The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-11-16
POLICE SCOOP Al
OF WOMAN'S PARTY
MRS. KENT AND WIFE OF n. w
WILEY, PUEE FOOD EXPERT,
IN NUMBER.

Washington, Nov 1O.-FOrty-one
mebers of the national Woman's par
~ we're arrested tonight at the two
font gates Of the White House tor
picketing.
u was the biggest drive the suftra-
t.yts vet have made to keep their
hIurers standing where President
wilson could see them. but there was
the least disorder ami the smallest
crowds of any of the demonstra-
tons.
Planning their yellow, white aud
purple banners to the dying sun, the
suGragists marched in squads from
their headquarters. As soon as they
had lined up at the White House
gates. policemen, in quiet manner.
walked up to them and led them to
a battery of patrol wagons that stood
Chugging along the curb. The wO-
men were rushed to court and there
released on $25 bail each until Mon
day morning.
President Wilson, coming in from
an afternoon drive. witnessed the
tail-end OF the demonstra zion, hut
avoided the crowds and entered the
executive mansion by side en-
trance.
Miss Mida Sharp, Of New Orleans.
of ialg at
but she tainted from the heat and
excitement as she stood in line in the
party headquarters waiting her turn
to march out and take the place of
the preceding group arrested.
Mrs. William Kent was the only
one to suffer any direct indignity. A
soldier tried to wrest her banner from
her and, in the brief struggle that en-
sued before a policeman went TO her
rescue, rougher element in the hard
pressing crown showered her with an
American variant of Billingsgate.
Virtually no other disorder ac-
cOmpanied the demonstration except
some kissing and jeering from the
crowds, and the persistent growing,
in intimation of a rooster, by one
militant woman anti.
The picketing and arrest might
have been social affair. 1t was con-
Quoted politely by the suffragists
themselves and the police. /
Police Apologize. /
The women were grimfaced at first
as they marched from their head
quarters nearby to one or the other
of the White House gates, but went
to the patrols with a smile and no
resistance almost at once after they
had taken their place. tianking the
entrances. Their immediate pur-
pose, apparently, was to have them
selves arrested with courteous dof-
ing of the cap and an apologize
bow, escorting the piclCets to the pa
trOls with as much gallantry as if
they were going from the opera to
limousine.
The leader of each group carried
a huge yellow suffrage banner bear
ing the words: Mr.. President, in
your message to Congress urge the
passage of the Federal amendment
franchising women" Il
All the others carried the suffrage
banners of purple, white and yell
low. and they took the banners with
them in the patrol automobiles, MAX
ing a very gay display of it on the
way to court, with the bunting iiaunt-
ing from front and rear thru crowds
that cheered jeered, clapped and
Kissed.
At the court each woman was re-
Ieased on S25 bail for hearing Mon
day, the bail being furnished in ev-
cry instance by Miss Mary Ingram, OF
Philadelphia, one Of the original
White House pickets pardoned by
the President. and acting chairman
Of the Philadelphia branch of the
party.
Including the arrests made this
afternoon, l5J women have been sent
To Jail, some of them two and three
times, and &C women have served, or r
are serving Jail sentences.