Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1918-01-22

wilson's Liberty Bond Loan slogan,
'.The time has come for Us to con-
quer or submit. For us there can be
but one choice. We have made it.
Also a banner inscribed Resistance
TO tyranny is obedience to God"
They were given six months in the
district Jail
A number OF the women in the Jail
went on a hunger strike. were forci-
bly, fed, and suffered a great deal of
i'll treatment, notably Miss Paul, who
was confined in the insane negro
ward
On November 10Th forty-one women
from fifteen States marched to the
White House gates bearing banners
inscribed, MIR. President, in your
message to Congress, urge the pass
age OF the Federal Suffrage Amend
ment enfranchising women" They
were found guilty on November 18th
and dismissed without sentence. Hair
an hour later thirty-one women again
stod before the White House gates.
They were arrested, their case was
the next day postponed by the Court
until the end of the week. On the
afteroon of November 18th the thirty
one again picketed. This time the
authorities imprisoned the women
and gave them sentences of from SIX
days 10 six months.
On November nth, three more wo-
men were arrested on the November
10th charges, Mrs. Harvey Wiley, Mrs
VIM. Kent. wife OF Congressman Kent
OF California, and Miss Elizabeth Nc
Shane. They were sentenced to jail.
but sent TO Occoquan. Here a policy
of terrorization, starvation and soii-
tary confinement was used against
them. The brutality increased to such
an extent that Mr.. Dudley Malone,
counsel for the pickets, procured a
writ Of habeas corpus after every pos
sible attempt had been made to block
it by the authorities. The case COM
ing up in the u. S. District Court at
| Alexandria, Va, on November 23rd,
with Judge Waddill, the fact was es-
| tablished that the suffragists were
sentenced to the district Jail and IL
| legally removed TO 0ccoquan, and that
they had been maltreated. Their re-
| commitment was ordered. They were
| brought to the washington jail, where
| the government was faced with the
necessity of feeding forcibly nearly
/ the entire group Of weakened women.
The result came quickly-on the 9th
and 2Sth Of November, all suffrage
| prisoners were released from prison.
Today. thirty-one members of the
4 Woman's Party are pursuing the tenor
/ of their lives, many just across the
street from the White House with
unfinished pail sentences varying
/ from six days to seven months, and
! on the first anniversary of the first
picketing, January 10th, the National
House of Representatives passed the
Federal Suffrage Amendment. More
over. President Wilson, who as re-
| Gently as December, stated to Mrs.
/ Gait and Mrs. Whitehouse his opposi-
/ ton to Federal suffrage and his belief
in State suffrage methods, gave to the
public press on the morning of Janu-
airy 10th his statement of belief that
the Federal Suffrage Amendment
should be passed by Congress in jus
tice to the women of this country.
1t is of these things that Mr.. Ma
lone will speak at the State House to-
morrow night, and he viii also tell
how he was sent by President Wilson
to the Western States in the last
Presidential election to campaign
against the National Woman's Party
and how he returned to the East a
member of the said party.