Arizona republican., 1917-11-10
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The advance guard of the National Woman's party arrived in Phoenix Thursday afternoon in the person of Miss Iris Calderhead, very pretty de- mure little Miss who would be taken Tor anything but a militant suffra- gette. Miss Calderhead claims Kansas as her home, where she is known as her fathers daughter. as he was for a number of years a member of congress | from that state. She came here from Portland, Oregon, where she had been spending some time fin the interest of | that subject which Is nearest her heart woman suffrage.
 Miss Calderhead explained last even 1 Ing that her purpose in coming here was to make arrangements for meet | ings at which speakers will explain the reasons for the National Woman's Party picketing the White House at Washington. She said that the admin istration had taken pains to send out its representatives explaining why the nation had gone into this world war. and now the time is ripe for the Wom- ans party to explain it's conduct in the recent picketing.
 The principal speaker at these meetings which Miss Calderhead is to arrange, will be Miss Anne Martin. of Nevada, who is vice-chairman of the 1 National Woman's party, as she is now making tour of the western states in the Interest of the principles of the 1 party, and explaining why they have done certain things in connection with their campaign.
 Miss Calderhead stated that she was nere to work in conjunction with any local Woman's clubs who desire her as sistance in furthering the cause of women in public life.
 Miss Calderhead has acted e.s pick ct at the White House herself from January to September, and gave a few or her experiences in this capacity. For the first five months they were not molested by the police. but at the end or that time they were arrested and sent to jail on their refusal to pay fines.
 AS Miss Calderhead related her ex- | perience her large beautiful brown eyes snapped with indignation. She said in part:
 "On the fourth of March, 1000 wom- en picketed the White House and were not molested. On July in company with ten other women, I returned to Washington to celebrate Independence day, and two of the women were car rying tri-eolor banners, one of them bearing the inscription Just govern ments derive their powers from the | consent of the governed-Declaratio tion Of lndependence,' The other banner asked this question, MT. President what are you going to do for women's suffrage" We were walking down Pennsylvania avenue toward the White House, single file, about five feet apart, When We were arrested for obstructing the traffic. Just south of the White House, Champ Clark was addressing a crowd of several thousand completely blocking traffic for several hours. but no notice was taken by the police of this, and strange to say, Champ Clark used the same expression in his ad- dress as that carried on the first ban her quoted from the Declaration of Independence"
 When Miss Calderhead and her com patriots were taken before the court 10 be sentenced, the judge wept and begged them to accept sufficient funds to pay their fines as he did not want to send such refined women to iaiI. but they perslstently refused to accent his generous offer as they felt that they nad committed no. crime. They there- lore were compelled to serve three days in the district jail for the privi- lege Of being caught walking down fennsylvania avenue arrayed as mill tant suffragettes.
 Miss Calderhead said that the neo- pie of Phoenix might be interested in knowing that Rose Winslow. who an peared on the platform here a year aeo Tn the interest of their party prin- eipies, IS now serving a six months Jail sentence for this horrible crime Inf asking for true democracy at home In burst Of indignation, Miss Calderhead said: We think we are fighting to