The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-29
The King Enjoys the First Royal Hunt of the Season at Sandringham

I Presidential election Is awaited with | impatlence,s and there was perhaps never q moment at the close of a con- I test when the American people felt
 more satisfaction than now in know | ing that everything Is over. Yet to 1 outsiders thera Is always something | fascinating. as well as momentous. about these colossal struggles, even at their tamest
 "The United States is still in the
 making. It Is like a vast mathemati- cal problem covering paper with an acre of calculations, and yet not near ly worked oul. Every presidential
 campaign is an important episode in one of the greatest political experi-
 ments known to history. Here Is 8
 constituency of some twenty million
 voters--twenty times more numerous
 than even the fabulous computation Of the hosts of xerxes Five-sixths
 of them go to the ballot box, and the
 whole huge process of the poll is cor-
 pleted in one day. This is eminentiy among the things they order better
 upon the other side of the Atlantic. Though the campaign was apparently
 the dullest upon record, in reality it
 was full of remarkable features and of symptoms more significant than many
 of the eiectricifying effects in the moro eonyulsed struggles of the past"
 The Daily Telegraph concludes
 that Roosevelt has been the strongest
 President since Lincoln. and that Taft
 is the inheritor of magnificent tradi- ton.
 To the surprise of all connected
 with the Women's Suffrage movement, Mrs Drummond, who was sentenced in company with Mrs. Pankhurst and
 Miss Cristahel .Pankhurst to three
 months imprisonment, was released
 from Holloway jail a few days since by order of the Home Secretary.
 Mrs Drummond's health has not been good since her Imprisonment. and for
 most of the time she has been in the
 hospital It is understood that this Is
 MT. Gladstone's sole reason for liber-
 ating the lady, who had still eighty
 days of her sentence to run. At the
 offices of the National Women's Social and Political Union 1t was stated that
 the governor of the prison asked the lady to give an undertaking in writing
 that she would during the remainder
 of the term of her sentence, be of good
 behavior and keep the peace. This
 Mrs. Drummond absolutely declined to do, with the result that she was re- leased unconditionally, and. as the leaders of the movement put 1t. turn ed out Into the street as free to smash up meetings and harass poor Cabinet Ministers as ever she was" Mrs Drummond addressed q meeting at the
 Portman Rooms the next evening and
 Is again actively engaged in organiz- ing a fresh campaign against the
 wicked government"
 At a meeting in Birmingham Miss Gladys KeeviI. who presided, declared
 that Mrs. Drummond had been released
 because the government were afraid
 that If anything dangerous occurred to
 Suffragist the country would be up
 in arms.
 Miss Mary Gawthorpe proposed a
 resolution demanding the immediate
 release Of the imprisoned Suffragists.
 and warning the government that
 coercion would fire women 10 strong
 CT opposition, and that the struggle
 the Women's Enfranchisement Bill This was carried.
 A meeting convened by the women's ! Liberal Federation in favor of woman suffrage will be held at the Albert
 Hall on December 5. It is understood
 that MT. Lloyj-George, Chancellor of i the Exchequer has promised on this i occasion to speak in favor of an ex- ] tension of the franchise to women, and l this has been the subject of some com | ment in the lobby of the House of 1 Commons. It may be interesting to | recall two former Ministerial pro-
 nouncements which may afford an in- dications of the attitude of the Cabi- net toward this question. When the i deputation of Liberal members in
 favor of woman suffrage waited on MT. Asquith on May 20. the right