The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-22
"A BIG MOB LAYS
siege TO PARLIAMENT
Women suffracIsts Lead Crowds Of
100000 People.

London (By Cable).--The climax
of the suffragette campaign was
reached when an enormous mob
hemmed in Parliament and stopped
traffic in all streets leading to West
minister. For more than three hours
the crowds scuffied good naturedly
with the police, interfered with the
atergoers, broke windows and disor-
ganized things generally In the center
of London.
The hero of the day was Mrs.
Travers Symons, formerly secretary
to James Kelr Hardie, the socialist
and Independent member of Parlia-
ment, who reached the door of the
House OF Commons by strategy. The
House was soiemnly debating bill
to prevent children from cigarette
smoking when the woman dashed
past the doorkeeper to a position In
front OF the Speakers chair and
shouted shrilly, Leave off discussing
children and talk about women"
Three officials seized Mrs. Symons
and carried her out bodily. She was
then led to the outer door and dis
missed. AS a result of the coup
an order was issued that hereafter
women should not be admitted to
the building on any pretext whatever,
and in the future the historic grille
will not screen feminine spectators.
The appeal issued by the suffra-
gettes a few days ago for 10000
persons to help them rush" Parlia-
ment 7.30 o'clock Tuesday evening
was the most successful stroke yet.
Not less than twice that number re-
sponded to the CALL and nine-tenths
of these were young people who came
to see the fun. There were also
many of the unemployed and their
sympathizers.
Parliament was In state of seige.
A close triple line of police was
drawn around the three sides of the
square in front of the building. The
yard within the gates swarmed with
police and 200 guarded the terrace
in the rear against assault by water,
which the women twice attempted.
A small fleet of police boats also
patrolled the Thames approaches.
All the mounted police in London
and suburbs had been modified at
this center and loads of hay were
unstacked in the streets for the
horses. The whole police force, to-
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marines, numbering more than 5000
was kept busy in restraining the
pushing, struggling masses, espec-
tally about Trafalgar Square, where
the Nelson Monument looked down
upon dense crowds in all directions,
with busses, motor cars and cabs,
mostly filled with sightseers, trying
to thread their way through.
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| ing the House of Commons clear;
elsewhere they endeavored to the
best of their ability to keep the peo-
pie moving. The crowds cheered
sang songs and hooted, giving voice
to all the sarcastic remarks that a
London crowd is capable of. These
were aimed in i-good-natured
manner at the suffragettes, who, dis
I tinguished by their orange sashes,
swarmed everywhere, distributing
tracts
A delegation of 1S suffragettes,
which approached the police Gordon
and was formally refused admission
to Parliament, attempted football
rush, but the police chivalrously re-
Dulsed the women with the least
4 possible roughness. Two bodies of
the unemployed, however. which ap-
preached the line were driven of
with little saving grace, one across
Westminster Bridge and the other
to st. James Park. The police were
pelted with vegetables and some
stones in a few minor skirmishes
that occurred, but nobody was seri-
ously hurt. Twenty-four suffragettes
and 12 of the unemployed we're
placed under arrest.