The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-06
IRATE SUFFS PLAN
Big PROTEST RALLY
Attack President for His Fail
ure to Call Extra Session
of Congress.
.HUBBUB' SET FOR MONDAY
Demonstration in Carnegie
Hall to Follow Welcome
of "Prison Special"

"our task is to make hubbub about
the Presidents refusing to call an extra
session OF Congress. If he had called
Congress together before he sailed the
suffrage amendment could be put
through at once and ratified by the nee
essary three-fourths Of the States in
time to enable tho women of the coun-
try to vote in the 1920 election"
So said Miss Alice Paul. chairman
of the National Woman's party, sitting
in the suffragette headquarters at IS
East Forty-frst street yesterday, calm
and collected as II she hadn't been the
storm centre of the battles that followed
the attempt OF the milltants to break
through police lines around the Met
ropolitan Opera House on Tuesday
night. Miss Doris Stevens was home
nursing the bruises she received that
night and Miss Marya Ratavtch came
into headquarters limping, with a patch
on her cheek and red line around
her throat where, she said, police
man choked her by twisting her collar.
But II Miss Paul had any bruises she
concealed them.
Not Fighting League OF Nations.
President Wilson. Miss Paul de-
clared, should not allow his fear that
the Republican Senators might imperil
the League Of Nations from preventing
him calling Congress together to pass
the suffrage amendment. mo one need
think that by working for suffrage
above all that we are working against
the League of Nations" she said "Suf-
frage Is the best hope of the peace OF
the world. II Mr.. Wilson would do us
this justice which we demand II would
help the League of Nations. We have
educated the President a good deal. 1t
Is really we who have made him a
Democrat. But we have to educate hin.
some more"
The militants were mourning the fact
that their last attempt to educate the
President had cost them about $1,000
in banners Miss Paul said:
The police broke our banners.
they tore our regalia and destroyed
our clothing. In doing that they
broke the law, and 1t is dangerous
when the people acquiesce in the
theory that the police have a right
to break law in holding their lines.
The police should have arrested us
ana taken us DeIOTS lndt
is their function. not to try to con-
troll the people by violence. However.
we shall not prefer charges against
the police we do not at the moment.
care to spend our money reforming
the Police Department of New York.
We need our money TO get the SUIT
frage amendment through"
Big Time Next Monday.
Miss Paul said that II the militant
| suffragists broke the law they did 80
because that law violated the higher
| law, and that was right And we had
no voice in making the laws. which
puts us in a different attitude toward
them" she said.
Mis- Paul explained that II was a diff
ficult task to make a hubbub wher
they have only banners to do it with
/ and added III we had machine guns
| 1t would be simpler
However. the suffrasettes expect &c
| make considerable of hubbub at Car
| negie Hall next Monday evening wher
the prison special. the suffrage train
| that has been touring the West and
South, arrives In New York. The speak.
ers at the meeting, all women who have
| been in prison for the cause. will be
| Mrs. II. o. Havemeyer OF New York
Mre. 4. r. Colvin OF Minnesota, Miss
Lucy Burns. Brooklyn Mrs. John Rog
ers, New York, and Miss Sue White
| Tennessee Mrs. o. II. p. Belmont vii
preside. and there will be a "pagean;
| of nations where women are free"