New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-03
ALL ENGLAND REUSED
AGAINST SUFFRACEHES
Women'S Cause Definitely Shat
tered by Details Published OF
Contemplated 0UtrageS.
STIGMA ON ENTIRE SEX
Country, Horrified by Desperate
Programme Planned, Will
Support Parliament in Re-
pre- sive Measures.
lRy Gable 70 The rrihun.. !

prelsive Measures.
ny Gable 10 The Tribune
| London. May 3.-Lctters seized by
the police at Miss Annie Kenncy's fla;
and read Yesterday IN the Bow street
! police court when the mlitants ar
/ rested on Wednesday were formally
/ charged with conspiracy under the
malicious damage 10 property act, re-
/ veal the amazing extent 10 which the
women leaders of the militant suffra-
| gists proposed 70 go in their war on so
/ ciety and government. Arson and
! bombs were the chief forms Of attack
! recommended.
A carefully worded letter from Clay
| ton. the analytical chemist. seemed TO
| refer to some kind of explosive or
/ highly inhammable composition, while
/ others detailed the best methods OF set
/ ting fire 10 the Offices Of the National
| Health Insurance Commissioners, at
! buckingham Ga -. plan of the
/ building was given. with details as to
( the entrances and windows. and a sug-
/ gestion was made as to how IAN opera
/ tor might throw i'm a previously kndled
J paraf1in or benzoline torch"
Somerset House Menaced.
The Offices OF the Health Commission
at Queen Anne's Gate were also indi-
Gated as "affording good opportunity
! for attack" the letter stating There
/ is tremendous store OF paper and sta
tionery there"
other letters suggested ways of get
ting into the telegraph and telephone
, Offices and into the Paymaster Cen
/ erals Office and into Somerset House,
where wills are filed, as well as the
/ records OF the law courts. the records
1 Of the Tax Department and the records
I Of all the births. marriages and deaths
( i'm the country. virtually all Of which.
Of course it would be impossible to re-
I place.
Lists were also given OF the lumber
Yards cotton warehouses, cotton waste
and cotton wool mills, which lend
themselves particularly well 10 attack
/ 1t also transpired Yesterday that
bottle filled with nitro glycerine,
wrapped in brown paper and supposed
to have been left by suffragettes. had
been found by the police in the Picca-
dnly Circus underground station.
Paraffn Is Cheap.
After the sensational evidence. as
outlined had been presented TO the
magistrate the police gave transcripts
Of speeches delivered by the defend
ants. including an address made by
General" Flora Drummond in Albert
Hall when. on referring 10 some money
collected she said most OF fl goes for
constitutional work, but II doesn't
' take much for paraffin, oil and shay
| ings."
Besides General" Mrs Flora Drum
| mond. the accused consisted or MISS
Harriet Roberta Kerr. Miss Agnes
Lake. Miss Rachel Barrett. Miss Laura
Leunox. Mrs Beatrice Saunders Miss
Annie Kanney Clayton the analytical
chemist. and sydney Drew. the print
or Of Thursdays issue Of The Suffra-
gette."
All the defendants were remanded
till Monday. bail being allowed only IN
the cases Of Miss Laura Lennox and
sydney Drew, the former on Doctors
certificate.
The disclosures thus made as 10 the
D ba al Mt 20
brought about tremendous revolu-
ton OF feeling against suffragism
throughout the entire country. Where
as only q couple Of months ago II
suffrage amendment could have been
I brought TO q vote In the House or
! Commons the result would have been
certainly vew close. If not actually
in favor OF suffrage. to-day any such
amendment is sure OF overwhelming
defeat. and in any measures II may
choose to take Parliament is certain OF
the sympathy Of the whole country
Mortified by the desperate programme
planned by fanatical women, who are
now looked upon as being no longer
sane and reasoning human beings.
The discoveries have discredi.ed in
the public mind as quite unfit for the
vote the whole female moiety OF the
population and the conduct OF this
small group Of violent and dangerous
fanatics has UNNECESSARILY damaged
the cause Of suffrage in England and
placed a stigma upon the entire sex.
London. Nav AT meeting OF the
Actresses Franchise League tonight, I'm
priiry Lane Theatre. Mrs Carrie Chap
man Gait. OF New York, president OF the
International Woman Suffrage Alliance,
delivered the first speech she has made
since her arrival in England. Mrs. Gait
said that during the three days she had
been i'm London. which she had devoted
10 attending suffragette meetings. she had
heard more complaints against the Brit
ish government than she had heard
against the American government during
her whole life.
AMI Mrs. Gait heard a lot more OF con-
plaints during the course OF tonight :
| ,,eefiup for cycrv sneaker denounced the