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Show WOMEN DECIDE ;P m PICKETING 1 k. C0MEM10N HALL ?: j CHICAGO, June 6. Polite but Im- "f prcsnlvo picketing of the Republican H ! 1 un(.ionnl convention was decided upon lodny by "shock troops" of the Xa- I tidnal Woman's party here, under the lcudcrship of Alice Paul. , I Tho picketing will start Tuesday j mo ruing and continue indefinitely. LP j More- Qiun n hundred women, rcprc- Senting twenty-two states and every I- : phaso of women's activities, will carry Sr banniTs bearing slogans. Verbal 1 heckling will have no place on the pro- ,fc gram. : I? I Two suffrage pioneers, the Rov. I Rev. Olympla Brown of AVisconslu 1 I and Mrs. Anna 2cndall or Alabama. ; both over seventy years old, will hold 1 tlie picket line. Their banner will be - M Inscribed wilh tho words, "IJow Long i ; 1 inu women wait Tor liberty?" J Tho principal bnnncr to be carried , hears tho following: , "We protest against the continued , ? disfranchisement of women, for which I the Republican party has become rc- ' sponsible. ; "The Republican party defeated ratification in Delaware,' . . "Tho Republican party Is blocking ' ;t ratification in Vermont. "The Republican party is blocking i 'ratification in Connecticut. I "When will the Republican party stop blocking suffrage? |