bound by it," asserted Mrs. Sara Bard Field, of San Francisco. At the White House she had made the principal speech in presenting the resolutions to the President. Three sets of resolutions were placed in the President's hands. Miss Maud Younger, of San Francisco, who delivered the principal eulogy of Inez Milholland at the memorial, held in the Capitol, on Christmas Day, presented those adopted that day, calling on the President "to open the great doors before which our women are exhausting their lives in waiting and appeal." Women Bring Resolution Mrs. Field brought resolutions adopted at a memorial in San Francisco. Mrs. John W. Brannan and Mrs. Clarence M. Smith, of New York, brought the resolutions and the appeal to the President presented at the memorial on New Year's Day in New York to Mrs. Boissevain. "I had not been apprised that you were coming here to make any representations or would issue an appeal to me," said the President, "I had been told that you were coming to present memorial resolutions with regard to the very remarkable woman who your cause has lost. I, therefore, am not prepared to say anything further than I have said on previous occasions of this sort. "I do not need to tell you were my own convictions and my own personal purpose lie, and I need not tell you by what circumscriptions I am bound as the leader of a party. As the leader of a party my commands come from the party, and not from private personal convictions. "My personal action as a citizen, of course, comes from no source but my own convictions, and , therefore, my position has been so frequently defined, and I hope so candidly defined, and it is so impossible for me until the orders of my party are changed to do anything other than I am doing as a party leader, that I think nothing more is necessary to be said. Regrets Misunderstandings "I do want to say this: I do not see how anybody can fail to observe from the utterance of the last campaign that the Democratic party is more inclined than the opposition party to assist in this great cause, and it has been a matter of surprise to me, and a matter of very deep regret, that so many of those who were heart and soul for this cause seemed greatly to misunderstand and misinterpret the attitude of parties. "Because in this country, as in every other self-governing country, it is only through the instrumentality of parties that things can be accomplished. They are not accomplished by the individual voice, but by concerted action, and that action must come only so fast as you concert it. I have done my best, and shall continue to do my best, to concert it in the interest of a cause in which I personally believe." The Suffrage Picket. [Wash star 1-10-17] The picketing of the White House as a measure of suffrage agitation is not only in the most questionable propriety, but is of doubtful value to the cause of equal enfranchisement. It is a form of militancy, favored by the organization engaged in the more demonstrative mode of propaganda, and it can lead to no good result. It serves to direct public attention to the fact that the President has not yielded to insistent pressure and at times clamorous demand for a direct recommendation for the enactment of a constitutional amendment, which is contrary to his judgement that the enfranchisement of women should come through separate state action. Whether he is correct in this view or nor, he should not be subjected to a public display of organized disapproval, even though it is silent in its manifestation. If one cause can picket the White House because the President does not yield to it and espouse it, another can do the same. Is the executive mansion to be besieged by claimants and applicants and protagonists without limit? Is the President to be made a prisoner in his official home, save on the penalty of running the gantlet of banner-bearing partisans and advocates? If this suffrage picket is permitted others have an equal right to adopt the plan, and unless this unwise movement is abandoned Washington may be the scene of successive "hecklings" and sieges. In view of the course pursued in England by the militant suffragists, in whose ranks were at one time some of those who lead now in the particular organization engaged in this picketing enterprise, it may be assumed that arrests for this new form of embarrassment for the President will not be unwelcome. A spirit of martyrdom prevails in the organization. But if the picketing is distasteful to the President, or if it is deemed an intrusion upon his freedom of thought and action, there should be no hesitation in enforcing the law. Yet probably, though the picketing is an affront to the presidential office which the public will definitely resent, no official complaint will be made. After a few days of this persistence it will be silly rather than impressive, and it is likely to defeat its own ends. It cannot in any way advance the cause of suffrage, which is worthy of more dignified methods of advocacy. "PICKET" WHITE HOUSE Suffragists, After Futile Appeal, Announce Daily Vigil. [Wash Post] NEW STEP IN MILD MILITANCY [1-10-17] Suffrage Devices to Confront President at Own Gates. Delegation of 300 From Congressional Union Present Boissevain Memorials-Urge Anthony Amendment- Wilson Expresses Surprise. Refuses to Add to Expressions on Previous Occasions. Women suffragists, after another futile appeal to President Wilson yesterday for his support of the Susan B. Anthony amendment, announced plans for retaliation by picketing the White House grounds with "silent sentinels." Their purpose is to make it impossible for the President to enter or leave the White House without encountering a sentinel bearing some device pleading the suffrage cause. The move was acknowledged to be a step in the new policy of mild militancy, which began with the coup in the House gallery on December 6, when a party of suffragists unfurled a votes for women banner while the President was making his opening address. Pledge Fund for Campaign. What the White House authorities will do about the pickets the suffragists intend to leave developments. After the women had their audience yesterday they returned to headquarters of the Congressional Union formed their new plans and held a meeting, pledging $3,000 for the "silent sentinel" campaign. Headed by Miss Maud Younger and Mrs. Sara Bard Field, 300 suffragists from the Congressional Union went to see the President, ostensibly to present memorials on the death of Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain. Because of the affair in the House gallery in December, there was some difficulty in arranging the audience, but the President consented to receive the women. Surprised by Appeal. When they made it the occasion to renew their pleas that he support the suffrage amendment, the President expressed his surprise, reminded the spokesmen of the party that he had not been apprised of their full purpose, and was not prepared to say more than he had on previous occasions. He repeated that he believed personally in their cause, but as the leader of his party could not commit it to action it had not indorsed. The President added he could not understand why women failed to realize that the Democratic party had done more for suffrage than the Republicans. Bound by Party. "I had not been apprised that you were coming here to make any representations or would issue and appeal to me," said the President. "I had been told that you were coming to present memorial resolutions with regard to the very remarkable woman whom your cause has lost. I, therefore, am not prepared to say anything further than I have said on previous occasions of this sort. "I do not need to tell you where my own convictions and my own personal purpose lie, and I need not tell you by what circumscriptions I am bound as the leader of a party. My personal action as a citizen, of course, comes from no source but my own convictions, and , therefore, my position has been so frequently defined, and I hope so candidly defined, and it is so impossible for me until the orders of my party are changed to do anything other than I am doing as a party leader, that I think nothing more is necessary to be said. Democrats Best Friends. "I do want to say this: I do not see how anybody can fail to observe from the utterance of the last campaign that the Democratic party is more inclined than the opposition party to assist in this great cause, and it has been a matter of surprise to me, and a matter of very deep regret, that so many of those who were heart and soul for this cause seemed greatly to misunderstand and misinterpret the attitude of parties, because in this country, as in every other self-governing country, it is only through the instrumentality of parties that things can be accomplished. They are not accomplished by the individual voice, but by concerted action, and that action must come only so fast as you concert it. I have done my best, and shall continue to do my best, to concert it in the interest of a cause in which I personally believe. March to White House. The suffrage forces marched in a body from the national headquarters of the union, in Lafayette square. Miss Younger presented the resolution adopted at the Boissevain memorial service in Saturday Hall at the Capitol Christmas day, which called on the President to "open the doors before which our women are exhausting their lives in waiting and appeal." Beginning this morning twelve "silent sentinels" will stand before the White House gates, six on the east and an equal number on the west side. Those on one side will be representative of the states where women vote; those on the other side of the non-suffrage States. They will typify the union of the women of the East and the West in their demand for nationwide enfranchisement. Each banner bearer will be flanked by two women carrying standards of purple, white and gold, the colors of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and the Woman's party. Contributors to$3,000 Fund. Among the principal contributors to the $3,000 fund were Mrs. William Kent, wife of Representative Kent, of California; Miss Mary Burnham, Miss Ella Riegel and Miss Kate Halligan, of Philadelphia; Mrs. Townsend Scott, Miss Morris and Mrs. McLouth, all of Baltimore; Mrs. Sophie G. Meredith, Richmond, Va; Mrs. John W. Brannan, New York; Mrs. Blatch; Mrs. Field; Miss Anne Martin, Nevada, national chairman Woman's party; Miss Maud Younger and Mrs. Bessie H. Papandre, San Francisco ; the Delaware branch of the Congressional Union; Mrs. W. Thompson Burch, District chairman, Mrs. Jessie Hardy MacKaye, Mrs. Nina E. Allender, Miss Eliza Lord, Mrs. Nina E. Allender, Miss Eliza Lord, Mrs. G. Brown Miller, Mrs. E. M. Dean, Miss Edith Goode and Miss Elizabeth Smith, all of this city. PICKETS POSTED AT THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY BY WOMEN Twelve Suffragists Will Go on Guard Following Futile Call on President. [*Wash-Herald*] USING MILITANT TACTICS [*1-10-19*] Chief Executive to Be Reminded Daily by Means of Banners, that Femininity Would Vote Twelve suffragettes, who will be known as "silent sentinels," will go on guard duty at the White House this morning at 9 o'clock, so that hereafter President Wilson will not be able to leave the executive mansion without being reminded of the demand of women for political liberty. These guards will carry banners with such inscriptions as: "Mr. President, how long must women wait?" Squads will be stationed about the White House daily, including Sundays, from today on March 4, from 9 o'clock in the morning until 5 in the afternoon. This is generally regarded as the most militant move ever made by the suffragists of this country. Yesterday prominent suffrage workers said that means must be adopted to "move the President," even to the extreme of the sacrifice of life "and this country can ill spare its womanhood." After a large delegation of women from the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage had visited the White House yesterday afternoon to present memorial resolutions on the death of Inez Milholland Boissevain and had been told by the President that he was bound as a leader of his party and could, therefore, do nothing for national woman suffrage, the women returned to the national headquarters of the Congressional Union and decided to station "silent sentinels." More than $3,000 Pledged The women pledged more than $3,000 to carry on the new work. Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch told them the time for parades and deputations had passed and that other means must therefore be found. Mrs. Blatch suggested the "silent sentinels of liberty and self-government." Mrs. Sara Bard Field, of San Francisco, indorsed the proposal. Miss Mary Burnham, of Philadelphia, headed the subscription list with $1,000. Mrs. William Kent, wife of Representative Kent, of California, pledged $100 a month. Mrs. Townsend Scott, of Baltimore; Miss Ella Riegel, of Bryn Mawr, and the Delaware branch of the Congressional Union, each subscribed $100. Among prominent Washington women who pledged various amounts were Mrs. W. Thompson Burch, Mrs. Nina E. Allender, Mrs. Jessie Hardy MacKaye, Miss Eliza Hardy Lord, Miss Edith Goode and others. "I do not see how anybody can fail to observe from the utterances of the last campaign that the Democratic party is more inclined than the opposition party to assist in this great cause," and the President, addressing the suffragists, "and it has been a matter of surprise to me, and a matter of very great reget, that so many of those who were heart and soul for this cause seemed so greatly to misunderstand and misinterpret the attitude of parties. I have done my best and shall continue to do my best in the interest of a cause in which I personally believe." Prominent Women in Party. Prominent women from all parts of the United States were in the delegation. The White House had issued 300 tickets of admission. Every card was used and there was demand for more. The President met the women in the East Room, where he was presented with resolutions commemorative of the life and services of Mrs. Boissevain. The President was reminded of the "needless sacrifices women are making in their struggles to secure their rightful political liberty," and was asked to support the Federal suffrage amendment. Miss Maud Younger, of San Francisco, presented resolutions adopted at the Christmas memorial to Mrs. Boissevain in Statuary Hall. Mrs. Field handed President Wilson resolutions adopted at a memorial in San Francisco. Mrs. John W. Brannan and Mrs. Clarence H. Smith, of New York, brought the resolutions and the appeal to the President of the women of New York. Accompanying the three sets of resolutions was a written appeal, which said in part: "We desire to make known to you, Mr. President, our deep sense of the wrong being inflicted upon women, in making them spend their best health and strength, and forcing them to abandon other work that means fuller self-expression, in order to win freedom under a government that professes to believe in democracy. No price is too high to pay for liberty. So long as the lives of women are required, these lives will be given." Among those in the delegation were: Miss Anne Martin, Miss Ella Riegel, Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood, Miss Mary Phelps Morgan, Mrs. Townsend Scott, Mrs. Wm. J. Ewing, Mrs. Howard Schwarz, Miss Eleanor White, Miss Morris, Mrs. Frank P. Odenheimer, Mrs. Harvey Wiley, Mrs. John M. Nelson, Mrs. Lola P. Thurston, Miss Ruth Thurston, Mrs. Wm. Bailey Lamar, Mrs. Alexander Vogelsang, Mrs. Leland O. Howard, Miss Eliza Hardy Lord, Miss Alice Theobold, Miss Neil Rose Baggett, Mrs. Clarence arren, Mrs. Bessie H. Papandre, Miss Mildred Gilbert, Mrs. Francois Berger Moran, Dr. Louise Taylor Jones, Dr. Martha C. Burritt, Mrs. John Jay White, Mrs. Tallman Bailey, Mrs. Abby Scott Baker, Mrs. Jessie Hardy MacKaye, Mrs. Geo. T. Odell, Mrs. Nina E. Allender, Miss Elizabeth Ferrin, Mrs. Thomas W. Sidwell, Mrs. T. Janney Brown, Mrs. G. H. Fowler, Miss Fowler, Miss Lovering, Mrs. Morven Thompson, Mrs. Wm. R. Wheeler, Miss Elizabeth Mason Heath, Mrs. Basil Manly, Mrs. Ira Copley, Mrs. Wm. E. Humphrey, Mrs. Henry Danforth, Mrs. J. S. Nelight, Mrs. Henry Lockwood, Mrs. Paul du Pont, Mrs. Florence Bayard Kane, Miss Marion Dunham, Mrs. James Ginns, Mrs. Patrick Gunning, Mrs. Ellie Doherty and Mrs. Ivory, all of Washington; Mrs. A. P. Block and Mrs. Aylett Cotton, jr., of San Francisco. THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1917. FRAGISTS STATION PICKETS AT THE WHITE HOUSE GATES TO PRESENT APPEALS TO TH PRESIDENT WHEN HE APPEARS. UPPER—SOME OF THE PICKETS AT THE WEST GATE ON THE PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE SIDE OF THE WHITE HOUSE GROUNDS. LOWER—SUFFRAGISTS ASSIGNED TO PICKET DUTY DEPARTING ON THEIR MISSION [FROM] SUFFRAGISTS' HEADQUARTERS. President Ignores Suffrage Sentinels Twelve Silent Women Stand with Banners at Entrances Eight Hours. As a tower clock nearby struck 6 last night, the twelve "silent sentinels" before the White House furled their banners after an 8-hour day of picketing and marched to the headquarters of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. Then the President's car rolled through the eastern gates. "Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?" was the legend inscribed on one of the banners, but it was not there to say "Good evening to the Executive. Should the President decide hereafter to use a less conspicuous entrance, the suffragists plan to meet the new circumstances. "We will place sentinels at every gate and ring the White House with 100 women, if necessary," said Miss Mabel Vernon, "officer of the guard." "That's right, make him come across!" "Some nerve!" "That's the limit!" These were some of the remarks overheard by the sentinels yesterday. Sympathizers seemed to be in the majority and the women complained of but a few "insults." President ignores Women. The women went on picket duty at 16 o'clock in the morning. They had just taken their posts when president and Mrs. Wilson motored through the North-West gate, returning from the golf links. The president looked straight ahead when he ran the gauntlet. The sentinels attracted much attention. Several women, not members of the party, volunteered to do guard duty. These offers were accepted, because the sentinels found it tiresome to stand at one place for hours. A big policeman walked up to the women shortly after they had taken their stand. He greeted the, with a smile. It is not believed the police will interfere with this mild form of militancy. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, national president of the National American Suffrage Association, yesterday said nothing would be gained by "thus embarrassing the President." At each of two entrances six women were stationed with banners, three were on one side the gate and three on the other. One set represented women from suffrage States and the other squad represented non-suffrage States. Doing Sentinel Duty. Those from suffrage States on duty yesterday were: Mrs. Bessie H. Papandre, San Francisco; Miss Berta Crone, San Francisco; Miss Mildred Gilbert, San Francisco; Miss Vivian Pierce, San Diego; Miss Gertrude Crocker, Chicago, and Miss Augusta Crocker, Chicago. Those from nonsuffrage States were: Mrs. M. C. Dowell, Philadelphia; Miss Elizabeth Smith, New York; Miss Maud Jameson, Norfolk; Miss Joy Young, Miss Pauline Floyd, and Miss Winifred Francis, of Washington D.C. Among those who relieved these sentinels were: Mrs. Helena Hill Weed, Norwich, Conn.; Mrs. Sophie G. Meredith, Richmond; Miss Katharine Fisher, New York; Mrs. I. M. Lewis, Pittsburgh; Miss Elizabeth Mason, Richmond; Miss Mary Gertrude Fendall, Baltimore, and Mrs. Florence Brewer Boeckel, this city. State, college and professional days will be observed in the sentinel calendar, which remains in force until March 4. SUFFRAGE PICKETS FOR WHITE HOUSE Sentinels Stationed at All Gates to Executive Mansion Grounds. President Runs Gantlet GENERAL ORDERS NO. 1. January 10, 1917. Officer of the day - Miss Mabel Vernon. Sergeant of the guard - Miss Mary Gertrude Fendall. Guard Mount, Morning Detail, East Gates. Privates - Miss Vivian Pierce, San Francisco; Miss Bertha Cron, San Francisco; Miss Mildred Gilbert, San Francisco; Mrs. Bessie Papandre, San Francisco; Miss Elizabeth Gary, Illinois; Miss Gertrude Crocker, Illinois. Morning Detail, West Gates. Privates - Mrs. M. C. Dowell, Philadelphia; Miss Joy Young, District of Columbia; Miss Maud Jamison, Norfolk; Miss Elizabeth Smith, New York; Miss Pauline Floyd, Arkansas; Miss Frances Pepper, District of Columbia. Bugler of the day - Press bureau of the Congressional Union. Challenge: Mr. President what will you do for woman suffrage? Uniform-Shoulder sashes. MISS ALICE PAUL, Comm't. The White House is picketed, and will remain in the beleaguered state indefinitely, according to the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, which is doing the work. The first detail went on duty at 9 o'clock this morning. Big banners of the union's colors, on one of which is inscribed the "challenge," were ranged in a row both at the west and east front gates. Non-voting sentinels, six in number, were at the former, while legionaries from the voting states stood at the eastern entrance. Their tour of duty lasted until 1 p.m.' an hour later a second detail replaced them and will remain at their posts until 6 o'clock. One of the first to pass inward between the serried ranks was President Wilson himself, who returned to the White House shortly after 10 o'clock from a golf game. No one knows whether or not he saw them, but they didn't see him until after he had passed. Red Men Are Amazed. A few minutes later came a group of five stalwart Comanches from Oklahoma to shake the hand of the "Great White Father." They stared at the sentinels in utter amazement and passed a few remarks in their own tongue. "Mister, do dat sign say somep'n 'bout woman suff'age? I kain't read myse'f," inquired an old colored man across the street, and added, "Womens is always beggin' fo' somep'n; jest bleeged to give it ter 'em." The picketing idea was adopted at a meeting at the Congressional Union headquarters yesterday just after the visit to President Wilson, the presentation of the Boissevain resolutions and the entirely unexpected appeal to him to support the Susan B. Anthony federal suffrage amendment. They consider that, in view of his answer, the appeal was futile, and their purpose is to make it impossible for him to enter or leave his own home without encountering a sentinel bearing a suffrage device. Step Toward "Mild Militancy." The move was acknowledge to be a step in the new policy of mild militancy, which began with the coup in the House gallery December 6, when a party of suffragists unfurled a "votes for women" banner while the President was making his opening address. What the White House authorities will do about the pickets the suffragists intend to leave for development. These officials this morning said nothing would be done to the women as long as they created no disturbance or did not attempt to enter the executive mansion. White House police smiled as they watched the sentinels take their stand. The Congressional Union heads say that they can keep women on guard as long as is necessary. Already various states and various local organizations, such as alumnae associations, are volunteering to take over one day's guard duty and furnish the file of sentinels necessary. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt Thinks Union Makes Error in Picketing White House That she thinks that the Congressional Union is beginning at the wrong end of things when they try to embarrass the President, is the opinion stated today by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, national president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The national association, she said, does not consider that President WIlson is in any way responsible for the delay in Congress and it regrets that he should be subjected to this annoyance and embarrassment. She points out that her association is just as impatient of the congressional delay in granting suffrage as is the Congressional Union; but does not consider that "heckling" is any way in which to try to hasten the outcome. SUFFRAGE SENTINELS GUARD ENTRANCES TO WHITE HOUSE "Mild Militants" Flaunt Banners Demanding President Take Stand In Favor of Votes For Women. "Silent sentinels," a dozen of them, each bearing yellow banners inscribed "Mr. President, How Long Must Women Wait?" are pacing back and forth in front of the two Avenue entrances to the White House grounds today, in the campaign being waged by the suffragists to force the President to give a definite answer to the question asked of him yesterday, when 300 or more of them visited the Chief Executive in the East Room of the Executive Mansion. The twelve women will remain on duty till 6 o'clock tonight. Whenever the President leaves the White House before that hour, he will see one of these sentinels and her blazing banner. Six At Each Entrance. At each of the two entrances, six suffragists are located. They are saying nothing to the crowds of curious attracted by their presence. Like the sentry on guard at an army post, they are apparently oblivious to their surroundings, An hour after the time fixed for their arrival--9 o'clock--the sentinels reached the Executive Mansion. They made no efforts to get to the White House. They remained on the sidewalks outside the entrance gates, and waited. Every day, Sundays and holidays included, for an indefinite period, the sentinels will guard the entrances to the White House grounds. White House Officials Puzzled. They will be on duty but eight hours but of each twenty-four, however, and will be relieved at regular intervals. Every minute of the time between 10 o'clock in the morning and 6 in the evening, however, will find one of the "mild militants" on the job. The White House officials are somewhat at a loss as to what shall be done, should the sentinels attempt to carry their campaign even further than the entrance to the grounds. They realize that they are facing a difficult proposition. Wilson Sees Banners. The President returned from a game of golf at 10:30 o'clock this morning and was driven to the White House through the northwest gate of the Pennsylvania avenue side of the (continued on Sixth Page.) White House grounds. On either side of the gate stood thre of the silent sentinels. So quick was the move of the Presidental car off the Avenue into the grounds that the suffragists did not know of Mr. Wilson's presence until several seconds after he has passed through. The president had seen the tri-colored banners at a distance and knew their meaning. His face was wreathered with smiles as his car passed through between the delegates. Follows Visit to President. The decision to place pickets about the Executive Mansion was reached at a meeting of the Congressional Union officials last night, following the visit to the White House earlier in the 300 or more suffragists, who called to present a memorial to the President on the death of Inez Milholland Boissevain, and, incidentally, make another appeal to Mr. Wilson for his support in their work. The President gave them a slight rebuff, and explained that he could, as the leader of his party, take no definite tsand on that matter until his party had directed him to do so. First Squad of Sentries. The first squad of silent suffrage sentries was led by Miss Vivian Pierce, of California, carrying a huge banner, and with a body guard including the Misses Mildred Gilbert and Bert a'Crone, both of California, each of whom carried suffrage standards. Other members of the first squad included Mrs. M. C. Dowell, Philadelphia; the Misses Joy Young, Elizabeth Smith, and Winifred Frances, District of Columbia; Miss Maude Jamison, Norfolk, Va.; Mrs. Bessie Papandre, California; the Misses Augusta and Gertrude Crocker, Illinois, and Mary Gertrude Fendall, Baltimore. Question As To Jurisdicticion. Opinions as to the jurisdiction of the White House and Executive office guards, differ. As long as the pickets keep on the move, even within the White House grounds, and violate none of the rules of the grounds, they may not be molested, said one official. "Of course, if they make themselves a general nuisance," he continued, that's another matter. They can be handled just the same as if this were not a Government reservation. "But it is my opinion that as long as they do not interfere with traffic, remain too long in one place, or make objectionable remarks to any one, they may not legally be interfered with." CONGRESSIONAL SUFFRAGE UNION IN ITS NEW HOME [*NY Tribune*] Seven Windows on Forty-second Street Will Give Outlook from Headquarters [*1-4-17*] The Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage has fled the little nest feathered for it by Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont at 13 East Forty-first Street, and will live its own life hereafter in headquarters of its own, around the corner, at 50 East Forty-second Street. The growth of the organization is given as the only reason for leaving Mrs. Belmont. In the new headquarters there will be an assembly room and offices for the city chairman and chairmen of committees. The organization has seven windows looking out on Forty-second Street, but these cost money, and the first move of the organization will be to achieve financial independence. Next Wednesday a reception will be held for this purpose at the Ritz-Carlton, at which Mme. Yvette Guilbert will recite in French and make a suffrage speech in English. Mrs. Sara Bard Field and Mrs. Abbie Scott Baker will make suffrage addresses. The new finance committee is headed by Miss Alice Carpenter, and among its members are Mrs. Thomas L. Chadbourne, jr., Mrs. James Griswold Deane and Mrs. John Winters Brannan. Mrs. Leonard Thomas is chairman of the entertainment committee. Among the new members of the association is Mrs. Simon Baruch, formerly one of the most energetic anti-suffragists in the city. She was converted during the recent election campaign, through her enthusiasm for President Wilson. She made a public declaration that if the women of the West elected Wilson she would become a suffragist. Soon after election she resigned from the anti-suffrage organization, and yesterday joined the Congressional Union, which opposed Wilson in the campaign. Miss Carpenter said last night that they had convinced Mrs. Baruch that they were really non-partisan and that they had nothing against Mr. Wilson except the fact that he had not compelled the Democratic party to pass the suffrage bill. SUFFRAGE LECTURE. [*Wash Times*] [*1-4-17*] Methods of organizing a political district into precincts for woman suffrage work will be explained in detail by Miss Mabel Vernon, secretary of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, at a meeting at 8 o'clock Saturday afternoon at Cameron House, in Lafayette Square. PICKET LINE OF 3,000 Suffragists to Increase Squads at White House Until March 4. FAIL TO RECOGNIZE PRESIDENT Wash Post Wilson Smiles as Auto Slips by Banner Bearers at Gate. 1-11-17 Police Not to Interfere So Long as No Disorder Is Created—Suffer From Tired Feet—Comanche Visitors Amazed—Women's Clubs All Over Country to Send Delegations to Aid in Work at White House. Twelve women, with suffrage banners, stood at the main gates of the White House grounds yesterday, inaugurating what leaders of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage call mildly militant "silent picketing" to force their cause upon President Wilson's attention. "Pickets" were at the two entrances from 10 o'clock in the morning until dark, tired ones being relieved from time to time, and last night it was announced that other gates would be guarded today and daily until March 4, when the suffragists plan to bring their campaign for a Federal amendment to a close with a big parade. 3,000 to Surround Grounds. It was stated yesterday that the silent sentinels would be gradually increased until 3,000 will be surrounding the executive mansion grounds. The women, wearing yellow, purple and white ribbons across their chests, stood three on either side of the gates, over each of which was held a banner, inscribed, "Mr. President, what will you do for woman suffrage?" White House officials and the city police made no efforts to interfere, and it was said that as long as the women created no disorder no official attention would be paid to them. Fail to Recognize President. The President himself passed the "pickets" only once, at 10:40, when he returned from his morning golf game and ran the gauntlet at the west gate. The suffragists were so surprised they didn't recognize the White House car until after the President had passed. He smiled as his car rushed between the sentries. Mrs. Wilson passed in and out several times. Although 6 o'clock was the hour set for the end of the vigil, when darkness fell the tired women gave up the task at 5:30 o'clock and marched back to headquarters with banners flying. . According to the union officials the number of "pickets" will be increased from day to day. Various States will have charge of the work on different days, it was said. Colleges, organizations and professions also will be represented. Will Brave All Weathers. "Rain or shine, hail or blow, it matters not what, right in front of the White House twelve of us are going to stand from now until March 4," said Mary Gertrude Fendall, of Baltimore, one of the Congressional Union pickets, last night. "It wasn't so hard today, "continued Miss Fendall, "for the thermometer stood well up in the forties and it did not rain. But that will not make the slightest difference, eight hours a day and seven days a week with no let up for Sundays or holidays or anything else we are going to picket the White House and wave the purple white and gold banners at the two main gateways. "People were awfully nice to us, too. All day long we were accosted politely by men and women who said 'Good work,' and 'Keep it up' and 'That's the way to get it.' It was most encouraging. And there was no rudeness at all. Not one unkind or insulting word from any one. The policeman told us that when it got cold tomorrow —the weather bureau says it will— they're going to bring us hot bricks to stand on. Women's Clubs to Help. "Of course, we are going to have help in this picket, women's clubs and societies all over the country are going to send delegations to help. The D. A. R. is going to do the picketing Washington's birthday, and there isn't a doubt of our keeping the line on duty." "We don't know whether Mr. Wilson likes it or not. Mrs. Wilson ignores us. Miss Margaret waved a greeting, but when the President drove through the gates this morning he looked neither to the right nor the left and he didn't change expression once, no matter if the papers do say he smiled blandly. He didn't." Each picket wore ordinary street clothes, with a ribbon of suffrage colors worn across their breasts. It was a somewhat dreary day for "guard mount" duty, damp and raw, but all of the picketers cheerfully took their positions. Tired Feet Cause Desertions. Tired feet caused some of the sentinels to leave their posts, but recruits took their vacant places promptly. As the day wore on they showed signs of fatigue, however. They held their banners high at first, but after a few hours all stood with the staffs upon the sidewalk and shuffled from foot to foot. At intervals officers from Congressional Union headquarters walked in front of the White House to inspect the pickets. Five full-blooded Comanche Indians from an Oklahoma reservation, who visited the White House, gazed with delighted wonderment at the varicolored display of suffrage banners, but they couldn't understand what it was all about. The suffragists have orders to keep silent, and stand with their backs to the fence, facing the street, so that all passerby can see the great yellow banner on which is incredible in black, "Mr. President, what will you do for woman suffrage?" The following "orders of the day" were given to those on guard mount duty by Miss Alice Paul, commandant, just before the guard mount left the Congressional Union barracks: "Stand at either side of the two gates with your backs to the wall. If the police interfere with you, move out from the wall and step from place to place on the sidewalk in front of the gates. "If the police press you further, go out to the curb and stand there. If they press you still further, move your lines into the gutter. If they won't allow you to remain there, get in parade information and march around “Suffs prepare for Convention” Congressional Union Meets Friday to Plan March Demonstration. At a meeting of the national executive committee of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage to be held on Friday at the organization’s headquarters here, Cameron HoUse, plans will be discussed for the annual national convention of Congressional Union workers from all parts of the United States. The convention will gather here about inauguration time, March 1 to 3, being the dates for convention proper, with a big federal suffrage demonstration on Sunday, March 4, the day before the inaugural parade. Miss Alice Paul, national chairman, Will president over the meeting of the executive committee. The other members include Miss Lucy Burns, vice chairman; Mrs O. H. O. Belmont, New York; Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch, Kansas; Mrs John W. Brannon, New York; mrs Wilson Gardner, this city; Mrs Donald R. Hooker, Baltimore; Mrs Wm. Kent, California; Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, Philadelphia; and Miss Anne Martin, Nevada. Continental Hall, joke of the Daughters of the American Revolution, will probably be the place where the Congressional Union’s convention will be staged. Next Sunday afternoon is the time which has been requested by the Congressional Union for the audience with President Wilson at which time he resolutions adopted in New York at the New Year’s Day memorial to Inez Milholland Boissevain those adopted at the statuary Hall memorial here on Christmas Day, and similar resolutions adopted in San Francisco will be presented to the Chief Executive . Mrs Clarence Smith for New York; Miss Maud Younger for Washington, and new. Sar Bard Field, for California, will present the various sets of resolutions How to organize a political district for woman suffrage work Will be explained in detail by Miss Mabel Vernon, secretary of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and one of the leading national organizers of the body at a meeting to be held at 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon at Cameron House in Lafayette square. headquarters of the Congressional Union. The meeting will be of the chairmen and other officers from the eleven various precincts in the city, and its main purpose will be to confer about plans for carrying forward the organization work in their districts Next page Suffs can’t see Wilson Congressional Union unable to present Boissevain Memorial. Efforts of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage to arrange for an interview with President Wilson for the purpose of presenting the Chief Executive with resolutions commemorative of Mrs Inez Milholland Bolssevain have so far been unsuccessful. Miss Mabel Vernon has seen Assistant Secretary Brahany on several occasions during the past week, but has been unable to get a definite answer to her request for an appointment with the President. Joint “Suff” Meet Called For March 1 A call for a joint convention of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and the National Woman’s Party to be held in Washington from March 1 to 4 was decided on at yesterday’s session of the national executive committee of Congressional Union and will be sent out immediately throughout the United States. The meeting was presided over by Miss Alice Paul, national chairman. Others present were Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch, Kansas; Miss Anne Martin, Nevada, national chairman Woman’s Party; Mrs. William Kent, California, wife of representative Kent; new. Gilson Gardner, this city; Mrs. Abby Scott Baker, press chairman, and Miss Mabel Vernon, Delaware, secretary. Suffragist Coming Here Distinguished English Woman Accepfs Miss Paul’s Invitation A cable message from London announces that Mrs. Petrick Lawrence, a distinguished English orator and suffrage worker, will come to the United States, if she can obtain a passport, to assist in the campaign for the national-wide woman suffrage. Mrs. Lawrence is coming to this country at the request of Miss Alice Paul, national chairman of the Congressional Union for Woman’s Suffrage. Mrs. Lawrence, who is the wife of a prominent English barrister; is well known in the United States and in Washington particularly, she spoke at the big mass meeting held by the Congressional Union in the Columbia Theater here several years ago, at the opinion of the Congressional Union booth at the San Francisco Exposition and at other places around the country. Suffrage Organizer Will Explain Work Mabel Vernon to Talk on Practical Politics of Suffrage. How to organize a political district for woman suffrage work will be explained in detail by Miss Mabel Vernon, secretary of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and one of the leading national organizers of the body, at a meeting to be held at 3 o’clock next Saturday afternoon at Cameron House, in Lafayette square, headquarters of the Congressional Union. The meeting will be of the chairmen and other officers from the eleven precincts in the city. Its main purpose will be to confer about plans for carrying forward vigorously and the organization work in their districts. Mrs. W. Thompson Burch, acting chairman of the District branch of the Congressional Union Will president and introduce Miss Vernon. The latter, who is now assisting into the arrangements being made for the national convention of the Congressional Union to be held March 1 to 3, is also in charge of organization work in the District. Woman’s Suffrage Plans Congressional Union Will Entertain Mrs. Mitchel Wednesday. Miss Alice Carpenter, the new City Chairman of the Women’s Congressional Union, yesterday announced a big suffrage boom for the new year. In the first place, secretary the union will leave Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont’s suffrage headquarters at 13 East Forty-first Street for a larger home on the seventeenth floor at 50 East Forty-second Street, at the corner of Madison Avenue. Then there will be a reception at the Ritz-Carlton next Wednesday afternoon at which Mrs. Mitchell, wife of the Mayor, will be an honored guest with Mrs. Dudley Field Malone. Yvette Guilbert will recite in French and make a suffrage speech in English. Speeches will also be made by Mrs. Sara Bard Field of California and Mrs. Addy T. Baker of Washington. Mrs. Simon Baruch, long an anti-suffrage leader, is now a worker in the suffrage ranks, and among the new names in the Reception Committee for Wednesday’s reception are Mrs. Oscar Straus, Mrs. Mortimer Schiff, Mrs. Howard Cushing, Mrs. Schuyler Warren, Mrs. Colgate Hoyt, Mrs. George Pratt, Mrs. Herbert Pratt; Mrs. Jefferson Seligman, Mrs. Maitland Briggs, and Mrs. Eugene Meyer; and. The new Chairmen in charge of the regular work or the union are Mrs. William L. Colt, of Press; Mrs. Walter L. Chambers, of Speakers; Mrs E. Tiffany Dyer, of Meetings, and Mrs. Leonard Thomas, of Entertainments. In Aid Of Suffragists Noted English Woman Willing to Come to United States A Davis message from London announces that Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, distinguished English orator and suffrage worker, will come to the United States, if she can obtain a passport, to assist in the campaign for nation-wide suffrage. Mrs. Lawrence is coming to the United States at the request of Miss Alice Paul, national chairman of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage , who recently asked her if she could come heee to lend her aid to the vigorous movement going on during the present session of Congress to have a federal suffrage amendment adopted. Mrs. Lawrence is the wife of a prominent English barrister, and is well known in this country and in Washington in particular: she spoke at a big mass meeting held by the Congressional Union in the Columbia Theater here several years ago; at the Panama-Pacific exposition in San Francisco and other places throughout the country. BOISSEVAIN MOURNERS ASK AID OF WILSON my american Memorial Meeting for the Dead Suffrage Leader Adopts Appeal for Enfranchisement of the Sex 1-2-17 Prominent New York Men and Women Sign Plea-Rev. Dr. Grant's Address Glowing Eulogy "This audience of men and women, assembled to hold a memorial service in honor of Inez Milholiand Boissevain, appeals to you, the president of the United States, to end the outpouring of life and effort that has been made in this country for the enfranchisement of women for more than seventy years." So runs the opening passage of an address to President Wilson formulated under the impressive circumstances by a gathering of distinguished and reverent mourners in the Church of Ascension yesterday. The appeal will be delivered. to the President by Mrs. Clarence M. Smith and Mrs. John Brennan, who will go to Washington to-day for that purpose. It urges. him to use his influence with Congress in favor of the national enfranchisement of women "by means of the same high leadership you have so successfully used in behalf of important- but we believe less important-measures." NOTED NAMES ON PLEA. Among those who subscribed to the remarkable document, while suffrage banners trembled in the chancel to the haunting strains of Chopin's funeral march, were: The Rev. Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, Mrs. Phillip Lydig, Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch, Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Field Malone, Justice Charles Guy, Mrs. William L. Colt, Mrs. Robert Adamson, Mrs. Lewis Delafield, Miss Alice Carpenter, Miss Anna Constable, Miss Crystal Eastman and Mrs. John Rogers. Dr. Grant, the rector of the church, delivered a eulogy in which he expressed regret that "in the end her instinct forsook her, or that she was over-persuaded and threw in her lot against the President, not recognizing in him a new champion of ever form of expanding democratic freedom and a new master skilled fuse old political parties." TRIBUTE TO CALIFORNIA. He also mentioned the fact that Mrs. Boissevain had met her death in the State of California, "which, perhaps of all the Union, best perceived those qualities of the President which she was not allowed to see." Of the dead woman's gifts he said: "Her clear statement, her incisiveness and her eloquence had the authority of classic oratory." INEZ MILHOLLAND BOISSEVAIN, SUFFRAGE MARTYR, AN INSPIRATION FOR STATUE BY PAUL SWAN [?] 1-3-17 [IMAGE] Miss Lucy Burns, vice-chairman of the Congressional Union, delivered an address, in which she said that Mrs. Boissevain died for her country, and not for women alone. The memorial to President Wilson contains these passages: "The death of this lovely and brave woman symbolizes too us the daily sacrifices made by vast numbers of women for the sake of political freedom. ACCEPTED SUPREME TEST. "To be put to the supreme test and to accept that test with such gallant gladness as she did is not given to us all. Woman's struggle for enfranchisement, however, has reached to the point where it requires such intensity of effort, relentless and sustained, over a great expanse of country, that the health of thousands of noble women is being insidiously undermined. "If this continues- and it will have to continue until victory is won- we can see that many women whom the nation ill can spare will follow in the footsteps of Inez Milholland, "We desire to make known to you. Mr. President, our deep sense of the wrong being inflicted upon women in making them spend their health and strength and in forcing them to abandon personal careers that mean fuller self-expression in order to win freedom under a government that professes democracy. "There is only one cause for which it is right to risk health and life. no price is too high to pay for liberty. So long as the lives of women are required those lives will be given. "We respectfully assert that upon you, Mr. President, rests a solemn responsibility- with you it rests to decide whether or not the life of this brilliant and dearly loved woman shall be the last sacrifice of life demanded of American womanhood in their struggle for self-government." "SUFFS" PLAN FOR BID DEMONSTRATION Wash Times National Executive Committee of Congressional Union to Meet Here Friday. 1-2-17 Plans for the national convention of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, to be held here March 1 to 3, and for the Federal suffrage demonstration to be given on Sunday, March 4, the day preceding the inaugural parade, will be discussed at a meeting of the national executive committee of the Congressional Union at the organization's headquarters, Cameron House, Friday. Other important questions in connection with the work of pushing forward the Federal suffrage cause also will be taken up. The sessions of the executive committee's meetings will be presided over by Miss Alice Paul, national chairman. Other members of the committee include Miss Lucy Burns, Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, of New York; Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch, Kansas; Mrs. John W. Brannan, New York; Mrs. Gilson Gardner, this city; Mrs. Donald R. Hooker, Baltimore; Mrs. William Kent, California; Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, Pennsylvania, and Miss Anne Martin, Nevada. All the members of the committee are expected here Friday, with the exception of Mrs. Lewis, who is now on a visit in China. Mrs. Brannan is one of the representatives of the New York branch of the Congressional Union who has been designated to present to President Wilson the resolutions adopted at the memorial services in New York yesterday in honor of Inez Milholland Boissevain. TO LAUNCH SUFFRAGE FIGHT. Miss Maud Younger, of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, will leave the Capital the latter part of the week for Wilmington, Del., where a fight for suffrage will be launched Sunday. She will be chief speaker at a big mass meeting Sunday. Wash Times 1-3-17 SUFFRAGE RALLY AT INAUGRATION Ny Tribune Parade of Congressional Union to Precede March 4 Procession by Day 1-3-17 [From The Tribune Bureau.] Washington, Jan. 2.- At a meeting of the national executive committee of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, to be held on Friday at the organization's headquarters here, plans will be discussed for the annual national convention of the Congressional Union. The convention will begin just prior to inauguration time, March 1 to 3 being the dates for the convention proper, with a big Federal suffrage demonstration on Sunday, March 4, the day before the inaugural parade. Miss Alice Paul, national chairman, will preside over the meeting of the executive committee. The other members are Miss Lucy Burns, vice-chairman; Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, New York; Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch, formerly of New York, now Kansas; Mrs. John W. Brannan, of New York; Mrs. Gilson Gardner, Washington; Mrs. Donald R. Hooker, Baltimore; Mrs. William Kent, California; Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, Philadelphia, and Miss Anne Martin, Nevada. Continental Hall probably will be the place where the Congressional Union's convention will be held. The opening day, March 1, will be largely of a social nature, with a reception at Cameron House as one of the features. On March 2 and 3 there will be open sessions afternoon and evening, with committee meetings in the mornings. On March 4 is the demonstration. years, is better than ever and will make good with Connie Mack's team. Hess also says that Bill Kenworthy, once with the Nationals, drafted from Oakland by the St. Louis Browns, never will be a success as an infielder, but says he could be developed into a highclass outfielder. Kenworthy's hands are too small to play the infield, says Hess. An indoor golf equipment has been installed at the University of California. The game is to be taught by Prof. Kleeberger, of the department of physical education, and it can be substituted for regular gymnasium work. eat Annual Clearan High S sh. Hundreds of shrewd buyers a cure the renowned Hess footwear tments of styles and sizes are at t Hight Shoes in the House in $6 & $6.50 s High Shoes reduced to 4.85 All $7 & $7. Hess High Sh Reduced to $5.85 t in Our History-an Assortment Is assu quoted here are based on mate "SUFFS" ASK PRESIDENT TO GRANT AUDIENCE [*Wash Herald 1-1-17*] ——————— Will Present Copies of Resolutions Commemorating Miss Boissevain. ——————— An audience with President Wilson has been requested by the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage for any convenient day of the present week, upon which engrossed copies of the resolutions commemorative of the life work of the late Inez Milholland Boissevain may be presented to him. There are three sets of similar resolutions. One of the documents will be adopted as the sense of the meeting in memory of Mrs. Boissevain to be held in New York tomorrow. Another was adopted at the famous Christmas Day gathering in the rotunda of the United States Capitol. The third set of resolutions were adopted at a commemorative service in San Francisco several weeks ago. ———————————————————————————— SUFFRAGISTS SEEK EAR OF PRESIDENT ——————— Want Audience With Chief Executive to Present Boissevain Memorial Resolutions. ——————— A deputation from the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage will call on Assistant Secretary Brahaney at the White House this afternoon for the purpose of arranging, if possible, an interview with President Wilson for some day during the latter part of the week, when resolutions on the dath of Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain will be presented to the Chief Executive. Resolutions Are Similar. The resolutions are those adopted at memorial services for the suffrage leader in the Capital, San Francisco, and New York. They are similar in tone, calling attention to the useless waste of women's lives in a just cause, and asking the President to use his influence with Congress for the passage of the proposed Susan B. Anthony amendment. Those to Make Presentation. Mrs. John Winters Brannan. member of national executive committee of the union, and Mrs. Clarence Smith, of the New York City committee, will offer resolutions adopted in New York. Those which were adopted at the national memorial service at the Capitol Christmas Day, will be carried by Miss Maud Younger, principal speaker on that occasion. The San Francisco resolutions will be brought to Washington by Sara Bard Field, prominent suffrage worker on the Coast. ———————————————————————————— TO HONOR MRS. BOISSEVAIN [*Wash Herald 12-31-16*] ——————— New York, Dec. 30.—New Year Day will witness the paying here of a final tribute to Inez Milholland Boissevain. This honor will be at a beautiful memorial service to be held Monday afternoon in the Church of Ascension, under the auspices of the New York City committee of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. the Congressional Union, will represent the national organization. —————————————— BOISSEVAIN MEMORIAL AT THE CHURCH OF ASCENSION [*NY Tribune 12-31-16*] ——————— Elaborate Service To Be Held This Afternoon For Dead Suffragist Five thousand invitations have been issued for the memorial service for Inez Milholland Boissevain, which is to be held this afternoon in the Church of the Ascension. Mrs. Sara Bard Field is coming from California to make the chief address and Dr. Percy Stickney Grant will read a resolution addressed to President Wilson, in which the women ask him to use his influence to stop the waste of women's lives demanded by the struggle for the vote. A stringed quartet from the Metropolitan Opera House and the vested choir of the church will render an elaborate musical service. Everyone who admired Mrs. Boissevain is invited to attend. No tickets are required. ———————————————————————————— 'MRS. BOISSEVAIN A MARTYR' [*NY Times 1-1-17*] ——————— Suffragists, Appealing to Wilson, to Say She Gave Life for Cause. Citing the death of Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain as an example of the way women are suffering martyrdom for the cause of equal suffrage, Mrs. John H. Brannan and Mrs. Clarence Smith, representing the Congressional to President Wilson on Tuesday an appeal that he take action that will give women the vote. The petition they will bear is to be adopted at a memorial meeting for Mrs. Boissevain to be held in the Church of the Ascension this afternoon. Miss Lucy Burns, Vice Chairman of the national organization, and the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant will speak. The appeal to the President will say: "No price is too high to pay for liberty. So long as the lives of women are required these lives will be given. But we beg of you, Mr. President, so to act that this ghastly price will not have to be paid. Upon you at this moment rests a solemn responsibility, for with you it rests to decide whether the life of this brilliant, dearly loved woman whose glorious death we commemorate today shall be the last sacrifice of life demanded of American women in their struggle for self-government. "We ask you with all the fervor and earnestness of our souls to exert your power over Congress in behalf of the national enfranchisement of women, in the same way you have so successfully used it on other occasions and for far less important measures." THE WASHINGTON POST: M HARPER PIQUES WOMEN Had No Desire to Join Parade. Says Congressional Union. Wash Post Plan "Stately" Procession 1-1-17 Suffragists Declare in Response to Inaugural Committee's Ban on "Scheme to Attract Attention to Any Cause" That They Made No Request to March in Parade. There never was any desire or intention on the part of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage to participate in the Inaugural parade on March 5, it was stated officially at the organization's national headquarters here yesterday. In response to an announcement by the Inaugural committee to the effect that while women would be welcomed in the parade no suffrage body would be allowed to take part unless it promised not to display banners or otherwise advertise its cause and that "any scheme to attract particular attention to any particular cause will be strictly banned." Separate Suffrage Parade. A statement issued by the Congressional Union follows: "No request ever was made by the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage to participate in any way in the inaugural parade. The Congressional Union's demonstration calling the attention of the country to the demand of the women for national suffrage will be at inauguration time, but on the day preceding the inaugural parade. It will be a stately and dignified presentation of the cause of Federal suffrage. It will come as the culmination of the national convention of the Congressional Union which will begin here on March 1, with representatives present from all over the United States. The convention proper will last through March 3, and on the following day, March 4, that is, the day preceding the inaugural parade, there will be staged the magnificent spectacle being planned to show the desire and demand of millions of American women that suffrage be extended to all the women of the nation." Request for an audience with President Wilson was made of the White House yesterday by representatives of the Union. The purpose is to present to the President resolutions to be adopted in New York today, similar resolutions adopted in Statuary Hall here on Christmas Day and at San Francisco several weeks ago at memorial services in honor of Inez Milholland Boissevain. Chairman of Inaugural Public Order Committee Raymond W. Pullman. Major and Superintendent of Police Pullman, appointed chairman of the Inaugural committee on public order, was, prior to his appointment to his present office, prominent as a writer on economic subjects. Besides his wide grasp of police matters, he has had a lifelong experience in Washington affairs. RECTOR CRITICISES MRS. BOISSEVAIN IN CHURCH SERVICE Dr. Percy Stickney Grant Says at Memorial He Regrets She Opposed President Wilson in Last Election __________________ "INSTINCT FORSOOK HER OR SHE WAS OVERPERSUADED." Appeal to Wilson in Her Name for Federal Amendment is Read at Service. __________________ Two incidents characterized the memorial service for Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain yesterday afternoon in the Church of the Ascension that give it political significance and brought into criticism both her attitude and the methods of the Congressional Union, in whose service she was speaking during the recent election when she died. The first was the regret voiced by Dr. Percy Stickney Grant that she should have opposed the President in the campaign; the second was an appeal to the President by the Congressional Union, on the basis of the death of this young worker, for his influence in obtaining a Federal amendment. Criticism Follows Tribute. After Dr. Grant had paid a tribute to the woman who "at a time when most girls are satisfied with boxes of candy, beaux and vanity bags gave meaning to mortality," he said; A note of regret will always attend my thought of Inez Milholland Boissevain, which perhaps others will share. I regret that in the end her instinct forsook her or that she was overpersuaded and threw in her lot against the President, to whom we are about to appeal, not recognizing in him a new champion of every form of expanding democratic freedom, a new master skilled to fuse the sins and methods of all political parties, starkly standing for centralization or local initiative, into a new blending of these methods for unifying yet popularizing great methods. "I shall regret also that she met her death in that State which perhaps of all in the Union best perceived these qualities in the President of the United States which she was not allowed to see." Rector's Words Cause a Stir. Mrs. John E. Milholland Miss Vida Milholland, mother and sister of the dead woman, and many others who had counted her as friend were in the well-filled church. The stir created by Dr. Grant's words was (?) shown in the vestry, where some members of the Congressional Union committee surrounded him. Dr. Grant likewise read from the chancel the appeal to the President which will be carried to the White House to-day by Mrs. John Winters Brannan and Mrs. Clarence Smith of the union. It reverts to the death of "this lovely and brave young woman" as a symbol "of the whole daily sacrifice that vast numbers of women are making," asserts a strong sense of the wrong being done them and adds in part: We ask you, with all the fervor and earnestness of our so uls, to exert your "power over Congress in behalf of the national enfranchisement of women, in the same way you have so successfully used it on other occasions and for far less important measures. We are confident that if the President of the United States decided that this act of justice shall be done in the present session of Congress it will be done. We know, further, that if the President does not urge it it will not be done. Appeal to Him in Her Name. "Truly, as you yourself have said, "There is a great responsibility in having adopted Liberty as our ideal, because we must illustrate it in what we do." Mr. President, you can illustrate it in no finer way than by securing the immediate passage of the Federal amendment, which embodies the mighty principles for "which Inez Milholland Boissevain laid down her life." Just before the service ended, a member of the Mutual Welfare League at Sing Sing Prison brought in an engrossed resolution which that organization had adopted. It was ready by Miss Alice Carpenter, Chairman of the Congressional Union Committee. It referred to Mrs. Boissevain as "our dear departed member and friend," and concluded: "Solemn, yet lovely, Inez, you depart. Be it our comfort in the after days to have known thee." Mrs. Boissevain, who took an interest in the Welfare League, often visited the prison. Miss Lucy Burns spoke briefly of Mrs. Boissevain's qualities as a woman and a Suffragist. Mrs. Boissevain Honored Today _____________________ Women Ask Wilson for Vote in Name of their Dead Leader My Tribune Suffragists Plan New Year's Service 5,000 Sister Workers to Unite in Memorial Gathering _____________________ Inez Milholland Boissevain, who was honored on Christmas Day by a national memorial service in the Capitol at Washington, will receive a New Year's tribute to-day from the women of her own state. More than 5,000 women who have worked with her for the betterment of New York along many lines, suragists, women of political and (? cffollege) clubs, her sisters of the Lawyers' Associations, Peace party Women, and those of many other organizations, will take part in the memorial services at the Church of the Ascension, Fifth Avenue (?) at 4 o'clock Miss Alice Carpenter is chairman of the committee in charge of teh services. Women Address Women The most significant part of the ceremony will be the resolution addressed to President Wilson, which will be read by the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant and on Tuesday takes to the President by Mrs. Clarence Ms. Smith and Mrs. John Winters Rogers. The resolution reads, in part: "To the President of the United States "This audience of men and women, assembled on New Year's Day in New York, in the Church of the Ascension, to hold a memorial service in honor of Inez Milholland Boissevain, appeals to you, the President of the United States, to end the outpouring of life and effort that has been made for the enfranchisement of women, for over seventy years, in this country. Her Death Symbolic "The death of this lovely and brave young woman symbolized the whole daily sacrifice that hundreds of women have made and are making for the sake of political freedom. It has made vivid the constant, unnoticed tragedy of the prolonged effort for a freedom that is acknowledged just, but still denied. "We desire to make known to you, Mr. President, or dep sense of the wrong being inflicted upon women, in making them spend their best health and strength, to win freedom under a government that professes to believe in democracy. There is only one cause for which it is right to risk health and life. No price is too high to pay for liberty. As long as the lives of women are required, those lives will be given. But we beg of you, Mr. President, so to act that this ghastly price will not have to be paid. Certainly, it is a grim irony that a republic should exact it. Congress Would Consent "eW ask you, with all the fervor and earnestness of our souls, to exert your power over Congress in behalf of the enfranchisement of women, in the same way you have so successfully used it on other occasions and for less important measures. "We are confident that if the President of the United States declares that this act of justice shall be done in the present session of Congress that it will be done. We know, further, that if the President does not ask it, it will not be done. Liberty is Watchword "Truly, as you yourself have said, "There is a great responsibility in having adopted liberty as our ideal, because we must illustrate it in what we do." "We assure you, Mr. President, you can illustrate it in no finer way than by securing the immediate passage of the Federal suffrage amendment, which emobodies the mighty principle for which Inez Milholland Boissevain laid down her life." The committee for the memorial service consists of Miss Alice Carpenter, chairman; Mrs. J.A.H. Hopkins, Mrs. Rheta Childe Dorr and Mrs. John Rogers, jr. Miss Anna Constable is in charge of the decorations for the church, Mrs. Robert Niles, jr. of the ushers and Mrs. Moller of the banners. Mrs. Mary Beard is in charge of the labor group, Miss Mary Towle of the lawyers, Miss Jessie Ashley and Theresa Malkiel of the socialists. [*NY Tribune*] [*1-2-17*] WOMEN HONOR MRS. BOISSEVAIN Personal Note Sounded at Memorial Services for Dead Leader The women who loved Inez Milholland Boissevain would not allow the holiday season to pass with merry-making and celebrations without a pause somewhere to pay tribute to her memory. That pause came yesterday afternoon, when suffragists and peace workers and laborers for industrial welfare stopped in their New Year's happiness to honor the memory of their leader at the Church of the Ascension, Fifth Avenue and Tenth Street. The Christmas greens still hung in the church, and standing against them were the yellow banners of the Congressional Union, in whose cause she made her last campaign. In all the memorial meetings which have been held in Mrs. Boissevain's honor the speakers have touched the personal note. "I remember," they all said, and followed with a picture of the young, beautiful woman, talking to a meeting of East Side strikers, playing baseball at Sing Sing with the members of the Mutual Welfare League, or floating in a gondola in Venice with her husband, writing pacifist letters with her pad on her knee. Dr. Grant Makes Address Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, in his address yesterday, yielded to the same impulse. "I remember her," he said, "at a ball. She was robed all in white, in almost Greek simplicity, with a laurel wreath in her dark hair. The Muses might have claimed her for their own, or hailed her as a goddess, appointed to free the personal and domestic love in woman's breast, so that it could be used for the good of the whole race. "A very rare and precious gift to the world has been taken away," he continued, "a woman who combined beauty with intelligence, sympathy with courage, sensitiveness with dispatch. She seemed to understand that such a number of possessions in one human form was to merit that envy of the higher powers which made the Roman poet Plautus declare that those whom the gods favored die young." At the end Dr. Grant surprised his hearers with a reference to the recent political campaign. Champions President "A note of personal regret will always attend my thought of Inez Milholland Boissevain, which, perhaps, some others will share," he said. "I regret that in the end her instinct forsook her, or that she was overpersuaded and threw in her lot against the President to whom we are about to appeal to-day. I regret she did not recognize in him a new champion of every form of expanding democratic freedom —a new master, skilled to fuse the aims and methods of old political parties, starkly standing for centralization or local initiative, into a new blending of these methods for the unifying and popularizing of great causes." Mrs. John Rogers and Mrs. Clarence Smith will go to Washington on the early train to-day to carry to President Wilson a copy of the resolution drawn up by the Congressional Union, in which they implore him to use his influence to have the suffrage bill passed at the coming session of Congress. Miss Lucy Burns, vice-chairman of the union, made a short address, and the remainder of the service was musical. At the last moment a breathless messenger arrived with a poetic tribute from the members of the Mutual Welfare League of Sing Sing. Mrs. John Milholland, Miss Vida Milholland and Eugene Boissevain attended the service, as well as many prominent suffragists, among whom were Miss Alice Carpenter, Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch, Mrs. Philip Lydig, Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, Mrs. John Winters Brannan, Mrs. Lewis L. Delafield, Miss Rosalie Jones, Miss Elizabeth Freeman, Miss Anna Constable, Mrs. Walston Hill Brown, Mrs. Herbert Carpenter, Mrs. Robert Adamson, Justice Charles Guy, Dudley Field Malone and Dr. Allan McCurdy. LAMENTS LAST WORK OF MRS. BOISSEVAIN [?] Dr. Grant Tells Memorial Gathering That He Regrets Her Speeches Against Wilson. [?] PLEAD FOR PRESIDENT'S AID _____________ Resolutions Ask Him to End the Sacrifice of Women's Lives in the Suffrage Cause. _____________ For the fourth time within a month suffragists held a memorial service yesterday afternoon in honor of Inez Milholland Boissevain, whom they regard as having lost her life in the fight for their cause. The meeting was held by the New York City Committee of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage at the Church of the Ascension, Fifth Avenue and Tenth Street, and closed with the reading of a resolution which two messengers from the union will carry to President Wilson today, asking him to use his influence to obtain the passage of the Federal woman's suffrage amendment, and thus prevent further sacrifice of time, money energy, and health by women in the fight for the ballot There was one sharp discord in the solemn harmony of the meeting, and it was sounded by Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, rector of the church, to whom had been intrusted the task of reading the resolution to the gathering. Before he read it he delivered a short speech in eulogy of the late suffrage leader, praising her zeal in the fight for justice and her clear-sightedness in realizing the need for serious purpose early in life. And then he went on: "A note of personal regret will always attend my thought of her, which perhaps some others will share. I regret that in the end her instinct forsook her or that she was overpersuaded to throw in her lot against the President, to whom we are about to appeal, not recognizing in him a new champion of every form of expanding democratic freedom, a new master skilled to fuse the aims and methods of old political parties into a new blending for the uni- fying and yet popularizing of great methods. I shall regret also that she met her death in a State which per- haps of the Union best perceived these qualities in the President of the United States which she was not allowed to see" Mrs. Boissevain died in Los Angeles, where she was stricken while campain- ing for the election of Mr. Hughes. Speech Angers Suffragists. As Dr. Grant went on to read the resolution there was much head-to-head whispering all over the church. Suf- fragists who had fought hard against the President last Fall because they re- garded him as opposed to their move- ment were indignant. After the meetin- ing a number of leaders hurried to Dr. Grant and protested vigorously against the interpretation that he had put on upon Mrs. Boissevains' campaign. Before turing to his criticism of Mrs. Boisse- vain's attitude toward the President, Dr. Grant had spoken high praise both of Mrs. Boissevain's work and of her per- sonality. In place of Sara Bard Field, whose train from San Francisco was twenty- four hours late, Miss Lucy Barnes, Vice President of the National Congressional Union, spoke of Mrs. Boissevain's devo- tion to any cause which she regarded as a struggle for justice and no less to the charm of her personality. The music was directed by Miss Jessie Craig Adam, organist of the church, who was assist- ed by a string quartet from the Metro- politan Operal House orchestra and by the church's vested choir. Just at the close of the meeting a messenger brought a large card, with a message sketched in a formal design in pen and ink from the Mutual Welfare League of Sing Sing Prison, of whose ex- tramural branch Mrs. Boissevain was [?] honorary member. The resolution, which will be carried to the President this morning by Mrs. John W. Brannan and Mrs. Clarence Smith, read as follows: The the President of the United States: This gathering of men and wommen, assembled on New Yar's Day in New York, in the Church of the Ascension, to hold a memorial sercive in honor of Inez Milholland Boissevain, appeals to you - the President of the United States - to end the outpuoring of life and effort that has been made for the enfranchisement of women for more than seventy years in this country. The death of this lovely and brave young woman symbolizes the whole daily sacrifice that vast number of women have made, and are making, for the sake of political freedom. It has made vivid the constant unnoticed tragedy of this prolonged effort for a freedom that is acknowledged just, but still denied. It is not given to all to be put to the supreme test, and to accept that test with such gallant gladness, as she did. The struggle, however, has reached the point where it requires such intensity of effort - relentless and sustained - over the whole vast coun- try, that the health of thousands of noble women is being insidiously un- dermined. If this continues - and it will continue until victory is wone - we know only too surely that many wo- men, whom the nation can ill spare, will follow in the footsteps of Inez Milholland. We desire to make known to you, Mr. President, our deep sense of the wrong being inflicted upon women, in making them spend their best health and strength, and forcing them to abandon other work that means fuller self-expression, in order to win freedom under a Government that professes to believe in domocracy. There is only one cause for which it is right to risk health and life. No price is too high to pay for liberty. So long as the lives of women are re- quired, these lives will be given. But we beg of you, Mr. President, so to act, that this ghastly price will not have to be paid. Certainly, it is a grim irony that a republic should exact it. Upon you, at this moment, rests a solemn responsibility; for, with you it rests to decide whether the life of this brilliant dearly loved wo- man, whose glorious death we com- memorate today, shall be the last sac- rifice of life demanded of American women, in their strugle for self- government. We ask you, with all the fervor and earnestness of our souls, to ex- ert your power over Congress in be- half of the national enfranchisement of women, in the same way you have so successfully used it on other occa- sions and for far less important meas- ures. We are confident that if the Presi- dent of the United States decides that this act of justice shall be done in the present session of Congress, that it will be done. We know, further, that if the President does not urge it, it will not be done. Truly, as you yourself have said, " There is a great responsibility in having adopted liberty as our ideal, becuase we must illustrate it in what we do." We assure you, Mr. Presi- dent, you can illustrate it in no finer way than by securing the immediate passage of the Federal Suffrage Amendment, which embodies the mighty principle for which Inez Mil- holland laid down her life. Mrs. John E. Millholland, Mrs. Boisse- vains mother; her sister, Miss Vida Milholland; her husband, Eugene Bois- sevain, and her brother-in-law, Louis Boissevain, were present, as were most of the leading suffrage workers of New York. Suffrage Fund for 1916, $111,327. [*Wash Star 1-1-17*] Nearly as much money was raised by the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage during the past twelve months as was raised during the three previous years, according to a statement just given out. The amount raised in 1916 is given as $111,327, while the total for the three years 1913,1914, and 1915 was $116,423. These amounts were contributed through the national head-quarters, and are exclusive of the money turned in by the various state organizations. ————————————————————— SUFFRAGE UNION PROSPERS. [*Wash Post 12-31-16*] ——————— Congressional Organization Collected $111,327 in the Past Year. The end of the year, 1916, finds a most prosperous twelve months behind the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. The amount of money raised during the past year has been $111,327, which is almost as much as was collected during the previous three years of the organization's existence, the total collected in 1913, 1914 and 1015 having been $116,423. These are the sums raised through the national headquarters of the Congressional Union, and do not include any of the money which the various State branches of the organization raised and expended to carry on the federal suffrage work. The amount collected by the Congressional Union in 1913 as $27,388; in 1914, $37,457; in 1915, $51,588, and in 1916, $111,327. ————————————————————— SUFFRAGISTS RAISE $111,327. [*Wash Herald 12-31-16*] ——————— Congressional Union Announces Record Funds for Year. The end of the year 1016 finds a prosperous twelve months behind the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. The amount of money raised during the past year has been $111,327, almost as much as was collected during the previous three years of the organization's existence, the total collected in 1913, 1914 and 1915 having been $116,423. These are the sums raised through the national headquarters of the Congressional Union and do not include any of the money which the various State branches of the organization raised and expended to carry on the Federal suffrage work. The amount collected by the Congressional Union in 193 was $27,388; 1914, $37,457; in 1915, $51,588, and in 1916, $111,327. Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.