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Washington Times, March 31.
ONLY DEFERS "DIXIE DRIVE"
Woman's Party Postpones Suffrage Onslaught Set for April 1.
The National Woman's Party is not going 
to abandon its "Dixie drive."
The "drive" against the thirteen
non-suffrage States of the South has
merely been postponed, officers of the
organization said today.
Three reasons are assigned for failure
to start the "drive" tomorrow, as
originally planned, but none of them
takes cognizance of April 1 as a bugaboo
date.
One is the approaching "war Congress;"
 the second, bad roads, and
the third, unsettled condition of the
public mind on account of the national
crisis.
Charlotte, N.C., will be the first city visited when the campaigners
start.

Washington Times April 11
SUFFS PICKET CONGRESS
Miss Henkle in Charge of Silent
Sentinels.
Miss Alice Henkle, of Illinois, was
in charge of the suffrage sentinels
at the entrances to the Senate and
House Office buildings at noon today.
Miss Berta Crone, of California,
resumed charge of the six pickets at
the White House gates.

Washington Times April 11
SUFFS MAY WORK 
WITH OTHER FORCES
Union with Progressives for
Campaign Purposes Under
Consideration.
Union of suffrage forces with Progressives,
Socialists, or Prohibitionists
for a drive in the next Presidential
campaign and in many State
campaigns loomed up as a prospect
today following the departure of Miss
Mabel Vernon of the National Woman's
party for St. Louis to confer
with leaders at the Progressive
convention.
The invitation to the suffragists
was received yesterday from Matthew
Hale and J.A.H. Hopkins, of
New Jersey.  Miss Vernon, who is a 
Nevada suffragist, has been prominently
identified here as the head of
Capital and White House pickets.
Officials of the National Woman's
Party said today the question of
amalgamation of their party with
other political bodies will not be
seriously considered at the St. Louis
conference.  It was pointed out, however,
that a union of forces for drives
in State campaigns and the national
campaign in 1920 is not at all unlikely. 
May Unite for Drives.
"We cannot at this time formulate
any definite election policy," declared
Miss Alice Paul, head of the National
Woman's party.  "It is, however, a 
wise move for the political parties,
interested in liberal causes, to meet
in conference.
"It has been suggested that we
unite for work in certain sections.  I
cannot prophesy what we will do.
"The Prohibitionists are very
strong where we are very weak,
namely throughout the Southern
States.  No one knows what the next
months may bring forth."
Mrs. Robert Baker, Congressional 
chairman of the National Woman's
Party, said a union of political forces
will be a probable result of the St.
Louis conference, to which a representative
of the party was invited.
Have Only Single Issue.
"I think it highly probable that
our forces will be united for speakings,
publicity campaigns, and even
tours in the next Presidential race,"
declared Mrs. Baker.
"The National Woman's Party,
however, has only one issue, that of
suffrage, before it.  we might work
in harmony with the other political
parties, but I do not think a coalition
is probable at this time."
Miss Vernon will be absent from
the capital about a week.

Washington Times Apr 12/17
SUFFRAGE CAUSE UNION
WITH OTHERS POSSIBLE
Woman's Party Delegate to Confer
with National Organizations.
The union of the suffrage cause with
the Progressives, Socialists and Prohibitionists
for a drive on Congress in the
next Presidential election, loomed large
yesterday when Miss Mable Vernon, of
the National Woman's Party, left for St. 
Louis to attend the progressive conference
and to confer with the leaders of
that movement, following and invitation
to the suffragists from Matthew Hale
and J.A.H. Hopkins, of New Jersey.
Amalgamation of the Woman's Party
with other political organizations is not
considered seriously yet by officials of
the suffrage movement, and Miss Vernon
has received no instructions to accept
such a proposal should the Progressive
party decide on such an action.  It was 
pointed out, however, that a union of 
forces for State drives and campaigns in
1920 may be considered.
Miss Alice Paul, chairman of the National
Woman's Party, siad: "We cannot
at this time formulate any definite
election policy, but it is a wise move for
the political parties interested in liberal
causes to meet in conference."
Mrs. Robert Baker, Congressional chairman
of the National Woman's Party, said 
that a union of political forces probably
will follow as a result of the St. Louis
convention.

Washington Times April 13
Considers Suffragettes Tempt Fate
Picketing the White House Gate.
To the Editor of the THE TIMES:
It seems to me most indiscreet and
almost tempting to fate, that suffragettes
should have to meet and
picket the White House gate.  Why
do these woman linger there?  Haven't
they either home or care?  Or is it
that they wish to be figured in wide
publicity?
Let's look ahead a little way and
see what they will have to say when
children of a future year gather
around their tales to hear.  That time
is surely going to come, and they'll
be told of fife and drum, of men who
fought and bled and died for the nation's
honor, the country's pride.
What then can these brave pickets
tell to the children dear?  Just that
they stood at the wickets and sighed
for the vote to appear.  They cannot
boast of a duty performed for their
country's need.  Their present acts
lack beauty and reek of political
greed.
Supposing that all the time they 
spend watching the White House
gates was put into learning to sew
and mend-couldn't they help their
mates?  Supposing they gave their
banners a toss over the White House
wall, and actively worked for our 
Red Cross and answered their country's
call.
A deed like that would, in future
day, give to their waning years, a 
chance to say that they trod the way 
that the red-blooded patriot cheers.
Then why not now the cause avow
and with your woman's might, answer
the call that went out to all - get into
the game and fight. C.R.F.

GIRLS OF 6 AND 8
IN WOMAN'S PARTY
They're Enlisting 'Em Young for
Suffrage Cause At Headquarters
Now.
[*Wash. Times 
April 15–*]

They're enlisting 'em young at the
National Woman's Party headquarters.

Yesterday Eleanor and Marjorie
Sigsby Small, little daughters of Mrs.
Robert T. Small, 1731 Twentieth
street northwest, marched into 
headquarters at 21 Madison place, beside
their aunt, Mrs. Henry Lockwood of
Clarendon, Va., and applied for membership.

Marjorie is six years old and Eleanor
eight.  They wore blue dresses,
with white waists and black caps.
Each had a miniature American flag.

"Please, ma'am, we want to join,"
said Eleanor, who is the leader when
the sisters are together.

This to Miss Alice Paul, head of the
National Woman's Party.

"Why, certainly," replied Miss Paul.
"Just you fill out these papers—just
a formality, you know."

Eleanor and Marjorie know little of
red tape; less of references, and absolutely 
nothing at all about suffrage
work and politics.  They both said
they were willing to learn, however,
and blanks for information as to
previous experience and education
qualifications were left quite blank.
But they signed their names with the
air of veterans and the examination
technicalities were happily over.

"Now, how soon is suffrage coming?"
Eleanor wanted to know after
the pair had affixed their names.

Miss Paul didn't undertake to answer 
this question, but she vouchsafed 
that it will come if all women
enlist in the cause as young as the
tots before her.

Here Marjorie interrupted proceedings.
She had been overlooked quite
too long.

"We wanted to get in early," she 
said.  "Then we can look back and
say we joined young."

Miss Paul agreed this was a good
reason for joining, but she intimated
the young suffragists might have to
do their share of work later on.

'That's all right." came the duet.
"Put us to work.  We're ready to hold
picket banners now."

Eleanor and Marjorie are daughters
of Robert T. Small, a newspaper correspondent 
at the French front.  Both
are great-grandchildren of Gen.
Henry Lockwood, with five generations
of fighting men behind them.

SUFFRAGIST OFF.
Miss Elsie Hill will leave Washington
tonight for Atlanta, where headquarters 
will be opened to organize
Georgia into a "suffrage link" for
the "Dixie Drive" by the National
Woman's Party this spring.  Miss Hill
will be assisted by, Miss Beulah
Amidon.  [*Wash. Times Apr. 16*]

[*Wash. Post*] 
The District of Columbia branch of
the National Woman's party will give
a tea this afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock
for the visiting delegates to the D. A. 
R. congress.  The hostesses will include 
Mrs. Richard Wainright, Mrs.
John Jay White, Mrs. W. Thompson
Burch, Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, Mrs.
Arthur Ramsey, Mrs. William Kent,  
Mrs. Harvey Wiley, Mrs. Helena Hill
Weed and Miss Aline Solomons.  Mrs.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman will speak
and Mrs. George Odell and Mrs. John K.
Haywood will serve at the tea table.
[*Apr, 19*]


PICKET SQUAD RECRUITS
[*Wash. Times Apr. 16*]
New Arrivals Are Assigned to Duty
In Washington.
Two Detroit women came down to
Washington today to be suffrage
pickets and hold tri-colored banners
in front of the White House and the
Capitol.

They are Mrs. George Hendrie and
Mrs. Paul Regnault.  Both are veteran
workers in the cause of suffrage, but
this will be their first experience at
picketing.

Miss Mary Gertrude Fendall, of
Baltimore, is in charge of the eight
White House pickets who blossomed
out this morning with the white lillies
pinned on their coats.

Miss Alice Henkle, of Chicago, is
master of picket ceremonies at the
Senate and House office buildings.
Six pickets are on duty there today.

Two Junior Members 
[*Wash.*] Join Suffrage Party [*Herald*]
Two junior members, children in pinafores,
joined the National Woman's
Party yesterday afternoon.  Little Eleanor
and Marjorie Sigsby Small, of 1731
Twentieth street, came into headquarters,
marching beside their aunt, Mrs.
Henry Lockwood, chairman of the
party's branch in the Third Congressional
district of Virginia.

Both are great grandchildren of Gen.
Henry Lockwood, with five generations
of navy men behind them.  Their father
is at the front in France.  "We want to
remember we belonged when we grow
up," said little Eleanor.  "Will it come
soon?" asked Marjorie.  [*Apr. 15, 17*]

SUFFRAGE ORGANIZER BACK.
After a month of active campaigning
in North and South Carolina, Miss Doris
Stevens, organizer for the National
Woman's Party, returned to headquarters,
21 Madison place, last night with 
glowing reports of success.  She participated 
in two State conferences, one
in Charlotte, N.C., and the other in
Charleston, S.C.

Miss Stevens will organize a Georgia
State conference the first week in May,
probably in Atlanta.
[*Wash. Times – Apr. 15*]

ENDS SUFFRAGE TOUR.
Miss Stevens Returns to Headquarters
After Visit to Carolinas.
Miss Doris Stevens, national chairman
of organization for the national
woman's party, returned to the headquarters
of that organization, 21 Madison
place, last night, after a month
of active campaigning through North
and South Carolina.  Two state conferences
were held, one at Charlotte,
N. C., and another at Charleston, S. C.
Mrs. J. Arthur Taylor of Charlotte
heads the newly affiliated North Carolina
branch of the party, and Mrs. E. 
W. Durant, jr., the group in South
Carolina.  Miss Beulah Amidon, daughter
of Judge Amidon of North Dakota,
who has been assisting Miss Stevens,
is to open suffrage headquarters in Atlanta, 
Ga., this week.  She is to organize 
a Georgia state conference of
the party for the first week in May.
[*Wash. Star – Apr. 15*]


Time for This Nonsense to Stop

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 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
[*Wash. Times 
April 2–*]

SPEAKS ON SUFFRAGE.
Mrs. Minnie Brooks, of the National 
Woman's Party, is in Annapolis
today speaking at a street meeting in
the interest of suffrage.  Mrs. Spencer
Murray, chairman of the Annapolis
branch of the national party, has
charge of the meeting, which is the
first of a series of suffrage street
gatherings.  Equipped with a tri-colored 
banner, with the inscription,
"Forward Out of Darkness," Mrs.
Brooks left headquarters this morning,
saying she intended to hoist the
banner at the meeting.  It was one
of the suffrage banners used by White
House pickets last winter.
[*Wash. Times – April 17*]

MRS. GILMAN TO SPEAK.
The National Woman's Party will
be host to members of the D. A. R. at
a reception at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon.  
Mrs. Charlotte Jerkins Gilman, 
of New York, will speak.  She
has been active in suffrage politics 
in Maryland.  An elaborate program
is being planned by the suffragists,
and it is probable officers of the national 
party from New York will come
to Washington for the event.
[*Wash. Times – Apr, 17-*]

The hostesses at a tea to be given this
afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock by the District
branch of the National Woman's 
party to the visiting delegates to D. A. 
R. convention, will be Mrs. Richard 
Wainwright, Mrs. Arthur Ramsay, Mrs. 
John J. White, Mrs. W. Thompson
Burch, Mrs. William Kent, Mrs. Ellen
Spencer Mussey, Mrs. Harvey Wiley, 
Mrs. Helena Hill Weed, and Miss Aline
Solomons.  Mrs. Charlotte Gilman Perkins
will speak and Mrs. George Odell and
Mrs. John Kerfoot Haywood will 
pour tea.
[*Wash. Herald – Apr. 19*]

The District of Columbia branch of
the national woman's party will give a
tea tomorrow from 4 to 6 o'clock at 21
Madison place to the visiting delegates
to the D. A. R. Congress.

The hostesses will be Mrs. Richard
Wainwright, Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey,
Mrs. John Jay White, Mrs. Harvey
Wiley, Mrs. William Kent, Mrs. Arthur
Ramsay Mrs. Helena Hill Weed and
Miss Aline Solomons.  Mrs. George Odell
and Mrs. John Kerfoot Haywood will
pour tea.
[*Wash. Star Apr 18*]

Committee:
Miss Myrtle Stimson, Chairman.
Mrs. George Eastment
Mrs. J.W. Gardner
Miss Rachel Kin
Mrs. Frederic Newburgh
Miss Olney
Mrs. Wesley Martin Stoner
Mrs. Lyman B. Swormstedt.

Y STAR, WASHINGTON, D.C., MARCH 25, 1917—PART 1.
SUFFRAGISTS WIELD THE RAKE AND HOE AT CAMERON HOUSE
Those in the picture are Miss Maud Jamieson, Miss Pauline Floyd, Miss Berta Crone, Miss Hazel Hunkins, Mrs. Bessie
Papandre, Miss Gertrude Crocker and Miss Virginia Arnold.

WILSON SALUTES PICKETS
[*Post – 4-7-17*]
Wife Reads Suffrage Banner as Guard
Chases President's Hat.

President Wilson on his return from
a walk yesterday stopped to raise his
hat to the pickets from the National
Woman's party, who stand daily before
his gate.  Mrs. Wilson, too, read the
yellow banners' message, "Russia and
England are enfranchising women in
wartime." while a secret service man
dodged after the President's hat that
the April wind had attacked.

The President stopping to shake 
hands with two chubby youngsters,
looked up at the banner and smiled.


To lead public opinion, one must
first be able to sense it.  Those who
have been picketing the White House
grounds at a time when the Executive
is worn with responsibility ought
to realize that the cause they espouse
is not being advanced but set back,
in the opinion of the American 
nation.  [*Herald 4-7-17*]


PICKETS PROMPTLY ON DUTY.
Miss Gertrude Fendall, of Baltimore,
was in charge of a group of pickets
who stood outside the White House
gates today.  They went on duty at 
11 o'clock.  [*Times 4-10-17*]

Suffrage pickets at the Senate and 
House Office Buildings went to work
at noon, the hour that both branches
of Congress met.  Miss Alice Henkle,
of Chicago, headed a delegation of six
silent sentinels to the Capitol.


SNOW GREETS SENTINELS
[*Wash. Post Apr 9*]

"This is Like Old Times," Remarks
Suffrage Picket Squad.
"This is like old times," was the
only comment today of six silent suffrage 
sentinels who marched from
headquarters of the National Woman's
party, 21 Madison place, to
picket the White House.

They referred to the snow lying
in patches in Lafayette square.

Miss Alice Henkle, of Chicago, 
suffrage organizer, headed the pickets
today, succeeding Miss Bertha Crone,
of California.

On the picket line in two shifts
today at the White House were Miss
Mildred Gilbert, California; Miss Betty 
Heath, District; Miss Clara Micklebach, 
Pennsylvania; Mrs. William
Kent, California; Miss Emil P.
Stearns, District; Miss Vivian Pierce,
California; Miss Marian Lessey, England, 
and Miss Jessica Potter, Minnesota.  
Those who went on duty at
the Capital at 10 o'clock were Miss
Lacy Branham, Maryland; Miss Elsie
Hill, Connecticut; Miss Edna Field,
District; Mrs. Anna Arneil, Delaware.


WANT PICKETS REMOVED
[*Wash. Times Apr, 2*]

Many Complain of Suffragist Banners 
at White House Gates.
Protests against the suffragist pickets
flaunting their big yellow banners
around the gates in front of the White
House have been made to President
Wilson by those who have witnessed
the spectacle, while a number of patriotic
suffragists have either written or 
called personally to disavow their approval 
of the demonstration.

At the headquarters of the suffragists
today it was stated that while there
had been opposition to maintaining
pickets at the White House during the
war with Germany, no definite action
had been taken toward its discontinuance.

President Wilson has indicated in no 
way that he is annoyed by the pickets,
but other officials have indicated their
displeasure in a decided manner.

Only two pickets at each of the two
front gates were on duty today.  Passers-by 
scoffed at them, but the policemen 
on guard prevented disorder.  Inscriptions 
on the banners were : "Mr.
President, How Long Must Women
Wait for Liberty?" and "Mr. President,
What Will You Do for Women?"


Illinois Woman Voter 
Gives Capital a Laugh
[*N.Y. Tribune Apr, 12*]
"To

destination of Seward and ship's papers,
captain was ordered to make for 
shore, about twenty-five miles distant,
with his two lifeboats.  Submarine's
crew went on board abandoned vessel.
Seward's party does not know whether
Seward was destroyed or not, although
chief engineer states he heard faintly
two explosions after lifeboats out
of sight of Seward.  Submarine flew




PICKET WHITE HOUSE AGAIN.

Suffragists Resume Demonstrations
as Congress Discusse War.
Special to The New York Times.
WASHINGTON, April 2.—Suffrage
pickets again surrounded the White
House today as Congress convened for
its special war session.  Under the direction 
of Miss Alice Paul, head of the
National Woman's Party, a group of
women bearing suffrage banners
paraded from the party headquarters to
the White House gates and took up
the posts which they abandoned when
the last session adjourned.  Others went
to the Senate and House office buildings
to remain, they said, until the session
was over.  The banners bore the
following legend:

"Russia and England are enfranchising
women in wartime.  How long must
American women wait for liberty?"

Miss Paul said that the women's decision 
to surround the Whitt House 
again, in spite of the critical international 
situation, was actuated by the
highest patriotic motives.

"The women want to take their part
in the responsibilities of Government,"
she said.  [*N. Y. Times, Apr. 3*]

[*Wash. Herald*]
PICKETING JUSTIFIED.
Suffragists last night pointed to the
war message of the President as justifying 
their course in picketing the White
House and Congress.

The advocates of votes for women have
been widely criticized within the past
two days for annoying the Executive at
a time when he has great burdens of
state upon his shoulders.

Pickets who will be on duty today are
Mrs. W. G. Driver and Miss Ella Abeel,
of Chicago; Mrs. Z. H. Lofland and Mrs.
Margaret Bacon, of Wilmington, Del.;
Mrs. Alden Potter, Miss Potter, and Miss
Sarah Grant, of Minnesota; Mrs. Donald 
R. Hoker, Mrs. Townsend Scott, of
Maryland, and Miss Nina Swinnerton
and Miss Ida Kraft, of New York.
[*104th*]

 
Woman's Party Workers [*March 29*]
[*Wash. Herald*] Start Capitol Lobbying

The legislative committee of the National 
Woman's Party redoubled its
membership yesterday morning and began 
work on the Sixty-fifth Congress.
All day women made their way to Capitol
Hill, under direction of Miss Anne
Martin, of Nevada, and Miss Maud
Younger, of California, to meet and talk
with the newly arrived eighty-nine new
members who are to be seen before
Thursday night.

All Democrats known to have been
favorable to the Federal suffrage amendment
will be met preceding the noon
caucus tomorrow, and urged to place the
amendment in their legislative program
and among the special measures for defense.  
The same demand will be made
before the caucus of the Republicans tomorrow 
night.


Debate on Woman Suffrage.
Woman suffrage is to be debated tonight 
at 8 o'clock at a meeting in the
Mount Carmel Baptist Church, 3d and
I streets northwest, under the auspices
of the Texas Club, of which A. C. Smith
is president.  The affirmative side is
to be presented by Mrs. Jesse Hardy
MacKaye of the Congressional Union
and Miss Ida C. Plummer, lecturer.  The
negative will be upheld by Rev. Dr.
F. F. Martin and Dr. J. B. Williams.

Preceding the debate there is to be
a program of vocal and instrumental
solos.  Rev. Daniel L. Reed will preside 
at the meeting.
[*Wash. Star 
March 28*]


[*Wash Times 
March 28*]
Debate On Suffrage.
Mrs. Jessie Hardy MacKaye and
Miss Ida C. Plummer will uphold the
affirmative side of a suffrage debate
in Mt. Carmel Baptist Church.  Third
and I streets northwest, tonight at 8
o'clock.  The Rev. S. F. Martin and
Dr. J. B. Williams will speak against
giving women the ballot.  The debate
will be held under the auspices of the
Texas Club.

SUFFRAGE LOBBY BUSY

Committee of Woman's Party Meeting 
New Members.
The lobby committee of the National 
Woman's Party, consisting of
Mrs. Gilson Gardner, Mrs. George
Odell, Mrs. Abby Scott Baker, Mrs.
Alvin Barber, Mrs. William Kent, and
Mrs. Charles Edward Russell, under
the direction of the chairman, Miss
Maud Younger, of California, is meeting
each of the eighty-nine new
members of Congress as soon as 
possible after his arrival in Washington.

Arrangements have been made for 
the introduction of the amendment as
soon as the Sixty-fifth Congress convenes.
Senator Andreás Jones, the 
new chairman of the Woman Suffrage
Committee, will introduce it in the
Senate, and the new Congresswoman
from Montana, Miss Jeanette Rankin,
will introduce it in the House.
[*Wash. Times 
Mar. 26.*]

[*Wash. Times 
March 26*]
ABANDON "DIXIE DRIVE"

Suffrage Plans in South Changed
Because of War Crisis.
Promoters of the movement for a 
"Dixie Drive," in behalf of the woman
suffrage cause in the South, have decided 
to give up the project because
of the iminence of war, it was stated
at Cameron House, headquarters of
the Woman's party, today.

Plans for the spring drive were
interrupted when the President made
known his decision to convene Congress 
next Monday.  The early session 
will demand 'the presence in
Washington of Miss Maud Younger'
and Miss Mabel Vernon, who were
to have led the crusaders.

The work of exhorting the various
State organizations in the Southland
to greater endeavor will go ahead as
planned.  Miss Beulah Amidon, of 
North Dakota, known as the most
beautiful "suff," is here today en
route to South Carolina, where she
will assist the women to form a
Woman's party conference.


PRETTIEST SUFF PICKET
OFF TO CONVERT SOUTH

[*Herald 3-26-17*]
Woman's Party Starts Campaign Below 
Mason and Dixon Line.
Miss Beulah Amidon, of North Dakota,
the beautiful young suffragist who played
so important a part in the suffrage
picket on the White House, today paused
briefly in Washington on her return from
a vacation in New York, en route for
South Carolina, where she will help the
women of that State to organize a Woman's 
Party conference.  From South
Carolina Miss Amidon will leave for New
Orleans, where she will organize the
Louisiana conference before returning to
Washington.

Other organizers who will follow Miss
Amidon into the field are also making
plans for departure.  Miss Mable Vernon
will be stationed in Georgia and Alabama; 
Miss Vivian Pierce in Florida and
Tennessee; Mrs. E. St. Clair Thompson
in Mississippi and West Virginia; while
Miss Doris Stevens, chairman of organization
of the National Woman's Party,
will speak at the various Southern conferences.  
Mrs. Belmont, of New York,
is at present at her Southern estate at
High Point, N. C. She will speak at the
conference of women in that State and
probably in other Southern States.











[*Wash. Post
Feb 24*]
OLDEST SUFFRAGIST
ON GUARD MARCH 4

Rev. Olympia Brown, 
85, of Kenosha, Wis., 
to Join Pickets. 

Washington, having seen the youngest 
suffrage picket at the White House 
in the person of Miss Beulah Amidon, 
of North Dakota, is now to see the 
oldest. The Rev. Olympia Brown, of 
Kenosha, Wis., 85 years young, will 
participate in the big demonstration on 
March 4.

That the Rev. Mrs. Brown is an "honest 
to goodness" old-timer is vouched 
for by Miss Amidon, and suffrage archives 
mention her as a shoulder to 
shoulder supporter of Susan B. Anthony 
when being a suffragist was less 
popular than it is now. 

[*Eve Star
Feb. 23
Wash.*]
SUFFRAGISTS TURN DOWN
PROPOSAL FOR PARADE

A plan to have the suffragists supplement 
the White House demonstrations 
scheduled for March 4 with a parade 
along Pennsylvania avenue has been 
turned down by Miss Alice Paul, national 
chairman of the Congressional 
Union for Woman Suffrage, even though 
the proposition would enrich the suffrage 
war chest by several thousand 
dollars, it is stated. 

The men who have the inaugural 
grandstand privileges along Pennsylvania 
avenue sent an emissary to Miss 
Paul with an offer to share their receipts 
with the Congressional Union if 
she would arrange for a parade of the 
suffrage pickets along the route of the 
inaugural parade. 

WOMEN WANT FREEDOM, TOO

[*N. Y. Times*]
Congressional Union to Protest 
Porto Rican Self-Government.
There will be a protest against self-government 
for Porto Rico so long as 
it is "denied the women of the United 
States" at the mass meeting to be held 
at the Forty-eighth Street Theatre on 
Feb. 28 under the auspices of the Congressional 
Union for Woman Suffrage. 
Mrs. O. H. Belmont, who will preside, 
said yesterday: 

"The President has announced his desire 
for immediate action on the bill 
giving self-government to the Porto 
Ricans as a war measure. The imminence 
of war makes it wise, the President 
thinks, to insure the loyalty of the 
Porto Ricans. Meanwhile the women 
who have been asking for self-government 
for many long years are told to 
stand aside in the spite of the fact that the 
popular sentiment is much stronger in 
favor of giving it to them."
 
After the mass meeting the union will 
elect State officers and appoint delegates 
to the National Convention in Washington 
March 1, 2, 3, and 4. 


[*Wash. Herald–
Feb. 25*]
SAYS PICKETS HURT CAUSE. 

Suff Denounces Methods of Miss 
Paul and Followers. 
Editor The Washington Herald:  Please 
publish the following open letter to Miss 
Alice Paul, president of the Congressional 
Union for Woman Suffrage: 

"Dear Miss Paul—I have a notification 
from your organization of the intention 
of 'a great delegation of voting women, 
accompanied by unenfranchised women,' 
to march upon the White House on Sunday, 
March 4, and an invitation to join 
this delegation. I must decline your invitation 
and call your attention to the 
fact that more than a year ago I formally 
requested that my name be stricken from 
your list of members. 

"I do not yield to any advocate of 
woman suffrage in earnest belief in, and 
devotion to the cause. But since your 
organization adopted aggressive, partisan 
tactics, and methods of offensive personal 
heckling of our President, I withdrew 
my name and was no longer in sympathy 
with your work. In my own private 
opinion you have done more to hamper 
the cause and to antagonize the men 
who have the power to enact legislation 
than all other causes combined.
 
"I am proud to say that I am a member 
of the National Woman's Suffrage Association, 
whose methods are entirely different 
from yours, and much more effective, 
because they do not degrade 
woman's impregnably intrenched position 
on this subject by antagonizing methods,
 and childish tactics, such as the picketing 
of the White House. I have no sympathy 
whatever with a spirit that does 
not bury all personal and sex questions 
and rally in every possible way to the 
support of the government at a time of 
threatened national calamity. 

"It would seem that the womanly part 
at such a time as this would be to refrain 
from all demonstrations that have 
a tendency to add one jot or tittle to the 
President's burdens. 

"Very sincerely yours, 
"Mary McK. Childs."

SUFFRAGISTS "PEEVED"
BY RUSSIAN VICTORY

Can't See Why Women Get Vote There 
but Not Here. 
Grim determination fills the National 
Woman's Party since the recent cables 
from Russia announce that preliminary 
steps toward giving full political rights to 
Russian women have already been taken 
by the provisional government. If actual 
war in Russia does not block the enfranchisement 
of Russian women, then, 
in the opinion of the National Woman's 
Party, neither strained international relations 
nor war itself should serve as an 
excuse for longer delaying the national 
enfranchisement of American women. 

Miss Anne Martin, of Nevada, national 
vice chairman of the Woman's Party and 
chairman of the legislative committee, 
has telegraphed all the State chairmen 
and the State legislative chairmen of the 
organization to ask the President to include 
the Federal suffrage amendment in 
his legislative program. 

The lobby committee, consisting of 
Mrs. Gilson Gardner, Mrs. George Odell, 
Mrs. Abby Scott Baker, Mrs. Alvin Barber, 
Mrs. William Kent, and Mrs. Charles 
Edward Russell, under the direction of 
the chairman. Miss Maud Younger, of 
California, is meeting each of the eighty-nine 
new members of Congress as soon as 
possible after his arrival in Washington. 
Special effort is being made to urge the 
"Independents" to support the amend-
[*Wash. Herald – Mar. 27,*]

SUFFRAGISTS GET CHEER
FROM RUSSIAN REVOLT
[*Wash Star*]
Promise That Women There Shall 
Vote to Be Used as 
a Lever.   [*March 27,*]

Encouraged by the announcement 
that the women of Russia are to receive 
full political rights under the 
new regime, the woman's party will 
continue its fight with greater determination 
than ever before, for a constitutional 
amendment granting woman 
suffrage. If actual war in Russia does 
not block the enfranchisement of Russian 
women then, in the opinion of the 
National Woman's Party, neither 
strained international relations nor 
war itself should serve as an excuse 
for longer delaying the national enfranchisement 
of American women. 

With war raging on all sides, Holland 
has changed its constitution so 
that it no longer stands in the way of 
woman suffrage, and the fact that five 
Canadian provinces have given full 
suffrage to women since the beginning 
of the European war also is pointed 
out as another reason why the women 
of the United States should have the vote. 

Miss Anne Martin of Nevada, national 
vice chairman of the woman's party
and chairman of the legislative committee, 
has telegraphed all the state 
chairmen and the state legislative 
chairmen of the organization to ask 
President Wilson to include the federal 
suffrage amendment in his legislative 
program and to recommend its 
passage during the special session of 
Congress. 

SUFFRAGE WORKERS BUSY. 
[*Wash Star*]
Presenting Their Cause to Arriving 
Members of Congress. 
[*March 29,*]
The new members of Congress who 
are arriving in this city to attend the 
special session called for April 2 are 
being met by a committee of the National 
Woman's Party and urged to 
lend their support to the plan for a constitutional 
amendment granting woman 
suffrage. 

All democrats known to have been 
favorable to the federal suffrage 
amendment will be met preceding the 
caucus tomorrow at noon and urged to 
place the amendment in their legislative 
program and among the special 
measures for defense. The same demand 
will be made before the caucus 
tomorrow night of the republicans, and 
a suffrage stand urged in the caucus 
Saturday.

[*Wash. Times 
Feb 25-*]
TWO MILLION 
  WOMEN OFFER 
      TO SERVE U.S.  

Suffragists to Volunteer for 
War Service at Meeting 
Here Today. 

MRS. CATT THE SPOKESMAN

 "Against Conflict, But Loyal If 
it Comes," Is Keynote.   
Baker to Speak. 

    The services of two million women 
in case of war will be offered to Secretary 
of War Baker this afternoon 
by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, head of 
the National American Woman's Suffrage 
Association, at a suffrage mass 
meeting at Poli's Theater at 3:30 o'clock. 
    The keynote of the suffragists will 
be: "We are opposed to war, but if 
it comes you will find us prepared 
and ready to serve." 
For National Organization. 
   Mrs. Catt will speak for the national 
organization and as head of the 
suffrage executive council, which for 
the last two days had been closeted in 
secret session, considering plans for 
mobilizing the 2,000,000 members of 
the national organization in event of 
emergency.
    Secretary Baker will formally receive 
the tender of the women's services.  
This will be his first public 
appearance since the break with Germany.  
   The subject selected for discussion 
by Secretary Baker this afternoon is 
"Economic Conservation." 
   While it is expected that the Secretary 
will confine his remarks chiefly 
to a survey of the economic 
strength of the United States, it is 
though he will refer to plans that 
are being put under way for the 
Government to cope with any emergency 
that may arise from the international 
situation.  
Dr. Shaw to Speak. 
   Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, who made 
the trip from her winter home in 
Florida to attend the sessions of the 
executive council, will speak this 
afternoon.  Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, 
will also speak.  
   Mrs. McAdoo, wife of the Secretary
of the Treasury; Mrs. Baker, wife of
the Secretary of War; Mrs. Houston,
wife of the Secretary of Agriculture,
and many other notables in society
in Washington, will occupy seats on
the stage. Other reserved seats will
be occupied by the executive suffrage
council.   
   Among those who will occupy boxes 
will be Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Miss
Heloise Meyer, Mrs. Mary Foote Henderson
and Mrs. Adolph Miller.  
    The music will be directed by Meye Davis.  


[*Wash. Star
Feb 24*]
SUFFRAGE SUNDAY PLAN
         CALLED "UNCHRISTIAN"
Woman's Interdenominational Union 
Asks That Proposed Demonstration 
at White House Be Abandoned. 
    Characterizing the proposed suffrage 
demonstration on Sunday, March 4, as
"unchristian," "uncivilized," "unamerican," 
and "unwomanly," as "American
women are interested in the promotion 
of the Sabbath day as a day of rest and 
worship," the Woman's Interdenominational 
Union of the District of Columbia, 
meeting at the Public Library 
yesterday afternoon, adopted resolutions 
calling upon the Congressional 
Union for Woman Suffrage to abandon 
their plans. 
    The plan of the suffrage body to 
which the missionary union files objection 
contemplates having a large delegation 
of voting women, led by Miss
Anne Martin of Nevada, to call at the 
White House immediately after President
Wilson takes the oath of office, 
and demand his indorsement of federal 
legislation for the enfranchisement of 
women. Mds. O. H. P. Belmont of New 
York, Mrs. Florence Bayard Hilles of 
Delaware and Mrs. J. A. H. Hopkins of 
New Jersey are to act as spokesmen 
for the unenfranchised women in the 
delegation. 
    Mrs. W. F. Crafts, vice president of 
the Interdenominational Union, and 
chairman of its committee on legislation, 
presented the protest. The resolution 
concludes by saying: "The Interdenominational 
Missionary Union 
further believes that the proposed 
demonstration will react against woman's 
suffrage, alienating Christian 
women."  
    Mrs. John N Culbertson, president, 
yesterday presented Mrs. J. E. Gilbert 
as presiding officer for the afternoon.  
Mrs. L. M. Maus spoke on mission work 
in the Philippines, and Mrs. Isaac Pearson 
and Mrs. F. E. Edgington talked 
of Waldensian mission work in Italy.  


 [*Herald*]
FEBRUARY 25, 1917.
SUFFS FOLLOW BIBLE;
      WILL CIRCLE 7 TIMES

But White House Walls May Withstand 
Strain.
    Taking a leaf from the Old Testament 
as their guide, the suffrage pickets will 
march around the White House walls.  On 
the seventh day--next Sunday, to be exact-- 
they shall "compass the 'City of Watchful 
Waiting' seven times, "and seven 
priestesses bearing the suffrage ark 
shall blow with trumpets."  
    "And it shall come to pass," according 
to the official announcement issued from 
the national headquarters of the Congressional 
Union, "that when they make 
a long blast with the ram's horn, and 
when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, 
all the people shall shout with a great 
shout; and the walls of the city shall fall 
down flat." 


[*(Con-) Herald
Feb 25*]
    At least that is the way the leaders of 
the suffrage hosts are planning to have 
things work out. But whether the walls 
fall or not the suffragists intend to make 
their demonstration next Sunday afternoon 
the most vivid and picturesque suffrage 
event that has even been staged.  
    At the head of the line will march Vida
Milholland, sister of Inez Milholland
Boissevain. Vida Milholland is taking her 
sister's place in the suffrage ranks out 
of loyalty to Inez and to help carry on 
the fight for which her sister died.  
    Behind her in line will come Mrs. Jessie
Hardy Stubbs MacKaye, veteran bearer 
of the Congressional Union banner that 
has been carried in every suffrage demonstration 
of note since 1913. Then will 
come the seven suffrage priestesses with 
trumpets of rams' horns and bearing the 
suffrage ark. 
    A brigade of 1,000 banner-bearers carrying 
the purple, white and gold tri-colors 
of the Congressional Union will be next
 in line, and behind these will come the 
State delegations, each led by a captain 
carrying the State flag. 


[*Wash Star 
Feb 24 *]
SUFFRAGISTS ADVERTISE 
MARCH 4 DEMONSTRATION
Banners Advise Women to Be at 
White House at
3 O'clock.  
The Congressional Union for Woman 
Suffrage took up in earnest today its 
outdoor advertising in connection with 
the suffrage demonstration . at . . the 
White House March 4 and the mass 
meeting in the National Theater that 
night.  
    The union sent out a suffrage cab 
flying the purple, gold, and white pennants 
of the organization and bearing 
signs that read, "Be at the White 
House at 3 o'clock March 4."  
    The cab, which is horse-drawn, will 
carry pretty suffragists from national 
headquarters to street meetings in all 
parts of the District. Miss Hazel Hunkins, 
a woman voter from Montana, 
and Miss Mabel Vernon of Delaware 
were scheduled to attend to today's 
street meetings.  
    Early Monday morning the Congressional 
Union information bureau 
will be opened in the Union station and 
young women bearing suffrage standards 
will meet all incoming trains and 
guide the visiting suffragists to this 
bureau. Mrs. Eleanor Arrison of 
Philadelphia and Miss Marion M. Gaw 
of Kansas will be in charge of the bureau.  
    Suffrage standard bearers will also 
stand just outside all of the theaters 
in Washington next week with banners 
advertising the White House demonstration.

[*N.Y. Tribune
3-18-17*] New York
Women of West 
Will Invade Dixie 
in Suffrage 'Drive'
Motor Expedition to Spread 
Gospel of National 
Woman's Party
Alliance Is Planned
Feminine Campaigners Aim 
at Political Union with 
the South
(From the Tribune Bureau.)
    Washington, March 17. Believing 
that the time is now ripe for a political 
the alliance between the South and West, 
the National Woman's Party will send 
into the South on April 1 an expedition 
led by Miss Maud Younger, of 
California, and composed exclusively 
of women voters.  
    Thirteen states which have not yet 
been fully organized by the National 
Woman's Party and which are the 
strongholds of the Democratic party 
will be visited by the suffragists in 
the "Dixie drive."  
    The expedition will be conducted entirely 
by motor. Mass meetings will be 
held in the principal towns and cities, 
and state conventions of the newly organized 
branches of the woman's party 
will be held at all capitals.  In addition 
deputations will be sent to the 
Democratic leaders of the House and 
Senate and to all Southern members of 
the Rules and Judiciary committees.  
The states to be visited include Virginia, 
North Carolina, South Carolina, 
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, 
Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, 
West Virginia and Maryland.  
    Half a dozen organizers have been 
sent to the South in advance of the 
woman's party leaders. These include 
Miss Vivian Pierce, of California; Miss 
Beulah Amidon, of North Dakota; Miss 
St. Clair Thompson, of North Carolina; 
Miss Doris Stevens, of Nebraska; Miss 
Mabel Vernon, of Delaware, and Miss 
Lucy Branham, of Maryland.  
    Intense interest is being shown by 
the women of the Southern states in 
the approaching invasion. Louisiana 
women want assistance in reaching the 
suffragists of their state, and have sent 
to national headquarters for an organizer.  
Mississippi women are making 
the organization of the Mississippi conference 
an official matter. The Governor 
of Mississippi has offered the 
woman's party at the State Capitol as 
headquarters from which to reach the 
women of the state. He will be one 
of the speakers at the conference.  
    Majority leader Claude Kitchin, Representative 
Pou, chairman of the Rules 
Committee, and Representative Webb, 
chairman of the Judiciary Committee, 
will be in the first group of Congressmen 
to be reached when the Dixie 
squadron arrives in North Carolina, 
where a conference is to be held at 
Charlotte.  


[*Wash. 
Eve. Star
Mar. 22*] Washington
NOT TO HEAD "DIXIE DRIVE."
Miss Martin and Miss Younger to 
Remain Here for Congress Session.  
Announcement of the calling of Congress 
in the extra session, April 2 has resulted 
in a change in the program for 
the "Dixie drive," the friendly invasion 
of the south planned by the national 
woman's party to accelerate the passage 
of the federal suffrage amendment.  
    Miss Anne Martin of Nevada, chairman 
of the legislative committee, and 
Miss Maud Younger of California, chairman 
of the lobby committee, who were 
to have headed the expedition, must 
remain in Washington and bring to 
bear every possible measure upon the 
legislators on behalf of the federal 
amendment when they reconvene April
2. 
   It is thought probable that Mrs. Abby
Scott Baker of this city, member of the 
the national executive committee of the
THE EVENING STAR
the national executive committee of the
woman's party, and Miss Marion May
of Georgia, member of the national advisory
council of the party will be
substituted in the visit to the south.
JOINS WITH WOMAN'S PARTY.
Just Government League of Maryland 
Announces Merger.
    The Just Government League of 
Maryland has merged with the woman's 
party, according to an announcement 
made today.  This was affected at a 
meeting held at the home of the president 
of the league, Mrs. Donald R.
Hooker, in Baltimore.  
    The Just Government League is one 
of the largest and most aggressive 
state suffrage organizations in the 
country, and will bring into the active 
campaign for the passage of the federal 
suffrage amendment almost 8,000 
women, it is stated. Its action in amalgamating 
with the national woman's 
the party is considered by the leaders of 
the party as significant of the new attitude 
which the women of the south 
have taken toward the subject of national 
suffrage.  
[*Wash. Star.*]
Some of the votes-for-women advocates 
do not intend to allow war to interfere 
with their politics.  [*Mar. 23*]

[*Times 
Feb. 25*]
THE WASHINGTON
SUFFS TO EMULATE 
ARMIES OF JOSHUA 
Will Encompass White House 
and Blow Blasts on Silver 
Trumpets. 
A vivid dramatization of the sixth 
chapter of Joshua will be staged by the 
suffrage sentinels at the White House 
this week, beginning tomorrow and concluding 
with the monster demonstration 
next Sunday.  
    Every day the suffrage hosts, like 
those of Joshua will march solemnly 
around the iron fence of the White
House, and on the seventh day--next 
Sunday--they will encompass the executive 
mansion seven times.  
    To bring more forcibly to the Presidential 
ear the fact that women want 
the ballot, six "high and mighty 
priestesses shall blow a blast upon silver 
trumpets."  
    Women from every State in the union 
will participate in next Sunday's demonstration. 
Calls for 100,000 volunteers 
were scattered broadcast, and Congressional 
union leaders say there will be 
thousands in line.  
    Wealth will walk side by side 
with poverty. Tramping shoulder to 
shoulder with Mrs. O. P. Belmont, of 
New York, Mrs. William Kent, of California; 
Mrs. Florence Bayard Hilles, of 
Delaware, and others who helped to 
finance the Federal amendment campaign, 
will be girls and women whose 
slender purses are being stretched to the 
limit to make possible the pilgrimage 
to Washington.  
[*Washing*]
IN TIMES, SUNDAY,
SUFFRAGE PUBLICITY PLAN 
Campaign to Be Conducted With 
Mrs. Leslie's Million. 
    A publicity campaign to spread suffrage 
news overall non-suffrage territory 
this summer will be one of 
the several things that the $1,000,000 
bequeathed by Mrs. Frank Leslie 
makes possible for the National 
American Woman's Suffrage Association.  
    Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, head of 
the national body, said today that the 
"Leslie Woman's Suffrage Commission" 
had been created to expand the 
the fund, and that the members of it, in 
addition to Mrs. Catt, are Miss Alice
Stone Blackwell, of New York; Mrs.
Harriet Taylor Upton, of Ohio; Mrs.
Winston Churchill, of New Hampshire, 
and Mrs. Raymond Robbins, of Illinois.  
    Miss Rose Young, of New York, has 
been appointed director of all educational 
work and editor of the Suffrage 
News.
[*Feb. 25*]

[*Sunday Star*]
D. C., MARCH 18,
  WOMEN'S "DIXIE DRIVE"
           WILL START APRIL 1

Suffrage Campaign to Be Carried to 
Thirteen Southern States—To 
Travel by Motor.
     A “Dixie Drive” is to be started by the 
National Woman’s Party April 1, 
through thirteen states which have not 
yet been fully organized by the party 
and which are the strongholds of the 
democratic party.  Miss Maud Younger, 
a woman voter of California is to be 
in charge of the drive. 
     The “Dixie Drive” will be conducted 
entirely by the motor. Mass meetings will 
be held in the principal towns and 
cities of all the states visited, and state 
conventions of the newly organized 
branches of the woman’s party will be 
held at all state capitals. The states to 
be visited include Virginia, North Carolina, 
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, 
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, 
Arkansas, Kentucky, West Virginia 
and Maryland.  

Organizers Sent Ahead.
     In preparation for the southern trip 
several organizers have been sent to 
the south in advance of the woman’s 
party leaders. They include Miss Vivian Pierce 
of California Miss Beulah Amidon 
of North Dakota, Mrs. St. Clair Thompson 
of North Carolina, Miss Doris Stevens 
of Nebraska, Miss Mabel Vernon 
of Delaware and Miss Lucy Branham 
of Maryland.  
     The southern trip will not be concluded 
until June 3, and while it is 
going on legislative activities and organization 
of conferences will continue 
in many other parts of the country. It 
is the purpose of the National Woman’s 
Party leaders to have every congressional 
district well organized and every 
congressman posted by his constituents 
as to how he stands regarding the 
federal suffrage amendment by the time 
the regular session of the Sixty-fifth 
Congress convenes.  

WHY DID THE SUFIS DISAPPEAR.
"The suffragists wait without the gate," 
  Quoth faithful Tumultee:
"Without the gate?" asked Woody 
     hate, 
  "Then give 'em the gate!" quoth he.
                                     -T. S. H.
[*Wash. Herald Mar 18*]


[*Wash. Herald 
Mar 18- 
1917-*]
MARCH 18, 1917.

WESTERN SUFFRAGISTS 
PLAN "DIXIE DRIVE"

Expedition for Votes for Women to
Invade the Southern States.
   Believe that the time is now ripe for 
a political alliance between the South and 
the West, the National Woman's Party 
will launch on April 1 one of the most 
dramatic suffrage expeditions that have 
ever gone into the South.  The expedition 
will be led by Miss Maud Younger, a 
woman voter of California, and will be 
composed exclusively of woman voters.  
   Thirteen states which have not yet been 
fully organized by the National Woman's 
Party and which are the strongholds of 
the Democratic party will be visited by 
the suffragists in their "Dixie Drive."  
   The plan was briefly explained yesterday 
by Mrs. William Kent, wife of former 
Representative Kent, of California, 
who said:
   "The last national election showed the 
growth of the sympathy and understanding 
existing between the South and the 
West.  The women of the West believe 
that a great political opportunity is now 
facing the South, and they want the 
South to appreciate it.  But they want 
the South to understand that this opportunity 
cannot be realized to the fullest until 
the men of the South enfranchise their 
women and give them the same political 
privileges now enjoyed by the women in 
fifteen of the big Western and Middle 
The Western States."
   The "Dixie Drive" will be conducted 
entirely by the motor.  Mass meetings will 
be held in principal towns and cities of 
all the States visited, and State conventions 
of the newly organized branches of 
the Woman's Party will be held at all 
State capitals.  In addition, deputations 
will be sent to the Democratic leaders of 
the House and Senate and to all Southern 
members of the Rules and Judiciary 
Committees.  

[*N. Y. World 3-18-17*] 
   Mrs. George W. Wickersham is to be 
hostess next Thursday afternoon at the 
regular weekly tea to be given at the 
headquarters of the New York State 
Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage.  
Mrs. Wickersham will be assisted 
by her daughter, Miss Constance Wickersham, 
and the speaker of the 
the afternoon will be Miss Margaret Uhl.  
   Mrs. Nelson H. Henry, assisted by 
Mrs. H. McK. Ferriday, was hostess at 
the tea last Thursday.  A large gathering 
heard Mrs. George Phillips on Legislative 
Suffrage.  After Mrs. George W. Wickersham, 
the hostesses will be 
Miss Alice Chittenden, Mrs. A. Sumner Rose, 
the members of the Junior 
Anti-Suffrage League, and Mrs. Ernest Warrin.  
Mrs. Warrin has engaged 
Miss Charlotte Rowe as speaker.  


SUFFRAGE MAUD MULLERS 
[*Wash. Times - 3-20-17*]
Woman's Party Hopes to Pay Rent 
With Vegetable Garden. 
   By converting the front of the 
quaint old headquarters on Lafayette 
Square into a garden of purple, white 
and gold flowers, the National 
Woman's Party will keep its colors 
before the public all summer long.  
But in a side garden, screened from 
the public by a brick wall with iron 
spikes on the top of it, the soil has 
been turned into a vegetable garden 
for the raising of onions, potatoes 
and other products.  By the sale of 
this the Woman's Party hopes not 
only to pay its rent, but to make 
some money for campaign purposes 
as well.  
   The secret leaked out today, when 
Mrs. S. P. Martin, the only woman 
florist in Washington began poking 
holes in the yard of the Lafayette 
Square headquarters.   
Expect Crop to Pay Rent.
   A passing reporter was attracted 
by so much feminine energy, and inquired 
why all the excavating.  Then 
was unfolded the plan of floriculture 
for the front portion of the property.  
   "Fine," said the newspaperman, 
"But how about a vegetable garden?  
Are you going to have one?"  
   Mrs. Martin looked at him pityingly.  
   "Do you think we'd overlook that, 
with potatoes worth more per pound 
than violets?  I should say not.  We 
expect our potato and onion crops to 
pay the rent, and they're going to 
do it, too, because we women are
going to dig this garden and lookout 
for it all by ourselves.  No mere man 
shall enter the sacred precincts, not 
even with a spade."  

Suffrage Maud Mullers.
    The reporter saw a vision of a 
corps of suffrage Maud Mullers, and 
glanced at the brick wall with its 
iron spike[s] that hides the site of the 
proposed vegetable garden from prying 
eyes.
   "Digging's pretty hard work for a 
woman," he ventured.  
   Mrs. Martin gazed at him sympathetically.  
Then:  
   "My dear young man, if you had 
ever worked for suffrage you would 
consider digging a garden pure recreation."  

TO REOPEN RECRUITING. 
   On Thursday morning the big recruiting 
tent, removed to make room 
for the inaugural decorations, will be 
open for business.  The tent is to be 
placed at Seventh street and Pennsylvania 
avenue.  Work on the flooring 
will start today.
[*Wash. Times
3-20-17*]

THE WORLD: SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 1917.

SUFFRAGE "CHAIN" 
TO CIRCLE WILSON

Women to Form Line Around 
White House This Afternoon 
in Silent Plea for Federal 
Amendment.

POLICE TAKE PRECAUTION 
TO PREVENT DISTURBANCE.

I will Check Mob Violence of
Last Inaugural--Israelite
March Abandoned.

    WASHINGTON, March 3. -- Encircling 
the White House with a chain 
of purple, white, and gold, Woman Suffragists 
will bring to a climax tomorrow, 
in a two-hour silent demonstration, 
their siege of President Wilson on 
behalf of a Federal Suffrage Amendment.
    About a thousand women, members 
of the Congressional Union and the 
National Woman's Party, has enlisted 
to lengthen, for the final watch, the 
line of "pickets" at the White House 
gates for the last six weeks, encompassing 
the President's comings and 
goings to impress him in the last days 
of his first term with their determination 
to have the ballot.
    Only in a modified form, however, 
will the demonstration follow the plans 

that had been laid to reproduce the 
march of the Israelites around Jericho.
At first, it was proposed to 
circle the White House seven times, 
with seven "priestesses" carrying the 
"Suffrage ark," and accompanied by 
"a long blast of the ram's horn," the 
citadel signifying the Suffragists 
the stronghold of opposition to the 
cause of Suffragists by the Federal amendment.
    That method of "attack" has been 
abandoned, and some of the leaders 
explain that the critical international 
the situation would make such a demonstration 
appear in bad taste. Others 
hint that some in the Suffrage ranks 
thought it might seem to border on 
the sacrilegious.
    President Still Firm.
    Outwardly, the President has shown 
no sign of wavering in his opposition 
to a Federal amendment, and his 
preference for Suffrage by State enactment. 
Daily he has smiled and 
saluted the "pickets."
    Tomorrow's demonstration, the 
most remarkable perhaps of all those 
that have characterized the fight for 
equal suffrage will begin at 3 P. M., 
three hours after the official beginning 
of the new Presidential term.
    Forming at the Union headquarters 
in a nearby street, the line will proceed 
past the east entrance of the 
White House, encompasses the semi-circular 
the southern boundary of the 
grounds, pass up the street between 
the White House and the State, War 
and Navy Building, and back to the 
east on Pennsylvania Avenue, halting 
when the ring has been completed. 
For two hours, then, the line is to be 
kept at attention.
   Miss Vida Milholland of New York, 
a younger sister of Mrs. Inez Milholland 
Boissevain will lead the march.
Behind her will be borne the old banner 
heralding a Suffrage amendment, 
carried for many years in Suffrage 
parades over the Continent. Then will 
come to a group of State delegations, 
and last, the rank and file of women, 
including lawyers, doctors, social 
leaders, nurses, and stenographers. 
    Today a dozen of the leaders, wearing 
gold, white and purple, and yellow 
sou'westers threaded the growing 
inauguration crowds in a rainstorm, 

bearing banners calling on women to 
"go to the White House tomorrow."
    Will Prevent Disturbance. 
    The women and the police believe 
the demonstration will develop none 
of the rioting that marked the Suffrage 
parade on the day before the inauguration 
four years ago. Then a 
pageant on Pennsylvania Avenue was 
broken up by a mob that overwhelmed 
the police, and a troop of 
cavalry had to be called to restore 
order. Capital police officials said to-night 
that precautions preclude 
such a disturbance would be taken 
to-morrow.
    Besides bringing to a close the 
White House picketing, the march 
around the White House will wind up 
a three-day convention here, at which 
the Congressional Union and the 
Women's Party was merged, under 
the Presidency of Miss Alice Paul of
Pennsylvania.  Miss Anne Martin of 
Nevada, who was the first Chairman 
of the Women's Party was elected 
Vice-Chairman today, and the reorganization 
was completed with the 
selection of an Executive Committee
of ten. Miss Mabel Vernon of Nevada 
was elected Secretary and Miss 
Gertrude Crocker of Illinois Treasurer.


[*Wash. Eve. Star March 16 -17*]
Suffragists to See New Members.
    Plans for posting every member of 
the new Congress as to how his constituents 
stand on the matter of the 
federal suffrage amendment has been 
perfected by the national woman's 
party, according to an announcement 
made at the headquarters of that organization. 
Deputations will be sent 
to each new member urging that his 
support be given to the campaign for 
national suffrage for women.

[*Wash. Times March 16 -17*]
TO EDUCATE CONGRESSMEN.
    It was announced at the national 
headquarters of the National Woman's 
Party today that before the reconvening 
of Congress, April 16, the suffrage 
organization in every Congressional 
the district would furnish every 
Congressman the attitude of his constituents 
on woman suffrage.

[*Wash. Herald - Fri - March 16 -*]
WOMEN LAY PLANS 
FOR "SUFF" DRIVE
    Every Senator and Congressman to Be 
    Told How His Constituents Stand.
    An announcement was made at the headquarters 
of the National Woman's Party 
yesterday that between now and the 
reconvening of Congress on April 16
the organization of every Congressional 
district in the country will be perfected 
and every Congressman posted by his 
constituents as to how they stand-in 
regard to the Federal suffrage amendment.
In addition, deputations will be 
sent to every new Senator and every 
new member of the House, urging them 
to give their support to the campaign 
for national suffrage.
   Summarizing the work that is now 
going on in preparation for the extra session 
of Congress, Mrs. Abby Scott Baker, 
member of the National executive 
the committee, and press chairman of the 
National Woman's Party, yesterday said:
    "In New York Miss Lucy Barnes is 
arranging a deputation to Senator William 
L. Calder. Mrs. Clarence M. Smith 
is organizing a deputation to the New 
York representatives. Mrs. Florence 
Bayard Hilles, of Wilmington, member 
of the national executive committee of 
the National Woman's Party is arranging 
for deputations to the two new members 
from Delaware, Representative Polk 
and Senator Walcott. Active legislative 
work is going forward in Maryland,
under the leadership of Mrs. Townsend 
Scott, State chairman. Miss Lucy Branham
is organizing the Eastern Shore 
districts and arranging deputations to 
Congressmen."

THE WASHINGTON POST:

Post 3-5-17

Suffrage Ranks as They Braved Rain
In the Final "Picket" Demonstration

Start of the parade from headquarters at the top; center, marching
around the White House, and, bottom, the committee that could not reach
President Wilson to present their resolution.

"SUFFS" NO MATCH FOR WHITE HOUSE JERICHO
[*My World 3-5-17*]
[IMG]
SUFFRAGETTES DOING PICKET DUTY at WHITE HOUSE GATE
c American Press Association 
Five Hundred, in Drenching Rain, Circle It, but Miracle Fails to Work. 
(Special to The World)
      WASHINGTON, March 4. - Five hundred Suffragists walked around the White House grounds this afternoon until they were drenched to the skin, but they made no more impression - so far as could be seen - than they would have by parading around the Pyramids. 
      The walls of Jericho did not fall. The iron gates which bar the way to the White House were held with padlocks and they remained sealed up until the last streaked and rain-soaked Suffrage banner disappeared through Lafayette Square. 
      The National Woman's Party had announced that the Biblical miracle was about to be re-enacted and that after the 500 marchers had passed around the grounds for the seventh time the White House gates would open and the President would receive them. 
     But the marchers and their field marshals reckoned without Police Sergt. McQuade and 150 assistants had instructions to see that no woman passed into the White House grounds. 
      At 3 o'clock, while rain poured down steadily, 500 women with banners and streamers were marshaled in front of the old Don Cameron house, almost opposite the White House. As a band struck up the "Marseillaise" and switched off to "The Wearing of the Green" the parade started down Executive Avenue and began marching around the White House grounds. 
     The march was led by Vida Milholland, sister of Inez Milholland Boissevain, who until her death recently in California was one of the most active workers in the Suffrage ranks. Behind Miss Milholland was carried a banner of many campaigns inscribed "We demand an amendment to the United States Constitution enfranchising women."
     There were just two men in the line of marchers. One held an umbrella over his wife, and the other carried a banner for some women unable to march. 
     There were women and girls of all ages in line. The oldest, Suffrage leaders said, was eighty-six. The youngest was five. There were working girls marching beside wives of millionaires. All, except a few elderly women, marched until the end. 
     After the line had completely circled the grounds, and while the marchers stood at attention in front of the iron picket fence, a committee led by Miss Anne Martin and Mrs. J. A. Hopkins, wife of the Progressive leader of New Jersey, approached the gate near the Executive Offices and asked to see the President. 
     "No," said Sergt. McQuade. "This gate is locked and the key is in my pocket. I have orders that no one shall enter here, and I must carry out my orders."
     The committee stood its ground. To every request for admission, the Sergeant repeated that "Orders were orders" and that none could enter. 
     "Well, this is strange," said Mrs. Hopkins. "I am invited to lunch at the White House tomorrow, and I'm not even allowed to enter the grounds today."
      Finally Sergt. McQuade was asked to take to the White House a note from the Committee. He replied that he could take nothing to the White House. 
     "There's nobody home today," he insisted. He finally agreed to lay the following note on Secretary Tumulty's desk after he was relieved from duty: "To the President of the United States, The White House, Washington. 
      "Dear Mr. President: Since we were unable to present our resolutions to you this afternoon, I have the honor to enclose them with this note. Acknowledgment may be made to Miss Anne Martin, Chairman of our delegation. Our committee is composed of the following women: Miss Anne Martin of Nevada, Mrs. William Kent of California, Mrs. Mary Darrow Woible of North Dakota, Miss Mary Patterson of Ohio, Miss Eleanor Barker of Indiana, Mrs. J. A. H. Hopkins of New Jersey, Mrs. Welch of New York and myself. 
     "Very respectfully yours, 
"Florence Bayard Hilles."


SUFFRAGE WORKERS PUT ASIDE "CAUSE" 
Forget Their Chief Object in Life for Day to Mingle With Crowds. 
[*Times 3-5-17*]
UNDAUNTED BY FAILURE
Refuse to Be Discouraged Because They Didn't Get Into White House. 
     Undaunted by their failure to pierce the steel gates of the White House and appeal personally to President Wilson yesterday, members of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage today have for the minute laid aside their chief object in life, the vote, and joined with the inaugural crowds. 
    Before abandoning their active works for participation in the festivities, however, they showed how they felt, four hours after the White House picketing ceased when at the mass meeting in the New National Theater, $50,843 was pledged to finance the suffrage campaign for the year. The contributions ranged from $1, collected from stagehands, to $15,000 pledged in a telegram from Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, of New York, who was ill and unable to attend the meeting. 
$6,000 Pledged By Branch. 
    The District branch pledged $6,000 through its chairman, Mrs. W. Thompson Burch. Mrs. Harvey Wiley, Mrs. Paul Dessez, Mrs. Gilson Gardner, and others prominent in suffrage ranks here made individual contributions aggregating several hundred dollars more. 
     Miss Lucy Burns, of New York, presided at the meeting The speakers were Miss Maud Younger, of California; Mrs. Florence Bayard Hillis, of Delaware; the Rev. Allan McCurdy, of New York, and Mrs. George Middleton, the daughter of Senator La Follette, and known in suffrage work, and Miss Fola La Follette. 
Miss Milholland Sings. 
     Miss Vida Millholland, who has just taken up suffrage work as a memorial to her sister, Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain, sang the woman's "Marseillaise."
     The rainbow of yellow, purple, and white which entirely encompassed the White House yesterday was accomplished with no apparent difficulty except the persistent opposition of the elements. Only one of the numerous pickets found the weather and the struggle of carrying her heavy banner too difficult, and Miss Beulah Amidon, the South Dakota beauty, collapsed after reaching headquarters and was removed to Emergency Hospital. Her condition today was improved. 
Terminates Picketing. 
     The demonstration about the executive grounds terminated the system of picketing that has prevailed for more than two months at the gates of the White House. 
     While the committee bearing the suffrage resolution failed to gain admission to the executive offices, their message having been received by Sergeant McQuade, many of the marchers did get a glimpse of the President. 
     While the [?] between Miss Anne Martin, [?]he deputation, and the White House policeman was in progress, the President and Mrs. Wilson passed out of the east gate in their automobile. The marchers formed lines between which the machine passed, but the President's attention was oblivious to the suffragists. 
Who Carried Banners. 
     The State banners were carried by the following women: California, Mrs. Vernon V. Rood; Colorado, Mrs. M. V. Shonyo; Connecticut, Mrs. W. D. Ascough; Delaware, Mrs. Florence Bayard Hillis; Florida, Mrs. Charles Owens; Georgia, Mrs. Clara Kennon; Illinois, Mrs. Bertram Sippy; Indiana, Miss Eleanor P. Barker; Iowa, Miss Florence Harst; Kansas, Miss Marion McGaw; Louisiana, Miss Madge Bolen; Maine, Mrs. Robert Treat Whitehouse; Maryland, Mrs. Townsend Scott; Massachusetts, Miss Josephine Collins; Michigan, Mrs. Harry Coleman; Minnesota, Mrs. Alfred H. Bright; Mississippi, Miss Belle Kearney; Missouri, Mrs. A F[?] Montana, Miss Hazel Hunkins; Nebraska, Miss Joy L. Webster; New Hampshire, Mrs. Ida Lewis; New Jersey, Mrs. J. A. H. Hopkins; New York, Mrs. Ribert Adamson; North Carolina, Miss Virginia Arnold; North Dakota, Mrs. Mary Weible; Ohio, Mrs. [?]  Head, Vandalia; Oklahoma, Mrs. [?] ert Owen; Oregon, Dr. Flo[?] Manion; Pennsylvania, Miss [?] Ernst Kennedy; Rhode Island, [?] Ingebord Kindstedt; South Dakota, Miss Rebecca Blaine; Tennessee, [?] L. Crozier French; Utah, Mrs. Jo[?] Howell; Virginia, Mrs. Sophie Meredith; Washington, Dr. Smith King; West Virginia, Charlotte Johnston; Wisconsin, John Nelson, and Wyoming, Frank Mondell. 
     The mass meeting last night c[?] the three days session of the Congressional Union and the National Woman's Party.

Wilson Gives Suffrage Guard The Slip by Using Side Gate
[*Ny Tribune 3-4-17*]
Last Patrol Misses Presidential Bow and Smile, While Pickets Prepare for March on White House To-day to Present Demands. 
Washington, March 3. - President Wilson hurt the feelings of sixteen suffrage pickets this afternoon when he walked out of the side gate of the White House grounds and thereby deprived those silent sentinels of their last chance for a smile and bow from him. It was the final appearance of the plain workaday pickets in their rain-coats and old clothes. To-morrow they will blossom forth with spring finery, two brass bands and 984 assistants, so, as one old campaigner observed to another as they struggled into their slickers, it would not be the same at all. 
     After to-morrow the pickets will be withdrawn. Perhaps the President didn't know that, but, anyway, off he strode through the other gate without a glance at the women. 
     "He always used to come out and bow to us so nicely," mourned Miss Marion Lessey. "I have been here every afternoon since we started on January 10, and he never failed to salute us - although, of course, that didn't give us the vote."
     Every state where women vote, and a few others, were represented in the last picket. Mrs. J. Archer Rulon, of Philadelphia, held the banner asking "Mr. President, How Long Must Women Wait for Liberty?" and Mrs. Katharine Wolfe, of Gary, Ind., the counter banner of, "Mr. President, What Will You Do for Woman Suffrage?"
     Even little Serena Kearns, the solemn faced Quaker child, who is a veteran campaigner, felt the chill after the President had gone out the back gate, and consented to go home. At 5 o'clock the captain gloomily gave the order to retreat, and the disappointed women picked up their banners and marched across the street. If they have softened the mind of the President on the subject of woman suffrage, they were not to be allowed to know it yet. 
     There are those who are hopeful of being granted an audience to-morrow, when the pickets, 1,000 strong, will completely encircle the White House. Mrs. J. A. H. Hopkins of New Jersey; Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, of New York, and Mrs. Florence Bayard Hillis, of Delaware, with three women voters of the West will send in their cards to the President at 3 o'clock, just after he has taken the oath of office, and the optimists think that he will send out work that will invite them in. Miss Vida Milholland, of New York, will lead the line to-morrow as a memorial to her sister, Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain, whose place she is now trying to fill in the suffrage movement. 
Suffragists Ready to March
     Forming at the union headquarters, the marches will proceed on their way. Behind Miss Milholland will be borne the old banner heralding of suffrage amendment carried for many years in suffrage parades over the continent. Then will come a group of state delegations, and last of all the rank and file of women. To-day a dozen of the leaders, wearing the gold, white and purple and yellow sou'westers, threaded the growing inauguration crowds in a rainstorm, bearing banners calling on women to "go to the White House to-morrow."
     The women and the police believe the demonstration will develop none of the rioting that marked the suffrage parade on the day before inauguration four years ago. 
     Besides bringing a close to the White House picketing, the march around the White House will wind up a three-day convention here, at which the Congressional Union and the Women's Party were merged under the presidency of Miss Alice Paul, of Pennsylvania. 
     John E. Milholland, father of Miss Milholland, was one of the speakers at the suffrage dinner which took place to-night at Rauscher's. Mrs. Frederick C. Howe, wife of the Commissioner of Immigration, was toastmistress, and other speakers were Mrs. John Rogers, jr., of New York; Gilson Gardner, of Washington, and Kenneth C. Beaton, of Oregon, familiarly known as K. C. B.
Model of "Suffrage Special" 
     A feature of the dinner was the flower model of the "Suffrage Special" train given to Miss Lucy Burns, who had charge of the train which campaigned throughout the West last spring. Miss Burns was the guest of honor of nineteen women who took part in that campaign. It was Miss Burns's last appearance as an officer of the national organization, for her place at the right hand of Miss Paul will be occupied hereafter by Miss Anne Martin of Nevada. 
     Miss Paul and Miss Burns formed the Congressional Union three years ago, and the two have been inseparable until this winter. It is said that Miss Burns's health has suffered recently from overwork. 
     Miss Martin is a representative of the voting women of the West and the former chairman of the Woman's party which was amalgamated with the Congressional Union yesterday. Miss Paul was elected chairman of the Woman's party, although she is a resident of New Jersey and therefore not a voter. The other officers are voters. They are Miss Mabel Vernon, of Nevada, secretary, and Miss Gertrude L, Crocker, of Illinois, treasurer. 
      The following were elected to the executive committee: Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont and Miss Burns, of New York; Mrs. Gilson Gardner and Mrs. Abby Scott Baker, of Washington; Mrs. William Kent and Miss Maud Younger, of California; Miss Doris Stevens, of Nebraska; Mrs. Florence Bayard Hillis, of Delaware; Mrs. Donald Hooker, of Maryland, and Mrs. J. A. H. Hopkins of New Jersey. 


SUFFRAGISTS GIRDLE WHITE HOUSE IN RAIN 
[*NY Times 3-5-17*]
'Army with Banners,' Comprising 400 Ardent Workers, Lay Siege for 3 Hours. 
SEEK TO SEE PRESIDENT 
But Police Sergeant Permits Them to Leave Only a Copy of Their Newest Resolutions. 
Special to The New York Times. 
WASHINGTON, March 4. - While a soaking rain fell steadily and a cold, wet wind carried its chill through the thickest clothing, more than 400 women of the National Women's Party and the Congressional Union for Wo-man Suffrage held a cordon of suffrage banners around the White House for nearly three hours this afternoon. A committee sought admission to the President, in order to present in person resolutions urging the adoption of the Federal amendment that would give women the vote throughout the country, but they got no further than the Police Sergeant stationed at the entrance of the Executive Offices, and left the resolutions, to be delivered after their departure. So far as could be learned, President Wilson was in the White House throughout the demonstration and witnessed much of it from his windows. 
     The resolutions expressed in the determination of the Women's Party to continue its agitation for suffrage, making the international situation a reason for the continuation of activity rather than for abandoning it. It was said at the party's headquarters in Lafayette Square that, in accordance with plans made months ago, the pickets who had been doing daily duty in front of the White House had been withdrawn today, but that the headquarters would be kept open for the carrying on of the campaign with other tactics. 
     The following are the resolutions, which were adopted yesterday at the closing session of the party's convention here: 
     Whereas, the problems involved in the present international situation, affecting the lives of millions of women in this country, make imperative the enfranchisement of women. 
     Be it resolved, that the National Woman's Party, organized for the sole purpose of securing political liberty for women, shall continue to work for this purpose until it is accomplished, being unalterably convinced that in so doing the organization serves the highest interests of the country; 
     And it further resolved, that to this end we urge upon the President and the Congress of the United States the immediate passage of the national suffrage amendment. 
     The weather seems as much opposed to national suffrage as the women of the party charge the President with being; but as the suffragists are only driven to more and more determined activity by the Presidential opposition, so also they seem to be hardened for extra efforts by adverse weather. While the Republican Convention was in progress in Chicago last June women seeking to obtain the vote through action by national parties planned a parade, and, despite bitterly hostile rain and wind, they marched throughout Chicago's streets some 5,000 strong. Again today they faced the ele-mental enemies with only slight, if any, diminution of previously calculated forces and drove their message through the barred gates and locked doors into the presence of President Wilson. 
     The women began to assemble at their headquarters, across Lafayette Square from the White House, before 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The rain was drenching the earth, and the wind had a bite in it, but to the headquarters they flocked from all directions. They stood flocked from all directions. They stood unsheltered for an hour or more while banners were being passed out and the line was forming, then, soon after 3 o'clock, the marchers began to move. At their head was a brass band which played national airs, the "Marseillaise," and hymns, and behind it was Mrs. Eleanor Arrison of Philadelphia, carrying the American flag. Then came the long line of women, walking in single file and led by Miss Vida Milholland, sister of the late Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain. 
    Every woman carried a banner - the insignia of a state, some printed slogan of the campaign, or the party's tricolor, purple, white, and yellow. In order to hole their banners the women had to leave their umbrellas behind and expose themselves to the rain. Less then half of them had provided themselves with waterproof coats, and many did not even have gloves. Before they had been marching half an hour most were soaking wet and cold. As the afternoon advanced the sting in the wind increased. 
     But there was no hesitating. The line, the women about four feet apart, moved around the White House grounds, completely encircling them, and then stopped so that in whatever direction the President looked he would face a wall of banners whose meaning he could not mistake. While the circle held, the committee, headed by Miss Anne Martin, applied for admission at the entrance to the Executive Office in the west end of the White House. 
    The Police Sergeant on duty there told the delegation that he had instructions not to leave his post for any reason, and so could not take their request for an audience into the offices. After a short discussion as to plans two of the committee jumped into an automobile and went to headquarters, while the others stood at the gates. At headquarters the two prepared a note to the President in which they explained that, as they were unable to present the resolutions in person, they would leave them for consideration. They then returned to the gate, left the note, and the committee departed. 
    It had been planned to have the women in the great circle stand while the committee was at the gate, but because they became so cold remaining motionless the order to march was given and the line moved around the grounds four times before finally turning off to return to headquarters. 
     Extraordinary police arrangements were made in connection with the demonstration. Uniformed men stood at intervals of about ten feet on both sides of every street adjacent to the White House grounds, whose perimeter is something under a mile, and other policemen were stationed in the grounds. There were, in fact, more policemen than women present, the forces of the law being augmented by 100 Baltimore men and others brought here for the inauguration. Major Raymond W. Pullman, Superintendent of the Police of Washington, was determined that no overeager women should get into the grounds by rush or ruse, and had any such made the attempt she would have been headed off at the moment of starting. 
     But the police were also present for the protection of the suffragists. Recalling the orders attending the suffrage parade in 1913, the Police Department was prepared for any movement that might interfere with the demonstration, and the crowd of several thousand spectators that lined the streets was kept well back from the marchers. The leaders of the suffragists expressed themselves tonight as grateful to the police for their part in the day's activities. 
     The attitude of the crowd, for the most part, seemed neutral, or, at least, simply that of interest. There was some clapping of hands as the procession moved, and here and there young men showed an inclination to amuse themselves by shouting coarse personalities at the women, which they ignored. On the whole the spectators refrained from demonstration of any kind. 
     In the line were women and girls of all ages, representing every degree on the scale of personal appearance. Women whose hair was grey marched with uncertain steps near girls scarcely old enough to vote if the law did not prevent them. There were even several children who trotted along struggling with their banners. One lone man marched stolidly with the women and looked neither left nor right as other men applauded or jeered him in passing. 
     The day's demonstration was brought to a close tonight with a mass meeting of suffragists in the National Theatre, at which Miss Milholland sang "The Woman's Marseillaise."
     It was announced at headquarters that the National Woman's Party would play absolutely no part in the inauguration ceremonies tomorrow. The query concerning possible participation in the parade was met with the declaration that under no circumstances would the party be represented among the supporters of the President, and it was also said emphatically that no effort to disturb the ceremonies would be made.

1913
Grand Suffrage Rally
 
Columbia Theatre
F Street, between 11th and 12th

Sunday, March 2d, 1913 3.30 P. M.

Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch will Preside

Speakers

Mrs. Carrie Chapmancatt
President, International Women Suffrage Alliance.

Miss Inez Milholland

Miss Maude Younger

"General" Rosalie Gardner Jones
The Pilgrims Will Sit On The Platform

Tickets at 50 and 25 Cents Can Be Obtained At
Headquarters, 1420 F Street Northwest,
Or At Columbia Theatre

Box Seats And A Few Orchestra Seats, $1.00



[*Times 3-6-17*]
Picketing and the Sabbath. 
To the Editor of THE TIMES:
Your issue of February 24 quotes
the Women's Interdenominational Missionary
Union of the District as making
formal protest against the plans
to picket the White House on Sunday, 
March 4, in the following language: 
"The Interdenominational Union believes
the proposed demonstration is 
unchristian, as violating the Sabbath,
and that it is uncivilized, as all civilized
nations teach the keeping of the 
Sabbath Day holy, in conformity with
the law of God."
The only law of God as given in the
Old Testament commanding that a 
day be kept as sacred as a Sabbath to
Him is the fourth of the Ten Commandments,
and that sanctifies the period
from sundown the sixth day to 
sundown the seventh (the Sabbath
still kept by orthodox Jews), and not
the first day of the week, the day
given to Christendom by mandate of
Constantine in the fourth century.
And in the New Testament, the more
intimate text-book of the Christian
world, you will not find one passage 
directing that the Sabbath be changed
from Saturday to Sunday, nor will
you find one passage sanctifying the
first day of the week, or Sunday. 
Consequently, I am at a loss to
know what law of God is referred to. 
POPULUS.


ASSAIL SUFFRAGISTS FOR MARCH IN RAIN
Post 3-7-17
Prominent Local Women Bitterly Criticize
"Annoyance to President."
The action of the suffragists who
marched around the White House Sunday
in the rain, and who afterwards held
a meeting at which President Wilson was
criticized, brought forth vigorous denunciations
from women of the National
Capital. 
Mrs. Robert W. Lansing, wife of the
Secretary of State, said: "I strongly
disapprove of their actions, especially at
this time."
Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, wife of
Senator Wadsworth, of New York, said:
"The suffrage program is as unpatriotic
as it is futile. Their persistent persecution
of the President is most unreasonable
and childish. It is indicative of the
tactics these women would adopt after
they han the vote . They would never
accept anything decided by the votes of
the people, but would attempt to gain 
their ends by forms of organized annoyance. 
Militants who put suffrage
first, and annoy the President at such a 
time, disgrace womankind."
Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge, of New York,
president of the National Association 
Opposed to Woman Suffrage, declared:
"The most significant thing, in my
opinion, is the purpose these women announced
beforehand. 'Come to the White
House,' they asked women, in circulars
sent all over the country, to join a delegation
'who will ask that women be enfranchised
before action is taken by the
government on war or any other question.'
"In other words, these women asked
their sisters to help them paralyze the
United States government until they got
what they want. This is the spirit of the
anarchist, the pacifist, and other radicals
who are willing to hold up a government
or a people to enforce a minority opinion,
or an unpatriotic idea."
Mrs. Augustus P. Gardner, wife of Representative
Gardner, of Massachusetts,
said:
"I think it was most undignified and
discreditable. It is not the way for women
to arrive at anything they desire, but
a way for them to discredit their sex."
Mrs. Edward F. Dickinson, of Massachusetts, 
declared:
"It is a disgrace to womankind that
there are any women to annoy the chief
executive in these perilous times."
Mrs. Arthur Dunn, chairman of the executive
committee of the District Anti-Suffrage
Association, said:
"Women who indulge in such childish
stunts show themselves unfit for any
duty, political or domestic. It was a pitiful
exhibition of mental inefficiency."


PASSING OF THE CONGRESSIONAL 
UNION.
Times 3-9-17
It was suggested in these columns
not long ago that the suicide of the
Congressional Union would be a good
thing for the suffrage cause. We
note with pleasure that it has
merged with the Woman's Party and
will take over that name. It is just
as well. The old name had too many
associations with irresponsible futility
to be continued. 
The chairman of the Congressional 
Union, Miss Alice Paul, becomes
president of the Woman's
Party and its former president, Miss
Anne Martin, becomes vice president. 
Miss Paul is a brilliant, earnest, 
single-minded devotee of the suffrage
cause. Unfortunately, she
gained a taste for militant methods
in England, in association with Mrs. 
Pankhurst, and failed to understand
the governmental differences that
made the Pankhurst methods worse
than useless in America. In attempting
to hold the majority party responsible
for the passage of a constitutional
amendment, and making
war on that party by attempting to
defeat friendly members of Congress
who belonged to it, the union succeeded
only in postponing the success
of the suffrage cause in several
of the States, in increasing the majority
representation in Congress
from the suffrage States, in 1912, 
and in carrying those States for
President Wilson in 1916. Methods
which only hurt one's cause, injure
one's political friends and help one's
proscribed enemies can hardly be
called politically wise. 
Let us hope that with a new name, 
even under the same leadership, the
old methods will be abandoned. If
women should be misled into voting
as a party on one issue regardless of
all others, the fact would not be reassuring
to those who are asked to 
extend the suffrage to the women of
the whole nation. Thus far the
women voters have indignantly
spurned the appeal to sex antagonism. 
A Woman's Party conducted 
along that line will soon need to 
amalgamate with something else and
to change its name.

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