Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-21
WOMEN SEEKING
PUBLICITY AGAIN
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been talking earnestly to one of the
sentinels for several minutes, sud-
denly snatched one of the banners
and ran into Pennsylvania avenue.
In a moment the crowd got into
action and the sentinels We're sur.
rounded. One by one their flags of
purple, white and gold were taken
from them and torn to shreds. One
standard bearer, Miss Hazel Hunkins,
game to the last, climbed up on the
pedestal of one of the White House
gates and raised her banner as high
as she could over her head in an
effort to save 1t. She lasted only n
moment. A man took the pole from
her hand, broke 1t over the iron gate
and the flag of suffrage fell to the
ground. After all the banners at
one entrance had been torn away the
police began to dispense the crowd,
but someone remembered the pickets
at the other entrance. and, to the
footing of scores of automobile horns
in the crowded avenue. the crowd
charged the banner bearers at the
other gate. The work there was
silken strip from the suffrage colors
on her hat and held 1t high on a
pole. She was immeditaly sur
rounded by a guard of several other
sutfragists and efforts to take the
colors away from her proved un-
availing for several minutes. In the
end, however. it met tho fate of the
rest and for the first time in many
months the White House gates were
free of suffrage colors.
Most of the crowd came appar-
I emily from the governments depart,
ments near by, although many people
had waited in the park across from
| the White House all morning eX.
| pecting something to happen. The
| police had no difficulty in controlling
them and while some OF the womer
were not handled gentlemanly, none
was injured.
Movie Men On Job
The ever-present movie man was
early on the job waiting the oppor.
| tunity to make news film" He was
amply rewarded. and when the dem.
onstration was at it's height men who
had torn the banners danced about
in front of the clicking camera. wav.
ing the tattered trophies, while the
crowd roared and cheered in glee.
One arrest was made. A police
matron took into custory Mrs. DeC
| Richardson, the woman who, the po.
| lice said, snatched the first banner.
The White House had steadfastlI
refused to allow the police to drive
the silent sentinels away. Official.
have said they did not wish to con.
tribute to any 'martyrdom."
Reserve Called Out
The situation now has reached 6
stage where, it is contended, If the
police do not challenge the right oi
the women to stand at the White
House gates. they are bound to pro.
tect them against attack or annoy.
ance. The action of the police after
the second rumpus to-day in warn.
ing pasesrs-by not to modest the ban.
Eer berers seemed to indicate thai
the police themselves had taken this
view.
Police reserves were turned out
and soon some twenty policemen
were patrolling the White House
keeping everyone moving. A police
captain addressed the crowd, advis-
ing the militants to go and enlist.
The inscription on the banner to-
| day was the same as that on the
one displayed yesterday. accusinf
| President Wilson and Elihu Root o.
"deceiving Russia" in saying thu
| United States is a democracy anC
pleading with the Russian mission tC
demand the acknowledgements Of
women in the United States.
The banner was in front of the
| White House gates only for a few
minutes and the crowd that collect.
ed was not large. A man passing ir
an automobile about the time the
sentinels brought it from theil
headquarters stopped his car anc
walked over, tore part of it off anC
resumed his journey, refusing t.
give his name.
A. few minutes later after tn,
crowd had grown a little and afte
! q few shouts of traitors" a maj
who gave his name as George b