Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-01-22
DUDLEY FIELD MALONE
TO SPEAK HERE
Will Be AT State house Wednesday
Evening, Jan. e
TALK ON WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE
His Defence Of Picketing Resume Of
Action Taken By MIR. Malone For
MOman's Suffrage.

position as Collector or the Port OF
New York, the greatest gift of the
Democratic party, with an annual sal
airy of twelve thousand dollars. and
which resignation he sent TO Presi-
dent Wilson on September 7th last in
a letter in which he protested against
the treatment of the suffraget piekets,
will be the principal speaker at
meeting to be held at the State House
tomorrow night al o'clock. Cover
nor Harrington will introduce Mr..
Malone, and the meeting will be held
under the auspices of the Woman's
Suffrage Party of Maryland, OF which
the Just Government League is an
affiliated branch.
Mr. Malone is making a tour OF the
Eastern States speaking on behalf of
the Federal Woman Suffrage Amend
ment which passed the House of
Representatives on January 10 last,
and which is shortly coming up be-
fore the United States Senate
At mass-meeting held in the Be
lasco Theatre in Washington on De-
cember 9Th, by the National Woman's
Party, Mr. Malone was the principal
speaker, and on the stage sat eighty
nine women, all of whom had picket
ed the White House and suffered ar
rest and Imprisonment for carrying
banners at the White House gates
inscribed with demands for the pass
age of the federal suffrage amend
ment. which has now won victory
in the National House of Representa-
tives
Mr.. Malone in his speech, said in
part:
Prison reform was not what
brought our comrades to the iron
doors. In the midst of THIS world
war we hear much of patriotism and
we are filled with great love of coun-
try. We hear much OF democracy,
and an inner light shows US that the
finest patriotisn means devotion to
the ideals upon which our natieR as
founded, and a determination that
these ideals shall prevail. For ex-
pressing this patriotism and this de-
votion to democracy our pickets were
sent to Jail
These pickets, by their dramatic
act have flung out to the country that
splendid old challenge. What does it
profit man if he gain the whole
wrold and lose his soul?'
in honoring these women, who
were willing to go to Jail for liberty,
we are showing our love of country
and devotion to democracy"
While the Belasco Theatre was
crowded to it's full limit OF 1900 per-
sons, an overflow meeting of 1000
people filled Lafayette Square. and
three large street meetings, which
were addressed by Miss Elsi Hill. of
Connecticut, and several of the pick
cts. A collection OF sS6.326 was taxi
en- in the theatre. amid the applause
and cheers of the audience.
This meeting marked the close of
the most remarkable struggle for the
right of free speech and peaceful pc
tition known in the history of this
country. The National Woman's Par
ty, then the Congressional Union for
Woman Suffrage, on January 10, 1917
(just one year before the passage of
the Federal suffrage bill passed the
House of Representatives) decided
that, since the Federal amendment
was being openly blocked by the
Democratic party in Congress, and
that President Wilson openly opposed
suffrage by Federal amendment, that
a campaign Of peaceful picketing be
inaugurated before the White House,
in order to concentrate public atten-
ton upon the Presidents opposition
as the leader of his party. This course
aroused a fury of criticism all over
the country, and also much humour-
Gus endorsement from the press, es-
pecially in the Wstern States. where
picketing methods are frequently used
Such banner as Mr.. President. how
long must women wait for liberty?"
and Mr. President, what viii you do
for woman suffrage?' we're carried
by women prominent intellectually,
professionally and socially all over
the country. Among the Maryland
women who carried these banners
were Mrs Donald Hooker. Mrs.
Townsend Scott, Miss Mary G. Fem
dali and Miss Lucy Branham, of Bal
timore; Miss Marie B. Dixon, OF
Chestertown. and Mrs. w. Spencer
Murray and Mrs. Theodore Woolsey
johnson, of Annapolis
AS picketing was legalized BY the
Clayton Federal Act. the policy was
unmolested until the famous Russian
Banner. was carried on June 10Th. as
an appeal to the Russian mission then
in Washington. This banner called
/ the attention of Russia to the fact
that the Administration was opposing
the liberties of 10000 women citizens
of this country. while representing to
the Russian Government that the
United States enjoyed full, equal and
universal suffrage" and using this
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