The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-03
Convention Of TWO Hundred Delegates
at St. Louis, Discusses Mrs.
Pankhurat's Case Across
tho Ocean.
NOT OF THEIR KIND
American Girl Who is Being Fed
Through a Tube Cots Little
Sympathy From Her
Sisters.

81. LOUIS, April 3.-ConyictiOn Of
Mrs. Ernmeline Pankhurst at London
today was discussed by the 200 dele
gates attending the Mississippi Valley
Suffrage conference at the Bucking-
ham hotel. 1t is probable that some
action. by resolution. will be taken.
The sentencing OF Mrs Pankhurst
to three years Imprisonment when
she was found guilty of 'fnciting to
malicious destruction of property" Is
considered by the majority of the
delegates as too severe. They are
divided on the question Of whether or
not she should have been punished
at all.
~The actions OF the British suffra-
gettes can not be judged from this
distance" one Of the delegates said,
and we should be careful about eth
or approving or disappearing them.
Conditions there are SO entirely
different from conditions here-the
| attitude OF the government and the
people Is SO at variance with that OF
our own government and people that
we can form no definite idea OF the
situation.
Personality regret that Mrs. Pank-
hurst is to be forced to undergo the
suffering of imprisonment. She has
declared she will go on a hunger
strike. l am told, and l believe that
she will keep her word. II she does
the cause In England will lose a strik,
ing leader unless the authorities re
lent and release her.
There was also great difference OIL
| opinion In regard to the case o.
Zelie Emerson, the American youns
woman whose hunger strike In /;
London prison has attracted SO mucl
attention.
Members OF the Kansas City AM
st. Joseph delegations favored he
release and advocated resolution,
nothing more, by the assembiage eS
pressing sympathy for Miss Emerson
and disapproval of the course of tn
London police.
!, The Chicago delegation, on the otf
er hand, is strong in its denunciatio
of Miss Emerson and her course.
Some excused the actions OF tn
militants by saying that they wer
. adopting no more severe tactics tina
are adopted by men when they al
= denied legislation generally desire
n and pointed to numerous instance
r. when men stormed legislative hall
created disorders and otherwise 9
pressed their disapproval OF COVER
70 ment action or lack Of action.
% Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloc
one Of the leaders OF the Chicago d.
egation. declared that Miss Emerst
went to England for the purpose
making a martyr OF herself
80 She may be suffregist," Mrs, N
10 Colloch said, but If she is she is n
ma our kind She told me before s.
nv went abroad that she was going
~ show them something over there a
she seems to have made good b
, " boast.
IN "She went over there to get
be jail. She got In jail. She ought
he be satisfied and say let her st
lily there"
ad Offering OF prizes for essays
SO women's suffrage by school childr'
ext was suggested by Rev. Caroline Ba
lett Crane, of Kalamazoo, Michig
as one OF the best methods of AFRO
ing interest in the homes and
e. creasing attendance at suffrage
wo club meetings She declared exp'
er- ences in her own state had prov
ad- that the parents become interested
ton things which interest their child
lies mere quickly than anything else.
on Methods of organizing clubs W
the discussed by Mrs. S. NJ. Kenyon
led St Paul. She advocated less use
ing the word suffrage" in these org
red izations. declaring that it frightel
car many women away from the work.
substitute, she proposed that
clubs be called welfare association
re- sewing clubs or by any other ma