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Show ; MADE HER VICTORY COMPLETE Suffragist Not Only Conducted M sating, sat-ing, but Made an Altogether Unexpected Convert. One New Jersey suffragist recently had the honor of making a convert out ' of a policeman who had tried to break ' jy the meeting she was addressing on ) the Atlantic City board walk. The . speaker was Miss Mabel Vernon, but . the name of the policeman Is not ;lven in the account, as It appears in the New York Evening Tost Miss Vernon wae mounted on a ' roller chair earnestly exhorting large i audiences of men and women on the I suffrage question whin a large police-i police-i man pushed his way to her aide. "We never have any kind of meetings meet-ings on the. boardwalk here, and. there. ' fore, you will have to atop," he told ; the suffragist. "Hut I have a permit from Mayor Kiddle and I will not stop," Miss Ver-. Ver-. non replied. , Out the policeman told b-r that II any one In the crowd wanted her to ' stop he would be oullged to disregard 1 the permit He asked if anyone ob- Jected to ber speaking. A small, wea i tened man said be objected, ard the . policeman told her to stop, nut she , appealed to the crowd, and they shout ed for her to go on In such a tnanne. that the policeman and the small man beat a hasty retreat ' Then Miss Vernon followed the po-i po-i llcemaA and got him to algn her auf- frago petition. |