The Washington herald., 1917-07-20
SUFFS ARE PARDONED
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sible moment with the proper au-
thorities, for he did not consider that
the suffragettes just returned from
the District workhouss had been
granted any extraordinary favors
whatever.
While the ragettes refused to
dwell on the happenings of the past
two days. while they have been con-
fined at Occoquan. because they con-
sidered them as "diverting" from the
main goal-the passage of the Susan
B. Anthony amendment-they confided
to friends many OF what they termed
as shocking experiences" undergone
by them in the local penal institu-
ton.
The women were unanimous in the
opinion that they would be willing
to serve not only the sixty-day sem
tence imposed upon them by Judge
Mullowny. but q term Of several times
nat severity should 1t be named by
President Wilson as q price for the
passage Of their bill.
at was only on account Of the deep
love of America and a sense Of
patriotism" Mrs. Robert II. Walker,
Of Baltimore, one Of the defendant
pickets announced, that made US
willing to suffer any indignities II it
would cause the administration to
grant US political liberty because we did
not want America to be the last of
the civilized nations to enfranchise
her woman citizens. We think that
the President has met this situation
as the big American leader that he
is and that he will prove II by the
speedy passage of the Federal amend
ment. We all were willing to accept
his pardon with that understanding"
Late press dispatches did not in
dicate that the suffragettes would ac-
cept President Wilson'S pardon and
it was a surprise even to some of the
suffrage leaders at the Cameron
House headquarters when. little
after o'clock, motor cars carrying
the entire party. arrived. No pre-
parations had been made for the
martyr" women. but their associates
ception in their honors in the open
air garden.
Demonstration To-day.
Iris CaIderhead. who has captained
the several picket charges about the
White House, and who acted as the
spokesman for the returned sixteen
suffra gettes who will participate in a
spectacular motor demonstration on
Pennsylvania avenue this evening, en-
phatically denies press statements rela-
tive to the heralded picketing on the
White House with thirty-two women
some day this week.
"All White House picket plans are
being held in abeyance," Miss Calder
head said. I'VE are now concentrating
all Of our effort on the outdoor
demonstration to be held this even
ing. by the sixteen returned women
from the District workhouse."
Details Of the demonstration to be
held this evening while only in a for
mulative stage last night, presage that
1t will be a unique form OF picketing.
The sixteen women, who are staying
over especially for the occasion, ac-
companied by several suffrage leaders
will go to the avenue demonstration
in three or four automobiles. where
they will slowly rotate about the
Franklin Circle. meantime espousing
the justness of their cause.
Each OF the automobiles will be dec
GRATED with the suffrage colors and
many of the banners which have
been held by the suffrage pickets at
the White House gates will be held
by occupants In them, it was init
mated.
Announcement was made that some
reference would be made in the
speeches by the women from the
motor cars of their recent confine-
ment in the Occoquan institution but
that they would not make this the
feature Of their talks.
Mrs. Florence Bayard Hilles, of Will
mington, Del, daughter Of former Am
bassador. Bayard, who is dis
tinguished among the sixteen par
dened sufrragettes, in q statement last
night made public the fact that "the
work assigned to her while in the
institution was sewing bed linen, while
doing which she was seated between
two women, one colored and one white,
both of whom were in jail for prosti-
tution.''
My trip to the workhouse," Mrs.
Hilles continues in her statement,
was quite the most unpleasant ex-
perience I have ever had, but II it
is necessary to get back again and
remain a longer period in order to
impress upon the President the in
tensity and earnestness of the demand
for the immediate passage Of the
Susan B. Anthony amendment,
am willing to return at once, tired
and dirty as am, since we have not
been allowed to have access to any
article of toilet we took with US to
the workhouse. Certain statements
apparently given out by the superin-
tendent Of the tears shed by certain
women and various methods of dress
ing and undressing are without founda-
ton and amazing. The work assigned
to me was sewing bed linen and l
spent today hemming fifty pillow
tops, seated between two women, one
colored and one white, both in jail
for prostitution"
Mrs. John Winters Brannan, of New
York, wife of a famous physician,
and daughter of Charles A Dana,
famed author, who enjoys the dis
tinction of being the eldest Of the
sixteen pardon suffragettes, made the
following comment in regard to her
jail days:
THE experience Just passed has
been the most shocking that / could
possibly imagine. However, 1 am
ready to endure II again for months,
IL by doing so ! should further the
action on the Federal amendment
am rejoiced over telegram just
received from my husband applaud
ing my action and sympathizing with
the position Of both myself and COM
panions."
Questioned last night as to his atti-