The Story of the Woman's PartyGillmore, Inez Haynes
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The Story of the Woman's Party
Gillmore, Inez Haynes
National Woman's Party; Paul, Alice, 1885-1977; Women -- Suffrage -- United States
After they recovered from this experience, Miss Paul and Miss Burns
motored to Scotland with Mrs. Pankhurst and other English Suffragists,
in order to assist with the Scottish campaign. At Glasgow, the party
organized a demonstration outside of a meeting held by Lord Crewe, a
member of the cabinet. Arrested, they were released without trial.
Proceeding northward, Miss Paul assisted in organizing the Suffrage
campaign in East Fife, the district of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith.
At Dundee, Miss Paul and Miss Burns took part in a demonstration outside
a meeting held by Winston Churchill. The two American girls and an
English Suffragist were sentenced to ten days in Dundee Prison. After
four days of hunger-strike, all were released. Each night during their
imprisonment, great crowds of citizens marched round the prison singing
Scotch songs as a means of showing their sympathy with the campaign.
Upon their release, the Suffragists were welcomed at a mass-meeting over
which the Lord Mayor presided. Thence they went to Edinburgh where they
assisted in organizing a procession and pageant in Princess Street—one
of the most beautiful and famous thoroughfares of the world. The pageant
of the Scotch heroines who had made sacrifices for liberty is still
remembered in Scotland for its beauty. The next job was less agreeable.
The two American girls were sent to Berwick-on-Tweed to interrupt with a
protest a meeting of Sir Edward Grey, then Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Miss Paul made the interruption, was arrested, but was released on the
following day without going to trial. Miss Burns was not arrested that
time.
Next in Bermondsey, one of the slum districts of London, they waged a
plain, old-fashioned electoral campaign to defeat a candidate. When this
was over, Miss Paul, in company with a Miss Brown, was sent to make a
Suffrage protest at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet in the Guildhall. They were
arrested, of course, and were sentenced to thirty days in Holloway Jail.
They hunger struck, and were forcibly fed. This experience left its mark
on Miss Paul’s health for some time; it was several weeks after her
release before she was strong enough to travel. But in January, 1910,
she sailed for America—and arrived the pale, emaciated creature who so
shocked Mabel Vernon.
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