The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-02-01
BY 8NNIE G. PORRTTT.

The National Woman's Party, i'll sending out the special train which they have named the The Demo- crazy Limited" is not making a new departure. Special trains carrying women of the National Women $ Party who were taking a message to the women voters of the West have already gone out from Washington several times. The first of these trains, the one known as the 'Suf- frage Special was sent out in the early summer of 1916, and by many Eeople was confused with the train later sent on behalf of the Republi- can party which carried a number of women of wealth and social stand ing and was known as the Golden Special. The Suffrage Special of 1916 took the story of the neglect of wo- man suffrage by the Democrats dur ing the first term of President WiI- son and it was not until after it's re- turn, after the election was held and the women had shown their power to turn a presidential election that Pres ident Wilson came out in favor of thA Federal Suffrage Amendment.
 The Democracy Limited" is to leave Washington on February 9th, and it's tour will take all the time up to the eve of the closing of the pres ent and last session of the Sixty-fffth Congress. Connecticut will be in- ciuded in the last lap of the tour, and it is expected that the Suffrage speakers on the Democracy Lmi- ted" will address Connecticut audi ences on Sunday, March 2nd. The plans as to where, the Connecticut meetings will be had have not yet been matured. They will of course be announced in plenty of time be- fore March 2nd,
 The first stop on the schedule, as at present arranged, will be made at Charlestown. South Carolina. Thence the train will go to Jacksonville, Florida; Knoxville, Tenn; New Or leans, La; San Antonio, Tex; Los Angeles, and San Francisco, Califor- ria: Denver, Colorado; Chicago, IT.; Milwaukee, Wis; Detroit. Mich Syracuse, N. Y; and Boston. Mass. before reaching Hartford and Bridge port. Only the larger places at which stops will be made have as yet beer agreed upon. There will be many other stops. en route. and there vii
 also be station meetings and rear-ent platform speeches, such as were ar ranged on the earlier special trair trips of the National Womans Party
 All the women who are goins aboard the Democracy Limited, special car have been in jail in Wash ington or at Occoquan Workhouse Virginia, ser ing sentences inflicted for sharing in the various suffrage demonstrations in Washington. Tht imprisonments inflicted on the wo men are divided into three periods oi persecution, with intervals betweeE them during which the authorities not only refrained from interfering with the women, but even gave then extra protection. The first period oi arrests and Imprisonment was in 191' after the women had peaceful! picketed the White House for week and months. This was the period dur 1 ing which women were given sen
 tences of thirty and sixty days whicl
 were illegally served at Occoquan
 The Superior Court of the Distric has decided that all these arrests ant l impisonments were illegal and dam age suits, entered by the Suffragist' 1 and totalIing about half million 1 dollars, are still pending in tn;
 courts. They are pending because a
 the request of the government theil