The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-02-01
THE DEMOCRACY LIMITED" TO TOUR
 UNITED STATES ON FEBRUARY g

trial has again and again been post poned, though the Suffagists were always ready to press them.
 The second period of persecution was in August of last year, when the . police somewhat mysteriously ob- ; jocted to holding of a demonstration
 il Lafayette Park-where so many :. demonst dons have been held since. There was another sharp tussel with the authorities, and the Suffragists, !, used the hunger strike as a weapon to force their way out of jail. This time the authorities did not give in until nearly the end of the year. when suddenly all the Suffrage pris- oners were released, and President Wilson made a special effort to push the amendment before he left for Europe.
 The third period of persecution is still in progress. How long it will last cannot be foretoId, but it is easy to predict that whenever it ends it will end in triumph for the Suf- fragists. The women who go on the , Democracy Limited" will repre- scented groups of prisoners during all three periods-some of them having served sentences under each set of sentences.
 Among these women will be Mrs.
 John Rogers, Miss Lucy Burns and
 Miss Edith Ainge of New York Miss
 Mary Ingham, Mrs. Lawrence Lewis and Miss Elizabeth McShane of Phil
 adelphia; Mrs. Abby Scott Baker of Washington, and Mrs. A. B. Colvin of
 St. Paul. Minnesota. A strong effort
 has been made to secure Mrs. NJ.
 Toscan Bennett of Hartford as one
 of the group. So far it has not been
 possible for Mrs. Bennett to arrange
 to go the whole trip, but 1t is prob
 able that she will join the Demo-
 cracy Limited" during the latter part
 of the tour.
 Colonel William B. Thompson, who
 has long taken a deep interest in the
 propaganda of the National Wonan's
 Party, has agreed to bear the ex- pense of all the literature which will be carried on the special and dis trlbuted at all stops. Mrs. Abby Scott Baker, the publicity chairman of the party will have charge of this literature, which will include illus trated pamphlets showing the experi- ences of the Suffragists in Washing ton. both at the hands of the police during the arrests and also in jail; and also the record of the Wilson ad-
 ministration during its six years of | office in regard to the Federal Suf- 1 frage Amendment. The train will al- i so carry moving picture films show 1 ing the demonstrations in front of 1 the White House.
 | The car will be abundantly deco 1 rated with the purple, white and gold
 banners. It had been planned to i have bars like those of the prison ! gate painted on the outside Of the 1 ar. But this was too much for the /! United States Government, and of 1 ficers of the railroad administration 1 sent word to the National Woman's 1 Party Headquarters in Washington, 1 that the railroads would refuse to | carry the car on its three weeks tour 1 if there were any insignia on the out 1 side of the car showing it's character 1 or purpose The inside is however at 1 windows will be abundantly made use l of to advertise the party.
 i The whole cost of the trip is es-
 timated at twenty-thousand dollars, 1 which the National Woman's Party is 1 raising by special donations. Five 1 thousand was raised during the first week after the proposal had been made, and pledges and gifts are | pouring in daily at Headquarters in , Washington.