New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-18
MRS. PANKHURST DUE
TO INVADE j. S. TODAY
Suffragist Leaders Here Feel
Confident Militant Idol Will
Not Be Detained.
TO ARMSY is ANTS" CRY
Guidon Club Insists She Should
Be Sent Away as Inciter of
Riots-Meanwhile Big
Dinner Is Planned.

The number OF adoriug suffragettes who
will greet Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst this
morning depends entirely upon the hour
when La Provence docks. One thing il
certain-S o'clock is too early for Mrs. o.
II p. Belmont to meet anybody on a cold,
gray dock.
"No. I'm afraid | couldn't get up so
early" she said yesterday afternoon.
land, anyway. ! am sure Mrs. Pankhurst
would prefer to come in quietly
Miss Joan Wickham and Elsie Nc
Kenzie the two English miitants. have
sworn TO he on hand TO greet their idol
at sunrise If necessary. and Miss Irene
Lewisohn. VINO entertained Sylvia Pank-
hurst when she was here. will also meet
Mrs Pankhurst.
Local suffragists yesterday were quite
serene in Their assurances that the Eng
lish militant leader would not be detained
al ElEs Island. They were encouraged by
letter from FRANK S. O'Neil. attorney for
the Madison Square Garden meeting
which Mrs. Pankhurst is TO address to-
morrow evening. Mr.. ONeil says:
Upon investigation | am In a position
TO state that the immigration Department
at washington has issued no order for a
special investigation to pass upon tho
question OF Mrs. Pankhurst's admission.
The federal authorities will treat her
case i'm the usual procedure. as there Is
no necessity to bring her case out OF the
ordinary. The case has not been pre-
Judged by the authorities. II will be tried
solely on it's merits feel positively GER
tain that my client, Mrs. Pankhurst, VIII
he granted admission
The four English "jailbirds" now in
this country will sit on the platform at
the Madison Square Garden meeting.
They are Miss Elsie Mckenzie. Miss
Elizabeth Freeman. Miss Lucy Burns and
Miss Mary Keeghan. They will wear
prison garb and the pin OF the militant
sorority. which represents a prison gate
and a broad arrow.
Charles Edward Russell will preside at
the meeting Mrs. Raymond Brown, the
newly elected president OF the New York
State Woman Suffrage Association, and
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Batch will be on
the platform also
1t was said at Ellis Island yesterday
that no instructions had been sent from
Washington to the immigration Bureau
relative to the arrival OF Mrs. Pankhurst
to-day on La Provence. One official said:
Washington has sent no instructions,
verbally or written. concerning Mrs.
Pankhurst. She will be subject TO the
same formalities imposed upon all aliens
regardless Of class or cabin. There are
certain questions printed on the SHIPS
immigration manifest which all boarding
inspectors are required to ask OF aliens.
This includes the question. Have YOU
ever served a term In PRISON. IL the
alien answers yes. he is then asked TO
state the crime for which he was incar-
cerated. II. in the opinion OF the boarding
inspector, It is not one involving moral
turpitude the alien may be permitted 10
land, provided there is no other moral or
medical reason for OBTAINING him. The
primary admission OF Mrs. Pankhurst de-
ponds wholly upon the Judgment OF the
inspector who meets her"
The Guidon Club. composed OF men and
women opposed to woman suffrage. has
gone on record. through its officers.
I
The club insists that Mrs Pankhurst
should be deported because she is an In
otter Of riots which destroy life and prop
erty. and Is really coming TO this country
10 pass the hat for the penent OF the
cause Of the militant sisters In England.
Mrs. Rossiter Johnson, president OF the
club, said yesterday:
1.-The story OF Mrs. Pankhursts trial.
as recorded in her own organ, The suf-
,raoette' shows her deep seated contempt
for law and order. II shows that she
hates law in any land and under any
circumstances"
The Women's Political Union has SOLO
as7 tickets for its dinner. to be held Mon
day night at the hldine Club.
Al the speakers table will be Mrs. En-
moline Pankhurst. Mrs. Harriott stanton
gIatch. Professor and Mrs. John Dewey
Mrs. Frederick Hazard, OF Syracuse; Mrs'
Florence Kelley. Norman Hapgood' MIS-.
charles s. whitman. Samuel Merwin and
Mrs. Alva r. Belmont.
Among those who have fables and
guests are Mrs. Arthur Brisbane. Mrs.
q ochs. Miss Anna Constable. Miss
Lillian Wald, Miss Mary Dreier, Mrs.
Emanuel Einstein, Mrs. NJ. Morgenthau'
ir., Mrs Henry Harden. Miss Foote, MISS
strobel. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick {. Howe
Mrs. Charles 4. Knoblauch, the Misses
Lewiston, Mrs. Edward Moen. Mrs. Nina
Van Wrinkle from New Jersey. table OF
twelve.
Mrs. John Rogers, jr., will have at her
table Dr. and Mrs Frederick Kammercr
and Mr.. and Mrs. Richard NJ. Hurd. Mrs.
John Winters Brannan and Miss Joan
Wickham.
At other tables will be Mrs. Lucia Full
ler Miss Mabel II. Kittredge, Mrs. Will
lam L. Colt, Mrs. Eldon Bisbee. Miss Lucy
Burns, Miss Runtz-Rees (head OF Rose
mary Hall. Greenwich); Mrs Charles
Beard Mrs Raymond Brown and Mrs.
William F'ain.