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The title will be "THE WOMAN CITIZEN", "A Journal of Democracy",
and it is indebted to no less a person than the President of the 
United States for its battle cry:  "We shall fight for the things
which we have always carried nearest our hearts - for democracy,
for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in
their own governments."
     Delay attendant upon the transfer of the Woman's Journal from
Boston has caused such heavy accumulation of detail that it will
be impossible to make the first two or three numbers of the new
journal wholly indicative of its future scope and significance.  It
is pledged, however, to the quick consummation of its ambition to
afford to women an adequate political weekly whose primary purpose
shall be "to secure the vote for women under every flag that floats,
and whose secondary purpose shall be to assemble between two covers
the national and international news of the week bearing directly
upon woman's political interests and upon those social and economic
questions that interrelate themselves with anybody's and everybody's
political interests."
The magazine has for its editor-in-chief, Rose Young, the director
of the Leslie Bureau of Suffrage Education. Alice Stone
Blackwell, who succeeded her father and mother in the editorial command
of the Woman´s Journal will be a special contributing editor.
The associate editors are Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, Mary Ogden
White, Mary Sumner Boyd, Betty Graeme and Rose Lawless Geyer. The
business manager is Florence E. Bate.

House Members out Against Suffrage
         if Women Picket the White House
{*Wash. Post - May 19 - 1917 - *}
     Before the House rules committee yesterday a group of women, representatives of various suffrage organizations, urged the creation of a special suffrage committee as a part of the House organization.  Representative Jeannette Rankin assisted in presenting the argument.  
     Representative Harrison, an influential member of the committee, sought information as to who was responsible for "picketing" the White House and the House and Senate office building with banner bearing suffrage devices.  Miss Anne Martin, the national woman's party, shouldered the responsibility.  It was done in order to get publicity, she said.
     Mr. Harrison declared that the "picketing" was disrespectful to the President.  He said he would never vote for the resolution to create a special committee on woman suffrage as long as suffrage organizations countenance "picketing at the White House.
     Other members of the House frequently have said the same thing, but the suffrage leaders say that these members are against suffrage anyway.

ISSUES ULTIMATUM TO WOMAN'S PARTY
[*Wash. Times - May 18*]

Congressman Harrison, an influential Democratic member of the House Committee on Rules, issued a virtual ultimatum to the National Woman's Party this afternoon.
After the hearing before the Rules Committee Congressman Harrison issued this statement:
"I shall never vote to create a special woman's suffrage as long as any suffrage organization continues the practice of picketing the White House and the Congressional office buildings."

The Suffrage Pickets.
For some time past "pickets" have
been standing before the White House
gates with banners bearing phrases of 
impatience with the President for his
failure to demand of Congress the adoption 
of a constitutional amendment
granting suffrage to women. They are
stationed there by an organization which 
has from its inception represented militancy 
in the campaign of the American
women for the vote, originally styled
the Congressional Union, now known as 
the woman's party. Numerically this
organization is much smaller of the
two associations of women working to
the same end. The other is the National 
American Woman Suffrage Association, 
which has pursued a different
course and has recently been instrumental 
in securing from the President
a recommendation that a special committee 
of the House be created to consider 
the question of suffrage. At a
hearing before the House rules committee 
on the subject of forming the special 
committee the fact of the picketing
at the White House was noted, and one
member declared himself against suffrage 
because of this display of nagging 
banners.
It is unjust to the cause of suffrage 
for any one to reject the entire principle 
because of the unwise methods of
some of its advocates. Yet in a way the 
reaction against the suffrage appeal on 
account of the picketing is not in itself
any more illogical than are the practices 
of the militant organization that is
doing actually more harm than good to
the cause it urges. The picketing is but
a manifestation of a threat. The woman's 
party program is one of reprisal.
It is to vote against all democrats because 
it does not like the conduct of 
some. The representative who in the 
rules committee took umbrage at the
picketing says in effect that he will vote
against all suffragists because he does
not like the conduct of some of them.
The President is occupied with much
more important matters just now than
the question of the franchise. But he 
has lately given time to consider the
matter, and the respectful appeals of the
national association have won from him
an indorsement of the plan for a special 
committee. Picketing and visits
from the organization which conducts 
that annoying form of campaign have
elicited nothing.
As a mere matter of tactics it should
be plain to the woman's party that the
pickets are a failure, besides being in 
bad taste at this juncture of national
affairs. The success of the policy of
logical persuasion and co-operation
should convince even the most militant
that the way to the complete enfranchisement 
of the American women lies 
through other lines than those of persecution 
and reprisal. It is unfortunate
that there should be a division of forces
in so worthy a cause.
[?] women's suffrage it should exert
itself to stop the picketing of the 
White House. The president should
be upheld and helped; he should not 
be needlessly annoyed by those who
merely seek the feminine pleasure of 
martyrdom for a "cause."


PICKETING THE WHITE HOUSE.
When Foreign Minister Balfour
passed through the gates of the 
White House grounds on his first visit
to the president he looked from the
window of his motor car and smiled
at the suffragist pickets who were patrolling 
the entrance to the grounds.
Everyone knows why the British minister 
smiled---that is, everyone except 
the misguided women who were
making spectacles of themselves.
Perhaps the sight recalled similar 
scenes in London before the war
broke out and at the time when Mrs.
Pankhurst and her sister crusaders
were doing foolish things. Or Mr. 
Balfour may have smiled at the 
thought that in America there are
women with little judgment enough
to conduct their propaganda in so 
ridiculous a fashion at a time of the 
most solemn national concern. At 
any rate, he smiled, and so do many
others.
It is unfortunate for the cause of 
universal suffrage in America that a 
few of the women leaders are so devoid 
of reason and practical judgment
as to seek by picketing the White
House to distract the thoughts of the
head of the nation to their cause---a
cause that probably will win, not
through these probably will win, not
through these leaders but in spite of 
them. The women pickets really 
have no right to patrol the gates of
the White House. The White House
is the home of the president. True, 
it is in a sense a public building, but
as long as it is the residence of the
executive, it should be exempt from
all unnecessary interference, just as
any other American home is.
President Wilson has borne this
nuisance patiently. That is annoying 
to him and to his family to have
these suffragettes striding back and 
forth at his gates can easily be imagained. 
It is no reflection upon the
cause of suffrage to say that the
women pickets are doing more harm
than good. They have never given 
any clear explanation of why they do 
this foolish act, and perhaps they do
not know themselves. Picketing the 
White House is on a par with the 
"marches" that have been conducted 
by a number of Eastern women, and 
with other equally silly performances. 
It has no legitimate purpose and certainly 
can bring about no good results. 
The longer it is kept up the
greater will be the prejudice against
giving the ballot to women.
The best progress that equal suffrage 
has made in this country has 
been made in the Western states. 
Nearly all of the trans-Missouri
states have adopted suffrage for women. 
But it is worthy of note that the 
women who have accomplished these 
results were not quite of the type 
of their Eastern sister. The Western 
women never are undignified.
They have never done silly and ridiculous 
"stunts" in order to win masculine 
sympathy. They have gone 
about their work seriously and in a
business-like way that has accomplished 
results. If there is any real
leadership in the national movement
[?]


SCORES SUFFRAGE PICKETS
Chicagoan Declare "Nagging" of
President Reflects on Women.
To the Editor of THE TIMES:
The Washington press dispatches
containing the news that a coterie of
Washington suffragettes continue to
"picket" the White House, even in 
time of war, came as a shock to
many people in this city.
As an excuse for never marrying,
many confirmed bachelors have put
forth the contention that women are
selfish. This charge now seems to
be sustained. Certainly the nation
has never witnessed conduct on the 
part of any of its women folk so
reprehensible as that of these Washington 
dames who persist in "nagging" 
the President at a time when 
patriotism and self-denial are of first 
importance, among all classes.
A Chief Magistrate less gallant
than Mr. Wilson doubtless would
have found a way to end the nuisance 
ere this. Instead of loafing
around the White House gates, sullying 
the traditions of American womanhood, 
these women could find a
more useful and patriotic employment 
by enlisting with the Red Cross
for service in France. It is surprising 
that the people of Washington
have made no protest.
CORNELIUS C. MILLETT.
Chicago, June 7, 1917.

"We admire your spunk," an old
veteran told one of the women suffrage 
pickets in front of the White
House, when he stopped, as many
did, to give them a word of encouragement. 
The pickets attracted a 
great deal of attention.

The District branch of the National
Woman's Party will give a reception
and tea in honor of the Daughters of
the Confederacy tomorrow afternoon
at 4 o'clock. Mrs. C. P. Odenheimer,
president of the Daughters of the 
American Confederacy; Mrs. Richard
Wainwright and Mrs. William Kent
will be among those in the receiving
line.

The District branch of the National
Woman's Party will give a reception
and tea in honor of the Daughters of 
the Confederacy Wednesday afternoon 
at 4 o'clock. Mrs. C. P. Odenheimer, 
President of the Daughters
of the American Confederacy: Mrs.
Richard Wainwright and Mrs. William 
Kent will be among those in the 
receiving line.


INTERESTED IN PICKETS.
Confederate Veterans Pause to Talk
With Suffragists at White House.
Confederate Veterans, stirred perhaps 
by the days when they themselves
did picket duty, though of a different
kind, are greatly interested in the pickets
on duty before the White House, and few
of them pass these stations without
pausing to talk with the women holding 
the banners.
Most of them appeared to have followed 
the women's campaign for votes, 
especially with regard to the pickets.
The pickets report that many of the 
veterans stop to give a word of cheer 
and encouragement as they pass, and 
the gallant men in the faded gray lift 
their hats as they pass the banner-bearing 
groups.
One white-haired veteran stepped up
to a picket and inquired if he was in
front of the White House. She told 
him he was.
"I knew it," he replied. "I've been
three times around this place wondering 
whether this is where the President 
lives. Then I saw you girls come 
out with the flags and banners and
stand here. I recognized you pickets
and I knew I was at the right house.
We-all heard about you pickets down 
in Alabama and we admire your spunk."

National American Woman Suffrage Association,
Washington Branch Press Bureau,
1626 Rhode Island Avenue.

FOR RELEASE MONDAY, MAY 7.
Washington, May -- The rule of equal pay for equal work for
women who take the places of men for military duty is likely to
be adopted by business men the country over, according to indications
in letters from chambers of commerce received at National
American Woman Suffrage Association Headquarters in reply to the
recent appeal of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National
Association, in behalf of women workers. Washington, D.C., 
New York City, Newark, N.J., Binghampton, N.Y., Cincinnati, Ohio,
Altoona, Pa., Providence, R.I., GrandRapids, Michigan, Lexington,
Kentucky, Ashland, Kentucky, Wellington, Kansas, and Helena, Arkansas
are among the cities represented in the replies received. Some
of them pledge unqualified support to the movement and all of them
state that the question will receive the careful consideration of
their governing boards.
Mrs. Catt's letter, to which these replies are being received,
was addressed to the chambers of commerce of 500 cities and
asked for the cooperation of the trade bodies in the protection of
women workers against the dangers accompanying the new and sudden
industrial pressure under war conditions. "Through our state
and local organizations all over the country", the letter says, "and
our special committees appointed for the purpose, we shall do our
utmost to induce the women themselves to hold to the proper standards
of health and economic well-being for themselves and their
families. Of employers we ask that they shall not lengthen the
working hours of women, and that women who take the places of men,
in business offices, stores, factories, or any other occupation,
shall be paid at the same rate as men."
Mrs. Catt has called upon the suffrage leaders in each locality
to secure, if possible, first of all, the direct cooperation
of their respective local Chambers of Commerce, and to appoint

JOY OF SUFFRAGISTS
TURNED TO CHAGRIN

[*Herald - June 18*]

Democratic National Committee
Plays Mean Trick on Women.

Deep indignation, tinctured with bitter
disappointment, fills the souls of
Washington suffragists today. The
indignation is directed against certain
members of the Democratic National
Committee.
The committeemen were holding an
informal session at the Shoreham
Friday morning, and Mrs. Robert
Baker ,of Washington, chairman of
the executive committee of the National
Woman's party, heard about
it and dropped in on the Democrats at
the head of a delegation.
She asked the assembled half dozen,
who included Chairman Vance McCormick,
Representative Carter Glass,
of Virginia; Senator Jones, of New
Mexico; E. D. Moore, of Ohio; W. W.
Marsh, the treasurer, from Iowa, and
A. Mitchell Palmer, of Pennsylvania,
to pass a resoultion calling on the
President to ask Congress to adopt
the Susan B. Anthony suffrage amendment
as a war measure.
Mr. Glass put the question before
his associate. A vote favorable of
four to two was recorded. The women
were delighted. They felt that
such a request upon the President
could not be denied.
After celebrating the almost assured
victory in the nearest tea room,
they returned to the committee meeting
to get a copy of the resolution.
Then they were told that the committee
had reconsidered its action on
the ground of no quorum and that
the resolution had not and would not
be passed.

To the Presidents --2--

It was voted by the Board of Officers to appoint Mrs. Henry Wade
Rogers, Chairman of a Committee on Increase of Food Supply, and Mrs.
Walter McNab Miller on Elimination of Waste, as defined in paragraph
2. These ladies have had interviews with the Department
of Agriculture and will soon send you a detailed plan for each of
these suggestions. It is our belief that these helps to relieve
the present food crisis may be undertaken by most of our locals in
addition to the regular work without adding a new burden. We believe
you can find new and desirable people to take up the new work,
and that these exceedingly practical and popular movements will
bring new friends and approval for our cause in every state. At
the same Time, these side lines will accomplish very real and useful
results.

When Mrs. Rogers' and Mrs. Miller's plans are received,
we ask that you will see that these are forwarded to your officers,
enrolled friends and locals, together with a letter from your own
Board, giving such counsel as you may wish to add. The organization
of garden clubs, women farmers, etc., will prove a pleasant
diversion and a positive gain to your working force and to public
approval.

The Board recommends paragraph four only to cities and communities
of large foreign population. Suggestions as to how its
provisions can be carried out will also be formulated soon. War
or no war, Citizenship Schools in the wards of our cities, well
conducted, may well become a part of our regular campaign.

What we have done and what we may do will not"inflame the
war situation", but will augment our influence and accelerate our
chances for an early victory.

Most cordially yours,
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT,
Enclosure.                  President.

WOMAN'S PARTY
TO CO-OPERATE
WITH 'LIBERALS'

[*Wash. Times
July 2-17*]

While three policewomen closely
guarded suffrage headquarters on
Madison place today against a possible
outbreak of White house picketing,
Miss Alice Paul, the executive
head of the National Woman's Party,
was announcing the appointment of
Miss Mabel Vernon, of Nevada, as the
party's delegate to the big League
of Liberals conference to be held at
Morristown, N. J., July 6, 7, and 8.
At this conference, socialist, prohibition, 
progressive, and suffrage elements
will combine to wage a 1918 political
campaign against Congressmen
from forty districts who are inimical
to what they regard as the
"liberal" cause.
Will Observe "Protest Week."
The suffragettes have been invited
in, and while Miss Paul made it clear
that suffrage will not be merged in
a political campaign, it will "do its
bit" in the fight that is planned for
the fall of next year.
Announcement was also made by
the suffrage forces today that, beginning
tomorrow, a "protest week"
will be observed all over the United
States, with mass meetings at Denver,
Baltimore, Newark, St. Paul, and
other cities. The Baltimore meeting
will be held tomorrow night.
Local Situation Quiet.
The local situation was quiet today,
with a continuation of the effort by
Mrs. Mina Van Winkle, of New Jersey,
to obtain the return of the bail she
put up for nine suffragette prisoners
last Tuesday. The fight was apparently
without result. Miss Alice Paul,
however, laid down the dictum that
hereafter arrested suffragettes will
not give bail.
A street meeting will be held tonight,
according to present plans. It
will consist of speechmaking, but not
outbreak is expected.
Miss Paul reiterated her statement
that she will picket the White House
was evident

WOMEN DEMAND VOTE
AS REAL WAR MEASURE
A delegation from the National Woman's
Party was given a hearing before
the House Judiciary Committee, of which
Congressman Webb, of North Carolina,
is chairman, yesterday morning. The
delegation urged the Susan Anthony
amendment to the Constitution, which
would give suffrage rights to the women
of the country, as a war measure.
The committee was headed by Mrs.
William Kent, wife of Representative
Kent. Others who spoke were Miss Lucy
Burns, Mrs. John Rogers, of New York;
Mrs. Donald Hocker, of Baltimore; Miss
Anne Martin, of Nevada, and Mrs. Robert
Baker, of Washington. A second committee
headed by J. A. H. Hopkins and
composed of members of all political
parties, urged the submission of the 
amendment to a vote of the people.

[*Herald - May 16
C. U.*]


CHAGRIN OUSTS JOY
IN SUFFRAGE CIRCLES
[*Times - June 18-*]
Democratic Leaders Renig on Resolution
Indorsing Cause. [*(C. U.)*]

Politicians are always doing something
to take the joy out of the life
of a suffragist.
Deep indignation, tinctured with
chagrin, fills the souls of members
of the National Woman's Party today
as the result of action taken by certain
members of the Democratic National
Committee.
At a recent informal session of
administration supporters at the
Shoreham, Mrs. Robert Baker, congressional
chairman of the Woman's
Party, dropped in to take a straw
vote on suffrage.
The assembled half dozen included 
Chairman Vance McCormick, Congressman
Carter Glass of Virginia,
Senator Jones of New Mexico, E. D.
Moore of Ohio, W. W. Marsh of
Iowa, treasurer, and A. Mitchell
Palmer of Pennsylvania. She asked
the politicians to adopt a resolution
asking President Wilson for an administrative
drive to force Congress
to vote on suffrage. Mr. Glass put
the motion. It was carried, four to 
two.
A block away, amid the clinking of
tea cups, the suffragists celebrated
the supposed victory in the parlors
of the National Woman's Party, 21
Madison place.
Half an hour later they decided to
return and get a copy of the resolution.
It would look good in a frame in
suffrage headquarters, and President
Wilson, it was contended, would find
it interesting reading.
Here is where the disappointment
and chagrin make hasty entrance.
They were told upon their return to
the Shoreham that the committee had
reconsidered its action because there
was no quorum present, and that the
resolution had not really been
adopted.


ARGUE SUFFRAGE
IS WAR NECESSITY
[*Post - May 16-*]
Delegates, However, Do
Not Impress House
Committee.

The House judiciary committee remained
unconvinced yesterday when a
delegation of suffragists, headed by Mrs.
John Rogers and Miss Lucy Burns, of
New York, and Miss Anne Martin, of
Nevada, endeavored to demonstrate that
a constitutional amendment for national
woman suffrage was a war necessity.
Chairman Webb, of the committee, indicated
that there would be no report on
the suffrage resolution at this session
of Congress.
By agreement of the House leaders
early in the session it was arranged
that no legislation of an important nature
not a "war measure" should be
considered at present. The meeting yesterday
was for the purpose of permitting
the submission of arguments to
show that suffrage will help win the 
war.
Leaders said that a suffrage resolution
probably will be put to a vote in
Congress during the next regular session.


SUFFRAGE COMMITTEE
TO APPEAL TO PRESIDENT
[*Wash. Star - May 13*]
Progressive Convention Envoys to
See Executive Tomorrow--Congress
Hearings Tuesday.

President Wilson is to be urged tomorrow
by representatives of all political
parties to add national woman suffrage
to the war program of the present
Congress. They will include J. A. H. 
Hopkins, New Jersey progressive;
David I. Walsh, ex-governor of Massachusetts,
progressive democrat; Dr. E.
A. Rumely, progressive republican;
John Spargo, socialist, and Miss Mabel
Vernon, secretary of the national woman's
party. This committee was appointed
by the progressive convention
in St. Louis last month. The same representatives
are to appear before the
Senate suffrage committee Tuesday
morning to urge immediate action by
the Senate.
The first suffrage hearing this session
before the judiciary committee of
the House will follow the Senate hearing.
The passage of the Susan B. Anthony
amendment at this time will be
urged by Miss Anne Martin of Nevada,
vice chairman of the woman's party,
and the following speakers also will
be heard: Mrs. William Kent of California,
Rev. Olympia Brown of Baltimore,
suffrage pioneer and co-worker
with Susan B. Anthony; Mrs. John
Rogers of New York, Mrs. Donald
Hooker, president of the Maryland Just
Government League; Mrs. Robert Baker
of Washington and Miss Lucy
Burns of New York.
A dinner will be tendered the progressive
committee by the executive
board of the woman's party at the national
headquarters, 21 Madison place,
tonight.


WANT SUFFRAGE PUT
IN WILSON WAR PLAN
[*Wash Times*]
Delegation Representing All Parties
to Ask Presidential Action.

President Wilson will be urged tomorrow
to add national woman suffrage
to his war program, a delegation
representing the various political
parties having been organized for
that purpose.
J. A. H. Hopkins of New Jersey,
Progressive, will head the delegation.
Others will be David I. Walsh, Democrat,
former governor of Massachusetts;
Dr. E. A. Rumley, Republican;
John Spargo, Socialist, and Miss Mabel
Vernon, secretary of the Woman's 
Party.
The committee was appointed at the
St. Louis convention of the Progressive
party last month. Tuesday the
members will appear before a Senate
committee, and afterwards will be
given a hearing by the Judiciary Committee
of the House.
[*May 13*]


TO URGE SUFFRAGE ON
WILSON AS WAR STEP
[*Wash Herald May 14*]
Nonpartisan Committee Appears Before
Senate Tomorrow.

National woman suffrage as an emergency
war measure will be urged today
upon President Wilson by representatives
of all political parties. This same committee,
appointed by the progressive convention
in St. Louis last month, will appear
tomorrow before the Senate Suffrage
Committee and the first hearing this session
before the Judiciary Committee of
the House will follow the Senate hearing.
On the committee are J. A. H. Hopkins,
of New Jersey; David I. Walsh, former
governor of Massachusetts; Dr. E. A. 
Rumely, John Spargo and Miss Mabel
Vernon, secretary of the National Woman's
Party. Following up their appeal
to the President they will all appear before
the Senate committee.
"The country is at war," said Mrs.
William Kent, of California, last night,
"and the nation needs the women as
much as the men. Already the women
are mobilizing, but they are going about
their tasks with sore hearts. They are
sending their sons to the trenches in
Europe and doing it willingly, but how
much more willingly would they make
the sacrifice if they had a voice in the
conduct of the war."


SUFFRAGE APPEAL TO WILSON
[*May 14 - Post*]
Leaders of All Political Parties to
Speak of Vote as War Measure.

Suffrage as a war measure will be
presented to President Wilson today at
10 o'clock by leaders of all political
parties who are coming to Washington
especially for this purpose. Among
them are J. A. H. Hopkins, of the Progressive
party, one of the leaders of the
New York Democratic campaign;
former Gov. David I. Walsh of Massachusetts,
progressive Democrat; E. A.
Rumely, editor of the New York Daily
Mail, progressive Republican; John
Spargo, economist and socialist, and
Miss Mabel Vernon, of the National
Woman's party.
The judiciary committee of the House
of Representatives, with Representative
Webb as chairman, tomorrow will
hear the first and only suffrage session
of this emergency Congress. This will
be an all-day hearing.

SUFFRAGE HEARING TUESDAY.
[*Wash Star May 10*]
Both Sides to be Heard, But No Bill
This Session.
A hearing of all advocates and opponents
of woman suffrage will be held
by the House judiciary committee
[after the capital city of Austria and
as Austria is one of the powers aligned
with our enemy, Germany, it was not
fitting that its name should be perpetuated
in America.]
Tuesday, the committee has decided.
Chairman Webb, however, announced
that there was no likelihood of any
legislation on the subject being reported
out of the committee at this
special session of Congress.

Miss Rose MacDonald, of this city,
custodian of the library at the Bureau
of Fisheries, Washington, spoke yesterday
afternoon in Richmond before
the Equal Suffrage League on "How
to Meet the Catering Difficulties of
the Table.' [*Times - May 11*]


York Tribune, Friday, July 7, 1916
---------------
Hughes "Votes for Women" Plan Brings Joy to Suffragists
---------------
Mrs. Catt, Mrs. Whitehouse and Dr. Shaw Confer with Nominee Over Anthony Amendment---Democrats Hasten to Wilson and Urge Action
---------------
Charles E. Hughes, the Republican candidate for President, will shortly declare himself in favor of the Susan B. Anthony suffrage amendment to the Federal Constitution, leading suffragists here yesterday believed. The former justice may wait until his formal speech of acceptance to state his views on suffrage, but it is not unlikely that he will make the question the subject of a separate statement within the next week or two.
The news that Mr. Hughes was likely to come out in favor of the Federal amendment spread like wildfire through the suffragist ranks yesterday, following the satisfactory visit of Miss Alice Paul to the Republican candidate on Wednesday. Further impetus was given to the news by the visit yesterday of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mrs. Norman De R. Whitehouse and Dr. Anna Howard Shaw. They were in conference with Mr. Hughes for nearly an hour, and when they left the suffragists wore broad and satisfied smiles.
Asked if the conference was satisfactory, Mrs. Catt said that it was.
"Was it more favorable than the assurances the women have received from the Democrats?" she was asked.
"Yes, very much so," she replied.
Wilson's Advisers Alarmed.
It became known yesterday that the attitude of Mr. Hughes toward the suffrage question has alarmed President Wilson's advisers. Shortly after Miss Paul's talk with Mr. Hughes, on Wednesday, Dudley Field Malone hustled down to Washington to urge the President to come out for the Federal amendment. The President has already told the suffragists that he intends to stand pat on the Democratic platform, but Mr. Malone hoped to persuade him to go a step further and urge Congress, now in session, to adopt the Anthony amendment.
While none of the suffragists would discuss their conferences with Mr. Hughes yesterday, there was a cocksure air about their manner, which seemed to indicate that they had good reasons to believe that Mr. Hughes would go further than the Republican platform on the suffrage question.
The Republican platform, it was explained, placed the party squarely on record in favor of suffrage, but placed its adoption up to the individual states. Thus the division was over the detail of putting the belief of the party into effect, so that Mr. Hughes can, with perfect propriety, support the plan of a Federal amendment.
To be effective the Anthony amendment will have to be ratified by the Legislatures of thirty-six states after its passage by Congress. There are now twelve states in which the right to vote is granted to women, so that twenty-four others would have to be got into line before the amendment would become effective. There are four million women voters in the twelve suffrage states, which have ninety-one votes in the Electoral College.
The Susan B. Anthony amendment provides that "the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex."
Antis Also See Hughes
A delegation of anti-suffragists, headed by Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge, president of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, also called on Mr. Hughes yesterday. It included Mrs. Horace Brook, of Pennsylvania; Miss Alice Hill Chittenden, of this state; Mrs. E. Yard Breese, of New Jersey; Mrs. Daniel A. Markham, of Connecticut, and Mrs. Edwin Ford, of Massachusetts. After their conference Mrs. Dodge said their talk with Mr. Hughes was "delicious." Mr. Hughes, she said, was "indeed the man of the hour."
Mrs. Dodge went on to say, however, that the antis approved the suffrage plank in the Republican platform. Discussing the Federal amendment, Mrs. Dodge said:
"In the opinion of the anti-suffragists, it would be a violation of majority rule, referendum to popular vote and the Republican plank to support a Federal suffrage amendment. It would mean the virtual disfranchisement of the millions of men, who have voted 'no' on this question at the request of the women they represent, and provisions in the Constitution of the United States will be called to the attention of the Republican candidate which prohibit the repudiation of the action of the individual states on this question."
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Hughes Suits Antis and Suffragists
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Delegations from Each Camp of Women Get Satisfactory Assurances
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John Wanamaker Calls
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Will Not Confirm Report That He is to be G. O. P. Treasurer---Nominee at Roslyn Today.
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Charles E. Hughes put in a busy day at his headquarters in the Hotel Astor yesterday, and was hard at work from early morning until fifteen minutes before his train left for Bridgehampton, when he had to jump for a taxicab. His secretary was waiting outside the door of the Hughes suite with the nominee's hat in his hand.
The selection of a National Committee Treasurer must be made quickly, and the appearance at the Hughes headquarters of John Wanamaker, who held several conferences with Mr. Hughes and Chairman Willcox, made many feel that the merchant might be selected for the post.
Mr. Wanamaker was accompanied to headquarters by J. B. Martingdale, President of the Chemical Bank, and F. A. Juilliard. He was asked about the report that he might be selected as Treasurer, and replied:
"I wouldn't care to answer any question. I'm not in a position to say anything."
Mr. Hughes tackled the suffrage question so successfully that delegations from the suffrage workers and the antis went away expressing entire satisfaction in the result of their visits. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, President of the National Association; Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, former President, and Mrs. Norman de R. Whitehouse were the first to call. They were with Mr. Hughes for half an hour.
"We received very satisfactory assurances," Mrs. Catt told the reporters.
"More satisfactory than those received from the Democrats?" she was asked.
"Yes, very much more satisfactory," she replied.
The antis came in the afternoon headed by Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge, President of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage; Miss Alice Hill Chittenden, President of the New York Association; Mrs. Horace Brook, President of the Pennsylvania Association; Mrs. E. Yarde Breese, President of the New Jersey Association; Mrs. Daniel A. Markham, President of the Connecticut Foundation, and Mrs. Edwin Ford of the Massachusetts organization. They waited for an hour to see Mr. Hughes and then talked rapidly for half an hour.
When they came out Mrs. Dodge said they had "a very satisfactory talk." She was informed of the statements made by Mrs. Catt, who had expressed similar sentiments.
"Well," she said, "our talk was eminently satisfactory," She emphasized eminently.
Mr. Hughes had no comment to make. It is understood, however, that he will clear up all doubts concerning his attitude in his acceptance address to be delivered late in the month.
George W. Perkins, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Progressive Party, had [?uncheon] with Mr. Hughes and held long conferences with the nominee and Mr. Willcox. It is understood that he discussed the make-up of the proposed Campaign Committee, which will have among its members at least six Progressives. The task of selecting this committee is proving no easy one, but the fact that there will be strong representation for the Progressives is definitely established.
George B. Cortelyou, who was out for Roosevelt before the convention, and Herbert S. Satterlee, son-in-law of the late J. P. Morgan, also conferred with Mr. Hughes and Mr. Willcox, and it was rumored that they would both be on the new Campaign Committee. Other callers were R. Ross Appleton, a Brooklyn bank president; Hamilton Holt, George C. Riggs of Washington, D. C., and Congressman H. B. Snyder.
It was said at headquarters that the formal notification ceremonies might be held in Bridgehampton, instead of New York. This matter will be decided within a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. Hughes will attend a lawn party at the home of Mrs. Harry Payne Whiteney, in Roslyn, this afternoon, where they will meet members of the Women's Alliance.

C. U.

Committee Hears Suffragists
Eve. Star - May 16- 17-

Another hearing on the proposed constitutional 
amendment to grant suffrage
to women was held yesterday by the
Senate suffrage committee. Virgil H.
Hinshaw of Chicago, Mrs. Mabel Vernon
of Nevada, representing the National
Women's Party, and J. A. H. Hopkins
of New York appeared in favor of the
resolution. A large delegation of suffragists
attended.

Wilson Receives Suffragists        [*- C. 26. -*]
[*Wash. Post*]
'Much Encouraged," Delegates Say 
After Visit to the White House.
President Wilson yesterday, [*May,5-*] for the 
first time since the war began, received 
a suffrage delegation. He did not commit 
himself, but members of the committee 
said later they were "very much 
encouraged" by his attitude.
The committee was intended to represent 
all political parties, but former 
Gov. Walsh, of Massachusets, failed to 
appear, and the Democrats had no representative 
present. Others present 
were J. A. H. Hopkins, a New Jersey 
Progressive, who was on the President's 
campaign committee; Dr. E. A. Rumly, 
Independent Republican; John Spargo, a 
Socialist author; Virgil Hinshaw, Prohibitionist, 
and Mrs. Scott Baker and 
Miss Mabel Vernon, suffragists. 
It was the first time in more than a 
year that the President had received a 
suffrage delegation. His position always 
has been that suffrage is a question 
to be dealt with by the States.

PRESIDENT RECEIVES
SUFFRAGE ADVOCATES
The first delegation of suffrage advocates
received by the President at the
White House in more than a year, was
granted an audience late yesterday afternoon.
[*Herald-May15*]
They urged votes for women as a war
measure and later declared themselves
encouraged by the reception accorded
them by the President. In the party
were: J. A. Hopkins, David I. Walsh,
Dr. E. A. Rumely, John Sparge, Mrs.
Abble Scott Baker and Miss Mabel
Vernon.

-2-

ply, Americanization and protection of women workers.  Yesterday
the Mississippi Valley Conference in session at Columbus, Ohio
adopted a resolution backing up the National Association's efforts.

"We shall do our utmost," Mrs. Catt's letter says, "to induce
the women themselves to hold to proper standards of health and economic
well being for themselves and their families.  Of employers
we ask that they shall not lengthen the working hours of women,
and that women who take the places of men in business offices, stores,
factories or any other occupation shall be paid at the same rate as 
men.  We contend that the work performed, not the sex of the workers, 
should determine the rate of pay.  We recognize also the unfairness
to men and the injury to industrial standards in general
resulting from the competition of low-paid woman labor.  Furthermore,
the women who take men's places in the war emergency have
also to bear men's burdens in the support of their families."

Among the cities whose chambers of commerce had previously
promised action in response to the requests of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association are Washington, D.C., New York City, Newark,
N. J., Cincinnati, Ohio, Altoona, Pa., Lexington and Ashland,
Ky., Grand Rapids, Michigan, Providence, R. I. Wellington, Kansas,
and Helena, Arkansas.

The District of Columbia branch of the National Woman's Party will give a reception and tea to Mrs. Coburn, of the Coburn Players, at national headquarters, 21 Madison Place, Thursday afternoon, at 4 o'clock. The hostesses will be Mrs. Robert Baker, mrs. Paul Dessez, Mrs. S.B.M. Young, Mrs. John Jay White, and Mrs. Nina E. Allender. Mrs. John Kerfoot Haywood and Mrs. W. Thompson Burch will pour. Mrs. Coburn will give a short talk on "The Stage and Suffrage." 
Wash. Herald 
May [?]

SUFFS SEEK AUDIENCE
Wash. Times - May 1

Leader Would Discuss Wartime Conditions With Wilson

Miss Mabel Vernon, of Nevada, laid before White House officials today a request from prominent suffrage leaders for an appointment with President Wilson.
Among those who wish to see the President and urge upon him to appeal to Congress for wartime suffrage amendment to the Constitution are Mrs. George Hendris and Mrs. Paul RAeneau, of Michigan; Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont, Rhode Island, and Miss Doris Stevens of Nebraska. 


April 12, 1919

Dear Friend: - 

The local suffrage leagues of Washington which are affiliated
with the National American Woman Suffrage Association
are cooperating in giving a card party for Bridge and "500", 
the proceeds of which are to be used in carrying on the general
work of the National Headquarters. The party is to be 
held Monday evening, April 30, at 8.30 o' clock, at Headquarters, 
1625 Rhode Island Avenue.

We are enclosing four tickets, valued at $2.00 (50 cent each), 
and trust you will be glad to be responsible for at least one 
table. Should you care to take more than one, please communicate
with Mrs. Frederic Newburgh, 3427 - 13th Street, N.W.,
Telephone, Ool. 4681.

There will be a favor for the highest score in Bridge and
one in "500".

Tickets will be taken at the door. If you are unable 
to sell yours please return them before Friday, April 27, to
Mrs. Newburgh, 3427 - 13th Street, N.W. You may bring two
packs of cards for your table or if you wish cards can be had
at Headquarters for 25 cents per pack. We hope you will do your
part to make this a great success.

Cordially yours,
(Signed)

Committee:
Miss Myrtle Stimson, Chairman.
Mrs. George Eastment
Mrs. J. W. Gardner
Miss Rachel King
Mrs. Frederic Newsburgh
Miss [*O*]lney
Mrs. Wesley Martin Stoner
Mrs. Lyman B. Swormstedt.
State Equal Suffrage Association of D. C.
     Miss Mary O'Toole, President.
District of Columbia Woman Suffrage Assn
     Mrs. Henry Churchill Cook, President.
Political Study Club,
     Mrs. George A. Armes, President.
Susan B. Anthony League,
     Mrs. Anna L. Hendley, President.
College Suffrage League,
     Miss Florence F. Stiles, President.
Suffrage Federation, D. C.,
     Mrs. Helen R. Tindall, Chairman.
Suffrage Committee of Twentieth Century Club,
     Mrs. Caleb Miller, Chairman.




[*Wash Herald*]
A reception and tea will be given
by the District branch of the National
Woman's party, in honor of Mrs. Coburn,
of the Yellow Jacket Company,
this afternoon at 4 o'clock.  [*-May 3-*]

Wash Times, [???]
WOMEN PICKETS GO
BACK TO THEIR JOBS
Suffragists Resume Silent Sentinel
Work Before Congress
Reconvenes. 
Half an hour in advance of the
opening of Congress in extra war session, 
silent picketing by suffragists
was re-established in the Capital today.
Simultaneously, women vote seekers, 
under direction of Miss Alice
Paul, head of the National Woman's
Party, went on "guard duty" at the
White House and at the Senate and
House office buildings. 
They will be kept there as long as
the extra session of the Sixty-fifth 
Congress lasts, according to a statement
by Miss Paul today. 
Leave at 11:25.
Timing the procession so that the
pickets at the White House would
reach the east and west gates of the
Executive Mansion simultaneously
with those who went in automobiles
to establish a picket at the Senate
and House office buildings, the suffragists
left the headquarters of the
National Woman's Party on Madison
place at 11:25 o'clock.
The procession from headquarters 
to the White House was headed by
Mrs. Jessie Hardy MacKaye, who carried
a large suffrage banner of yellow,
with the following inscribed in
bold, black letters:
"Without Extinction Is Liberty. 
Without Retrograde Is Equality."
Heads Auto Parade. 
Miss Mabel Vernon, of Nevada, 
headed the group of suffragists who
rode in two undecorated automobiles 
to the Capitol.
Miss Vivian Pierce, of California:
Miss Ruth Crocker, of Illinois, and
Miss Hazel Hunkins, of Montana,
representing the women in the States
which enjoy whole or partial suffrage,
took up positions at the main
entrance to the Senate Office building.
They carried banners. On them
was inscribed the following:
"Russia and England are enfranchising
women in wartime" and "How
long must American women wait for 
liberty?"
Pickets at House.
Pickets who took stations opposite
the House office building were Mrs.
Alden Potter, of Minnesota; Mrs. William
L. Colt, of New York, and Miss
Mary Gertrude Fendall, of Maryland. 
Six "silent suffragists" took up their
positions at the East entrance to the
White House. 
Three went to the West gate, headed
by Miss Berta Crone, of California, 
who had charge of the suffragists
of the White House picket. 
The pickets who went "on guard" at
the White House at 11:30 o'clock were
relieved at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. 
In First Group.
In the first group that marched over
to the Executive Mansion from suffrage
headquarters on Madison place were
Mrs. Donald R. Hooker, president of the
Just Government League of Maryland;
Mrs. Townsend-Scott, Baltimore; Mrs 
Margaret Baker, Delaware; Mrs.
Blanche Weaver, Missouri; Mrs. J. E. 
[Lambie?] New York; Mrs. Ida Craft, of
the [R???lle] Jones Albany hikers; Miss
[??????] daughter of Congressman
[???????cticut] and Miss Maud

noon by Mrs. Helena Hill Weed, of Connecticut;
Mrs. Kate Boeckh, Miss Edna
Raegle, Miss A. M. McCoy, Mrs. George
Odell, all of the District; Mrs. William
Kent, of California; Mrs. Z. H. Lofland, 
and Miss J. E. Field, of Delaware; Miss
Esther Stevens, of New York, and Miss
Mary B. Dixon, of Maryland. 
Marshal Forces.
After Miss Crone had got the Capitol
pickets into automobiles and sent
them away, she turned her attention
to marshaling the forces for the
march on the White House. 
As the women lined up in single
file and waited for word to start, the
east gates of the White House
grounds were opened and an automobile
rolled out. 
"There! We've missed the President!" 
cried some one, and the ranks 
had to be adjusted again.
"Our decision to re-establish picketing
is prompted by the highest patriotic
motives," declared Miss Alice Paul,
head of the National Woman's Party.
"We women want to take our part
in the responsibility of the Government."

'BAD MANNERS, MAD BANNERS'
OF THE WHITE HOUSE PICKETS
Wash Post-Apr. 23
Editor Post: One thing that strikes 
the visitor to Washington as somewhat
out of place is the undue liberty
allowed those suffragettes who foolishly
stand at the gates of the President's 
house—the silent sentinels, I
believe they are called. 
It seems to me that the President,
especially in these trying days, should
be spared every annoyance that can
possibly be averted, and surely the
cause of woman suffrage is not helped
by resorting to these bad manners and
mad banners. GEORGE FOSTER.
New York, April 19, 1917.

Wash. Times
MISS RANKIN TO ASK VOTE
Miss Jeannette Rankin, "the lady
from Montana," will be the principal
speaker tomorrow morning at 10
o'clock before the Senate Suffrage
Committee at the hearing accorded
the National Woman's Party. Her
subject will be "The Industrial Woman
in War Time."
Miss Rankin will be preceded by
several speakers, among them being
Miss Alice Carpenter, Prof. Charles
Beard, of Columbia University; Mrs. 
Rheta Child Door, Miss Madeline Doty
and Mrs. Mary Beard. Mrs. Richard
Wainright, of the District, also will 
speak. Apr. 25
The delegation from the National
Woman's Party will be under charge
of Miss Anne Martin, who for the
past month has supervised picketing
at the White House and Capitol. 

SUFFRAGE ARGUMENTS
AT SPECIAL HEARING
Wash. Herald-
Advantage as War Measure to Be
Pleaded with Senate Committee. 
Woman suffrage as a war measure will
be the subject of the special hearing
granted to the National Woman's Party
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock by the
United States Senate Committee on
Woman Suffrage. Most of the speakers
have seen service in industry and relief
work of women in Europe since August, 
1914. Speakers will be Madeline Zabreskie
Doty, Miss Alice Carpenter, 
Prof. Charles Beard, of Columbia University; 
Mrs. Rheta Childe Dorr, Mary
Ritter Beard, Mrs. Richard Wainwright, 
Representative Jeannette Rankin, and
Dudley Field Malone, commissioner of
the port of New York. 
Miss Anne Martin, of Nevada, will
lead the delegation. Apr. 26-17

The College Equal Suffrage League will hold its annual
meeting for the election of officers at the headquarters of
the National Association, 1626 Rhode Island Avenue, Monday,
April 24, at 8 p.m.
The annual dues are fifty cents. Yours are paid
to  
V. Tagathoff
Cor. Sec.

Wash. Times - Ap. 27
Appeal for Common Sense Methods of
Seeking Votes for Women Written
By a Suffragist. 
To the Editor of THE TIMES:
Some women who heartily indorse
woman's suffrage—but not all methods
employed to obtain same—find
themselves daily confronted with
harsh and severe criticism because
"of the way we are going about it."
The head of our Government has, 
literally speaking, spoken to us in almost
the same words as those of that
ruler of old when he said: "Choose 
us out men and go out and fight with
Amalek," and whilst our men are
busy devising ways to choose these
men to "go out and fight," we women
should be the ones "to go to the top
of the hill" with our commander-in-chief,
and when his hands are heavy,
put ours under his and stay them up,
that the victory might be won. And
as Aaron stood on one side of Moses 
and Her on the other, so today the
men of this nation should stand on
the one side of our President while
the women stand on the other. 
A large number of women in this
country do not believe in, and do not
think it right to pester our President
at this crucial hour with silent sentinels
at his gate; we think such
methods unbusinesslike. I believe
that the women of this nation are
being called upon to make stupendous
sacrifices for the great cause of righteousness
and justice, and that we 
should prepare ourselves to respond
to the call of duty. 
There are millions and millions of
bandages to be made. Who can better
make them then women? There 
are gardens to be cultivated. Who
can more carefully do this than
women? And there are factories to be
kept going to meet the needs of the
whole world and if our men have to
go to the front, who will fill up these
gaps but our women? And if our
women will pitch in and do these
things they will prove these words of
Jesus to be an absolute truth: "Whatsoever
a man south, that shall he also
reap." If we women all sow the seeds
of diligence, earnest effort and hearty 
work, and be helpers to our men in
this hour of need, then truly we will
have earned the acknowledgement of
our equality with men, and there is
hardly a man in this country of ours
who would raise his voice against
that woman who has been of such material
help in the darkest hour of the
world's need, or object to her sharing
all the privileges that he enjoys. 
EMMA HARRIS JAMISON,
Baltimore. 

[???] Apr 29
Plan New Suffrage Campaign. 
The national woman's party announced
yesterday that it would launch
a new campaign "to keep the suffrage
camp fires bright" during the war. A
series of meetings will be held
throughout the country "to remind citizens
that the government is amply
able to carry on the war by levying
taxes wherever it wills, and that donations
to promote democracy in the
world should go to woman suffrage."

Wash. Star —
Picketing the White House should be
suspended, at least for a little while, 
when the season arrives for putting up
preserves. 
Apr 1-28

Wash. Times
The District of Columbia branch of
the National Woman's Party will entertain
at a tea tomorrow afternoon
at 4 o'clock at the Congressional
Union headquarters at 21 Madison
place, on Lafayette Square, for the
delegates to the National Congress of
Mothers. The speakers will be Miss
Mabel Kernon, Mrs. Harvey Wiley, 
and Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, of Philadelphia, 
who has just returned from 
the Orient. Mrs. Lewis will speak of
the woman's movement in China. Mrs. 
John J. White and Miss Grace Needham
will preside at the tea table. 
Apr. 28

Wash Star-
The District of Columbia branch of
the national woman's party will give
a tea tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock at
the national headquarters, 21 Madison
place, Lafayette Square, in honor of the
delegates to the National Congress of
Apr. 28-

Mothers. The speakers will be Mrs. Harvey
Wiley, Miss Mabel Vernon and Mrs. 
Lawrence Lewis of Philadelphia, who has
just returned from the orient, and whose
subject will be the "Woman's Movement
in China." Mrs. John Jay White and
Miss Grace Needham will preside at the
tea table. Wash Star. Apr. 28

SUFFRAGISTS ASSAIL
SELECTION OF ROOT
Wash. Post
Object to Him Going
to Russia — Malone
Speaks at Hearing. 
Apr. 27
Advocates of female suffrage before
the Senate committee yesterday while
urging adoption of the nation-wide
suffrage constitutional amendment, discussed
general politics. Mrs. Mary
Beard of New York, assailed the selection
of former Senator Elihu Root to
head the mission to Russia, on the
ground that Mr. Root is an opponent
of woman suffrage. Dudley Field Malone, 
collector of customs at New York, 
supported the constitutional amendment. 
More than 100 women representing 
suffrage organizations in New 
York, Philadelphia and Baltimore were
in attendance. 
Mrs. Rheta Childe Dorr and Representative
Jeannette Rankin argued that
women are invaluable in war, but that
in fighting for democracy abroad this
nation forgets it is not truly democratic
at home with women disenfranchised. 
Other speakers were Miss Anne Martin, 
Miss Alice Carpenter, Miss Madelaine
Doty and Mrs. Richard Wainwright, 
one of the White House pickets, 
who spoke of her resentment at
seeing the United States fall to far behind
the other nations in recognizing
the justice of woman's claims. 
Senator Johnson closed the hearing
by rising and calling out: "Ladies, 
I'm for you, and for you now."

WOMAN VOTERS WAR ASSET
Wash. Post - Apr. 26
Suffrage Leaders Urge Senators to
Enfgranchise Them Now. 
Passage of the woman suffrage
amendment as a part of the nation's
war program was demanded before
the Senate Woman Suffrage Committee 
today by leaders of the suffrage
movement. 
Authors who have made a special
study of the service of women in the
European war told the committee that
granting franchise was an essential
part of the military strength of the
nation. 
"Women are invaluable in war," 
said Mrs. Mary Bear, of New York,
"and an essential part of the military
strength of the country. When you
say we are fighting for democracy, I
ask whose democracy?"
Mrs. Bear outlined the work done
by women in former wars of the
United States. She criticized the reported
appointment of Elihu Root, a 
suffrage opponent, to the Russian
commission. 
Mrs. Rheta Childe Dorr, an author, 
urged that war time is the proper time
to grant suffrage. 
Other speakers were Jeannette 
Rankin, "the lady from Montana;" 
Miss Madeline Doty, Mrs. Richard
Wainwright, and Earnestine Evans. 
Deputations of women from New 
York, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, 
numbering about 200, attended the
hearing. 

[???] Star
Apr. 26
The distinguished visitors have had a 
chance to see the pickets in front of
the White House. These constitute one
of the nation's most interesting exhibitions; 
not so fiercely imposing, perhaps, 
as the House Guards of London, nor so
airily picturesque as the coryphees of
the Paris Opera, but representative of a 
phase of the country's life and thought
which no student can afford to ignore. 

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
Will you grant me the hospitality 
of your columns to tell some of your
readers how to get rid of the White
House pickets?
There is only one proper and effective
way, and that is to pass the Susan
B. Anthony amendment, which will
release the energy and money for war
duty or whatever is important. Some
persons are in error and believe there
is a personality or individuality in the
picket line. There is neither. The
picket line is the recruiting cause
that stands there, and will remain until
something better takes its place. 
Consider the procession of States 
coming on. 
Alice Paul, since Napoleon, has had 
no peer as a general, and is as ravenously 
hungry as he for the victorious
idea. If any one can show Alice Paul
how to gain one inch more on the 
battle line for woman's freedom than
by picketing, she will be very welcome, 
but if she is not, nor can not
do anything more efficient, she should
"keep her mouth shut."
We who have been persecuted by
our accidental bosses—not our superiors—
have had the belief in equal suffrage
treated as if it were a crime, 
had our careers broken, have come to
think that masculine autocracy is as 
wrong and arbitrary as the throned
autocracy of Europe— and like it, retards
of the human race; therefore, it is
doomed. CARRIE HARRISON. 
Brookland, D. C. 
Wash. Times -Apr 24-

[??FF] PICKETS INSIST
ACTION IS PATRIOTIC
Wash. Herald- Apr. 3
Stubborn in Determination to Fight
for Vote. 
"Our decision to re-establish picketing
is prompted by the highest patriotic
motives," declared Miss Alice Paul, 
chairman of the National Woman's 
Party, when she explained last night
why suffrage pickets were again placed
before the gates of the White House 
and posts established at the Senate and
House Office Buildings. 
There was considerable adverse comment
on the re-appearance of the "silent
sentinels" at this time, but the suffragists
took a stubborn stand last night
and declared that they were going to
continue their fight for political liberty
whether this country goes to war or not. 
At the headquarters of the National
Woman's Party it was stated that the
pickets would remain on duty as long
as the Sixty-fifth Congress is in session. 
In further explaining the motive of
the pickets, Miss Paul said:
"There could be no higher expression
of patriotism and loyalty than the
earnest desire to share fully in the responsibilities
of the nation's government. 
Women do not wish to give anything 
less than the highest service of which
they are capable to the nation of which
they are a part. They will give their
labor in the future, as they always have 
in the past, but they also wish to be able
to devote their highest energies and 
talents to the solution of the problems
which this country faces."
The pickets who made their first appearance
at the Capitol arrived under
the leadership of Miss Mabel Vernon, 
of Nevada, and divided promptly into
two groups. The voting women, Miss
Vivian Pierce, of California; Miss Ruth
Crocker, of Illinois, and Miss Hazel
Hunkins, of Montana, took places opposite
the Senate Office Building, and
unforced their banners reading, "Russia
and England are enfranchising women in
wartime" and "How long must American
women wait for liberty?" The non-voting
women who stood opposite the House
Office Building were Mrs. Alden Potter, 
of Minnesota; Mrs. William L. Colt, of
New York, and Miss Mary Gertrude 
Fendall, of Maryland. The two delegations
arrived in the motors of Mrs. William
Kent and Mrs. S. P. Martin, of
Maryland. 

Time for This Nonsense to Stop
Wash. Times- Apr. 2-
The official notice from the so-called
Woman's Party that they
would begin today anew their picketing
of the White House will succeed
only in creating a large measure
of disgust in this community
and in the nation at this supreme
manifestation of folly. Fortunately
for the cause of suffrage, the people
are beginning to distinguish between
this party, that came near casting
no votes at all in the recent election
for President, and the National Association
with its sane and wise
leadership. 
The President of the United States
deserves the respect of every decent
American man and woman, if only
for the high office which he holds. In
the midst of this crisis in world affairs,
on the very eve of participation
in a world war, it is little short
of infamous that he should be subjected
to petty persecution of this
kind. The fact is that the leaders of 
this organization have led their
followers into an impasse from
which they can be rescued only at
the cost of acknowledgement that 
their whole course has been one of
fatuous folly. These leaders are not
large-minded enough to sink their
personality into their cause. Their
reputations for political sagacity
which they have already forfeited
are more precious to themselves than
the victory which they have done
their best to postpone. 
Following the Tammany methods
which they have adopted as a recommendation
that women be entrusted
with political power, they
are impudently claiming that the
presence of Miss Jeanette Rankin in
the halls of Congress is a reason for
the resumption of their offensive tactics. 
We presume that the first resolution
Miss Rankin will introduce 
will be one for the adoption of the
national amendment. This could
well be followed by a second resolution
deprecating these insane manifestations
at this time, and disassociating
herself from any sympathy
with the peculiar methods of the
Woman's Party. 
It is well recognized that the picketers
have been trying to attract attention
to themselves anew by courting
martyrdom. It is about time to
grant their wish. Immunity on account
of sex should no longer
be tolerated. The real martyrdom
will be the indifference of the American
people to the deserved fate of
the picketers and the oblivion that
will mercifully cover them. 

WOMEN PICKETS
BACK AT POSTS
Wash. Times
Suffragists Resume Silent Sentinel
Work Before Congress
Reconvenes. 
Apr. 2
PARADE IS FIRST FEATURE
"Guards" Arrive Simultaneously
at White House and Office
Buildings. 
Half an hour in advance of the
opening of Congress in extra war session, 
silent picketing by suffragists
was re-established in the Capital today. 
Simultaneously, women vote seekers, 
under direction of Miss Alice
Paul, head of the National Woman's 
Party, went on "guard duty" at the
White House and at the Senate and
House office buildings. 
They will be kept there as long as
the extra session of the Sixty-fifth
Congress lasts, according to a statement
by Miss Paul today. 
Leave at 11:25. 
Timing the procession so that the
pickets at the White House would
reach the east and west gates of the
Executive Mansion simultaneously
with those who went in automobiles
to establish a picket at the Senate
and House office buildings, the suffragists
left the headquarters of the
National Woman's Party on Madison
place at 11:25 o'clock. 
The procession from headquarters
to the White House was headed by
Mrs. Jessie Hardy MacKaye, who carried
a large suffrage banner of yellow, 
with the following inscribed in
bold, black letters:
"Without Extinction Is Liberty, 
Without Retrograde Is Equality."
Heads Auto Parade. 
Miss Mabel Vernon, of Nevada, 
headed the group of suffragists who
rode in two undecorated automobiles
to the Capitol.
Miss Vivian Pierce, of California; 
Miss Ruth Crocker, of Illinois, and
Miss Hazel Hunkins, of Montana, 
representing the women in the States
which enjoy whole or partial suffrage, 
took up positions at the main
entrance to the Senate Office building. 
They carried banners. On them 
was inscribed the following:
"Russia and England are enfranchising
women in wartime" and "How
long must American women wait for
liberty?"
Pickets at House. 
Pickets who took stations opposite
the House office building were Mrs. 
Alden Potter, of Minnesota; Mrs. William
L. Colt, of New York, and Miss
Mary Gertrude Fendall, of Maryland. 
Six "silent suffragists" took up their
positions at the East entrance to the
White House. 
Three went to the West gate, headed
by Miss Berta Crone, of California, 
who had charge of the suffragists
of the White House picket. 
The pickets who went "on guard" at 
the White House at 11:30 o'clock were
relieved at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. 
In First Group. 
In the first group that marched over
to the Executive Mansion from suffrage
headquarters on Madison place were
Mrs. Donald R. Hooker, president of the
Just Government League of Maryland; 
Mrs. Townsend Scott, Delaware; Mrs. 
Blanche Weaver, Missouri; Mrs. J. E. 
Lambie, New York; Mrs. Ida Craft, of
the Rosalie Jones Albany hikers; Miss
Elsie Hill, daughter of Congressman
Hill of Connecticut and Miss Maud
Jamison, Virginia. 
They will be relieved at 2:30 o'clock 
and at subsequent periods this afternoon
by Mrs. Helena Hill Weed, of Connecticut;
Mrs. Kate Boeckh, Miss Edna 
Raegle, Miss A. M. McCoy, Mrs. George
Odell, all of the District; Mrs. William
Kent, of California; Mrs. Z. H. Lofland, 
and Miss J. E. Field, of Delaware; Miss
Esther Stevens, of New York, and Miss
Mary B. Dixon, of Maryland. 
Marshal Forces. 
After Miss Crone had got the Capitol
pickets into automobiles and sent
them away, she turned her attention
to marshaling the forces for the
march on the White House. 
As the women lined up in single
file and waited for word to start, the
east gates of the White House
grounds were opened and an automobile
rolled out. 
"There! We've missed the President!" 
cried some one, and the ranks
had to be adjusted again. 
"Our decision to re-establish picketing
is prompted by highest patriotic 
motives," declared Miss Alice Paul, 
head of the National Woman's Party. 
"We women want to take our part
in the responsibility of the Government."

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