Putnam patriot., 1917-11-09

l Discharged from workhouse and | jail, where she had been confined for 60 days for picketing the White House | with number of other militant suf- frsgisis, Mrs. Dorothy Jones Bartlett arrived in Putnam Tuesday morning al I01s. As ,she entered waiting automobile her first act was to stand up and spread out large banner of purple, white and gold bearing the inscription, "Nstionsl Woman's Party.n Mrs. Bartlett is to devote her time in the future under this banner instead of the purple, white and green of the Connecticut Woman's Suffrage Association.
 Mrs. Bartlett showed the effect of her confinement by the loss of l3 ? pounds in weight but her eye was bright and her hand clasp firm AS she greeted PATRIOT representative and agreed to an interview within the hour.
 Mrs. Bartlett was accompanied by her husband, Waiter J. Bartlett, who went to Washington to meet her. On account of the train being late he was not at the entrance 10 the district jail when she came out. Her two daugh- ters, Misses Dorcas and Ruth, were at the station to meet their mother and { after lingering greeting all were driven home in car.
 Mrs Bartlett entered the workhonse at 0ccoquan, September 4th. Alter short confinement there she WAS trans- 1 ferred to the District of Columbia jail because she refused to work, claiming to be political prisoner Al the Jai, she spent l3 days in solitary coniine. ment.
 l One of the first acts Mrs. Bartlett performed when she reached home was l to spread the banner of purple, white and gold on the wall of the living room It was already in place when the PATRIOT representative called 1 within half sn hour of her arrival.l l When asked what her plans were 1 for the future Mrs. Bartlett said; 1 "From now until November sth | shall spend my time working for re. cruits Tor the picket line i"
 Asked if she still believed in picket. | ing she replied
 "picketing is the only way to ac- complish our cad. When we petition l ed congress we were asked why we l did not petition the White House. 1 Sufiragists who are not progressive may tell you that the cause has had n set back on account of picketing st this time and they say to wait until the war is over. This was the same thing thev told Susan E. Anthony during the Civil war. As matter Of fact the movement has gone on by leaps and bounds since we have been in jail" Asked for her story she said: 1 don't know how to tell you about 1 it. The cause is so big that behind | the bars nursing our high ideal the bars could not keep 1t out. It Is a 1 glorious cause and shall continue the | work telling the story from one end Of the state to the other. l shall tell the storysof our imprisonment and condi- tions existing in the District of Colum- bia even If they put me in jail again, 1 shall devote all of my time to the | National Woman's party under that banner of purple, white and gold in- stead of the purple, white and green Of Connecticut Equal Franchise League.
 Asked what she thought 0! the dis banding of the Putnam Equal Ffanch- ise league she said: "lt was bound to come. In Maryland the whole state came over into the National Woman's party and 1t will certainly come in 1 Connecticut. There is no use working l for state action and through congress too. All effort should be put forth nation wise And then the states will come i'm
 With eyes snapping, hands cienched and voice that denoted intense feel. ing she announced her purpose to take up the work in Connecticut and to spread broadcast her story of hardship, priyation and suffering under unsani- tary conditions with improper food and insufficient nourishment even though she might be sent to jail for doing so.
 When she was asked if the condi- lions were as bad as had been related by some of the suffragists she said
 "They can't make It strong enough. They punished us for asking for air; they punished us for asking for proper clothing; they punished us for protest. ing aagainst the food. Why, we had no exercise, we were not allowed to see friends or have books or papers, the 1 food was wormy, the place was infested l with ,rats and bed bugs. We didn't care what we suffered. While we were not there to bring about reform we thought we might kill two birds with one stone and do what we could for the unfortunates there. One day we marched into the office carrying eight worms we had found in the bread. We threw things because they wouldn't open q window and give us little sir. Me slept between dirty, coarse sheets and for week we tad no night