In Fond and Loving Memory of the TARIFF REFORMERS AND SUFFRAGETTES Who fell asleep at Mid-Devon on January 17th, 1908. The Suffragettes and Tariff Reformers are now very sore, And should see it's no use contesting Mid-Devon any more; And the Hooligans of Shaldon you can send over and tell, That a strong and Buxton Liberal has broken their Bell. R.I.P. Meanwhile the Suffragettes were fighting the Government at three other elections--at South Hereford (Ross), Worcester, and South Leeds. The result of the Poll at Ross was that the Liberal majority of 312 was turned into a Conservative majority of over 1,000. The figures were: Captain Clive (U.) 4,945 Mr. Whitely Thompson (L.) 3,928 _____ Unionist majority 1,019 The figures at the General Election had been: Lieut.-Col. Alan C. Gardner (L.) 4,497 Capt. Percy A. Clive (U.) 4,185 _____ Liberal majority 312 FOOTNOTES: [24] They afterwards moved to Robert Street, Strand. CHAPTER XI THE THIRD WOMEN'S PARLIAMENT, AND MORE MILITANT TACTICS CALLS UPON CABINET MINISTERS. THE THIRD WOMEN'S PARLIAMENT. THE PANTECHNICON VAN STRATAGEM. MRS. PANKHURST'S FIRST ARREST. MR. DICKINSON'S BILL, THE FIRST ALBERT HALL MEETING AND THE BY-ELECTION AT PECKHAM. Incidents in the Votes for Women campaign now followed each other with such rapidity that they defy the chronicler who wishes to note them down. Because vigorous militancy was the order of the day, the Press teemed with articles upon the abstract question of Votes for Women and with notices of the doings of the Suffragettes. "SUFFRAGETTES IN DOWNING STREET," "CABINET BAITING AS THE LATEST RUSE," "SUFFRAGETTES IN CHAINS." These and others of the same nature, were the startling headlines that one saw in the evening papers on January 17th and in the morning papers of the following day. It was merely that Mrs. Drummond and a number of other members of our Union, knowing that the Cabinet was sitting to decide upon the questions which should find a place in the legislative programme of the forthcoming session had made an attempt to urge upon them the necessity of dealing with the women's claim.