Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1916-12-08 | Page 2 | Suffragists Spring Surprise

SUFFRAGISTS SPRING SURPRISE. Unfurl Banner While President li Reading Message. Washington. President Wilson's address "to congress was marked by a woman suffrage coup in the galleries. gal-leries. The president was just about to begin a sentence, "The present laws governing the Island and regulating regu-lating the rights and privileges of its people are not Just," when over the rail of the gallery, where sat a party of woman suffrage leaders, there fluttered flut-tered down above the heads of the amazed assemblage of senators and representatives, a silken banner of suffrage yellow, bearing In great black letters the inscription: President Wilson, what will you do for woman suffrage?"