New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-03
'G|DDAP, ASQU|TH';; NOW
'SUFFS' HAVE WHIP HAND
Lash in Hand, Three Will Nag
NiCknamed. knoCk-Kneed
Nag Full Nigh to Boston.
aSQUITH'S THEIR EQUINE
In a Bakers Cart Vote Seekers
Will Make Pilgrimage to the
Hub with Passerine
Couriers.

The "sufts" have the whip hand on
Asquith at last Lash in hand. they will
drive him across the country. and on
lonely roads beyond the reach Of the
Society Tor the Prevention of Cruelty
10 Animals. they will sing him suffrage
songs Asquith is the knock-kHeed nag
that will he driven by Miss Elsie Nc
Kenzie and Miss Elizabeth Freeman and
another from New York to Chicago for
the glory OF the cause
The start will be made Wednesday
morning from the city Hall, and the
first lap Of the journey will he to Bos-
ton. where they should arrive August
3. i'm time to take part with the BOSTON
suffraSists I'm n big demonstration in
honor Of the ninety-ffth anniversary OF
the birth of Lucy Stone. the pioneer.
The journey will he made in bakers
cart-symbolic of the women's interest
in pure food.
Miss Freeman and Miss Mckenzie
spent yesterday afternoon painting suf-
frage notices on the sides of the
wagon and hemming little yellow cur
tains for the back There will Re
rug on tho floor, a cot. a couple or
chairs and a tea basket. so that while
one is laying the whip on Asquith the
others can console themselves with tea
The equipment will include a hurdy-
curdy. which has not yet been chris
tened Some are determined on Nor
dica." but Miss Mckenzie. who is Eng
fish. and militant insists on calling IL
Lloyd George. because OF the crank. The
hurdy-gurdy is equipped with all the
latest suffrage tunes from "Oh. You
Beautiful Vote" TO Sweet Christabef
and Naughty Emmeline."
At the moment Of starting the mu-
stefan will play Vote, Sweet Vote" and
Miss Freeman will let loose a pair OF
carrier pigeons, which will fly straight
10 Boston with q message TO the Boston
surragists. The message is a secret
which will not be revealed until the last
moment Miss Freeman has given II to
her mother TO hide. so that she can say
truthfully 10 the reporters that she
can't find it, The pigeons are named
Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell. be
cause they we're the model suffrage
couple. and their life together was one
long. happy flight in sunny skies.
Old acquaintances were surprised 10
see Miss Mckenzie in America They
thought she had gone long since TO
England 70 deliver herself up TO the au-
thorities. who have a warrant for her
arrest because Of a suffrage riot She
explains that her English friends told
her not TO return. What good could she
do in prison? Much better stay where
she could work for the cause they said.
So she stayed.
The identity of the fourth member Of
the party is a secret, too. The only IN
formation gained is that she is not a
New York woman. Colonel" Ida Craft
will accompany the party for the first
week. until she has worked out her hos
tility TO Asquith. The itinerary fol-
lows: New Rochelle. Stamford, Norwalk,
Bridgeport. New Haven, Wallingford,
Meriden, Hartford Springfield. Worces-
ter and Boston
The party will call on Mayor Gaynor
on Tuesday 10 ask him for letters to
the Mayors OF these cities.