New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-03
MAUDE MALONE FINDS
ALL CANDIDATES ALIKE
Militant Questioner Tells How
1t Feels To Be Thrown
Out of Meetings.
HER EXPERIENCES IN JAIL
Life Seems To Be Just One
Blamed Election After An
other with the Heckler
of Candidates.

Miss Maude Malone told an audience in
the Political Equality Association last
night that she had been forced TO sleep
an entire night upon a board in sta
ton house cell for an offence OF whieh
she was not guilty. She was introduced
by Mrs. o. II. =. Belmont.
The militant suffragist, who mas more
than once been elected from polltical
meetings because she insisted upon re-
ceiving an answer on woman sulrdbo
question from the speaker. tod Oh d le"
of her experiences. Miss Malone "heh
telling of her rough usage at the hahds
of the police, seemed to be particularly
popular with her audience frequenIiy
she was interrupted by cries Oh ohdIue'
Although Miss Malone is known 10 inc
public on account of her activities ourihs
public meetings, she appears to be paruc-
uIarly oulet voiced, unobtrusive and al-
most bashful.
She said:
have seen many men thrown our Oh
campaign ceilings because the sPeanor
didn't want them there, but nave noF g
known OF any of them To De arres,eu, 90
I have becn And all that l nave tNc.
honn entity of has been To mercy dsN
the speaker his opinion OK WOMAN S'
SGwavs have asked the question IN
courteous manner and have peeil "" T,.
I'm consequence, as If | were a he"sPa ll',a
anarchist Ny treatment couid no, na - ~
beer worse I merely force them u "'i
swcr my question
All the candidates whom she hau asAeu
Tor question. she said, were always pro
,octod nv the police. She thought that
,art,cuI,rIv dangerous. She told now
Governor Johnson. whom she thoush' ~
no in favor Of suffrage, failed TO leier ~
II In one Of his campaign speeches. anu
how he refused to discuss IT wheh s'.'
,ntorrunted his speech 10 ask him Tor MS
oririon of the matter. When she IN
sisted upon an answer. she sald' si'c " 90
ricted No by three or four 'pohtcsi
,bugs" and brutaly carried down inc
aisle.
"Tbev carried me to the lobby, she
continued. where l was hanueu u w
noIicemen. They carried me down inc
stairs and placed me In the street IruIS'
was more fit for hospital tnah Ioi
home"
If was at this point that some In the
audience cried out shame"
Telling Of a speech by Theodore i'oose-
Welt that she attended last March she
said that a certain judge ordered that she
he elected from the hall. She was. she
said that two or three men had come 10
her and grabbed" her by the arm. one
NJ them she said, had struck her In the
face. AS far as suffrage was concerned
she declared that Mr.. Roosevelt was
"hack number" The only pubic man
that Miss Malone favored was Senator
Ia Toilette who she said, was sincere
in his appreciation OF her cause.
In telling OF the time when she was
locked up I'm the Adams street stauon
house, Brooklyn, over night she said that
she had not been guilty Of the charge
against her
"The conditions" she said. were simply
,nhuman. The cell was only eight feet
long. 7 was made to lie on the floor ana
without any covering. Later they gave
me a board to sleep upon. On one SIDE
Of me was a woman who had just been
released from a hospital and upon the
ether was a woman who was paralyzed.