New-York tribune., 1911-01-10
MOB THAT AWFUL MAN"
suffragists Harass Barry with
Banners and Yellow Paper.

.,yVhat's that big crowd around the
I,vceuro Th.atre?" yelled a man to another
man who was sprinting madly toward a
mass of women. yellow banners, policemen
and citizens that filed 45th street, from
Broadway to Sixth avenue, yesterday AFTER
noon.
Come on and see the fun" gasped the
other. "Trs the sufrragsts after Dick
Barry"
And thev we're after him. When Richard
Barry stepped from his taxi AZ the door
OF the Lyceum Theatre at 4 o'clock to tell
the League for the Civic Education OF
Women The Truth About Colorado, ne
was confronted by Miss Martha Gruening.
of Philadelphia, secretary OF the Collegiate
Equal Suffrage League carrying an im-
nense board which stated in immense let
ters: The Truth About Colorado. we will
tell II at a suffrage meeting on Monday.
January g. at $50 D. m, while Riclard
Barry tells the opposite inside Mrs. A.
F. Townsend and Mrs. John Winters
Brannan, of the Woman's Political Union,
pressed into his hand large yellow dodgers
headed. 1.-THE Truth About Richard Barry,
and beginning with the ancient story about
"The boy lied'-the boy being Mr.. Barry.
At 18th street and Broadway Mrs. Harriet
Stanton Batch, mounted on a soapbox.
was telling the swir!lng crowds that Rich
ard Barry could not and would not speak
the truth" and giving the suffrage side
about equal rights in Colorado At Sixth
avenue and 45th street Mrs. Mary Ware
bennett. of the National Woman Suffrage
Association: Miss Harriet May Mills, OF
the New York State Association. and Miss
~ Ia Taa Urta
took turns in mounting a three-legged stool
and haranguing the multitude. Miss Edith
Whitmnre nailed huge votes for women"
banners all around Miss Billie Burke's pict-
ure at the theatre entrance
Flatoons of suffragists marched up and
down the pavement giving "the truth
about Richard Barry" to every man,
woman and child who passed. They pur-
sued Nj Barry iEto the theatre. They
nocked 10 the balcony and rained down
yellow dodgers and invitations to the suf-
frage meeting that Is 70 be held at the
Bl oadway Theatre. And when all was
over and Mr.. Barry fanked by Mrs. Gil
bert Jones emerged from a side entrance,
Miss Inez Milholland and a score Of suf-
fragists, who were on the watch for him,
rushed forward and waved votes for
women" banners over his taxi as he drove
away
For some reason few members Of the
League for the Civic Education of Women
attended the lecture. Mrs. Richard Wat
son Glider, the president, was in a box,
ana so was Mrs Jones but the ma jority
OF the loss than two hundred women who.
with two or three men. made up the audi
euce. were announced suffragists Mrs.
Herbert Parsons, az she bought a ticket,
remarked 20 @ companion:
81 hate to waste money on thing like
this"
Another suffragist in a front seat was
Mrs. O. II. 2. Belmont, whom Mr.. Barry $
statements reused 70 that extent that she
delivered a suffrage speech directly she
got into the lobby.
1T is Outrageous she cried, in raised
tones. He ought TO BE- hOrsewhipped. II
there had been a Western man In that
audience with drop OF red blood in his
veins ne would have gone mp and wrung
Mr.. Earry's neck. And those miserable
women. those miserable anti-suftragtsis. sat
there and applauded while he DETAINED
Western women. VINO are among the finest
women in the land
In a group AT Mrs. Belmouts elbow was
Mrs. Richard Barry. Dr. Anna Shaw pres
ldent Of the National Woman Suffrage As
soclation. went TO the lecture armed with
tust-received telegram from Mrs. Adrienne
Hungerford. president Of the Colorado
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
which read
Judge Lndsy affirms the statement
that Richard Barry told Mines. Galloway
and Robinson that he would get even with
the Colorado women who protested against
his recently published article on woman
suffrage"
Mr. Barry's lecture was practically rep
etition Of the recently published article 10
xbicb Mrs. Hungerford referred.