The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-10-28
Slipping Into the Election Booth, a Woman
and Girl Break Bottles Of Acid and
Several Judges Are Injured

london. Oct. 2S.-Mrs. Chaplin, a
a,Iragctte. furnished an carly morn
ioc thriT al the Bermondsey by-elec-
n5n today, when she smashed a hot
40 containing corrosive acid on bal
II, noy. Her intention evidently was
N destroy the ballots in the box as a
,ro,csl against the exclusion of wo-
men from the right OF franchise,
What she accomplished was the pain
,l burning of some of the election Of
Geers and the assurance of her own
arrest
Shipping into one OF the booths,
where perhaps a thousand ballots had
been deposited, Mrs. Chaplin drew
from under her cloak a bottle in
which ink had been mixed with corro-
siye acid. and, before she could be
stopped, hurled the bottle upon the
box. II broke into many pieces and
the acid splashcd upon the election
of1cers A number of these were so
severely injured as TO require medical
attention
About the same time n similar ont
rsgc was attempted at another booth
by a girl who wore the Suffragette
oolors In the latter instance little
damage was done beyond the burning
Of the finger tips of the election on
clais who removed the bits of broken
glass.
So far as could be ascertained, not
much acid reached the ballots i'll eth
CT case.
Later. in an interview, Miss Chris
label Parkhurst, while deploring the
Nounding of the officials. asserted
with much emphasis:
1T Is the government that is re-
spo1slble 1t Is the government that
drives women TO these acts"
II appears that today's violence was
planned by the Women's Freedom
League. the members OF which glory
in what was done. Members OF this
same league picketed the house OF
commons for fifteen weeks. The
-Icaugue's secretary IS Mrs Edith Mar
tyn In an interview following the
attack on the ballot boxes. Mrs. Mar
.yr said
We thought that as Premier AS
,uilh had not shown himself amen
ible TO our requests, the time had
come to take more active measures.
Our plans were thought out most
carefully and We found delight in the
opportunity TO carry them out on the
anniversary of the grille protest In
he House Of Commons. which was
rerpetuated by the Womens Freedom
Loague.
Our object this morning was 10 in
validate the election, We had formed
various plans and these would have
been tried during the day had this
one failed"
On October IS. 1908, suffragejte
demonstration was made in the ladies'
gallery during a sitting of the House
Of Commons. When attendant :
sought 70 empty the galleries, they
found that two sufragettes had firmly
chained themselves TO the grille lat-
tice from behind, which feminine
eyes might view tho proceedings of
the house For a time the voluntary
prisoners resisted the efforts made
10 remove them
Today's bi-election in the BermOnd-
sey division of Southwark lone Of the
parliamentary boroughs of Dondon) is
OF unusual interest as IL is expected
10 afford n good test OF the feeling In
London and the country generally Oh
The impending struggle in parliament
A strong fight on the budget against
tariff reform has been waged in this
constituency The candidates arc
liberal s. l.. Hughes: unionist John
humphreys: labor, Dr A. Salter.
Al the last general election the
Liberals had a majority or 1.709-