The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-20
CARRIE NATION
ON The WARPATH
Bounced Out Of the White House
by Officers.
MADE ASCEHs IN TIE SENATE
WOUND UP IN POLICE COURT
AND FINED.


Washington, Nov. 19.-Mrs. Carrie A.
Nation appeared in the principal 10
Of a sensational scene at the Wnte
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 escorted from the
building she shouted at the top Of her
voice, gesticulating violently:
am going TO pray for prohibition
president, and we viii have Oue-One
VINO viii represent the people and not
the distillers and brewers. You may
put me out of the building, but If q
, brewer or liquor dealer were here he
would have been admitted at once
Accompanied by a young newspaper
man, Mrs. Nation called at the eXecu-
tive othces and asked 20 see President
Roosevelt She was attired in a worn,
black silk dress, and wore a closely
hitting black velvet bonnet. She gave
her card to the venerable doorkeeper,
arthur simmons. who recognizing the
name, Immediately pronered her an au-
tograph album in which she inscribed
the following:
Carrie A Nation, your loving home
defender
Vote for the prohibition of the liquor
Wanted to See Roosevelt.
While awaiting an answer to her re-
quest, Mrs. Nation said she wanted to
see the president about several mat
tiers. I understand he carried a dive
run % liquors on his western trip; that
ne 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: "Oh. well, I want TO zee
MIN anyway and have a talk with
him" Presently she was informed that
] the president could not see her.
Wei, that is funny" she cried out
remarking on the number of United
states senators and representatives who
I We're passing in and out of the presi-
dents Office. I see a lot Of men going
! IN and out Of his office 1 should like
TO know why they can see the president
and we mothers and sisters of the coun-
try can't get near him. 1 want an ex-
PLANTATION of that, and I'm going to
have it,"
She insisted that she must see Secre-
/ tary Loeb and a Few minutes later she
was ushered into his Office While she
was awaiting her turn to talk to Mr.
Loeb, the four Democratic representa-
lives Of Pennsylvania and two Republi-
I
pened to pass through the office.
Mrs. Nation Immediately began to
lecture them on the evils of the liquor
I traffic
This liquor business has got to
stop" she declared. That is the great
J est issue confronting us Our homes
are being destroyed, our men ruined
ana we must have a president who WIN
put stop to it."
Carrie Given the Rush.
Madame" broke in Secretary Loeb,
1 am compelled to request YOU to dis
continue your talk. IL you want to de-
7 liver a lecture you win have to so out
side. These are nay offices.
You are Mistaken. shouted AIRS.
! Nation, historically. These are the
peoples offices. i propose to-do what
/ can right here and now to crush the
liquor reptiles. You tell me that the
+ president is too busy to see me. but I
] tell you that don't believe it,.
Secretary Loeb ~beckoned to officer
3 Dalrymple, who had followed Mrs. Ma
/ ton into the Office to take her out. The
4 officer took her gently by the arm and
escorted her back into the receDtion
hall There she began to rave about
. the president conducting liquor dive
4 on his special train.
/ Il have been arrested nineteen times.
II 4
don't object to being punished for doing
right. I'm ordered out am I? Well, j
reckon 1 can stay in the fresh air,
can't II"
Omcers DalrympIe and Kemp were
obliged to use some force to induce her
/ to leave the executive Offices. and
1 finally conducted her outside Of The
( White House grounds. All the while
she continued to declaim her principles
and to rail at the president for not re-
t ceiving her OF course. until some time
( afterward the president knew nothing
Of her presence at the White House.
Went to the Capitol.
Mrs Nation went direct to the CAP
itol after leaving the White House and
! appeared in the senate gallery a few
/ minutes before the senate was called
( to order at noon. She was soon dis
+ covered and surrounded by pages. and
! messenger boys, and until prohibited
I by the senate officials, did a 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
; of making a speech to the senate. but
when told that she would not be al
( lowed to do 80. she acquiesced readily
and took her departure. She went to
the marble room and talked with SEN
atOr Cockriu
Mrs. Nation complained sharply Of
/ her expulsion from the White House,
and said she did not know why she
I had been so treated II did nothing
/ to deserve to be put out" she said
/ for I want it understood that I am
law-abiding woman"
Scene in the Senate Gallery.
She had been absent from the gal
lery about ten minutes when she re-
! appeared at one Of the doors Of the
! ladies gallery and, raising her right
hand far above her head, she shouted
in loud and clear tone, saloons are
anarchy. Saloons are treason and
! conspiracy"
She swung her arm around her head
and again shouted, Saloons are an
archy,"
She was preparing to go on when a
/ doorkeeper caught her and pushed her
/ out Of the door.
l The senate was engaged at the time
/ in receiving bills. but Mrs. Nations
voice was much more penetrating than
i tinctly heard throughout the senate
( chamber and even in the corridors.
! The incident created a ripple Of ex-
Z element. Senators generally smiled,
/ but no public attention was given to
/ the matter.
Run in and Fined.
When Mrs. Nation entered the gal
/ lery Detective r. d. Redeem OF the
/ capitol police force took a place bv
her side, and as soon as she was ex-
T PEELED from the gallery ne prevented a
further scene by placing her under ar