The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-28

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.-Mrs. Car
rie A. Nation appeared in the orin-
cipal role of sensational scene at the
! White House today. Her request to
see the President being refused, she
became violent and had to be taken
from the Executive offices by two
police officers. AS she was being es-
corted from the building she shouted
at the top of her voice, gesticulating
violently:
| 81 am going to pray for a prohibition
president and we will have one-one
who will represent the people and not
the distillers and brewers. You may
put me out of the building, but if a
/ brewer or liquor-dealer were here he
would have been admitted at once"
Accompanied by young newspaper
i man, Mrs. Nation called at the exec
utive offices and asked to see President
Roosevelt. She was attired in a worn,
! black silk dress and wore a CLOSELY
fitting black velvet bonnet. She -ave
her card to the venerable doorkeeDer,
Arthur Simmons, who, recognizing the
name, Immediately proffered her an
autograph album in which she inscrfb-
! ed the following:
Carrie A. Nation. Your Loving
4 Home Defender.
.vote for Prohibition of the Liquor
| Cause
] While awaiting an answer to her re-
! quest, Mrs. Nation said she wanted
to see the President about several mat
ters. ST understand he carried a dive
full of liquors on his western trio;
/ that he smoked cigarettes on the steps
of the Capitol at Topeka; that his flag
has on it coat of arms. Are these
things sop"
Assured she had been misinformed,
she replied: ooh, we'll, I want to see
him anyway and have a talk with
him."
4 Presently she was informed that the
President could not see her.
"Well, that is funny she cried out.
remarking on the number of United
States senators and representatives
who We're passing in and out of the
Presidents office. 81 see a lot of men
going in and out of his office. I should
like to know why they can see the
President and we mothers and sisters
of the country can't get near him.
want an explanation of that, and I'm
going to have it."
She insisted that she must see Sec
rotary Loeb and in a few minutes she
was ushered into his office. While she
was awaiting her turn to talk to Mr..
Loeb, the four Democratic representa-
tives of Pennsylvania and two Repub-
lican representatives of New York hap
pened to pass through the Office.
Mrs. Nation Immediately began to
lecture them on the evils of the LIQUOR
traffic.
This liquor business has got to
stop" she declared. ''That is the
greatest issue confronting us. Our
homes are being destroyed, our men
ruined and we must have a president
who will put stop to it,
| Madame" broke in Secretary Loeb,
81 am compelled to request you to dis
continue your talk If you want to
deliver a lecture you will have to go
outside. These are my Offices
You are mistaken shouted Mrs.
Nation Historically. ''These are the
peoples offices. / propose to do what ]
can right here and now to crush the
liquor reptile. You tell me that the
President is too busy to see me, but
I tell you that I don't believe it,
Secretary Loeb beckoned to Officer
Dalrymple, who had followed Mrs Ma
ton into the office, to take her out
The officer took her gently by the arm
and escorted her back into the recep-
ton hall. There she began to rave
1 n RlIf fhd ProSidanf Pnn1rJnfiyo
dive on his special train.
81 have been arrested nineteen
times she cried. "but that is all right
don't object to being punished for
doing right. I'm ordered out, am 1?
Well. reckon I can stay in the fresh
| air, can't I?'
Il officers Dalrymple and Kemp were
obliged to use some force to induce her
to leave the executive offices and final
. ly conducted her outside the White
House grounds. All the while she
continued to declaim her principles and
to rail at the President for not re-
ceiving her. OF course, until some
\ time afterward. the President knew
| nothing of her presence at the White
House.
Mrs. Nation went direct to the Cap
itol after leaving the Whlte House
and appeared in the Senate gallery q
few minutes before the Senate was
J called to order at noon. She was soor
discovered and surrounded by pages
and messenger boys, and until pro-
hibited by the Senate officials did q
thriving business in selling her cards
with a tiny Ratchet attached. She
took a seat well to the front in the
ladies' public gallery. >She announced
her intention to make a speech to the
Senate, but when told that she would
not be allowed to do so she aequiesce6