New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-31
IB[AME DARN FOOL MEN
FOR TRIP TO COURT
suffragists Angry at Being
Dragged Out of Bed on
Cops" Charge.
JUDGE SC0LDS THEM, TOO
Women, 1t Appears, Kept on
Displaying Their Placards in
Fifth Avenue Window,
Despite Summons.


who dragged her. Miss Anna Constable,
Mrs. John Winters Brannah, Mrs. Tiffany
pger. Mrs r. l.. Munson. Mrs Eden
pisbee and various other suffraciSts out
of their beds in the cold. dark dawn yes
tsrday morning and made them go
Through the pouring rain TO jefferson
Market Court at S o'clock.
And then when Magistrate Butts got
them before him, after keeping them
waiting in their wet clothes until 94j
ioclock because he was late-he Just
listened while Gilligan told how they dis
PLAYED suffrage placardS in the window
Of No. 240 Fifth avenue on Saturday and
kept on displaying them in the face OF
legal summons. and then he cut off all
the things they might have said and
would have said by the mean trick o;
dismissing the case and giving them
sccding like a row of naughty girls.
And they couldn't talk back!
Did Their Talking" Afterward.
But they talked some after they got
away from that courtroom. 1t was
continuous performance all day at the
office of the Womens Political Union, No.
h East 18th street, and at the homes OF
the various women concerned. and II
Magistrate Butts's left ear isn't burned
of by this time it's because it is non
combustible. that's all.
And does the magistrate think they are
going TO mind what he told them about
not showing their plscards again, because
n they do they will be arrested on
charge Of disorderly conduct? Well, N he
does the suffragists say he has another
think coming.
Wen give our voiceless speech again
or Thursday in Wall street Mrs. John
ROGERS, tr.. said yesterday afternoon. I'VE
were not obstructing traffic, and We have
1ust as good a right TO advertise the SUR
frage ball we're going TO have on January
il as storekeepers have to advertise by
displaying novelties in windows. Making
q fuss about the little crowd we drew!
Why. when there's been a baseball game
you can't fight your way through the
streets where the scores are chalked up.
Miss Constoffe. on whom the summons
was served on Saturday, was more diplo-
matte.
"Wc won't decide 20 have our voiceless
speech again until we have had confer
ence." she announced. But" she added.
I'VE are going to have # again, of course.
Wen show our placards and advertise
our ball
YOUNG Lawyer Handicapped Her.
NO. + din't say any of the things 1
might have said TO Magistrate Butts. be-
cause he didn't give me chance to tes-
tify and ! wanted 10 be within my
Fights My lawyer. Lawrason Riggs. jr..
IS rather young II he'd been an older
man he might have fixed 1t so I could
have asked the magistrate one thing We
want to know.
We want to know whether that sum-
mons was served because we were OBJ
structing traffic or because we displayed
Suffrage sentiments on Fifth avenue. II
THE former. why didn't the policeman UP
At 3sth street and Fifth avenue. wher We
gave our voiceless speech Saturday be-
fore last, make a fuss? We drew much
bigger crowd there than at No $40. and
vet the policeman just smiled at US"
Yes, and he made suffrage speeches TO
the people: I heard him." said Mrs. But
terworth.
Maybe last Saturday was graft collect
,inf day for the police. and IT made the
,ofioer around No. 24o peeVish TO have to
watch some sufrrasists who wouldn't
what L. it9-pony up suggested Mrs.
Rogers.
But Mrs. Butterworth saw no excuses
for anybody. She was mad clear through.
"A thing like this she said. 'makes
me feel Like becoming raving, tearing
militant. Getting us UP there in court
and iectuxing US. and what had We done?
Nothing. Ny old man"-Mr. Butterworth
weally isn't old but suffragists, like other
women. occasionally have pet names for
their husbands-"my old man Is furious
q wish he was q lawyer-he'd conduct our
cases as they should be conducted, but 1
suppose he'd be In Jail half the time. he
wants US 10 organize a corps OF women
10 70 up and down Fifth avenue and get
sumnonses served on everybody We ma
demons trating corsets or razors or false
hair or vacuum cleaners In windows and
collecting crowds, as they do. wouldn't
that be a good plan. eh?'
MIRA Nora Blatch de Forest. who IL
hooking after the womens Political Union
ret Stanton Blatch. who is in the Ba-
lhamas, said the union would certainly
adopt that scheme and start regular
crusade against all window demonstrators
II their suffrage voiceless speeches were
tnterfered with any more.
Warning to Demonstrators
Wen see how the authorities treat us
next time we set out TO advertise our
ball" she observed, "and IL any attempt |
is made 10 stop US, then let the folding |
bed people and the false hair people and
all others who have been seeking 10 allure
the public from their windows just shut |
ter those windows and retreat to the back
Of their stores. We shant leave one OF
them unsummoned. No Merchants As
ISOLATION or individual merchants are |
going 10 frlghten us, and no police graft |
Ing scheme. either"
The reason Magistrate Butts dismissed |
the case against Miss Constable was that |
Policeman Giligan testified that she did |
cease To display the placards after he |
served the summons on her. Other wom- |
en- displayed them, but not Miss Consta- |
Die. Consequently, the officers evidence |
was. the MAGISTRATE said, insufficient to |
convict.
Robert Greer Cooke wasn't in court TO |
bee Miss Constable through the ordeal. as |
ne said on Saturday he might be, and the |
Fifth Avenue Merchants Association |
cidut figure IN the case And the suffra- |