Putnam patriot., 1919-03-14


 Who saw the Prison Special? So far The Patriot has been unable to locate a person who noticed the Pull man drawing room car attached to the 9.20 train for Hartford and that was it-The Democracy Limited. The whole trouble arose over the fact that the time, of arrival was an- nounced last week as i1.05 a. m. Instead of being scheduled to arrive in Putnam at that hour that was the time for the arrival at Hartford. The announcement was made through some misunderstanding
 At II o'clock people were inquir- ing about the special but no one could find out anything about it. Whether it had been sidetracked or whether the ladies had found fertile fields and were talking longer than i was expected could not be ascertain | ed. Anyhow the women who gather ed at the station at II o'clock went home and hustled their dinner pre- parations.
 l The Patriot rep. had intended to go to give the special the once over but he had read in his own paper that it was due in our busy city at 11.05 and was not thinking about it until that hour approached, when he kept one eye .ut of the window expecting to see purple and gold train pull in. | The only thing that moved between half after ten and the noon hour was string of freight cars
 After the noon hour a railroad man was consulted about the special and he didn't know any more about it than any ordinary newspaper man or butcher or grocer, but he was in a position to find out and sai he would do so. When the telephone in the ei- 1 itorial sanctum tinkled the kind rail- road employe at the other end of the wire said that the special went l through at 920 attached to the regu- i lar New ork express.
 It was disappointment not to see the ex-prisoners and hear word from them. Perhaps they were disappoint- ed too in not getting a reception at the home city of Mrs. Dorothy Jones Bartlett, who also has a right to wear the chained jail cell pin, the insignia that the wearer has done picket duty and paid the penalty in the jail of the | District of Columbia. We will have to leave it to Putnam's leading spirit | in the National Woman's party to ex- plain to the ladies who occupied the special why Putnam was not at the station to see and hear them if they were willing and had time to be ! heard. Mrs Bartlett, however, was there and boarded the train and went i to Hartford.
 But in all probability the militants ! forgot all about their non-reception | in Putnam when they reached Hart | ford, for at the Capital city they were received by dignitaries and cit 1 izens and the days program was car ried through Upon arrival of the l special there was an automobile par ade led by a band. This wended it's way to the municipal building where the ladies were received by the mayor.
 Mrs. Thomas N Hepburn, chair man of the Connecticut Branch of the National Woman's Party, opened the meeting on the steps of the Municipal Building. She compared the women working for the amendment with the American soldiers, who, she said, knew that there could be no democ- racy while 2O,O00,000 women are still disfranchised.
 Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer of Green wich was the first of the ex-prisoners to speak. She said that the militants were not dangerous, and that they had simply fought for democracy at home while democracy was being 'shawked abroad by the President like an extra edition"
 Miss Sue White of Tennessee SCOT ed the Southern democrats for indif- ference to suffrage but said that they were the goats for the democratic party which is making the country about as undemocratic as possible" Miss Lucy Burns, six times jailed for l demonstrations in front of the White : House, asked that pressure be 1 brought to bear for an extra session 1 of Congress.
 The following resolution, presented by Mrs. M Toscan Bennett, was adopted =
 "Whereas, in the sixty-third, sixty fourth, sixty-ffth congresses Presi- dent Wilson and the democratic party in Congress were responsible for the defeat of the federal suffrage amend ment, and
 s'Whereas, in the sixty-sixth Con- gress there is already a two-thirds' majority of both houses in favor of