Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-21
SUFFRAGTSTS OFF
FOR PICKET DUTY
Misses Michelbach and Sapo-
Wits Start for National
Capital
CONSERVATIVES DISSENT
Criticize Militants Who Ars
Campaigning in Front of
White House

Two Philadelphia suffraglsts Ief, o..
Washington this afternoon TO do rto,...
duty in front of the White House -
the auspices of the National Won,ar,r
party. They are Miss Clara Micbeibaos
and Miss Bertha Sapovits. members on ~
pennsylvania branch of the National won,.
ans party. '"'-
This Is the party which has created
sensation in Washington by raising ban4
ners in front of the White House. a,tao,,
ing the President and the American ynis'
sion to Russia
Miss Mcheback is an old campaig,o.
in suffrage picket tactics, having servea
as a picket three times in the national can.
ital. Miss Sapovits has Campaigned strap
uously in the interests of the National
Woman's party in Pennsylvania Delaware
New Jersey and Iowa.
Suffragists today are mixing their iubi
lation over the suffrage victory in the Rrit
ish House of Commons with indignation AZ
the action Of Mrs. Lawrence Lewis and Miss
Lucy Burns in Haunting an insulting and
more or less reasonable banner outside OF
the white House I'm Washington Yesterday
just when the Russian War Mission was
paying its respects to President Wilson.
Members Of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association, of which Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait is president and Dr.
Anna Howard Shaw honorary president. are
busly repudiatng today the organization
known as the Woman's Party. captained by
Miss Alice Paul which has been conducting.
the picketing. 1t was to Miss Paul that
Mrs. Gait addressed letter. made public
recently in which the latter called upon
the young militant 20 withdraw the pickets
pointing out the folly of antaRon2ing and
heckine the Administration at any time
but more particularly i'm a day with the
country at war
Philadelphia suffragists OF the conserva.
tive party are particularly Chagrincd at the
fact that one of the piCkets. Mrs. Lawrence
Lewis. resident of this city. Her residence
is on Pine street west Of Broad
"MrS. Lawrence Lewis is not a relative
Of mine" said Mrs Lawrence Lewis Smith,
Of Strafford, who is the first vice president
Of the Pennsylvania Suffrage Association,
land ! do not wish to be confused with her
because ! highly dis0pprOve the action Of
the Alice Paul faction.
"'Thc situation never looked better for
suffrage" the State officer continued, with
the English Parliament coming around the
way IT has. and it is exceedingly to be re-
GREETED that this small body Of militants
should so icopardizc our excellent chances
for political enfranChiscment."
According to Mrs. Frederick Drinker
Philadelphia secretary of the conservative
organization. Miss Paul and Miss Burns who
learned their miltancy i'm England under
Mrs Emmelino PanKhurst. adopted only
the bad features OF the English women's
campaign.
When war came along" Mrs. Drinker
said. Mrs. Pankhurst threw mlitancy to
tho winds and put herself heart and soul
into patriotic work. See where they have
got by that. Yesterday the House of Com
mons declared strongly for them with al
most no opposition and we expect the Eng
liSh attitude to influence strongly the Amer
lean attitude. IL cannot be made too plain
that the pickets represent but a negligible
fraction of the great suffrage body through
out the country who are working with
patriotic fervor and intensity in this criti-
cal time and whose last thought is to throw
embarrassment in the way of President
Wilson and the Administration"
DOCTOR SHAW INDIGNANT
Doctor Shaw outrage leader. who was
chosen by Presid,ut Wilson to head the
woman's board of the National Council Of
Defense. was indignant at the performance
OF the two pickets.
Il cannot understand" she said "how
any suffragiSts can carry on such a line OF
agitation, which is 50 obviously injurious
to the suffrage cause. | consider the pickett
ing of the White House during the winter
and particularly at the present time as the
greatest obstacle now existing to the pas
sage of the Federal woman suffrage amend.
In,