The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16
men TAKE 4 HAND
Suspicion That Wild Women OF
England Have Aid.
Canister of Explosives Placed
in Library by Man.
COUNTRY TALKING OF WAR
Labor Party Believes COnscrip-
ton Is Coming.
Weeks Issue of Stuff Paper
Milder Than Usual.
COUNTRY TALKING OF WAR

London. May 16.-The militant suffra-
gette campaign of placing bombs IN
public institutions to coerce the gov
ernment into granting the parliament
tary franchise to women, was carried
on in several quarters of London and
the provinces today.
A canister of explosives with a clock
work attachment was found in the
Rothermithe public library in Southeast
London this morning. 1t was labelled
votes for women"
According to belief in some quarters,
it was placed there by a man. Indeed,
the police suspect many men have been
engaged by the militants for this work
Another machine was found today in
the letter box of the Wadsworth dis
trict postoffice in Southwest London.
1t consisted of a glass tube containing
fluid. A partly burned fuse was at
tached to one end. The police declare
the bomb apparently was set there by
militants. Still another canister of ex-
plosives with a partially burned fuse
was found in Holy Trinity church at
Hastings "a popular watering place on
the south coast, where the m1litantS
have been most active during the week.
A defeat has been inflicted on the gov
ernment by the wild women in the mat
ter of the suppression Of the militant
suffragettes newspaper, the Suffra-
gette.
WrangIe Over Publication.
After Archibald Bodkin, counsel for
the treasury, had announced that the
government would prosecute any one
printing the newspaper in the future,
the labor press and some of the liberal
newspapers which are the strongest
supporters, protested that this was an
infringement on the liberty of the
press The former socialist member of
parliament, George Landsbury, and
the socialist members, James Keir Har
die, personally offered to undertake the
publication of the paper but the suf-
fragettes declined their offer with scorn.
Thereupon the home office issued a
statement declaring that Mr.. Bodkins 8
pronouncement had been misconstrued
and that the Women's Social and Po-
litical union or any publisher could
issue the Suffragette so long as it did
not contain any indictments to crime.
Sydney Decem, the former publisher,
has written to the home office that he
was compelled to promise that he will
not hereafter directly or indirectly take
part in printing the Suffragette, or any
organ of the Women's Social and Po-
liticaI union and he wants to know
what steps are now to be taken to re-
lieve him from this undertaking.
The special interest taken by the
labor party in the question of the Suf-
fragette was aroused because the
collision with the government. This is
the case in regard to general conscrip-
ton for the army and in the event of
this becoming the policy of the gov
ernment, which the labor party fears,
the labor newspapers proposed to urge
the working men of the British isles to
resist it.
Worry Over War.
The militant suffragettes again COM
plain that the government discriminates
between them and the Ulster unionists.
They point out that Sir Edward Car
son had gone to. Belfast to open the
new hall of the drilling club there the
object of which is to resist home rule
if it should be established and they
ask why Sir Edward is permitted to
advocate REBELLION whereas they are
imprisoned for doing so.
This weeks number of the Suffra-
gettes appeared today and was freely
Circulated 1t was printed by the firm
of Edward Francis. The newspaper
says:
Though he has constantly depre-
Gated what he calls our methods, he
undertook the work believing the free
dom of the press was in danger and
also gravely doubling the wisdom of
those who seem bent on depriving the
suffragettes of their legitimate forms
of expression
The general tone of the newspaper is
much milder than it was before the raid
on the militant suffragettes headquar-
ters and printing office. Miss Zelie
Emerson, the militant suffragette of
Jackson, Michigan, was operated on to-
day for appendicitis, which is said to
have developed owing to the priva-
tions she underwent while she was
carrying out a hunger strike" in
Holloway Jail.
She was released April 8, on account
of her weakened condition and some
time afterwards was taken to a private
hospital in the country to prepare her
self for the operation. She was sem
fenced to six weeks Imprisonment
February IA for smashing shop win
dows.