The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-06
VISITING SUFFRAGISTS
HEARD BY SMALL CROWD

prison, Occoquan, and Mrs. Gould
told of them being stripped and made
to stand side by side with the negro
inmates for examination, and hoa
the negroes were made to assault
the pickets; of the hunger they suffer
of illness and solitary confinement.
Both women made a plea for de
mocracy at home-the ceasing Of this
persecution of women engaged in {
serious and worthy cause-before We
attempt to spread democracy over the
world.
The audience was left to infer tha,
there is a frame-up in political circles
to put an end to this practice at
whatever cost. But of the details
of this frame-up they were silent.
Miss Younger went SO far as to say
however, that there was an official
in Washington who was back of this
persecution, whom she described as
presidential candidate, and the mai
who tried to muzzle the newspapers
Someone in the audience called thu
name of Burleson.: But is was sub.
sequently admitted that she meant
Secretary HcAdoo.
She made it clear to her hearers
that the picketing is a serious enter
prise on the part Of the women, un.
dertaken as legal means of bringing
pressure to bear for the fedora
amendment to the constitution. And
she characterized the arrest of the wo-
men as unlawful, unconstitutional
and inhJunan. And bore out her ar
gunent by citing the inconsistency of
Judge Maloney, of sentencing first Of
tenders and old offenders alike; of
giving them three day terms, thirty
day terms and six months terms, al.
for precisely the same cause-that of
blocking traffic-.when she declared the
very foundation of these arrests was
false, inasmuch as the women did not
block traffic.
She told an interesting Renaissance
of the ST. Louis convention, where
she declared, the women were re-
ceived with open arms by the dele.
gates. (Laughter). She said Score.
tary Daniels wrote resolution to be
embodied as plank IN the democratic
platform, and described how the wo-
men stood outside the platform S com.
mittee's room until four-thirty in the
morning, waiting for results.
She declared, however, that DAN
iels resolution got only four votes in
the committee, after Baker had ar.
rived with platform direct from the
President, minus the desired timber
In referring to the arrest Of the
pickets she spoke of certain banners
being arrested, not the individuals,
and drawing forth huge cloth, let
erred in. black, she declared that tc
&c the first banner to be taken into
custody. And it was not, she ex.
blamed, the Russian banner, nor the
Kaiser banner, but one containing a
quotation from President Wilson's
var address before Congress, on April
.econd. g
The wording if this banner was as
'ollows: 1--WE shall fight for the
things which we have always carried
nearest. our hearts-for democracy.
COR the rights of those who submit
To- authority, to have a voice in their
own government" When the woman
bearing this banner was arrested, q
fellow policeman said to the one who
had taken her into custody, My God,
man, you can't arrest that. Them
the Presidents own words
After calling upon her hearers tc
see to it that in this great nation wo-
men We're granted their just nights,
as women in Russia already have
been, and where in England they are
on the verge of being, she closed with
the following:
and let our boys who shed thei1g
life blood in France not come home
to find less democracy than they went
abroad to die for
Mrs. Gould, be it said, bearing very
little of the aspect of the celebrate
actress, but serious woman of mid
die age, taking her mission very much
to heart, made a brief but spirited
plea also for justice for womankinc
in this country. i
Describing visit she made to Oc-
coquan, she told of the terrifying
conditions the incarcerated women
have to bear. Among other things
she told of how, prior to the ARES
of the suffragists, the negro womer
and the white women were segregat-
ed, but now they repose cheek by
jowl in the prison; of how the dirt.
colored women are made to remove
their uniforms to make themsready fog
the offending pickets; of the deadly
fear of the finely bred and cultured
women of the prevalent diseases of the
prison, against which they are given
no protection; and of the hard manua
toll they are forced to accomplish.
Mrs. Gould was gowned in close
fitting hat and long brown coat
trimmed with brown fur. Miss Young
er wore a soft red picture hat, and a
loose red cloak trimmed with fur, over
a brown velvet gown.
Amongst the audience were Judge
Sheppard and the Misses Kehoe. sis
tiers of Congressman Kehoe.
The party will continue their tour
this morning, which will terminate in
Washington the third Of December