Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-13
TALK OF DROP Ping
CAPITAL PICKETS
WOmen's Party Plans To Withdraw
Washington Guard Tomorrow
WORK FOR NEW AMENDMENT
More Than $4,000 Collected to Con-
tinue the Campaign Fer Ma
tiOn-Wide Suffrage.

further the passage OF the Federal suf-
frage amendment. and plans were laid
with a view 10 ending on Saturday the
picketing Of the White House at a
meeting of the National Woman's
Party in the ballroom of the Ritz
Carlton. New York, yesterday after
noon. The 500 women present, who
more than filled the ballroom, includ-
ed several ex-prisoner pickets in their
Occoquan prison garb, Mrs. o. II. p.
Belmont was in the chair
The hiss came from only one wom-
an, when in the course of an address
| by Dudley Field Malone, who had
been enthusiastically received as the
courageous champion OF the party,
told of the refusal of the President at
one time to receive some of the party
members. Mr.. Malone subdued any
similar demonstrations
Ladies'" he said promptly, Il hope
no one ever can or ever will hiss the
head of the nation. We can only edu-
cate him. The reason he does not un-
derstand is because he had had bad
advisors and he has not been able to
learn because of his isolation as the
President of the country.
"The very substantial victory we
have won in New York is not due, in
my Judgment Mr. Malone continued,
ito the belated efforts of the gentle
men in the Cabinet, but to the men
and women in New York who love lib
erty"
He told the women that picketing
was legal, however it might be ques-
toned as a matter of taste, and of his
| interest when he saw women like Mrs.
John Winters Brannan and Mrs. John
Rogers, Jr.. illegally thrown into a
rotten prison"
when l went to see the President
about it," he said, she told that he
was shocked, and he told Mr.. Hopkins
| u. A. H. Hopkins, husband of one of
the imprisoned pickets,) that he had
looked up the law to see if he could
| discharge the Judge who had sem
! fenced the women. When / saw those
women sentenced / said that no adj
ministration, whether it liked the pol
| icy or not, had any right to throw
American women into Jail"
There was applause for DR.. Anna
Howard Shaw. Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait, and Mrs Whitehouse when Mr..
Malone mentioned them in connection
with the New York suffrage victory.
But it cannot be denied" he con-
tinued, that the women who dared by
their picketing to dramatise the in
! justice done American women, did
much to aid in winning the victory
Now, fellow-citizens of femme gender,
| If you have differed before about pick
citing don't continue your differences.
Men never succeed unless they stand
I together, and women will do no bet
ter. You are going to have victory,
but don't sweetly ask for anything
demand it."
Mrs. Thomas A. Hepburn, of Hart
ford, Conn. who said that as a mem
Der of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association she had not been
able to talk in favor of the pickets
and had resigned, urged the women to
| pledge their money for the work of
| the party
I'VE must work all over the coun-
try this next month" she said, land
we will need $4,000"
! The pledges came slowly and with
! much urging. but at the close of the
meeting S5,12315 had been pledged
and in the collection $500 in cash had
been taken. There were two pledges
of $500, one ''for the courage of Dud-
ley Field Malone" in supporting the
party, and $500 in honor of Mrs. Bel
mont.
Some of the contributions were
given facetiously in the names of
those described as opponents of suf-
frage For instance, Mrs. John Win
tiers Brannan gave 500 Sin the name
of The New York Times" Another
woman gave IS for "Elihu Root, who
did so much to win us the victory"
$50 from THE Summer home of Mrs.
Arthur Dodge;" $40 "out of sympathy
to Everett p Wheeler" SIS for Mar
jory Dorman," and $50 cents each for
Anna Katherine Greene and Minnie
Bronson
Mrs. Brannan, Mrs. Rogers and Miss
Darts Stevens were among the ex-
pIlSOueIS plChelS III OCcOQud1 Dlue
checked prison garb. Later in the
afternoon they slipped off their prison
gowns and revealed afternoon dress
underneath
The matron of Occoquan, Miss V. H.
Bovee. who treated the women as il
they were human beings" and lost her
job, was there, wearing an official
white gown. She received a roll OF
bills from some one in the audience.
Mrs. Brannan called for fifty volun-
teers to take the 1880 train with her
for Washington, 70 be ready to picket
the White House on Saturday. Among
the volunteers was a negro woman.
NJ. NJ Young, a dressmaker Of 103
West 141st street. She said she knew
there were women of her race in the
prison. and she wanted to join the
pickets. Mrs. z. O. Guilford, Miss
Edna Thomasson, Dora wendroff.
Bertha Apter. Elizabeth Hamilton.
Dorothy Bennett, and Lily Winner also
volunteered
Miss Doris Stevens said after the
meeting that this would undoubtedly
be the last time that the White House
would be picketed.--New York Times.
Nov. 3.
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