Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-14
THREE W0MAN'S PARTY
GROUPS ARE ARRESTED
Demonstration Takes Place in Front
of White House Just as De-
partments Let Out.

| Three groups Of members Of the Nationa
Woman's Party who attempted to picke
the White House with banners were ar
rested today in the midst Of thousands OF
home-going government employees shortly
after / o'clock.
| There was little disorder in connec-
tion with the arrests. and citizens who
urged each other to tear down the suf-
| frage banners refrained from actually
destroying them. bearing in mind, per-
haps, the fact that citizens who de-
stroyed the banners or created other
disturbanc the last time the attempt
was made to picket the White House
were Themselves arrested.
Loaded Into Automobiles.
The demonstration of the woman's
party took place in front Of both gates
Of the White House, on Pennsylvania
avenue. The first group was arrested
at the east gate on the avenue, and
while these arrests were in progress
the west gate, where that party was
arrested.
The automobiles in which the pris-
oners were loaded had not moved from
from the woman's party headquarters
nearby to the east gate of the White
House on the Avenue, where their ar
rest also promptly ensued.
When the women attempted to take
their stations in front of the White
House gates the police asked them If
they would move on. as their presence
was attracting a crowd which OBJ
structed traffic
The women claimed they were within
their legal rights in attempting to dis
play the suffrage banners at the White
House and refused to move on, where
upon the police officials ordered their
arrest.
The banners carried by the members
of the woman's party today bore the
legend. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.
which is the motto of the French re-
public: an appeal inQuiring, MT. Presi-
dent, What will you do for woman SUI
frage?' and another appeal inquiring.
wait for liberty?"
1t was stated that the demonstration
was arranged for about l o'clock, as the
members Of the Woman's Party hoped to
return from a wedding which they had
attended ct noon, but President and Mrs.
Wilson returned to the White House at
12.15 o'clock and did not see the dem
Each Of the Womans Party members
arrested offered $25 collateral for her
release instead Of going to Imprisonment
as or former occasions.
The women in the three groups, and
the states they represented were an
uounced by the woman's party in ad-
vance of the demonstration as fol-
lows:
First group-Miss Julia Hurlbut. Mrs
]. A H. Hopkins and Miss Minnie Abbott
Of New Jersey. Mrs. Beatrice Reynolds
Kinkead of California, Mrs. Bette
Graves Regneau of Michigan, Miss
Anne Martin OF Nevada The banner
for this group. carried by Mrs. Hop
kins, bore the legend, 'Liberte, egalite,
Traternite-July IA, 1889"
Second GROUPINGS. Robert Walker
Of Maryland; Mrs. Florence Bay
ard Hilles. daughter Of Thomas F. Bay
ard, Secretary of State during President
Cleveland's administration, of Della
ware; Miss Janet rockingham of Mas
sachusetts: and Mrs ellison Gardner
Of the District of Columbia The ban
ner for this group. carried by Mrs.
Hilles, bore the inscription, Mr.. Pres
| ident, how long must women wait for
liberty?'
Third group-Mrs. Louise C. Mayo
and Miss Eleanor Calnan of Massachu-
sets. Miss Doris Stevens of Nebraska.
| Miss Mary H. Ingham of Pennsylvania.
Mrs. John Winters Brennan Of New
York and Mrs. John Rogers Of New
York city. Miss Ingham Is in charge of
| the banner for this group, the query
| inscribed on .this banner being: "Mr.
President. what will you do for woman
suffrageT'