Show LADIES OF LONDON V FIGHT EACH EAGO OTHER Women's Leagues Dont Don't Agree on Way to Get Suffrage Rights V TWO RIVAL ORGANIZATIONS Fulli Full of Comba They Propose to Conquer Mere Man V V Republican Special Cable London Lonon May ray 24 I 4 I have ha alluded to the tho Women's Freedom league Though a united family party Mrs and her three thre daughters Adela and Sylvia SI have ave not been abl able to retain their organization intact A serious split occurred d a u few months hack back when so my Information runs Mrs l arbitrary and unconstitutional unconstitutional proceedings drove e several of ot her best supporters Into revolt re They split off and rind formed another society known as the tho omens Women's Freedom league It has offices In Buckingham street and its officers arc are not one whit less aggressive e or Inexorable In their d th- th dem de- de m mands than nd than its parent organization The chief is Mrs lilTS Despard sister of General French every bit hIt a. a as ready to make war on the government as was General French on the Doers Boers She is 63 with a dignified presence and line fine V clearly aristocratic features The three chief o officers cels cel's of the league Mrs s. How lIow l Martyn n Mrs Irs Despard Despard Despard Des Des- pard and Mrs Greig BIllington-Greig have all served sentences in prison and FO so have seven s of or the thc committee of twelve ladies To this particular society which has 1138 forty branches Is ls du due the tho bril- bril llant idea of ladies ladles rising l In iii p police e courts and protesting against the tho trial of ot women who ave are In tho the dock on the ground that the they have hare not framed tho laws Jaws The They also a few months ago went to Interview cabinet ministers at their private residences ringing bells belts knocking at the door and md haranguing crowds from lom the door doorstep tep Some members of the society are arc refusing to pa pay ta taxes es or to take out outa a a. license for Cor the use of or armorial bearings as did Dr Dl Octavia Lew Lewin In thc they allow their goods to he be distrained distrained dis lUS- trained rather than obey laws Jaws they did Ill not help to make mako The league will join tho the Sold old prang gang ng In the procession procession procession pro pro- cession on Juno 13 rather than th the faction V rho The rho Panl otherwise Jho ho Women's omens Social and Political union have purposely chosen the longest day lay of or tho the year ear for tor their great real demon demon- They rhey appeal to women tI to be pre cn ent In hundreds d oC pI nou an 1 vi S jo V V VIt day In in-Hyfde in H de parl It la is morally 8 th vill get jet a n great d deal nl of support not only from woman but from tom l On tho V day clay when when- park parI railings were V Vday thrown down dawn In 1st 7 men w were lc present present- nt But Dut tho the want There Thore are to bo be twenty platforms platforms plat plat- forms eighty speakers S seven processions processions processions pro pro- cessions to enter the park by different gates Kates and thirty special l trains to bring women to London Women of London thus runs a leaflet In my hand you must bo be in Ib hyde Hydo a park on that day the story of which you OU will hand down own to your children as tho the most memorable in your our life Women omen of oC England Wherever you OU live hive you ou must como come to take tako part partIn In n this great demonstration They V Vgo go on to say the government has bIdden bidden bidden bid bId- den them demonstrate and they will for tor the voto vote will be th theirs If ie they como come to claim it ft It Is never safe to prophesy but U personally I should not be surprised e eIf if it this proved the greatest demonstration tion lion women have ever ma made e. e There is no doubt douM the attitude of oC the thc pre press has greatly changed from cold indifference an and neglect the suffrage suf sut- frage frago Is now no receiving more attention than ever before At VAt the the- moment of or writing two women's women's women's wo wo- mens men's suffrage papers arc are being being- run In London Women's omens Franchise b by bythe bytho tho the older conservative athe societies an and Votes for Women omen organ of tho Forwards Forwards Forwards For V wards The last Jast was a n. monthly until April for tor the tho future It will appear weekly We Ye must also take tale noto note of or the tho chan changed ed to tone tono no of the press a n change Co for l' l the tine most part unexpected The sums of or money which tho the can cnn and anti do collect have havo V been unheard of till now In suffrage work worl Their self denial week alone 1 produced produce poun pounds l When Then they 1 go to a new place to break ground roun expecting to spend money the tho organizers organizers organizers organ organ- return with expenses paid and anda V Va J a sum to add add- to tho general fund Cund ll By the lamented death of Sir Henry Campbell Cl woman suffrage lost a lukewarm friend b by bythe V the accession of or Mr r. r Asquith to tho the premiership it must encounter an V open enem enemy but governments are aro the creatures of majorities and nothing is certain Glancing over tho the mass of literature litera lItera- turo ture never ne has suffrage literature been so various so 80 wide wille cast and so widely read that rr- rr Interest In tho the V question has brought rought me my eye eo has been arrested by the dictum of tho the V chairman of oC ono one of Miss rI s Adela Pank- Pank hurst's meetings at nt Stockbridge Mr 11 Joseph Kenworthy Ho He appealed for fora V Va a fair hearing for her lien Tho great reat vested Interests of or this country do not desire women to have The TIne brewers dread the da day when women shall have havo votes As Asa V a woman Interested In temperance V reform I agree Whatever er methods are used whatever of ot approval we wo V afford aITor the Forwards woman suffrage suffrage suf sur- fra frage e Is bound up with the cause causo of or reform and must wIn |