The Washington herald., 1917-06-21
new SUFFRAGE
BANNER READY
Women Declare Intention
Of Placing 1t Before the
White House Today.

House yesterday over the suffragist
banner may be repeated today.
The banner. that had Haunted in the
faces of the Russian eDvoys the charge
Of deception against the President, had
no sooner been torn to shreds and the
frightened pickets returned to their
headquarters in Madison place with
the news, than Miss Alice Paul and
the other leaders of the militants had
workmen making another banner Just
like IT.
The wording is Just the same:
ITO the Russian Mission:
President Wilson and Envoy Root
are deceiving Russia. They say, We
are democracy. Help us win a world
war so that democracies may survive
I'VE, the women. tell you that
America is not a democracy. Twenty
million American women are denied
the right to vote. President Wilson is
the chief opponent OF their national
enfranchisement
Help us make this nation really
free. Tell your government that 1t
must liberate its people before It can
claim free Russia as an ally"
Women pickets, working in two-hour
shifts, are going to take the banner
to the White House gates again this
morning, whether the Russisns come
or not. and try to keep It. there.
Just what is going to happen no
one knows.
MAJ Ray,,ordr " p,,iI,,,.. ..ta
Miss Paul over the telephone, after
he had called at the White. House.
that he thought II would be very
unwise" to take a similar banner to
the White House gates again, but
that II the militants decided TO risk
1t to call him UP beforehand and tell
| him.
So about s o'clock this morning
| Miss Paul will telephone Mai. Pull
man that the banner is on its way,
and Mai Pullman will hurry to the
scene with details of detectives or
police, and then the crowds will be-
gin to gather-and then the excite
ment will start.
When the two pIckets hurried TO
their headqsuarters after the riot, Mr..
Zsck, the publicity representative
with the Russian missions, and the
correspondents of Russian newspa-
pets here hurried to the telegraph
offices to send the story of the riot
| to Petrograd, so that today that CAP
ital, and all the capitals of the world.
| will ring with the story Of the riot at
the gates of the White House.
! Ats least Mrs. Abbie Scott Baker,
one Of the leaders Of the National
Woman's Party. and a weH-known
I In. Wo1hfnBfAr fkae
Mr.. Zack cabled the story to his
| government
He told me that the story Of the
| riot was the only thing he mentioned
in his cable yesterday" said Mrs.
| Baker, and that he had sent a COM
pie at home would be intensely inter
| ested in the way women are treated
| in this country" Mr.. Zack couldn't
be located last night and the men,
bers of the mission would not COM
ment on the incident.
Sunfragists JubIIant.
There was jubilatIOn last night
at the headquarters OF the National
Woman's party in Madison place
over the riot.
We Haunted similar banners be-
fore Gen. Joffre and Balfour," said
Miss Paul, and We were amazed
when the people tore our banner
We are fighting just as much fol-
democracy as the men in the
trenches and the only way we car
bring our cause to the attention Oi
the President is by these spectacu-
lar methods"
Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, OF PhiladeI-
phia. who was one OF the pickets
carrying the banner when IL was
seized by the crowd, said she had
not been hurt in the srghtesT, mol
had Miss Burns
I'VE stood there with the ban.
ner," said Mrs Lewis, while the
Russians passed and no one said
anything. Then suddenly one oil
two persons started to talk loud
and one man ran up ana grabbed
the banner and tore II, and then al
] the others followed him. There were
policemen around who could hav'
kept the crowd back IL they haC
tried. We got out of the GROVE
without any difficulty at all
A man who said he was Waite,
S. 'Timmis. an engineer of 31S Fiftl
avenue. New York City, claimed Il
be the man who had led ;ne crowC
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